Vacant PhD fellowship in DNA Replication and Early Mammalian Development
We are offering a fully funded three-year PhD fellowship in the Halliwell Group at ICMM.
The start date is 1st April 2027 or thereafter.
The Halliwell Group investigates one of the most fundamental questions in biology: how life successfully begins from a single cell. We study how DNA replication is established during the earliest stages of mammalian development and how failures in this process contribute to genome instability, infertility and pregnancy loss.
Our research combines developmental biology, genome biology, molecular genetics and embryology with state-of-the-art genomic technologies. We are particularly interested in understanding how the maternal and paternal genomes are reprogrammed immediately after fertilisation and how this process ensures faithful genome duplication during the first embryonic cell divisions.
As a member of the laboratory, you will join an ambitious and collaborative research environment where curiosity, technical innovation and scientific independence are encouraged. The group is embedded within ICMM, providing access to outstanding facilities for human and mouse embryology, advanced microscopy, genome engineering, transgenic mouse models and single-cell genomics.
We are looking for a curious, motivated researcher who enjoys solving challenging biological problems and is eager to learn new techniques.
Application deadline: 1st October 2026, 23.59pm CET
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