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Primary Supervisor - Dr Marius Somveille Background Seabirds are highly mobile organisms connecting distant regions across the world’s oceans and seas. While being important contributors to marine ecosystems, seabirds are also particularly threatened by human activity. To design effective...
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Primary Supervisor - Dr Lidong Be Scientific Background One of the key challenges in volcanology is understanding changes in volcanic activities during crises, such as transitions from effusive to eruptive activity. These transitions pose significant challenges to hazard management (1). Physical...
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Primary Supervisor - Prof Jacob Malone Scientific Background Soil contamination with plastics and other pollutants causes significant challenges in terms of environmental containment and restoration. For example, the food-safe plastic PET is found throughout the terrestrial ecosystem, where it...
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Primary Supervisor - Prof Diane Saunders Scientific background Bhutan is well-known for its extraordinarily high species richness and endemism rate. With only ~8% of Bhutan’s land being arable, wheat is a staple crop of significant importance. It is among one of the few crops cultivated at high...
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Primary Supervisor: Prof Kate Hendry Scientific background: Meltwater fluxes from glaciers and ice shelves are increasing across West Antarctica as a result of oceanic warming as well as an increase in atmospheric temperatures. The increase in freshwater inputs into the ocean are likely linked...
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Primary Supervisor - Dr Stefan Bidula Scientific background Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is a stress molecule produced by marine organisms such as phytoplankton, algae, corals, and some plants. It is broken down to the gas dimethyl sulphide (DMS) by marine bacteria, providing the...
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Primary Supervisor -Prof Michal Mackiewicz Scientific background Marine litter is a key threat to the oceans health and the livelihoods. Hence, new scalable automated methods to collect and analyse data are needed to enhance our understanding of sources, pathways and impact of litter. Cefas is...
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]. This PhD is about investigating whether the presence of the ABBS bacteria is directly causing prostate cancer development. Seven potential ways in which specific anaerobic bacteria could result in cancer
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Primary Supervisor - Dr Matthew Jones Scientific Background Megafires, characterised by their extraordinary size, speed, and intensity, are increasingly threatening society, ecosystems, and ecosystem services such as carbon storage (1-4). Recent advances in satellite observations and machine...
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, the race is on to understand how these DNA changes affect disease progression and post-operative recurrence risk. This PhD project uses CRISPR/Cas9 to examine risk variants in patient-derived cells and