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PhD Projects: 2013

NameProject title
Grace Hoysted
University of Leeds
Plant-mediated interactions between above-and below-ground crop pests: molecular and biochemical mechanisms
Nicole Jackson
University of Leeds
From inhibitor to antibacterial agent: delineating the physico-chemical properties required of small molecules to enable bacterial uptake
Robert Thomas
University of Leeds
Computational modelling of growth angle control across the higher plants
Joseph Lattimer
University of Leeds
Studies on the replication of the non-primate hepacivirus (NPHV)
Adam Hyman
University of Leeds
Mechanism of shear stress sensing
Alexander Evans
University of Leeds
The energetics of bird flight: metabolic, mechanical and aerodynamic consequences of flying in formation
Patrick Knight
University of Leeds
Investigating the mechanisms of aggregation associated with neurodegenerative olyglutamine (polyQ) diseases.
Konstantinos Drousiotis
University of York
Teaching bacteria to eat grass: genetic engineering of Escherichia coli for complete degradation and utilisation of Miscanthus hemicellulose
Daniel Upton
University of York
A Systems biology approach to bioenergy; Metabolic investigation of the filamentous fungi Aspergillus niger
Callum Pattrick
University of Sheffield
Engineering Escherichia coli to transport and efficiently metabolise ferulate
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