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  Growing up to help: understanding the developmental plasticity of social behaviour in cooperative societies.
University of Exeter College of Life and Environmental Sciences
  Prof S Townley, Dr S English
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
Location. University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE. This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the NERC Great Western Four+ Doctoral Training Partnership (GW4+ DTP).
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  Imprinting and ploidy in a social insect
University of Leicester Department of Genetics and Genome Biology
  Dr E Mallon, Dr E Rosato
Application Deadline: 21 January 2019
This project asks how can imprinted genes exist in a haplodiploid organism.
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  Modelling and understanding of biological systems, using physics as a tool
University of Reading School of Biological Sciences
  Dr Y Hayashi
Applications accepted all year round
Living systems are complex, and are based on the basic building blocks of genes, proteins, chemical reactions, and physical forces.
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  To design advance technologies and enhance understanding of novel swarm systems
University of Sheffield Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
  Dr R Gross
Applications accepted all year round
This project is meant to design and study a novel swarm system in the widest sense. Such a system would ideally. advance technologies (e.g.
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  *NERC E4* Social and transgenerational effects of parasitism: could they affect biological control of a stored product pest?
University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Evolutionary Biology
  Dr E Cunningham, Prof N Colegrave, Dr A Evans
Application Deadline: 10 January 2019
Interested individuals must follow the "how to apply" link on the Geosciences E4 Doctoral Training Partnership web page. http://www.ed.ac.uk/e4-dtp/how-to-apply.
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  The establishment of novel insect biodiversity in Britain
University of York Department of Biology
  Prof C Thomas, Dr H Roy, Dr A Salisbury
Application Deadline: 9 January 2019
Enrol for a PhD at the University of York to investigate how insect biodiversity is. changing in Britain. You will carry out a mixture of empirical field research,.
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  The aphid microbiome: ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multispecies interactions
University of York Department of Biology
  Dr J Ferrari, Dr AC Darby
Application Deadline: 9 January 2019
All organisms face a multitude of environmental threats and have to. adapt to overcome these challenges. Many insects get help from an.
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  C3Bio DTI PhD Studentship: Smart traps for Chagas Disease - Employing microfluidics and machine learning to develop kissing bug traps for use throughout Latin America
University of Bath Department of Biology & Biochemistry
  Dr N Priest
Application Deadline: 10 January 2019
The University of Bath invites applications for a PhD studentship within the C3Bio Doctoral Training Initiative. Grand Challenges in Health Technologies.
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  Epigenetic mechanisms underlying responses to environmental stress
University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: BBSRC White Rose DTP
  Dr A Bretman, Dr E.J.. Duncan, Dr S M Sait
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
Animals face challenges of environmental stress from many sources, such as temperature, nutrition, toxins, disease and social interactions.
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  Behavioural and biomechanical analysis of socially induced changes in body and brain structure in desert locusts
University of Leicester Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
  Dr T Matheson, Dr S Ott
Application Deadline: 6 January 2019
All animals can tailor their phenotype to the environmental conditions they experience during their lifetime. Such phenotypic plasticity typically entails coordinated changes in morphology, physiology and behaviour.
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