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PhD Projects

Home, EU and International students can be considered for PhD training in any of the areas and with any of the supervisors identified.

A list of current projects and associated supervisors can be found at (External) FindAPhD.com by searching for entries under the University of Nottingham, Centre for Genetics and Genomics/School of Biology. Some projects may be restricted to Home and EU students but most supervisors offer projects that are open to all categories of applicants, including International Students. New projects can be posted at any time and therefore applicants are advised to keep visiting this site.

Some of our groups may have postgraduate training opportunities to offer even if specific projects are not listed. Applicants with a strong desire to join these groups are advised to contact potential supervisors directly to see what opportunities might be available. Alternatively, contact the Postgraduate Administrator (tel: +44 (0)115 8230311 or Email: Biology-pg@nottingham.ac.uk ).

The University as a number of Scholarship Schemes for International students and details of these can be found on the University’s International Office website.  The School has funding available for UK/EU students and as a general rule full studentships are allocated to the best students who apply rather than particular projects.   However, there are exceptions (eg when a supervisor has obtained grant funding for a particular project) and the following are two such projects.

Project Opportunities (studentship funding will be allocated to best applicants)

Areas in which members of staff are currently offering projects are listed below. Potential applicants wishing to work in similar areas should contact supervisors directly to discuss what opportunities might be available.

Aziz Aboobak er

RCUK Academic Fellow/Wellcome Trust International Research Fellow

• Genetics and cell biology of ageing, regeneration and stem cells from studying immortal worms
• Investigating the role of miRNAs in the evolution of developmental processes

Thorsten Allers

Royal Society Research Fellow

• Genetic analysis of DNA repair
• Recombination and replication in archaea

David Archer

Professor 

• Understanding protein secretion stress in yeasts and filamentous fungi

John Armour

Professor/Head of School

• Population genetics, genomic evolution and medical consequences of human variation in gene copy number

Simon Avery

Associate Professor and Reader

• Cell individuality in microbial populations
• Responses to stress in yeast cells

Jerzy M Behnke

Professor

• Development of novel drugs for control of parasites from plant products
• Genetics of resistance to nematodes in mouse models
• The ecology of helminth parasites in wild rodents

Jan Bradley

Professor of Parasitology

• Immunoregulation in nematode infections
• Novel parasite retinol binding proteins

David Brook

Professor of Genetics

• The molecular genetics of cardiac development and congenital heart disorders
• Developing therapeutic approaches to myotonic dystrophy

John Brookfield

Professor of Evolutionary Genetics

• The evolution of non-coding DNA
• The population genetics of gene networks

William Brown

Reader

• Genome engineering and gene targeting in zebra-fish
• Analysis of cancer and chromosome segregation using genome engineering

Alistair Chambers

Lecturer

• Telomeres in Fission Yeast

Peter Crittenden

Senior Lecturer

• Plant and microbial ecology
• Lichen eco-physiology, biology and ecology

Angus Davison

Lecturer

• The evolution and maintenance of colour polymorphisms
• The evolution and development of left-right asymmetry in snails

Mike Doenhoff

Emeritus Professor

• Immunology of the host-parasite relationship of schistosomes
• Chemotherapy and drug-resistance of schistosomiasis

David de Pomerai

Senior Lecturer

• Transgenic nematode models of Parkinson's disease
• Pollution ecotoxicology using transgenic nematode biosensors

Ian Duce

Senior Lecturer

• The neurobiology of susceptibility and resistance to insecticides and anti-parasitics
• Natural toxins and defence chemicals as control agents for pests and parasites

Paul Dyer

Reader

• Molecular biology and evolution of reproductive mode in fungi
• Population biology and genomics of lichen-forming fungi

Markus Eichhorn

Lecturer

• Spatial patterning and community assembly in boreal forests
• Growth and survival of tropical rain forest tree seedlings

Martin Gering

Lecturer

• Formation and maintenance of blood stem cells during vertebrate embryogenesis

Francis Gilbert

Associate Professor

• Ecology of Batesian mimicry
• Conservation and ecology of the Egyptian fauna and flora

Sara Goodacre

RCUK Academic Fellow

• Evolutionary Biology of Spiders: metapopulation structure, conservation genetics and spider/endosymbiont interactions
• Drugs from Slugs: evolution of antimicrobial agents in terrestrial molluscs

Olivier Hanotte

Professor/Director of Frozen Ark

• Selection, speciation and conservation among galliform species: a phylogenomic analysis

Jane Hewitt

Professor

• Investigating the molecular basis of FSH muscular dystrophy
• Defects in protein glycosylation and muscular dystrophy  

Andrew Johnson

Reader

• Reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency
• The development of pluripotent stem cells in vertebrate embryos
• The evolution of vertebrate developmental mechanisms

Matthew Loose

Lecturer

• The regulatory network underlying mesendoderm induction
• Identifying the genetic regulatory networks directing lineage choice in multi-potent cells

Ed Louis

Professor of Genome Dynamics (Director, Institute of Genetics)

• Telomeres and associated sequences: structure, function and dynamics
• Genome evolution in yeast: genome stability, speciation, phylogenies

Andrew MacColl

NERC Postdoctoral Fellow

• Local adaptation in host-parasites interactions
• The effect of natural enemies on competition

Ian Mellor

Senior Research Fellow

• Study of ionotropic receptor antagonism and transient receptor potential (TRP) channels using patch-clamp and voltage-clamp
• Investigating interactions of pyrethroid insecticides with voltage-gated sodium channels

Garry Morgan

Lecturer

• Structure and function of highly active genes in the oocyte nucleus

Conrad Nieduszynski

BBSRC David Phillips Fellow

• Genome stability: regulating DNA replication origin activity

Paul O'Shea

Professor

• The role of membrane rafts in cell signalling
• Imaging intermolecular interactions in membranes

Tom Reader

Lecturer

• To group or not to group: why does social behaviour evolve?
• What is the conservation status of the harvest mouse in the UK?

Fred Sablitzky

Professor

• Id4 function in neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation
• The role of def6, a novel GEF of Rho GTPases, in development and immunity

Paul Scotting

Senior Lecturer

• The role of sox factors in neural fate in zebra fish
• Studies of the cellular origins of children's brain tumours

Elizabeth Sockett

Professor

• Genetics, biology and applications of predatory Bdellovibrio bacteria

Rita Tewari

Lecturer

• Signalling pathways and malaria parasite development
• Novel parasite proteins and reproductive cell development in malaria parasite

Chris Wade

Lecturer

• Investigating the colonisation of the land by gastropod molluscs using DNA sequence data
• Determining the incidence of the veterinary parasite Angiostronglyus vasorum in the UK using DNA barcodes
• Investigating the origins of the planktonic foraminifera

Bill Wickstead

Lecturer

• Genome structure and stability in African trypanosomes
• Nuclear architecture and the control of antigenic variation in the trypanosomes                       

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