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Fully Funded MRC PhD Opportunity: How pollution drives brain ageing: understanding its contribution to neurodegenerative pathologies
Posted by Natalia Sanchez-Soriano, on 11 November 2026
Interested in how environmental factors impact brain health? 🧠🔬 We have an exciting, fully funded MRC PhD opportunity available in the Sanchez-Soriano lab at the University of Liverpool. This project …Funded PhD Studentships: How to cells divide in blood vessels?
Posted by Holly Lovegrove, on 10 November 2026
We are recruiting 2 PhD students to join the Lovegrove Lab (University of Manchester). In the lab we are interested in how cell division takes place in complex tissue environments, …Postdoc – Butterfly Wing Pattern Evo Devo, Cornell University
Posted by Robert Reed, on 10 November 2026
The Reed Lab (reedlab.org) in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University is looking to hire a Postdoctoral Associate to work on the evolution and development of …PhD in mechanobiology – Stretch, Stiffen, React
Posted by John Robert Davis, on 9 November 2026
How does a cell’s energy use change when you stretch it? Cells experience forces as tissues grow, move and change shape. They also respond to the stiffness of the material …PhD in developmental biology – Hungry embryos
Posted by John Robert Davis, on 9 November 2026
What does it take, energetically, to build an embryo? During development, cells change shape, rearrange and generate forces to build tissues. In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, these movements are …PhD in precision medicine – Free the Hippo
Posted by Carsten Hansen, on 6 November 2026
Free the Hippo – to release Glaucoma Pressure Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, with an estimated global prevalence of 3.5% among people aged 40–80 years, …PhD opportunity in Edinburgh – Decoding Volume Regulation
Posted by Carsten Hansen, on 6 November 2026
Decoding Volume Regulation Across Timescales with Ultrafast imaging and Mechanistic Modelling Cell volume is fundamental to biological organisation, controlling molecular concentration, intracellular transport, membrane tension and cytoplasmic mechanics. Cell volume …GROUP LEADER Principal Investigator Position
Posted by Aleksandra Janicka, on 6 November 2026
GROUP LEADER Principal Investigator Position The International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (IIMCB), Poland invites applications for Group Leader, PI position The IIMCB is an internationally …Funded PhD: Decoding Cancer’s Extracellular Signalling Fields
Posted by mmerino, on 4 November 2026
We are recruiting a PhD student to join the Merino Lab at the University of Liverpool through the MRC North West Doctoral Programme in Medical Sciences (NW-DMS), co-supervised with Prof …Fully funded 4-year PhD project
Posted by Anestis Tsakiridis, on 3 November 2026
We offer a YBDTP-funded PhD project (co-supervised with Tatyana Shelkovnikova and Susan Campbell) aiming to investigate how disease-associated SOX10 mutations disrupt nuclear condensates during human enteric nervous system development. It …

