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PhD Projects: 2019

NameProject title
Emma Campbell
University of Leeds
Protein Engineering of Synthetic Enzyme Switches for the Next Generation of Infectious-Disease and Toxin Diagnostics (i-CASE)
James Pitman
University of Sheffield
From metabolic markers to mechanism of growth suppression: understanding the molecular physiology of sprouting in potato (i-CASE)
Rhys Woodfin
University of York
Plant metabolism and remediation of the explosive and pollutant TNT
Laura Cowell
University of York
Transcriptional regulation by FGF in the switch from pluripotency to cell lineage commitment
Orlagh Anderson
University of York
Engineering bacterial therapeutics with enhanced metabolic properties (i-CASE)
Harry Pink
University of York
Gene editing and molecular breeding for fungal disease resistance in lettuce (i-CASE)
Theo Issitt
University of York
Probing cellular responses to environmental and metabolic stress
Connor Hayward
University of Leeds
Defining picornaviral replication complexes by molecular and state-of-the-art imaging- Novel strategies for disease control
Frederick Weaver
University of Leeds
Determining the role of molecular co-chaperones in virus infection: A novel antiviral approach
Alina Capatina
University of York
Regulation of cellular metabolism and intercellular communication by sodium signalling
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