If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, University of Gothenburg, Sweden has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Imaging Ageing Endothelium at the nanoscale
Summary of PhD Program:
The candidate will design, construct, and validate microfluidic models intended to host various liver-specific cells in both 2D and 3D compatible with different microscopy modalities. The project includes a significant portion of experimental work involving continuous cell culture optimization and evaluation using classical fluorescent staining, functional analyses, and microscopy imaging. Furthermore, the subsequent analysis necessitates quantitative data management and image processing with software relying on AI and deep learning. The project’s title in the MSCA program is “Endothelial interventions to reverse the effects of ageing and disease on endothelial cells, and how to monitor this reversal”.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-25
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in statistical physics with focus on active matter
Summary of PhD Program:
You will develop and simulate models of microswimmers in turbulent environments. You will use reinforcement learning and analytical approaches to search for efficient navigation strategies. Regarding the turbulent environment, you may use turbulent flow data obtained in collaboration with other research groups, as well as numerical simulations using idealized model flows. To validate the models and/or strategies, you may analyze experimental data obtained by our collaborators, tracking plankton in the laboratory.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-03
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Science – NOX2-derived ROS in the tumor milieu
Summary of PhD Program:
This doctorate project aims at understanding how NOX2-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS), produced by intratumoral myeloid cells, shape the tumor microenvironment. NOX2 is an enzyme complex that is almost exclusively expressed by myeloid cells. Upon activation it generates ROS that contribute to host defense against microbes, but when released extracellularly, ROS exert and array of effects on neighboring cells. We have previously seen that NK and T cells cells are highly sensitive to the toxic actions of ROS and that NOX2 inhibition enhances the ability of cytotoxic cells to kill tumor cells. In addition, our preliminary studies show that the NOX2-derived ROS released within tumors also exert direct effects on cancer cells as they stimulate epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) which enhances the metastatic capacity of the cancer cells.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-23
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in environmental science with focus on environmental microbiology/ecotoxicology
Summary of PhD Program:
Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) pollution in urban rivers receiving WWTP effluents is common, but their fate, and environmental risk remains poorly studied in river sediment. Context-dependency (ecological abiotic and biotic factors) influences the assembly of natural communities of bacteria and may affect their sensitivity to antibiotics and AMR. This PhD project will provide new knowledge on the interactions between pollutants (residues of antibiotics and AMR) and sediment bacteria, under altered abiotic and biotic contexts: a gradient of microbial diversity, pre-exposure history and/or pollution levels. Experimental studies using natural microbial communities in microcosms facilities and field sampling will be implemented for hypothesis testing.
Application Deadline: April 24th 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Geography
Summary of PhD Program:
In Human Geography societal processes are studied from a spatial perspective, globally and locally, as well as at individual and household levels. This includes human’s interaction with the surrounding environment, as well as how activities and places develop in relation to the world around. The research at the unit focuses the following thematic areas: Landscape & Planning, Development Geography, and Mobility, Communication & Transport Geography. The Human Geography Unit (HGU) offers education at Bachelor and Master level.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-10
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Science – Fluid immuno-diagnostics for tauopathies
Summary of PhD Program:
Dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is a pressing global health concern, necessitating enhanced diagnostics and treatments. Tauopathies, characterized by aberrant tau protein aggregation in neurons, exacerbate cognitive decline leading to dementia. Developing precise tau immuno-assays for diagnostics and treatment monitoring presents significant scientific and technological challenges. The intricate nature of tau pathology, compounded by diverse post-translational modifications, underscores the need for innovative approaches to personalized diagnosis and treatment.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-29
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Microbiology
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of the larger collaboration funded by JPIAMR called NewResGenes: Informing genomic surveillance by uncovering, phenotyping and prioritising resistance genes to new antibiotics. We will leverage variations that exist in natural populations of pathogenic bacteria to identify genomic variants underlying resistance to new antimicrobials. We have previously adopted a high-throughput system to screen growth kinetics and yield of Escherichia coli on agar plates capable of screening ~50,000 colonies in one experiment and we collected and sequenced >2000 diverse Escherichia coli strains isolated from a wide variety of environments. This includes strains isolated from the pre-antibiotic era and recent highly resistant clinical isolates.
Application Deadline: 7th of May 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in biochemistry/structural biology with focus on biotechnology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Morud Lekholm research group studies dynamical changes at ligand-gated ion channels using molecular biology, biochemical and biophysical techniques. The current PhD project is part of an interdisciplinary collaboration with several research groups at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, and in Germany. The common aim of the project is to develop a new method to study structural changes of ion channels in real-time. The PhD student will produce several mutant versions of a pH-activated prokaryotic ion channel adapted for chemical conjugation to gold nanoparticles. The position therefore also involves surface chemical tasks in close collaboration with the Lundgren research group.
Application Deadline: 8th of May 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Science – Tumor microvascular characterization with MRI
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to advance MR-based imaging biomarkers, directly or indirectly related to tumor microvasculature, towards use in characterization of tumors in the brain and head-neck region and for assessment of radiotherapy response of these tumors. The work will focus on developing methods robust enough for clinical research and potentially clinical practice, with particular emphasis on the specific demands set by the radiation therapy workflow for brain and head-neck cancer patients. The project will revolve around MR-based techniques designed for probing microvascular function and vascular microstructure. Initial studies will focus on development and optimization of MR-based imaging techniques with evaluation mainly based on computer simulations and healthy subjects.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-08
