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Dr Nick Birse

@nbir.se

🚨 PhD Project Alert 🚨

UK and RoI students - here's a project looking at understanding how lowering methane emissions may change the quality profile of beef produced under typical UK/Ireland production systems. #phdprojects #phd #foodsecurity

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

March 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM

IMPRS for Living Matter

@imprs-lm.bsky.social

Motivated by the quest for understanding the molecular origins of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia? #PhDprojects utilising high-resolution #cryo-EM and methods from #molecularbiology and #neuroscience to study these disorders are available at the IMPRS-LM. Apply NOW to the Sente group!

October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM

Prof Nicole Grobert

@nicolegrobert.bsky.social

New #PhDprojects available #OxfordMaterials, #UniversityOfOxford #MPLSOxford CLOSING DATES: noon (UK time) on: 10 November 2023, 19 January 2024 and 1 March 2024

materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/article/func...

Functional fibres towards photovoltaic smart cloths

materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk

November 7, 2023 at 10:11 PM

Prof Nicole Grobert

@nicolegrobert.bsky.social

New #PhDprojects available #OxfordMaterials, #UniversityOfOxford #MPLSOxford CLOSING DATES: noon (UK time) on: 10 November 2023, 19 January 2024 and 1 March 2024

materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/article/func...

Functionalisation of boron nitride from first principles

materialsoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk

November 7, 2023 at 10:12 PM

MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Call for applications! ⏰
Apply now for the #PhDProject "How to ignore your sister – the molecular basis of interhomolog bias" with @weir_science or join many other exciting projects of our #IMPRS #PhDProgram.
Read more 👉 https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/14722/phdprojects

November 22, 2024 at 3:06 PM

MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Call for applications! ⏰
Apply now for the #PhDProject “Mutational processes acting on (plant) transposable elements" with Detlef Weigel @PlantEvolution, or join many other exciting projects of our #IMPRS #PhDProgram.
Read more 👉 https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/14722/phdprojects

November 22, 2024 at 3:06 PM

MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/14722/phdprojects

Available projects

www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de

November 22, 2024 at 3:06 PM

MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Call for applications! ⏰
Apply now for the #PhDProject "#CRISPRCas9-mediated dissection of an ancient symbiosis" with @HassanSalem or join many other exciting projects of our #IMPRS #PhDProgram.
Read more 👉 https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/14722/phdprojects

November 22, 2024 at 2:57 PM

MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Call for applications! ⏰
Apply now for the #PhDProject "New components of the (plant) #immunesystem" with Detlef Weigel @PlantEvolution, or join many other exciting projects of our #IMPRS #PhDProgram.
Read more 👉 https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/14722/phdprojects

November 22, 2024 at 2:57 PM

MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Call for applications! ⏰
Apply now for the #PhDProject "Mobile genetic elements in the gut #microbiome of human populations" with Alexander Tyakht, or join many other exciting projects of our #IMPRS #PhDProgram.
Read more 👉 https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/14722/phdprojects

November 22, 2024 at 2:57 PM

Kitty Wooley

@kwooleyy.bsky.social

Interested in how PhD students and supervisors can develop a shared map for transdisciplinary #PhDprojects when they hold different assumptions about knowledge and quality? Check out a useful checklist developed in this week’s i2Insights contribution at i2insights.org/2026/04/07/p...