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)

 

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)

 

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