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Primary supervisor - Dr Anders Bergström Scientific background The red squirrel in Britain is one of the most iconic examples of a declining population. It has suffered greatly since the introduction of the invasive grey squirrel in the late 1800s, but even before then it was struggling due to...
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Primary Supervisor - Dr Tiziana Luisetti Scientific background Climate change related tipping points (e.g. a slowdown in the North Atlantic ocean currents) may pose risks to marine resources (e.g
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an individual Resistant, Tolerant, or Susceptible (R/T/S) to a virus? That is the key question we aim to answer in this PhD study. We have gathered data on viral outbreaks over ~20 years and sequenced hundreds
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secondments to the project’s industry supporter, Fera Science (Sand Hutton, York), where you will have access to complementary instrumentation and expertise within the Food Authenticity team. During your PhD
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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