PHD POSITION

Phd Studentship: A Single-Cell Atlas of the Euglena Gracilis Cell Cycle

Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · 18 days left

Institution: University of East Anglia
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805
Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · 18 days left

About this position

Euglena gracilis is one of biology's outliers. This single-celled protist diverged from plants and animals over a billion years ago, switches effortlessly between photosynthesis and feeding, and carries a genome stitched together from multiple ancient endosymbionts. It controls its genes in ways that break the textbook rules: trans-splicing, a modified DNA base (base J), and heavy reliance on post-transcriptional control rather than classical promoters. Despite growing industrial interest in Euglena as a sustainable source of biofuels, bioplastics and nutraceuticals, we still barely understand

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