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PhD Opportunities
Investigation of melanin transfer and fate in skin using cutting-edge imaging & biological tools
Supervisors: Dr Tim Hawkins, Prof Adam Benham, Dr Arto Määttä
Deadline: Friday 6th December 2024
Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)
Investigation into inflammatory associated pigmentary changes in multiethnic skin in vitro
Supervisor: Prof Stefan Przyborski
Deadline: Friday 6th December 2024
Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)
Enhancing protein yields for sustainable industry
Supervisor: Prof Martin Cann
Deadline: Friday 6th December 2024
Funding: Competition funded project (Students worldwide)
GREEN Biofuels: Engineering cyanobacterial CO2 sensing for enhanced biofuel yields
Supervisor: Prof Martin Cann
Deadline: Monday 2nd December 2024
Funding: Directly funded project (UK Students only)
GREEN Biofuels: Developing a microalgal technology for making biofuel precursors from CO2
Supervisor: Dr Steve Chivasa
Deadline: Monday 2nd December 2024
Funding: Directly funded project (UK Students only)
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)
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