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
	Rosalind Latham University of Leeds 2019	Nuclease-resistant DNA nanostructures for high precision plant genome engineering
	Joanna Greenman University of York 2019	SSA Mechanisms and functional consequences of platelet-macrophage cross-talk in type 2 immunity
	Emily Byrd University of Leeds 2019	Probing the Conformational Dynamics of α-Synuclein by Structural Mass Spectrometry
	Charlotte Stevenson University of Leeds 2019	Programming the subcellular localization of enzyme inhibitors
	James Barrett University of York 2019	Super resolution imaging of the algal pyrenoid
	Lily Bailey University of York 2019	Developing new nanopores: molecular engineering of thermostable pore containing proteins for nanosensing applications (i-CASE)
	Freya Bottom University of Sheffield 2019	The relationship between molecular organization and mechanical properties in the leaf cell wall with a focus on infection
	Claire Smithson University of Leeds 2019	Epigenetic mechanisms underlying responses to environmental stress
	Liam Barratt University of York 2019	Future-proofing Our Food: Increasing Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Hexaploid Bread Wheat Using Associative Transcriptomics
	Megan Clarke University of Leeds 2019	Primed for parasitism: pathogenic nematodes tailor their response to host plant exudates