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PhD Projects: 2023

NameProject title
Zhen Liu
University of Leeds
Mechanistic understanding and inhibitor design strategies for non-mevalonate pathway TPP-dependent enzymes
Alex King
University of Leeds
The shape of sustainable crop production - re-engineering plant architecture for sustainable food production
Aidan Salter
University of York
Uncovering roles of carbohydrate-active enzymes within species of green algae
Kate Gilroy
University of Leeds
The Dynamics of Liquid Organelle Remodelling in Response to Virus Infection
Abdulkabir Adenopo
University of York
Understanding the mechanism of bacterial plasmid segregation at the single-molecule level
Alessandra Sabatini
University of Sheffield
Synthetic biology based polymerase and promoter engineering for production of next-generation mRNA therapeutics
Alicia Halliday
University of Sheffield
Investigating changes in cortical activity under the effect of classical psychedelics.
Yanyun Zhao
University of Sheffield
In vivo investigation of spontaneous activity in the prehearing mammalian auditory system
Veronica Thuburn
University of Sheffield
Investigating the role of BUD23 in Ribosome Specialisation in S. cerevisiae and hESCs
Greg McNeil
University of York
Probing and Manipulating the Bacterial Cell Wall Using Chemically Modified Sugars
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