PhD Opportunities

Flax forever: the possibility of immortality in the meristems of an annual plant

Supervisor: Dr Jo Hepworth

Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025 (12 midday)

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

The importance of location of origin for wildflower seed mixes

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Brennan

Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025 (12 midday)

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Brain evolution and comparative anatomy across bumblebee species

Supervisor: Dr Lena Riabinina

Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025 (12 midday)

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Explaining and predicting the migratory behaviour and population dynamics of a long-distance migratory bird

Supervisor: Dr Christine Howard

Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025 (12 midday)

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Origin and evolutionary dynamics of rainforest assembly in the Fiji Islands

Supervisor: Prof Guillaume Chomicki

Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025 (12 midday)

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

The evolution of reproductive isolation in rubyspot damselflies

Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Drury

Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025 (12 midday)

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Population-scale impacts of metals on microbial communities

Supervisor: Dr Karrera Djoko

Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025 (12 midday)

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Disentangling the interactions between climate change and land-use change in a 3D world

Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Senior

Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025 (12 midday)

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Neuronal and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory in Drosophila

Supervisor: Dr Vincent Croset

Deadline: Wednesday 8th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

When to flower? Deciphering the regulatory network underlying variation in flowering initiation responses in flax

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Brennan

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Using multi-disciplinary approaches to solve the mysteries of metal-microbiome relationships

Supervisor: Dr Karrera Djoko

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Dissecting the role of environment and signalling in animal cell division

Supervisor: Dr Tim Davies

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Intestinal Stem Cell Regulation in Homeostasis and Disease

Supervisor: Dr David Doupe

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Single-molecule biophysical investigation of a molecular machine that coils DNA

Supervisor: Dr Aakash Basu

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Investigating how the physical properties of DNA impact DNA damage and DNA repair

Supervisor: Dr Aakash Basu

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Investigating how circadian oscillations in DNA supercoiling drive gene expression in diverse organisms

Supervisor: Dr Aakash Basu

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (UK Students only)

 

AI-guided rational design of DNA biosensors for quantifying DNA editing and repair

Supervisor: Dr Liz Morris

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Biocatalytic synthesis of nucleotide analogues for healthcare

Supervisor: Dr Liz Morris

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Chemical synthesis of neurotransmitter analogues to understand Acetylcholinesterase mechanism

Supervisor: Dr Liz Morris

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Why do Cancer Cells eat each other?

Supervisor: Dr Patricia Muller

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Role of HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A1 regulated lncRNAs in modulating the chromatin landscape in response to environmental stress

Supervisor: Dr Uli Bechtold

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Biological Fluid Dynamics of Microplastics

Supervisor: Dr Francesco Boselli

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Dual Ocular Bio-and Morphological-Diagnostic Toolbox for Alzheimer’s and Motor Neuron Disease

Supervisor: Prof Paul Chazot

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Exploring Sustainability in Coffee Agriculture: Investigating Honeybee and Native Pollinator Interactions through DNA Metabarcoding

Supervisor: Dr Andreanna Welch

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Nocturnal predators in landscapes of the Anthropocene: how light and sound pollution affect movement ecology and diet of Tawny owls (Strix aluco)

Supervisor: Dr Andreanna Welch

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Automated assay to study mosquito development and behaviour in changing climatic conditions

Supervisor: Dr Lena Riabinina

Deadline: Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Automatic feeder for monitoring and supporting bumblebees to counteract the effects of climate change and global insect decline

Supervisor: Dr Amir Atapour-Abarghouei & Dr Lena Riabinina

Deadline: Wednesday 22nd January 2025 

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development

Supervisor: Dr Jo Hepworth

Deadline: 25th January 2025 

Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)

 

Investigation of RNA secondary structure in plant transposable elements

Supervisor: Dr Jungnam Cho

Deadline: Applications accepted all year round

Funding: Directly funded project (UK Students only)

 

Identification of phosphatases that inactivate the endoplasmic reticulum stress sensor Ire1

Supervisor: Dr Martin Schroeder

Deadline: Applications accepted all year round

Funding: Self funded students only

 

Harnessing extracellular biomechanics to engineer young and prematurely aged skin models in vitro

Supervisor: Dr Akis Karakesisoglou

Deadline: Applications accepted all year round

Funding: Self-funded students only