Results
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PhD Studentship: One Cell at a Time: Uncovering Enhancer Control of Blood and Cardiovascular Fate Using Single-cell Multi-omics
The cardiovascular system - comprising the heart, blood and blood vessels - is the first functional organ system to form during vertebrate development. Cardiac progenitor cells generate the…
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PhD Studentship: A Hostile Niche: How Mutant Blood Stem Cells Damage Their Healthy Neighbours
As people age, some blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth advantage over their normal counterparts. Our recent work suggests the mutant cells don't just outgrow their…
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PhD Studentship: Cracking the Chain of Command in Multidrug Efflux Evolution
Are you passionate about understanding antibiotic resistance at the molecular level? Join Professor Mark Webber and Dr Gemma Langridge at the Quadram Institute Bioscience for a cutting-edge…
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PhD Studentship: Small RNA, Big Impact: The role of SNORD116 in the metabolic development of adipocytes
Investigating the Molecular Basis of Adipocyte Metabolic Development Understanding how fat cells (adipocytes) develop is fundamental to population-level metabolic health. This project…
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PhD Studentship: Unlocking healthy ageing: harnessing proteostasis pathways to promote extracellular matrix function
Background Ageing causes increased frailty and higher rates of disease. As societies age, this presents an enormous public health challenge, making understanding the ageing process…
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PhD Studentship: Engineering Fitness in Disease-Resistant Crops
Engineering crop disease resistance to overcome the growth-defence trade-off Developing crops that are both productive and resillient is one of the major challenges facing agriculture.…
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PhD Studentship: How does NRP2 keep blood vessels sealed and calm under stress?
Blood vessels are lined by endothelial cells, which form a living barrier between blood and tissues. These cells must stay tightly connected, sense blood flow, respond to nutrients and…
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PhD Studentship: Functional Genomics of Sexually Antagonistic Selection
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 males but harms females, or…
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PhD Studentship: Running on Empty: Metabolic Ageing in Blood Stem Cells
Every blood cell in your body, from oxygen-carrying red cells to virus-fighting white cells, begins life in a rare population of blood stem cells that must stay active for an entire…
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PhD Studentship: The Cardiac Positioning System – How Do Heart Progenitors Find Their Way?
Primary Supervisor - Professor Andrea Munsterberg The first organ to develop in vertebrate embryos is the heart, when two streams of cardiac progenitor cells undertake an epic migration…
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PhD Studentship: Cracking the carbohydrate code: how carbohydrate-binding modules control starch digestion
Why this matters: Starch is the principal source of dietary glucose, and the rate at which it is digested has major consequences for metabolic health. Food science still lacks the…
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PhD Studentship: Watching a fungus fight back: mapping antimicrobial resistance in 3-D as it happens
Primary Supervisor - Dr Trey Koev The chemicals that protect our crops and the drugs that treat fungal infections come from the same family. Fungi in the field meet them first — and are…
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PhD Studentship: Antarctic Glacial Meltwater and its Importance for Ocean Circulation and Climate
Scientific background: West Antarctica’s fast-melting ice shelves release fresh water into the shelf seas that surround the continent (Sheehan et al., 2023). This alters circumpolar and…
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PhD Studentship: From climate information to climate action: Evaluating how climate information use shapes local adaptation decision making in English Local Authorities and opportunities for improvement
The Climate Change Committee’s Well Adapted UK report highlights a critical need for practical adaptation solutions to build a resilient UK by 2050. Although information and data to inform…
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PhD Studentship: From Spectra to Marine Litter: Multispectral Imaging and AI for Aerial Detection and Monitoring
Scientific Background Marine litter threatens ocean health and the coastal livelihoods that depend on it. Scalable automated methods to detect, classify and quantify litter are needed to…
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PhD Studentship: Winds and Waves in the Alpine Mountains
Scientific background: Mountains (or "orography") have a substantial effect on the atmospheric circulation. This includes atmospheric disturbances known as orographic gravity waves,…
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PhD Studentship: Towards Near Real-time Quantification of Fossil Fuel Emissions
Scientific background: Successful implementation of the Paris agreement relies on countries’ emissions being accurately known and readily available, but our ability to evaluate fossil fuel…
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PhD Studentship: Dust, the Atlantic Ocean, and Climate
Scientific background The Atlantic Ocean has warmed significantly over the last few years partly from increasing greenhouse gases, but other climate forcing agents also play a role. In…
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PhD Studentship: Listening to La Soufrière: Fibre Optics and AI for the Next Generation of Volcano Monitoring
Scientific Background A major challenge in volcanology is understanding and anticipating transitions in volcanic activity. Subtle changes within volcanic systems can precede hazardous…
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PhD Studentship: Soil Carbon and Soil Health Through Landscape Transition
Scientific background: Nature-based solutions (NBS) delivered through land-use change can create new habitats, enhance biodiversity, and increase carbon sequestration at landscape scales.…