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Primary supervisor - Dr Nick Talbot What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge molecular biology and genomics, we will try to solve a decades-old...
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Primary Supervisor: Dr. Frank Menke The world’s food supply is under pressure from climate change, shortages of water as well as agriculture pests and diseases. One of the most devastating diseases of rice is caused by blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae), which also is the causal agent of the...
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Number of Opportunities Available: 1 Primary Supervisor: Dr. Ben Miller Plants need to respond to the environment in order to adapt and grow. Plants often modify the concentration of calcium ions in their cells in response to different environmental stimuli and stresses [1]. These changes in...
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Primary Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Gates As well as carbon dioxide (CO2), other important climate-active gases are known to drive global warming. Importantly, nitrous oxide (N2O) also known as laughing gas, is the third most abundant greenhouse gas with 300-times greater global warming power than...
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Primary supervisor - Dr Julea Butt This exciting project will engineer light-driven microreactors converting nitrate to ammonia thereby delivering proof-of-principle for a sustainable technology converting a widespread pollutant, nitrate, to a valuable fertiliser and chemical feedstock,...
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Primary supervisor: Thomas Clarke Bacteria that can produce electricity are being intensively researched due to their potential applications in metal recovery, desalination and enhanced fermentation. The model microorganism Geobacter sulfurreducens is one of the most efficient producers of...
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Primary supervisor - Dr David Lea-Smith Engineering biology has enormous potential to address global environmental challenges like bioremediation, biosequestration, pollutant monitoring, and resource recovery. In this project, the student will apply the cutting-edge synthetic biology tools...
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Number of Opportunities: 1 Primary Supervisor - Professor Conrad Nieduszynski Recent technological advances allow us to design and construct entire chromosomes, allowing unprecedented potential for the creation of cellular machines. These synthetic designer de novo chromosomes allow us to...
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Number of Opportunities Available: 1 Primary Supervisor - Professor Diane Saunders Every year fungal pathogens destroy 10–23% of all major calorie and commodity crops. Traditionally, to limit fungal disease outbreaks resistance genes have been introgressed into crops, which is a slow process,...
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Number of Opportunities Available: 1 Primary Supervisor - Dr Hassan Salem Many animals rely on beneficial microbes for nutrition, defence, or reproduction. In this project, the student will explore an exciting new dimension of these relationships: how microbes influence animal behaviour. The...