PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Where Does RNA go in the Cold? Visualising Coolair RNA Inside Plant Cells

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

Plants cannot escape changes in their environment and must continually adjust their growth and development in response to temperature. Successful propagation of winter annual plants relies on vernalization, where prolonged winter cold triggers epigenetic modifications to ensure plants flower in spring. At the heart of this response is FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a gene whose activity is progressively switched off during winter. This process involves COOLAIR, a family of anti-sense, long non-coding RNAs produced from the FLC locus. Although we know that COOLAIR responds dynamically to cold, we und

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