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EastBio: Too sweet: Behavioural and neurobiological impact of adolescent sugar consumption on decision-making

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. The prevalence of juvenile obesity and type 2 diabetes is rapidly growing in children and teenagers. The overconsumption of highly palatable foods enriched in sugar is one of the main causes leading this. Despite numerous

EastBio: When a negative test lies: modelling imperfect detection in infection and antimicrobial resistance.

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Assume a bacterium is sampled from a patient and the test returns negative. It is repeated, and each time returns negative. Repeated negatives increase confidence that no infection is present. But when detection is imperfect,

EastBio: How do cells build organs? Using maths and machine learning to learn the rules of morphogenesis from 3D live imaging data

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. We are seeking a talented, creative, and friendly individual to join our interdisciplinary team. You will develop mathematical and/or machine learning approaches to discover the rules that govern how cells build organs. PROJECT There is

EastBio: Building Cellular Resilience: Unlocking the Health Potential of Scottish Potato Bioactives

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Cellular resilience describes the ability of cells and tissues to resist, adapt to and recover from biological, environmental and age-related stress. It is emerging as a unifying concept across the cosmetics, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical sectors,

EastBio: The role of epitranscriptomic RNA modifications in eukaryotic evolution and capacity to respond to environmental change

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. How organisms evolve in ever-changing environments remains a critically important question in ecology and evolution. Climate change and human activity are causing unprecedented environmental stresses, to which organisms must adapt. Rapid responses to the environment

EastBio: Who’s there? Unbiased microbiome assessment during Atlantic salmon seawater transfer.

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector globally, but continued sustainable expansion in line with projected food security estimates is hampered by issues with fish health and disease. Understanding how aquaculture practices impact fish immune

EastBio: Mechanisms regulating expression of the multidrug transporter gene CDR1 in the pathogenic fungus Candidozyma auris

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Candida auris, recently renamed Candidozyma auris, is an emerging human fungal pathogen with a remarkable capacity to develop resistance to multiple antifungal drugs, including azoles. Reflecting its substantial clinical importance, the World Health Organization has

EastBio: Ageing in a rapidly warming Arctic: why do Svalbard reindeer differ in rates of senescence?

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Individuals of the same chronological age can differ in how rapidly they senesce, the age-related decline in physiological function and fitness. Evolutionary theory predicts senescence because natural selection weakens with age, while trade-offs between reproduction

EastBio: Developing theranostic antibodies that recognise fungal pathogens belonging to Fusarium species, important agents of fungal keratitis and fusariosis

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD project focused on the development of innovative antibody-based approaches to combat infections caused by Fusarium species, major fungal pathogens that threaten both vision and life. Fusarium species

EastBio: The Evolutionary and Ecological Role of Plasmids across different species

Details This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Plasmids are major drivers of prokaryotic evolution and ecology, carrying traits ranging from antibiotic resistance to novel metabolic functions. However debate continues about what exact traits are enriched on plasmids compared to their hosts. There

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