PhD Opportunities

A beneficial plant-microbial interaction: the ecology of flax retting

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Brennan

Deadline: Monday 5th January 2026 (midday)

Funding: Directly funded project (Students worldwide)

Origin and evolutionary dynamics of rainforest assembly in the Fiji Islands

Supervisor: Prof Guillaume Chomicki

Deadline: Monday 5th January 2026 (midday)

Funding: Directly funded project (Students worldwide)

The evolution of reproductive isolation in rubyspot damselflies

Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Drury

Deadline: Monday 5th January 2026 (midday)

Funding: Directly funded project (Students worldwide)

When nutrients turn toxic: how metals shape microbial coexistence

Supervisor: Dr Karrera Djoko

Deadline: Monday 5th January 2026 (midday)

Funding: Directly 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)

Characterisation of histone deacetylase-dependent transcriptional repression by the transcription factor Hac1

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