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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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Primary Supervisor - Prof Ian Renfrew Scientific background Arctic climate change and the associated sea-ice retreat are having significant impacts on both the atmosphere, the ocean and their interactions. Atmosphere-ocean surface heat exchange is highest during cold-air outbreaks and high...
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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 Zoja Vukmanovic Scientific background: Layered intrusions represent natural laboratories frozen in time that provide us an opportunity to study how magma cools and differentiates, and how precious metals concentrate to form ore deposits. The ore deposits found in these...
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Primary Supervisor - Dr Xiaoming Zhai Scientific background The Arctic Ocean has undergone rapid changes in recent decades, with far-reaching impacts on both the Arctic region’s environment and the global climate system. An increased intrusion of the warm, saline Atlantic Water has led to the...
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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