PhD Projects

Our students are studying diverse areas of mechanistic biology in the following BBSRC strategic themes:

Advancing the frontiers of bioscience discovery:

1) Understanding the rules of life (formerly World Class Underpinning Bioscience)

2) Transformative technologies (formerly Exploiting New Ways of Working)

Tackling strategic challenges:

3) Bioscience for sustainable agriculture and food (formerly Agriculture and Food Security)

4) Bioscience for renewable resources and clean growth (formerly Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy)

These are the new BBSRC priority areas, taken from strategic document, “Forward look for UK Bioscience”, available on the BBSRC website:

https://bbsrc.ukri.org/documents/forward-look-for-uk-bioscience-pdf/

	Name	Project title
	Janice Robottom University of Leeds 2012	Development of split enzyme amplification systems for electronic label-free biosensors.
	Haley Owen University of Sheffield 2012	The Development of Novel Herbicides
	John Thomas University of York 2012	Mechanisms of adaptation of soil microbiota to pesticides
	Nicola Oates University of York 2012	Mining composting communities for new lignocellulose mobilising enzymes
	Richard Louden University of Sheffield 2012	How does the colonisation of roots by mycorrhizal fungi suppress infection by root parasitic weeds - a role for strigolactones
	Gina Allison University of York 2012	Mechanisms of assembly and disassembly of the cytoskeletal protein ParF
	Claudia Maclean University of Leeds 2012	Computer and mathematical modelling of experimentally derived data of neuronal control of the autonomic nervous system
	Jessica Haigh University of Leeds 2012	Designing and shaping chemical tools to target motor neurones for experimental and therapeutic outcomes
	Christopher Rowley University of Leeds 2012	Construction, evolution, characterisation and optimisation of novel enzymes discovered through high-throughput mRNA display.
	Katie Denby University of Sheffield 2012	Systems understanding of anaerobic respiration in Escherichia coli
	Rebecca Gregory University of York 2012	The Key to a biofuel future: unravelling the mechanism of GH61