
PhD programme started in October 2009. Two types of entry are available: 4 year PhDs incorporating a 9-month training course and a number of 3-year PhDs for those already holding an MSc or other professional qualifications or experience.
The projects with the best applicants will be awarded the funding. The funding is only available to applicants that meet the Non-UK Students criteria.
In most cases if you have the correct qualifications and access to your own funding, either from your home country or your own finances, your application to work with the supervisors listed in the research projects will be considered.
The research projects below are in competition for funding.
• Exploring risks of evolution of resistance to the herbicide glyphosate in UK weedy plants (with Dr. Paul Neve)
• Integrating modelling and molecular approaches to inform the evolution and management of resistance to herbicides in Alopecurus myosuroidesAlopecurus myosuroides (with Dr. Paul Neve)
• Diversity and function of phytomyxid eukaryotes (Phylum Cercozoa) (with Dr Gary Bending and Dr David Bass of Natural History Museum, London)
• Gene Expression Control and Cancer (with Professor John McCarthy)
• Common Neurotoxic Mechanism in Parkinson's and Prion Diseases (with Dr. Teresa Pinheiro and Dr. Mark J. Wall)
• Biogenesis of protein storage vacuoles in Arabidopsis thaliana (with Dr Lorenzo Frigerio)
• Proteins regulating shape and function of the plant endoplasmic reticulum (with Dr Lorenzo Frigerio)
• Mechanism of the TAT protein transporter (Professor Colin Robinson and Dr Dan Mitchell)
• Oligopeptidases in neurodegenerative diseases (with Professor Vilmos Fülöp)
• 3D Cryo-electron microscopy studies of Tat complexes (with Dr Corinne Smith and Professor Colin Robinson)
• Dissecting early events in clathrin disassembly by the molecular chaperone, Hsc70. (with Dr Corinne Smith )
• Selectivity in a hormone receptor complex (with Professor Richard Napier and Professor Vilmos Fulop)
• Accurate chromosome segregation: how do you turn the spindle checkpoint off? (with Professor Jonathan Millar and Dr Andrew McAinsh)
• Mechanics of force generation within the mitotic spindle (with Professor Jonathan Millar and Professor Rob Cross)
• Modulation of neuronal spine morphology by MAPK signalling during synaptic plasticity (with Dr Sonia Corrêa)
• Molecular mechanisms in ageing, dementia and Alzheimer's Disease (with Dr Kevin Moffat, Professor Bruno Frenguelli and Dr Jürgen Müller)
• Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory (Dr Sonia Correa and Professor Bruno Frenguelli)
• Learning and memory (with Dr Kevin Moffat and Dr Sonia Correa)
• Unravelling bacterial chromatin - the role of curved DNA binding proteins in Escherichia coli (with Dr David Grainger)
• Molecular mechanisms controlling the bacterial cell cycle (with Dr David Grainger)
Please visit the scholarship web page to read the additional projects available at School of Life Sciences.