PhD scholarships in computational biophysics, University of Leeds, UK (Deadline: 21.03.2025)

One full scholarship is available at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine. This scholarship is open to UK applicants and covers fees plus maintenance. This fully funded PhD place provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in the field of mechanosensitive ion channels.

 The ability of many organisms to sense mechanical forces generated e.g., by the heart is of vital importance for many of their functions e.g., control of blood pressure and respiration. For this reason, proteins that sense mechanical forces have an important role in human health. This project asks the fundamental question; how force is sensed by proteins found in the cell membrane. Despite some recent advances, it is still unknown how such proteins functions in diverse cellular environments and how they sense mechanical force.