PhD Studentship: How to build an immune receptor: AI-led protein design for engineering disease resistance
University of East Anglia Norwich £21,805 pa
A four-year PhD studentship using AI-led computational protein design to build de novo immune receptors with tailored recognition-switch-execute modules for plant disease resistance. The work spans molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology, in planta assays and plant pathology, with a three-month professional internship and collaboration with national and international partners.