Systematic Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

We have 40 Systematic Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

The structure of the Holobiont Tree-of-Life

Imperial College London Department of Life Sciences

What is the structure of the Tree-of-Life and how do its components interact? Holobionts are composed of distantly related organisms joined in various mutualistic… Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Vogler, Dr M Ryan, Prof J Rosindell

15 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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RNA-Binding Properties and Functions of Peptidoglycan Synthesis Enzymes in Antibiotic Resistance

University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences

Research Group: Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Introduction. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is causing major healthcare problems worldwide and is becoming increasingly challenging to treat with current antibiotics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Granneman

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Transcription: molecular mechanisms & dynamics

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Background/Questions. Transcription is central to all life, but many things remain unclear. In particular in eukaryotes, many contributing factors and mechanistic details have been identified for transcription of mRNAs by RNA polymerase II (Pol2), but a number of phenomena remain enigmatic, including. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Hebenstreit

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Structural biology of bile acid transporters, important in disease

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Secondary transporters are membrane transporters that move molecules across membranes. They are important in drug discovery, either as specific drug targets or because they allow the movement of drugs into or out of cells. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Cameron

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Size regulation of intracellular nanovesicles

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Eukaryotic cells are compartmentalized. they contain organelles and membrane-bound domains that each have distinct identities. For example, the endoplasmic reticulum is different to the Golgi apparatus. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Royle

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Reactive nitrogen biogeochemistry in agronomic systems

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Volatile reactive nitrogen oxides (NOy), comprised of NOx (NO + NO2) and NOz (HONO + HNO3 + N2O5 + …), negatively impact air quality as they are precursors… Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Mushinski

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Rational Design of Novel Aptamers to Understand and Resist Snake Envenomation

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Every five minutes, fifty people are bitten by a snake worldwide – of whom, four will be permanently disabled and one will die. In fact, snake envenomation is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that requires urgent attention. Read more

Supervisor: Dr GC Sosso

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Interactions in the microbiome – the effect of spatial organisation

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Microbiome research is expanding. This is a natural progression, as no microbe lives in isolation in Nature. From guts of animals, to the soil and the ocean, every environment inhabited by microbes contains 100s of species co-existing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof O Soyer

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Integration of environmental signals in plants

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Plants use a diversity of signals from the environment to make decisions during their life cycle. This project will focus on understanding how multiple signals from the environment are integrated to control seed dormancy. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Bassel

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Engineering dynamic microbial factories for sustainable biomanufacturing and drug production

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Engineering microbial cell factories using synthetic biology enables the production of new therapeutics or sustainable routes to the manufacture of high value chemicals from agricultural by-products. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Darlington

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Do common ancient gene regulatory programmes govern both neural and pancreatic fates throughout vertebrate evolution?

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

The vertebrate body is inherently complex, containing diverse tissues consisting of multiple distinct cell types. Assignment of specific cellular identities at the correct location and time during embryogenesis is essential to establishing a viable vertebrate body plan. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Nelson

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Determining how phosphorylation drives functional protein interactions

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Phosphorylation is one of the most highly studied posttranslational modifications, due to its fundamental importance in regulating protein function, interactions, subcellular localisation, and turnover. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Jones, Dr P Stansfeld

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Building the first heart vessel

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

How does the heart form? Despite the large array of adult heart morphologies across nature, the initial heart vessel typically forms as a simple tubular structure. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T Saunders

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Bringing light to bacterial electrophysiology – bacterial optogenetics

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Background. Recent publications in high-impact journals indicate growing interest in bacterial electrophysiology (1–4). Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Asally

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Multi-omics characterization of metabolic and signaling pathways involved in Harmful algal bloom toxin production - applicable for the development of diagnostic kits

Queen’s University Belfast School of Biological Sciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Dinoflagellates and diatoms such as Alexandrium spp., Dinophysis spp. Read more

Supervisors: Prof K Campbell, Prof F Kuepper

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 40 Systematic Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

Systematic Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

We have 40 Systematic Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

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