PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Whole genome sequencing from mosquito blood meals

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

Primary Supervisor - Dr Anders Bergstrom Mosquitos can be seen as tiny, autonomous samplers of blood from wild animals. It is well-established that mosquito blood meals contain animal DNA, as well as DNA from animal pathogens. Current environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques are routinely applied to blood meals to survey species presence and absence, but these techniques only make use of a tiny fraction of an organism's genome. This project will go far beyond species detection, and pioneer the sequencing of whole animal genomes from blood meals. The project will make use of hundreds of collected bl

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