Woe is PhD

So I'm looking for a PhD place. Ideally, I'd like it to be at my current university, as the other universities in the UK that are good in my field are mostly located in London, and I don't like that city much. Nor can I really afford to live there.

I'd like it to involve Bioinformatics, but not require any wetlab work that I would have to do myself. There should also be scope for applying Machine Learning techniques. There's two areas of research that interest me. One is work in genetics, such as gene regulation modelling, or protein structure and function prediction. The other is to model biological systems at the macro level and predict how changes in the environment influence animal population size or plant growth.

I could also see myself doing a straight Machine Learning project without any Bioinformatics involved, but with slightly less enthusiasm.

I'd like to have a supportive supervisor, who I can talk to before I start my PhD and who will advise me on how to write up my project proposal. He or she doesn't need to be an academic superstar, but a fair number of puplications and at least some amount of recognition in either Bioinformatics or Machine Learning would not go amiss.

I'd like to get the chance to teach during my PhD, either tutorials or even lectures.

A scholarship would be helpful. If I don't get one, my parents could help, but I'd like to be able to support myself for once.

And tomorrow, I will meet with a potential supervisor who might be able to offer the place that has most of these characteristics. (I'm not sure about the teaching yet.) Fingers crossed!