PhD Positions in Plant Science, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, UK (2017)

Enhanced four year postgraduate studentships starting in October 2017, will once again be awarded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. Each of the supervisors below will select a candidate who will then compete at interview, with Sainsbury Undergraduate students, for one of up to three Sainsbury PhD Studentships. Interviews will be held in London on 10th March 2017. It would be expected that the studentship holder spend six months during their 3rd or 4th year at another university/institute to gain additional experience. Please note that students cannot apply to their home institution.

Interested applicants should write, attaching a CV, before 3 February 2017, to one or more of the following:

‘Tricking plant pathogens: exploiting pathogen effectors to develop durable disease resistance’
Professor Katherine Denby, Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, York YO10 5DD. Email: katherine.denby@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 328751. Further details at: http://www.denbylab.wordpress.com

‘The MYB/bHLH/WDR complex and the evolution of cellular diversity’
Professor Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street. Cambridge CB2 3EA. Email: bjg26@cam.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1223 333938. Further details at: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/beverleyglover

‘Control, evolution and manipulation of multicellular hair development’
Professor Andrew Hudson, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences,University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 3BF. Email: andrew.hudson@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)131 6513383. Further details at: http://hudson.bio.ed.ac.uk/

‘Can wheat genomics help alleviate food insecurity?’
Dr Cristobal Uauy, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH. Email: cristobal.uauy@jic.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 450195. Further details at: https://www.jic.ac.uk/directory/cristobal-uauy/

Further details:
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