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Number of Opportunities Available: 1 Primary Supervisor - Dr Cathrina Edwards Ever wondered how chewing transforms your food? Be it a crunchy cracker, gooey cookie, or a lumpy porridge, our mouth is capable of transforming these different textures into a bolus that is safe to swallow. As we...
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Number of Opportunities Available: 1 Primary Supervisor - Professor Yiliang Ding The diversity of RNA structure is wide and varied, from hairpins and bulges through to triplex and quadruplexes. These structures are able to control numerous biological functions from sensing messenger compounds to...
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Number of Opportunities Available: 1 Primary Supervisor - Dr Jose De Vega This project aims to determine how hybridisation and polyploidisation independently and jointly shape transcriptional evolution in Miscanthus hybrids, and to investigate how regulatory, epigenetic, and structural...
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Primary Supervisor: Dr. Helen Parretti This PhD is a very exciting opportunity for a candidate with an interest in obesity who is keen to undertake their own research and start an academic career. We would be particularly interested in applications from allied health professionals such as...
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Primary Supervisor - Professor Ian Lake Project Overview Gastrointestinal (GI) infections remain a major public health challenge in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Robust monitoring is essential for detecting outbreaks, tackling trends and informing timely interventions. Traditionally, this...
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Dr Tristan Sjoeberg Postgraduate Scholarship Primary supervisor - Dr Ian Renfrew Scientific background Arctic climate change and the associated sea-ice retreat are having significant impacts on both the atmosphere, the ocean and their interactions. Atmosphere-ocean surface heat exchange is...
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Dr Tristan Sjoeberg Postgraduate Scholarship Primary Supervisor - Professor Dorothee Bakker Scientific background The Southern Ocean takes up about 10% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by human activity, thus slowing down climate change. Investigation of the unique year-round Rothera CO2...
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Primary supervisor - Dr Thomas Anthony Haynes Pellet-clad interaction (PCI) is a complicated phenomenon, relatively poorly captured in current commercial fuel performance codes. Models have been built in the commercial finite element software ‘Abaqus’ to capture pellet clad interaction in both...
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Dr Tristan Sjoeberg Postgraduate Scholarship Primary supervisor - Dr Xiaoming Zhai Scientific Background The exchange of momentum, heat, freshwater and carbon between the atmosphere and ocean is fundamental to the Earth's climate system, regulating ocean circulation, weather patterns and climate...