PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: CENTA 2027-B06 Combatting Insecticide Pollution: An Evolution-Informed…

Deadline: 6 Jan 2027 · 55 days left

Institution: University of Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Deadline: 6 Jan 2027 · 55 days left

About this position

Insect populations are declining worldwide, and agrochemical pollution is a principal driver. Current insecticide safety assessments underestimate environmental harm because they rely mainly on short-term mortality tests on a few surrogate species, most often honeybees, and overlook sublethal and community-level effects. The central environmental problem this project will solve is evolutionary: broad-spectrum insecticides—pyrethroids, neonicotinoids, organophosphates, carbamates and diamides—act on molecular targets conserved across the arthropod phylogeny, so pests, pollinators, natural preda

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTP795/phd-studentship-centa-2027-b06-combatting-insecticide-pollution-an-evolution-informed-molecular-docking-framework-to-protect-pollinators-and-beneficial-insects

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