Faculty Studentships
PhD Programmes
Wellcome Trust 4 year PhD "The Molecular Basis of Biological Mechanisms"
We hold a prestigious Wellcome Trust-funded 4-year PhD programme entitled "The Molecular Basis of Biological Mechanisms". A studentship is available on this prestigious programme for a highly motivated student with at least a 2.1 degree in any area of the life or physical sciences, including Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics and related disciplines.
Deadline: 17th May 2013
Anatomy Demonstrating PhD Studentship
Two Anatomy Demonstrating Studentships are available from Oct 2013. Applicants must have the necessary skills to undertake Anatomy teaching, should hold or be expecting a strong degree (equivalent to at least a UK 2.1 honours degree) in a relevant discipline such as anatomy, medical sciences, medicine or a health science and should also have experience of studying or teaching human gross anatomy. Applicants can undertake their research project in any of the Faculty’s schools.
The studentship will cover UK/EU tuition fees and a maintenance grant (£14,590 for 2013-14) in return for 120-150 hours anatomy demonstrating per year. The studentship will provide funding for four years subject to satisfactory progress.
Applicants should submit the following documents if they wish to be considered:
• University Study application form
• Anatomy Demonstrating Studentship Application Form
• Transcripts
• Full CV
Deadline: 3rd June 2013
BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership in Mechanistic Biology
This is a 4-year programme of integrated research and skills training, with cross-disciplinary supervision and opportunities for professional internships with external partners.
We welcome applications from students with first degrees in Biological, Chemical or Physical Sciences. For successful applicants, the studentships would provide funding for tuition fees and living stipend at the current Research Council UK rates.Please note that EU citizens must have lived in the UK for at least 3 years to be eligible for full support. There are 2 places available.How to apply:
- Complete the online application. Please do not upload supporting documents.
- Complete the studentship form and email to fbsgrad@leeds.ac.uk including CV (including reference details) and transcripts if available.
- Forward the reference form to your referees and ask them to return it to us by email as soon as possible. We will NOT contact your referees; it is your responsibility to request references and ensure we receive them by 15th May 2013.
Deadline: 13th May 2013 (midnight)
Available Projects:
The energetics of bird flight: metabolic, mechanical and aerodynamic consequences of flying in formation - Dr Graham Askew, Prof Ning Qin (University of Sheffield)
Assembly and disassembly of docking complexes in peroxisome protein import -Prof. Alison Baker, Dr Stuart Warriner
Resilient housing for membrane proteins: functional reconstitution into hybrid vesicles for durability in biotech applications - Dr Paul Beales, Dr Stephen Muench, Dr Lars Jeuken
Mechanism of shear stress sensing - Prof. David Beech, Dr Lin-Hua Jiang
Development of novel sequence-specific probes for imaging dynamic nuclear processes - Dr Joan Boyes, Dr Roman Tuma
Pulling the plug from BtuB: investigating energy transduction in E.coli - Dr David Brockwell, Prof. Sheena Radford
Targets of ATM and ATR kinases in DNA repair and gene targeting in Physcomitrella patens - Dr Andrew Cuming
Mechanistic Conservation of NMD and its Application in Plants - Prof. Brendan Davies
Extending Lifespan in Soybean - Prof. Christine Foyer, Prof. Richard Leegood (University of Sheffield)
Extreme solutes: understanding and exploiting the potential of compatible solutes from extremophile organisms - Dr Lorna Dougan, Dr David Brockwell
Analysis of the structural and mechanistic basis for amyloid induced immune responses - Dr Eric Hewitt, Prof. Sheena Radford
Respiration of Shewanella: A model micro-organism for microbial-fuel cells - Dr Lars Jeuken
Free energy landscape analysis of biological dynamics - Dr Sergei Kriviv, Dr Emanuele Paci
Mechanisms of resource concentration and dilution effects in insect foraging - Prof. Bill Kunin, Prof Calvin Dytham (York)
Development of nanoparticle size shift assays for biomolecular analytes using non-antibody evolved binding proteins; a novel analytical platform - Prof. Mike McPherson, Prof. Paul Millner
The effects of flow fields and surfaces on protein stability and aggregation - Prof. Peter Olmsted, Dr Emanuele Paci
How are plant myosins specialized for long range organelle trafficking? A structural study - Prof. Michelle Peckham, Dr Thomas Edwards
New strategies for combating amyloid association using fragment-based methods - Prof. Sheena Radford, Prof. Andy Wilson, Dr Richard Foster
Understanding foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) replication - Dr Nic Stonehouse, Prof. Dave Rowlands
The Topological Dependence of DNA Recognition: a combined experimental and computational study - Dr Neil Thomson, Dr Sarah Harris
Probing RNA folding and RNA-RNA interactions using time-resolved techniques - Dr Roman Tuma, Prof. Peter Stockley
Characterisation of nematode-induced feeding-site cell walls - Prof. Peter Urwin, Prof. Paul Knox
Protein-protein interactions in the pantothenate biosynthetic pathway - Dr Mike Webb, Dr Arwen Pearson
Genome scale genetic regulation in blood cells - Prof. David Westhead, Dr Arief Gusnanto
Developing Diazirines as Probes for Monitoring Dynamic Molecular Recognition Processes - Prof. Andy Wilson, Prof. Alison Ashcroft, Prof. Sheena Radford
Individual Funded Projects
All of the projects below offer funding (fees and stipend). Please note that this is restricted to UK/EU candidates only.
Please complete the online application selecting PhD in Biological Sciences, include the project title in your application and provide a CV and transcripts.
Investigating bio-pharmaceutical aggregation one molecule at a time.
BBSRC BRIC studentship with Dr David Brockwell with Prof. Sheena Radford
Deadline: 13th May 2013
Animal models for exercise therapy: mechanisms of activity-induced angiogenesis
School funded studentship with Prof Stuart Egginton
Deadline: 31st May 2013
Photosensitizer functionalised electrospun nanofibres for photoremediation of microbial and chemical water contaminants
BBSRC Industrial CASE studentship with Prof. Paul Millner
Deadline: 30th June 2013
DNA demethylation strategies and targets in crop
BBSRC Industrial CASE studentship with Prof. Peter Meyer
Deadline: 7th July 2013
Wiring bacterial cells to electrodes
Open until a suitable candidate is appointed.
Dynamics of Ligand Protein Interactions: Impact on Drug Discovery
EPSRC Industrial CASE studentship with Dr Sarah Harris.
Open until a suitable candidate is appointed.
Other Opportunities
Leeds International Research Scholarships
Deadline: 17th June 2013
Around 9 awards are Leeds International Research Scholarships (LIRS), are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from January 2014. The awards cover the full cost of international fees and provide maintenance (amount to be confirmed).
Recently Closed
The following competitions are now closed for 2013 entry:
- White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership studentships
- Wellcome Trust: The Molecular Basis of Biological Mechanisms
- Chinese Scholarship Council – University of Leeds Scholarship
- CRUK/YCR studentships
- MRC studentships
- University Research Scholarship
- Leeds International Reseach Scholarship round 1
