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1 PhD Student Position: New Concepts and Materials in Catalysis

Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen Catalysis Resource Center
The Erlangen Center for Interface Research and Catalysis (ECRC) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a PhD student position to join the group of Prof. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof JL Libuda
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Surface presentation and host recognition by a novel orphan toxin B-subunit adhesin.

Northumbria University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Bacterial pathogens rely on surface adhesins to recognise and bind to host tissues, yet a recently identified family of proteins known as orphan toxin B-subunits remains functionally uncharacterised. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I MacArthur
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA:β-glucan/selenium nanoparticles as a nutraceutical strategy to attenuate atrophy in a human senescent muscle model

Northumbria University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
CASE Project. Engineering 3D Human Muscle to Understand Ageing. Can Yeast β-Glucan Protect Mitochondrial Function?. As we age, we lose muscle mass, strength and function. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Simoes
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Mechanobiology in Biomanufacturing Cell Therapies

Northumbria University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
CASE Project. Human stem cell therapies have now passed clinical trials and entered healthcare markets worldwide, offering advanced regenerative and personalised treatments for complex diseases. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Henstock
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Threads Through Time: Microbial Biodegradation of Modern and Historic Textiles.

Northumbria University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated PhD student to join an exciting interdisciplinary project investigating how textiles degrade in soil environments and how this knowledge can help create more sustainable solutions for modern textile waste. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Sherry
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Does a common retrotransposon insertion accelerate organ ageing? Mechanistic characterisation of an APOLD1-linked regulatory variant

Northumbria University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Roughly half of your genome is made up of "jumping genes" called transposable elements, and LINE 1 (L1) is the only one still capable of copying itself into new locations in living humans. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Shukla
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Decoding TDP-43 self-assembly in RNA regulation and neurodegeneration

University of York
Department of Biology
This project will investigate the biophysical properties and the functional implication of a key pathological protein underlying neurodegeneration, TDP-43. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H J Chen, Dr S Quinn, Dr JA Crossley
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Stress, Inflammation, and Endometriosis: Exploring the Role of the Glucocorticoid Receptor in the Endometrium for Lifelong Reproductive Health

University of York
Department of Biology
Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women worldwide, yet the condition remains severely underfunded and under-researched. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A N Holding, Dr I Hahn
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Approximate likelihood methods for latent-identity spatial capture-recapture models

University of St Andrews
School of Mathematics and Statistics
  Research Group: Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling
This project will look to develop methods for spatial capture-recapture (SCR) when individual identity is partially or completely unknown. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr BS Stevenson, Dr H Worthington
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Diet, biological ageing, and functional capacity in African, Caribbean, and South Asian communities in the UK.

Northumbria University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Nutrition is a key modifiable determinant of biological ageing, influencing the molecular and cellular processes that underpin cognitive and physical function, muscle strength and physiological resilience. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Amenyah
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Decode the Secret Language of Mistletoe

University of York
Department of Biology
Fully funded PhD studentship | YBDTP | Pallavi Singh Lab | CNAP, University of York. How does a parasitic plant persuade another plant to sustain it for decades? Mistletoe does something remarkable. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PS Singh, Dr E Rylott
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Splicing up the fire: Innate immune control of infection by inflammatory caspases

University of York
Department of Biology
Inflammasomes are innate immune pathways critical to our responses to infections and numerous inflammatory conditions. They control biological processes such as fever, tissue repair and vaccine efficiency. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Boucher, Prof D Lagos, Prof JR Boyne
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Efficient Sampling and Scalable Inference for Structured Spatio-Temporal Models

University of St Andrews
School of Mathematics and Statistics
  Research Group: Machine Learning and Statistics Methodology
Spatio-temporal statistical models are widely used to understand complex processes that evolve across space and time, with applications in environmental science, epidemiology to name a few. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr BS Swallow, Dr NK Kirk
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Comparative approaches to understand the evolution of the neuronal basis of defence behaviours in Drosophila

Northumbria University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Defence behaviours in face of a threat are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, and their fast and flexible deployment is crucial for individual fitness and survival. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Ferreira
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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MAGIC Crops: From genomic discovery to climate resilience, developing nutritious amaranth for the UK

University of York
Department of Biology
This PhD project combines fundamental questions about the regulation of C4 photosynthesis in amaranth, with trialling of this underutilised crop for sustainable production of gluten-free grain in the UK and development of gene editing technologies. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof K Denby, Dr PS Singh
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Navigating complex posteriors: efficient Bayesian inference for noisy living systems

University of St Andrews
School of Mathematics and Statistics
  Research Group: Mathematical Biology Group
From the molecular networks that let a cell keep time or decide its fate to the spread of an infection through a population, living systems are both noisy and non-linear. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Minas, Dr PS Samartsidis, Dr BS Swallow
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Foodomics for Food Safety: integrated multi-omics approaches for novel control of Salmonella and Cronobacter species in food packaging systems

Northumbria University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
CASE Project. Foodborne infectious disease is a global threat to public health, with the World Health Organisation estimating unsafe food causes around 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths annually. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Fox
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: How Does the Embryonic Heart Learn to Beat?
From Xenopus embryos to bioprinted systems: dissecting the origins of cardiac synchronisation

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
The heart begins beating remarkably early in development, long before the formation of valves, specialised pacemaker cells, or a mature electrical conduction system. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Boselli
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: From condensates to infection: spatial phase behaviour of aggresomes in pathogenic Escherichia coli

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
How do bacteria reorganise their internal molecular machinery within the complex environments of a biofilm or an infected host? This PhD will investigate remarkable bacterial “aggresomes” – dynamic biomolecular organelle condensates of protein and mRNA that form without surrounding membranes and are associated with stress tolerance, dormancy and antibiotic persistence (PMIDs. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Leake
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Designer proteins for synthetic immune signalling for enhanced plant disease resistance

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
This project offers a unique opportunity to work at the cutting edge of synthetic immune signalling and structural biology, tackling one of the biggest challenges in global food security. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Bentham
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: From Electric Fields to Cell Fate: The Electrified Membrane Hypothesis

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Bioelectric cues regulate the migration, proliferation, survival and differentiation of diverse cell types, creating opportunities in tissue engineering and bioelectronic therapies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Staykova
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Mapping translational stress-signalling networks in plant tissues using Bio-orthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT)

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
How does a plant coordinate a stress response across distinct cell types, and what signals link them? This project addresses that question using a genuinely new methodological approach. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr U Bechtold
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Getting Sox on to regulate cell number and organ size

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Sox (SRY-related HMG-box) transcription factors (TFs) play key decision-making roles during many important processes in animals, including stem cell maintenance, cell proliferation and organ growth. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A McGregor
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Nitrogen pollution sources and pathobiome dynamics in aquatic invertebrates of Windermere: an isotopic and multi-omics approach

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Windermere — England's largest lake and the jewel of the Lake District National Park — is in trouble. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Grocke
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: A circular economy for metals - engineering bacterial strains for metal tolerance and recovery

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Your mobile phone contains over 40 different chemical elements. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P.T. Chivers
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Unravelling the Ubiquitination Code: Connecting Phosphate Signalling and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient that is frequently limiting for plant growth. Plants respond to low phosphate by launching sophisticated phosphate-starvation responses to call for beneficial soil fungi, arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Choi
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Decoding Biofilm Adhesion and Cohesion on Next-Generation Marine Coatings

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
CASE Project. How do marine biofilms develop the strength and adhesion that allow them to resist removal?. Marine biofouling is a major challenge for shipping, increasing hydrodynamic drag, fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Voitchovsky
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Deciphering how ant-farmed plants break the rules of nitrogen uptake

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
Every year we spread more nitrogen fertiliser on fields than crops can use. Over half washes into rivers or escapes to the atmosphere, and fixing that is one of the hardest problems in agriculture. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Chomicki
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: SUMO code: deciphering how SUMOylation enables plants to adapt to their environment

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
CASE Project. Proteins undergo post-translational modifications (PTMs) that have evolved in all forms of life as a mechanism for rapidly adapting protein function in response to many different kinds of stimuli. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Sadanandom
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: A mechanism for CO2 sensing: Epigenetic regulation of the primary cilium

Durham University
BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership
This project will determine how carbon dioxide acts as an epigenetic signal to regulate primary cilium structure and signalling, revealing a previously unrecognised mechanism linking the cellular environment to mammalian cell behaviour. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Cann, Prof John Sayer
 24 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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