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
	Emma Campbell University of Leeds 2019	Protein Engineering of Synthetic Enzyme Switches for the Next Generation of Infectious-Disease and Toxin Diagnostics (i-CASE)
	Emily Bushby	Gestational and early-life dietary impacts on performance, welfare and gut-health in pigs
	Gregory Billenness University of Leeds 2017	Understanding Signalling Cascades using Affimer reagents (NPIF)
	James Webster University of Sheffield 2017	Biological systems approach to de novo design (NPIF)
	Hannah Spencer University of York 2017	Characterization of cell lines with engineered Golgi organization (NPIF)
	Sarah Lock University of York 2017	Hydrolase discovery in the extremophile Galdieria (NPIF)
	Danielle Lambert University of Sheffield 2017	Investigating the mechanisms of non-classical gastrin signalling in tumour development (NPIF)
	Ryan Hubball University of Leeds 2017	Designing a chemical 'toolbox' for the efficient inhibition of metalloenzymes (NPIF)
	Dorothy Hawkins University of York 2017	Structural characterisation of a bacteriophage DNA packaging motor using Cryo-Electron Microscopy (NPIF)
	Claire Brown University of York 2017	Influence of microbial community on nitrogen use efficiency in agriculture (NPIF)