PhD Projects

Our students are studying 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
	Jessica Downing University of York 2018	Genomics-guided approaches to enzyme discovery in disparate Galdieria species
	Madeleine Inglis University of Leeds 2018	Flight Control in Birds
	Egle Beigaite University of York 2018	Characterising a novel candidate gene regulating ageing related atrophy in neurons
	Alexander Setchfield University of York 2018	Microbial degradation of agricultural residues as feed for black soldier fly larvae (iCASE)
	Sonam Sidhu University of York 2018	Dissecting molecular complexity in single living cells using state-of-the-art super-resolution microscopy and biophysical chemistry, one molecule at a time
	Laura Wiggins University of York 2018	Using machine learning to predict cell type and fate in heterogeneous populations (NPIF)
	Alexander Scott University of York 2018	How does low-temperature plasma damage the bacterial outer membrane?
	Alexander Russell University of York 2018	Dissecting a role for ZAK-beta in skeletal muscle development using genetics and embryology in zebrafish and Xenopus
	Benjamin Rowlinson University of York 2018	Unravelling the structural biology of the LIMD1 scaffold protein using novel NMR approaches
	Katie Greenin University of Sheffield 2018	Maintaining effective sensory coding in the face of inter-neuronal variation