PhD Opportunities in Spatial Transcriptomics in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), Department of Biology, University of York , in collaboration with the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge . This project sits at the intersection of plant biology , engineering biology , 3D imaging , single-cell genomics , spatial transcriptomics , and computational genomics . The research asks how cells from two evolutionarily distant plant species recognise each other, reprogramme their identities, and form...

Funded PhD project at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, United Kingdom on pluripotency-specific regulation of transposable elements in mammalian development . The project sits in the Chromatin and Development (Percharde) lab and is co-supervised by Dr Veronique Azuara . It focuses on developmental biology , chromatin regulation , epigenetics , embryonic stem cells , pluripotency , transposable elements , immune sensing , and cell fate in early mammalian development. The stu...

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in veterinary immunology , bovine tuberculosis , ocular tuberculosis , cell biology , and immunology . This EASTBIO-funded project is titled “Mapping the ocular immune response to Mycobacterium bovis in cattle” and is based at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies , University of Edinburgh, with collaboration from Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London . The work focuses on bovine TB pathology in the eye, immune-cell populatio...

Funded PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute in London, United Kingdom, with Dr Petr Znamenskiy. The project is titled Cell types, connectivity, and computation: reconstructing molecularly annotated connectome of the mouse visual cortex and sits at the intersection of neuroscience, molecular biology, computational biology, and bioengineering. The Znamenskiy lab studies how neural circuits in the neocortex are organised and how their connectivity supports computation. The work focuses on...

Christopher Tape, Professor of Cell Communication at the UCL Cancer Institute, is recruiting a PhD student for a four-year project starting in January 2027 (flexible). The project asks whether all regions of a tumour are equally capable of adapting to treatment. The research focuses on colorectal cancer cell plasticity, including transitions from a fast-growing, chemotherapy-sensitive state to a wound-healing, drug-resistant state, and how the tumour microenvironment shapes these changes. The st...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in preclinical human neural organoid and computational/AI model development . This project sits at the intersection of neuroscience , neural organoids , single-cell transcriptomics , spatial transcriptomics , and computational AI . The aim is to combine patient-specific iPSC-derived human neural organoids with postmortem CNS samples to build large-scale AI frameworks that can identify disease-associated cellular states, molecular biomarkers, and pot...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in cell-type specific RNA processing defects in neurodegeneration . This project, hosted by the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and linked to the Ryten Lab , focuses on how RNA processing changes in vulnerable brain cell populations contribute to neurodegenerative disease. The research is centered on Parkinson’s disease , Lewy body dementia , and Alzheimer’s disease , with emphasis on RNA splicing , transcript isoform use , RNA editing , and 3′...