{"id":1040,"date":"2023-03-20T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2023-03-20T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:32:36","slug":"phd-project-with-doug-closing-31st-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/2023\/03\/20\/phd-project-with-doug-closing-31st-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Synthetic Biology PhD project with Doug &#8211; closing 31st March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the Lancaster Environment Centre a PhD project is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lec\/graduate-school\/phd\/phd-opportunities\/#building-a-plantbased-carboxysome-to-improve-photosynthesis-371066-1\">available on carboxysome engineering<\/a>, which is aiming to <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/plphys\/article\/182\/2\/807\/6116288?login=true\">build upon our previous work towards assembling a cyanobacterial carboxysome in plant chloroplasts<\/a>. This is the central part of attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/tpj.13139\">build a cyanobacterial CCM within plants to boost photosynthetic efficiency<\/a>.\u00a0 This project will involve <em>in vitro<\/em>\u00a0and <em>in planta<\/em> analysis of existing transgenics lines, generation of new lines and work to optimise the synthesis and assembly of carboxysomes within plants. This project is co-supervised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lec\/about-us\/people\/marjorie-lundgren\">Marj Lundgren<\/a> and is based entirely in Lancaster, though with possibilities to visit national and international collaborators for some aspects of the work. This project would suit a student interested in plant synthetic biology and who has or would like to develop skills in molecular biology, biochemistry, and plant engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Full details including the application process can be found at this link, please note that due to funding this project is only available to students who qualify as UK &#8216;home&#8217; students: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lec\/graduate-school\/phd\/phd-opportunities\/#building-a-plantbased-carboxysome-to-improve-photosynthesis-371066-1\">https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lec\/graduate-school\/phd\/phd-opportunities\/#building-a-plantbased-carboxysome-to-improve-photosynthesis-371066-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Informal enquiries from students are welcome, but applications must be submitted using the instructions linked above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the Lancaster Environment Centre a PhD project is available on carboxysome engineering, which is aiming to build upon our previous work towards assembling a cyanobacterial carboxysome in plant chloroplasts. This is the central part of attempts to build a cyanobacterial CCM within plants to boost photosynthetic efficiency.\u00a0 This project will involve in vitro\u00a0and in planta analysis of existing transgenics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9L9PV-gM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancsphotosynthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}