John Innes Centre â School of Mathematics (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Richard MorrisRichard.Morris@uea.ac.uk The Project: Calcium oscillations have been shown to be key for the successful symbiosis between plants and bacteria. This interaction promotes nitrogen fixation by the bacteria which is important for […]
Institute of Food Research â School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Sacha Lucchini sacha.lucchini@ifr.ac.uk The Project: Escherichia coli is an important bacterium that can be found in the gastrointestinal tract of most humans, where it is the dominant facultative anaerobe. […]
John Innes Centre â School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline:29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Barrie Wilkinsonbarrie.wilkinson@jic.ac.uk The Project: Natural products made by microorganisms represent a major source of antibiotic and anticancer pharmaceuticals for the treatment of life threatening disease. Indeed, the majority of antibiotics in clinical […]
University of East Anglia â School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor: Professor Andrea MunsterbergA.Munsterberg@uea.ac.uk The Project: Striated muscle cells, including skeletal and cardiac myocytes, have a highly organized, semi-crystalline cyto-architecture. This complex structure of myofibrils provides contractility and is […]
John Innes Centre â School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Saskia Hogenhoutsaskia.hogenhout@jic.ac.uk The Project: Insect herbivores cause significant losses to crop production either by direct damage or through the transmission of plant pathogens. Remarkably, more than 80% of the insect species […]
John Innes Centre â School of Chemistry (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014.ã Supervisor:Professor Sarah O’ConnorSarah.O’Connor@jic.ac.uk The Project: Natural products are biologically active molecules that, as their name suggests, are found in Nature. These compounds are used throughout the agricultural and pharmaceutical industries. Interestingly, modifying the […]
University of East Anglia â School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Ernst PoschlE.Poschl@uea.ac.uk The Project: Basement membranes (BM) are essential extracellular matrix (ECM) structures needed for the organisation of complex tissues, cell adhesion, differentiation and functions. Members of the collagen IV […]
Institute of Food Research â School of Pharmacy (UEA) Deadline:29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor: Professor Pete Wildepeter.wilde@ifr.ac.uk The Project: Many bioactive molecules such as drugs and nutrients are more soluble in lipids than in water. Therefore the uptake of these molecules from the gut is […]
John Innes Centre â School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Chris Ridoutchristopher.ridout@jic.ac.uk The Project: There is an increasing need to develop crops that have improved disease resistance to reduce dependence on pesticides and benefit the environment. In addition, as natural resources […]
School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Professor Mohammad K.Hajihosseinim.k.h@uea.ac.uk The Project: Our recent studies show that new neurons are generated in the adult hypothalamus by a population of neural stem cells called tanycytes. It transpires that the newly-generated neurons are destined for, and […]
University of East Anglia – School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Stephen Robinson Stephen.Robinson@uea.ac.uk The Project: Angiogenesis is the mechanism by which new blood vessels form from those that already exist. It is a process that occurs throughout our […]
John Innes Centre School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Andrew Trumanandrew.truman@jic.ac.uk The Project: Bottromycin is a structurally unique natural product peptide that possesses potent antibacterial activity towards life-threatening infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Bottromycin is therefore a highly […]
We have an open position for a PhD candidate at the Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University (http://www.farmfak.uu.se/farm/index_en.shtml). This project is part of the EU-funded project ARIADME: Analytical Research in ADME profiling (http://pharm.kuleuven.be/pharbio/ariadme). ARIADME is a Marie Curie project which involves 4 academic centers and 10 industrial partners. The PhD candidate will be enrolled in […]
Institute of Food Research â School of Biological Sciences (UEA) Deadline: 29 November 2013. Available from 1 October 2014. Supervisor:Dr Norihito Kawasaki norihito.kawasaki@ifr.ac.uk The Project: Dietary polysaccharides from plants and microbes have the potential to improve human health by modulating our own immune system. Although several polysaccharide healthcare supplements […]
Reference RS/13/19 Project Title: Increasing disabled peopleâs participation in employment Applications are invited for a full-time PhD (via MPhil) studentship in the School of Social Work. The studentship is tenable for up to 3 years [subject to satisfactory progress] and will cover the cost of tuition fees at UK/EU rates. International applicants […]
Applications are invited for a full-time, three year PhD studentship in the Clean Energies cluster based in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Queenâs University Belfast. The studentship offers a stipend of £13,726 per annum (tax free) and covers fees at the UK/EU student rate (£3,900). International students from outside the […]