PhD Projects
Our students are studying in diverse areas of mechanistic biology in the BBSRC strategic priority areas of agriculture and food security, world-class underpinning biology and industrial biotechnology and bioenergy. Find out more about their individual projects here:
| Name | Project title | |
|---|---|---|
 | John Armstrong University of York 2017 | Borrowing building blocks from bacteria and eukaryotes: a three-component DNA segregation machinery in archaea |
 | Rachael Cooper University of York 2017 | How do repetitive bacterial surface proteins avoid inter-domain aggregation? |
 | Rhianna Rowland University of York 2017 | Imaging agents for genetic disease: structural, chemical and cellular dissection |
 | Sarah Tindall University of York 2017 | Bacterial modification of carbohydrates; structural and functional analysis of a key virulence strategy |
 | Sarah Thorne University of York 2017 | Improved wheat yield with silicon |
 | Kirstin Spence University of York 2017 | Investigating the molecular machinery that controls autophagy during Leishmania spp. Differentiation |
 | Edward Nay University of York 2017 | Regulation of gene expression in Leishmania parasites: structure, function and post-transcriptional modification of RNA binding proteins |
 | Jessica Dobson University of York 2017 | Mechanisms of palladium uptake and nanoparticle formation by plants |
 | Grace Dobbs University of York 2017 | Role of CIZ1 in X chromosome inactivation |
| Grace Cowen University of York 2017 | Role of DNA methylation in brain function |