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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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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 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 Neil Hall Scientific background Ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECMF) are a crucial yet often overlooked group of organisms that play a key role in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. These fungi form symbiotic associations with plant root systems, where plants supply...
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Primary Supervisor - Prof Tracey Chapman Strong interdisciplinary training, within the ARIES Ecology and Biodiversity theme, to equip you with high-in-demand analytical skills in phenotypic and molecular genetic engineering. Scientific Background In all species that lay eggs externally - in...
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Primary Supervisor: Dr Jose De Vega Scientific Background: Interspecific hybridisation is a common mechanism of diversification in plants, unlike in animals, largely because plants can overcome hybrid sterility through chromosome doubling, resulting in polyploid plants. Hybridisation and...
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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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, 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