Our focus: the strategies used by cells in their decision-making.

We have four potential PhD projects available, all of which involve cell signalling, the cellular economy, and time-lapse microscopy:

• determining how cells of budding yeast maintain a near neutral intracellular pH, despite substantial changes in extracellular pH;
• studying why yeast's metabolism oscillates and how these oscillations interact with the cell cycle;
• uncovering the strategy used by yeast to decide between multiple carbon sources;
• determining how cells know they have been drugged by antifungals and why some cells are more tolerant than others.

All enquiries are welcome.

Successful applicants will work at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, one of the largest groupings of synthetic and systems biologists in the UK.

Please send a CV to peter.swained.ac.uk if interested.

We are also happy to support applications for postdoctoral fellowships, such as those from the Human Frontier Science Program (deadline at the end of August), the Newton International fellowship (deadline in April), and various Marie Curie possibilities. Please get in touch.