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Primary supervisor - Dr Julea Butt This exciting project will engineer light-driven microreactors converting nitrate to ammonia thereby delivering proof-of-principle for a sustainable technology
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Primary supervisor – Prof Parvadha Suntharalingham BACKGROUND The ocean plays a key role in controlling atmospheric greenhouse-gas levels. It removes a significant fraction of anthropogenic carbon
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Primary supervisor - Dr Alper Akay This PhD project will investigate how RNA modifications influence the activity of topoisomerase I (TOP1), a crucial enzyme that regulates DNA supercoiling during
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Primary supervisor - Dr Nick Talbot What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from
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Primary supervisor - Prof Colin Cooper It is well established that bacteria can cause human cancer, with, for example, Helicobacter pylori implicated in the development of gastric cancer and
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that the main types of Salmonella in Brazilian chicken carried plasmids with a combination of specific genes conferring resistance to different classes of antimicrobials: sulphonamides, tetracyclines and beta
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Primary supervisor - Dr Karl Grieshop Why do harmful genes persist in populations instead of being removed by natural selection? One answer lies in sexual antagonism: when a genetic variant benefits
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Primary supervisor - Dr Amr El-Demerdash Many natural products (NPs) show remarkable biological activity, yet their clinical potential is often limited by poor solubility, metabolic instability
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Primary supervisor - Dr Phil Carella The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day
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Primary supervisor - Prof Mark Banfield Like animals, plants get sick, but they have an immune system to fight back against infection. Plant diseases are a threat to food production and a constraint