Enhanced four year postgraduate studentships starting in October 2018, will once again be awarded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. Each of the supervisors below will select a candidate who will then compete at interview, with Sainsbury Undergraduate students, for one of up to three Sainsbury PhD Studentships. Interviews will be held in London on 16th March 2018. It would be expected that the studentship holder spend six months during their 3rd or 4th year at another university/institute to gain additional experience. Please note that students cannot apply to their home institution.
Interested applicants should write, attaching a CV, before 3 February 2018, to one or more of the following:
‘Timing is Everything: circadian clock regulation of disease resistance’
Professor Katherine Denby, Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, York YO10 5DD.
Email: katherine.denby@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 328751.
Further details at: denbylab.wordpress.com
‘Gravity and the shaping of plant form: understanding growth angle control in lateral organs’
Dr Stefan Kepinski, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT.
Email: s.kepinski@leeds.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2865.
Further details at: http://www.plants.leeds.ac.uk/people/groups_kep.php
‘How genes help roots bind soils’
Professor Claire Grierson, 306 Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ.
Email: Claire.Grierson@bristol.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 117 39 41185
Further details at: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/people/claire-s-grierson
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