We are on iCURE Explore! Go team Optipaws! #iCURE #BBSRC #InnovateUK

Are you an early career researcher interested in interdisciplinary structural microbiology research and looking for a host lab to develop your ideas? I'd be happy to discuss possible applications to #BBSRC #Fellowship www.ukri.org/opportunity/... Get in touch if interested! #MicroSky #academicsky

2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme

A huge opportunity for PhD students interested in infection bioscience. See below for applications. 17 PhD places, with numerous projects including one with my group on "Measuring poxvirus evolution using machine learning and pangenomics".

https://genomic.social/@downingtim/113840544121073805

see https://www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex-one-health-doctoral-landscape-award

#PhD #ResearchOpportunities #InfectionBiosciences #OneHealth #BBSRC #Studentships #ScienceCareers

🎤 Webinar for Applicants
Want to know more about the programme? Join us for a webinar on 6th Feb to learn more about the WOH Doctoral Programme & how to apply. Register:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dFjvPjXm

To learn more about the available research projects & application process, visit:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/d78Fiqab

For further details or questions, feel free to reach out to us via email at: WOH@surrey.ac.uk

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💡 Funding & Eligibility
Full funding, including a UKRI stipend (£19,237 p.a.), UK fees, & research costs for 4 years
Exceptional international students may also be eligible for fee waivers
Applicants must have, or expect to have, an MSc, &/or a 1 or 2.1 degree in a relevant subject

🗓 Applications:
Deadline: 23:59 (UK) Fri 28th Feb
Shortlisting: By 10th March
Interviews: Online, 24-29th March

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📍 Partner Institutions include:
· University of Surrey (Guildford)
· University of Sussex (Brighton,)
· University of Exeter, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology (Exeter)
· The Pirbright Institute (Woking, Surrey)
· Animal and Plant Health Agency (Weybridge)
· UK Health Security Agency (Porton Down or Colindale)
· Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Porton Down)

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🔬 Why WOH?
• Collaborative research across 3 top universities & 4 leading UK institutes
• Opportunities for cross-institutional supervision & training at high containment facilities
• Specialised training in genomics, bioinformatics, & applied AI
• Cohort-building activities & networking across all partner institutions
• Opportunities for industrial placements & collaborations with partners

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The BBSRC Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Award is offering up to 17 fully funded PhD studentships starting in Oct 2025 in the field of Infection Biosciences.
This doctoral programme will equip students with the interdisciplinary skills needed to tackle global health challenges, including emerging infections, vector-borne diseases, antimicrobial resistance, & food security.

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Do I know anyone who has recently (past few years) secured a New Investigator #BBSRC Research grant? We are writing one and could really do with an example of what works..
If you do and would be willing to share all or part of the application material the #NeuroESC lab would be eternally grateful 🙏

Edit: this is what we're applying to: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/bbsrc-new-investigator-award-2025-round-one-responsive-mode/

Edit 2: Thanks to you all we've already got 3 example applications! You are all awesome 🤗 This will already help a lot, the last thing we would need is one from the most recent call (Jan 2024?) and as a "New Investigator", especially if you are also willing to share the reviewers' comments which are really useful to see what people look for in these applications - DM me if so 🙏
(It's our first one... lots to learn but not so many opportunities for learning!)
#Research #ResearchFunding #ResearchGrants

📢 Here's a new, online showcase on the UK's work in #SyntheticBiology! Leading edge of the #CenturyOfBiology.🤯

Scroll through the history to the bottom and you get example projects in all sorts of areas. The #UK strapline for this area is #EngineeringBiology, e.g. in government science policy.

#StayCurious #BBSRC
➡️ https://www.discover.ukri.org/engineering-biology/

Lab trip to Molluscan forum @ Natural History Museum, London. BBSRC student Alec Lewis presenting our new work on Cuban Polymita.
#BBSRC #Polymita #NHM #Malacsoc #Mollusc #Snail

Science #network people, here's a 5-year #job in UK #bioscience ...📢
https://jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/9517/bioclocks-uk-coordinator.html

The organisation that you'll help us #circadian researchers to build is Https://bioclocks.uk

Funded by #BBSRC
Please help spread the news!

The lab of Matthias Landgraf in Cambridge University has an opening for a Research Assistant/Research Associate to study critical periods of nervous system development using #Drosophila as a model.

"We are looking for a motivated colleague to join our friendly, collaborative team on a #BBSRC funded project #ZooCam #Cambridge_Uni"
To apply: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45115/
Reference: PF40420
CLOSING DATE: 07 March 2024

#neuroscience #FediHire #DevBio #Drosophila

#BBSRC #postdoc #postdocjobs opportunity at Leeds! Join Pete Watson and Jen Bright in figuring out how #bird skulls work. Would suit a mechanical/biomedical engineer, or someone with a strong computational #biomechanics #FEA #MDA Please RT!
https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=EPSME1148
@ecoevojobs

Some really great talks and discussions today on advances in virus-livestock omics at the #Turing institute, who kindly supported the event. Talks include those by Ge Wu and Marie Di Placido (pictures) from the #Pirbright Institute.

Great to have input from the #BBSRC and #SFTC #Harttree Centre too.

Looking forward to new adventures in this area...

#livestock #virus #genomics #antibody #genome #mutation #pangenome #omics #transcriptomics #spatialtranscriptomics #fmdv​

Fine mapping of the Cepaea 🐌 shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage 🧬 map, new paper out today in Heredity 🎺🥂 Nothing is ever straightforward in snail genomics! Culmination of much work by PhD student Maggie Johansen. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-023-00648-z.
#BBSRC #Genomics #snails #heredity #newpaper #openaccess #supergenes

🎺BBSRC-funded PhD🎺 "Evolutionary genomics of trematode parasites and their intermediate snail 🐌 vectors". Message me 🙂 if you would like further information. Apply by May 23rd here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/index.aspx. Pre-application mentoring available for Black and Black mixed students
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/amplify.aspx. Unfortunately, open to UK "home" students only ☹️. #BBSRC #PHD #phdchat #snails #biomphalaria #schistosome

Back from a really useful visit to our collaborators at @OfficialUoM
Sharing reagents, equipment, and ideas across our #BBSRC funded programme.

#ecm #membranetraffic #circadianrhythm

Very proud of my postdoc Dr Siul Ruiz for being awarded
@bbsrc
Discovery Fellowship. He worked so hard for this and the award is much deserved #bbsrc #discoveryfellowship #leadership #futureleader #earthworms #soilmechanics #fellowship
@UoSEngineering

@unisouthampton

Helicopter trip into West Maui mountains to collect chirally variable Lymnaeid snails 🐌, funded by BBSRC International Collaboration award with Ken Hayes and Norine Yeung at Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Think I am rocking the rebel fighters from Star Wars look?
#chirality #snails #snail #sinstral #genomics #asymmetry #LRasymmetry #BBSRC #BishopMuseum
#StarWars #Maui #Oahu