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We have 1,182 biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Transforming Thoughts into Actions

Medical Research Council (Cambridge)

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

How does the brain transform what we perceive into what we do? Even a simple action, such as stopping at a red light and moving again when it turns green, requires the brain to select relevant sensory information, form an intention, prepare an appropriate movement and execute it at the right moment. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Tripodi

8 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Neuropeptide networks in worms and octopus

Medical Research Council (Cambridge)

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

In recent years, great efforts have been made to map the synaptic wiring diagrams of simple and complex nervous systems. However, chemical synapses, the connections used in most connectomics research, represent only one type of functionally important signalling between neurons. Read more

Supervisor: Dr W Schafer

8 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Pathological protein assembly in neurodegenerative diseases

Medical Research Council (Cambridge)

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the greatest health challenges facing our society. This large group of diseases is characterised by the pathological assembly of specific proteins into amyloid filaments in the central nervous system. Read more

Supervisor: Dr B Falcon

8 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Connectomics across sexes, species and states

Medical Research Council (Cambridge)

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Neuroscience in the fly and beyond is being transformed by the availability of connectomes, synaptic resolution wiring diagrams. We have played leading roles in two large collaborations that have recently generated and analysed separate (female) brain and (male) nerve cord connectomes for the fly. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Jefferis

8 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Effect of activity in neural circuit development

Medical Research Council (Cambridge)

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Neuronal activity is necessary for the establishment of correctly functioning neuronal circuits in development. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Cardona

8 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Golgi function in brain organoids

Medical Research Council (Cambridge)

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Membrane traffic between organelles is essential for secretion, uptake of nutrients, and the regulation of signal transduction. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Munro

8 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Develop and validate blood-borne lung cancer diagnostic biomarkers with multi-omics data and interpretable AI

University of Liverpool

Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. We aim to develop and validate blood-borne diagnostic biomarkers to enable early detection to save lives. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T You, Dr M Sudell, Dr J Soul

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Understanding extinction risk in the Anthropocene

University of Reading

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

We live in a humanized world in which even the most remote areas have been affected by the actions of our species. Human impacts have caused a widespread loss of biodiversity, to the point that we have likely entered the sixth mass extinction event on Earth, the first primarily caused by humans. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Gonzalez-Suarez

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Plant-insect interactions in a changing world

University of Reading

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Project Overview: . Insects associated with plants comprise one of the most diverse groups of species on earth. Their impact on the ecology and evolution of their host plants is widely recognised, as is their contribution to multiple important ecosystem services. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Gripenberg

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Multilevel selection on transposition rates in cancer

University of Reading

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cancer is an evolutionary process. Cells in a tumour vary due to mutation, and so over many generations they adapt in response to both intrinsic selective pressures (such as anoxia) and extrinsic selective pressures (such as chemotherapy). Read more

Supervisor: Dr L J Johnson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Bioinformatics studies of protein structures, functions and their interactions

University of Reading

Department of Biomedical Sciences

The computational study of protein structures, functions and their interactions is fundamental to our understanding of disease. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L J McGuffin

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Leveraging sequencing technologies to advance identification of bacterial pathogens

University of Liverpool

Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology

This four-year PhD project aims to advance sequencing-based bioinformatics methods for identification and characterisation of bacterial pathogens in diverse clinical and surveillance samples. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Y Wan, Prof N Williams, Prof S Paterson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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