PhD | The University of York, Department of Biology Fully Funded UK/EU Studentships

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4 February, 2012

University of York, Department of Biology PhD Studentships

The Department of Biology is currently offering fully funded PhD studentships to UK and other EU (subject to residency requirements) candidates for the PhD projects.

For more information about our studentships please visit our website:

www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/gsp/prospective/phd/welcome.htm

Details of our most recent Open Day : 13 January 2010 can be seen at:

www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/gsp/prospective/openday/thank_you.html

The Biology Department at the University of York - one of the UK's leading university biological sciences departments for both research and teaching. With over 60 academic staff, we cover the spectrum of contemporary biological sciences from molecular aspects of cancer to field ecology. Traditional boundaries which fragment the subject of biology are absent, and as a result a number of highly productive interdisciplinary collaborations have emerged. The labs provide 10,000m² of research space, as well as the Structural Biology Laboratory of the Department of Chemistry. The Technology Facility offers access to over £7M worth of state-of-the-art equipment.

The most recent external review of our research - the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise - placed York equal first among broad spectrum bioscience departments in the UK for quality that was judged to be world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour.

Our Research Projects - Click on a project title to view the full project details:

Dr P Ashton	Bioinformatic methods to compare ecosystems using DNA sequencing data
Dr D Barilla Dr LSD Caves	Mechanisms of assembly and disassembly of the cyotskeletal protein ParF
Dr D Barilla	Targeting a bacterial mitotic spindle to combat antibiotic resistance
Dr C G Baumann	Ensemble and Single-Molecule Transcription Assays Using Novel Fluorescent Nucleotide Probes
Dr G Blanco	Unraveling mechanotransduction in skeletal muscle
Dr W Brackenbury	Voltage-gated sodium channels, membrane potential, and breast cancer metastasis
Prof N Bruce Prof S J McQueen-Mason	Mining composting communities for new lignocelluloses mobilising enzymes
Prof N Bruce Dr L Rylott	Investigating the Phytodetoxification of Explosives
Dr LSD Caves Prof RE Hubbard	Dynamics of biomolecular association processes
Dr S Chawla	Effects of aging on the regulation of neuronal transcriptional factors by calcineurin.
Dr J P J Chong	DNA replication proliferation control
Dr J P J Chong Dr D Coverley	Functional assembly of the mammalian Mcm complex
Dr M Coles	Role of stromal cell networks in vaccine adjuvant efficacy
Dr D Coverley	Downstream consequences of Ciz1 variant expression in cancers
Dr A Dodd	How does the circadian clock control photosynthesis?
Dr A Dodd	Post-translational regulation of cell function by the circadian clock
Dr A Dodd Prof N Bruce	Circadian control of photosynthesis
Prof R Edwards	Molecular diagnostics to counteract herbicide resistance in wild grasses
Prof R Edwards	Acylation of Natural Products Derived from Biorefining
Dr C J H Elliott	Neurophysiology of Parkinson's disease
Dr G Evans	The role of N-Src kinases in programming neuroblastoma differentiation
Dr J Ferrari	Community effects of facultative symbionts in insects
Dr D Franks Dr J Wood	Modelling social networks and collective behaviour in animals
Dr P G Genever	Modelling tumour development in vitro
Dr P G Genever	Modelling tumour development in vitro
Prof I A Graham	Seed Germination and Oil Mobilisation
Prof I A Graham	Producing Oil in Biomass
Dr A Green	B cells in Type 1 Diabetes
Prof S Hartley	Host-mediated competition between parasitic plants and insect herbivores: molecular mechanisms
Dr T Helgason	Microbes and environmental change: the importance of interactions in maintaining ecosystem function
Dr T Helgason	Environmental Microbiology of disease suppressing soils
Dr J K Hill	Developing sustainable tropical agricultural landscapes
Dr J K Hill Prof S Hartley	Climate change and phenology: a tri-trophic study
Dr A Hodge Prof P Ineson	Biochar addition to soils – black magic?
Dr A Hodge Prof S Hartley	Mechanisms of resource acquisition by plant mutualists: multiple host benefits from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi?
Dr A Hodge	Molecular basis of the benefits of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis for the nitrogen nutrition of crop plants
Dr H V Isaacs	Functional characterisation of targets of the FGF signalling pathway
Dr A L Jones	Investigating RNA Silencing and Epigenetic Change
Prof P M Kaye	Intracellular parasitism of stromal cells
Prof BJ Keely Dr J P J Chong	Uptake or biosynthesis: mechanisms of structural adaptation of archaeal tetraether lipids
Prof C Kleanthous	Protein-protein interactions of the Tol-Pal complex
Prof C Kleanthous	Biochemical and structural analysis of environmental stress sensing complexes in bacteria
Dr M Kullberg	CD4+ T cell subsets in Helicobacter-induced inflammation
Dr F J M Maathuis	Arsenic resistance and plant membrane transport
Dr F J M Maathuis Dr K Redeker	Improving arsenic tolerance in rice
Prof N Maitland	Mechanisms of Prostate Cancer Stem Cell Survival
Dr P Mayhew	Insect macroevolution, life history evolution, evolutionary ecology and biological control
Prof S J McQueen-Mason	Improving plant biomass for the production of sustainable biofuels
Dr J Moir	Mechanisms of virulence and niche adaptation in bacterial pathogen Neisseria meningitidis
Dr J Moir Dr T Helgason	Mechanisms of adaptation of soil microbiota to pesticides
Dr A P Mountford	The role of helminth molecules in regulating the immune response.
Dr J Pitchford	Nonlinear and stochastic dynamics in marine ecosystems
Dr J Potts	Structure determination of the fibrin/fibronectin complex involved in thrombosis and haemostasis.
Dr M E Pownall	The role of Sulf1 in satellite cell quiescence, activation, proliferation and myogenic differentiation.
Dr M E Pownall Dr G Blanco	The role of Sulf1 in modulating signals in the satellite cell stem cell niche
Dr K Redeker	Ecological impacts on trace gas fluxes from high wind speeds over rough terrain
Dr EJH Robinson Prof M S Hofreiter	Functional connectivity in fragmented habitats: a wood ant case study
Dr J Rowntree Dr D Franks	The tangled web of host-parasitic plant interactions – predicting emergent properties of variable networks of species
Dr J Rowntree	Improving pasture resilience and productivity
Dr M Schultze	Molecular characterisation of plant mutants defective in mycorrhiza formation
Dr N Signoret	Role of the chemokine receptor CCR5 during the infection of macrophages by Leishmania parasites
Prof J Southgate	Homeostatic mechanisms in human urothelium: balancing tissue regeneration and differentiation.
Prof J Southgate Dr D Malley	Molecular and epigenetic mechanisms of heavy metal toxicity in urothelial carcinogenesis
Prof J Southgate	Cell lineage tracking – identification of prognostic indicators of cell fate
Dr S Sweeney Dr D Ashford	Identifying signalling responses governing synapse growth and function in aging neurons: defining responses to different cellular sources of oxidative stress
Dr S Sweeney	Generating a Drosophila model of Valosin-containing-peptide induced Frontotemporal Dementia
Prof C Thomas Dr C Dytham	The dynamics of species and genes through the ice ages
Dr G H Thomas Dr P Clarke	Synthesis and application of novel sialic acid analogues to investigate the mechanisms of sialic acid transport and catabolism in bacterial pathogens
Dr G H Thomas	Molecular dissection of sialic acid transporters involved in bacterial virulence
Dr D Ungar	Control of Golgi-enzyme sorting in development and disease
Dr M van der Woude	The occurrence and role of LPS composition changes in Salmonella persistence, spread and virulence
Dr M van der Woude Dr P Pryor	The contribution of diverse O-antigen modification to the success of Salmonella
Dr R Waites	The genetics of natural variation and adaptation in Arabidopsis leaf shape
Prof P Walton Prof G Davies	The key to a biofuel future: unravelling the mechanism of GH61
Dr J Wood Dr D Franks	Computational modelling of predator prey interactions; how selfish is the herd really?
Prof J P W Young	Comparative genomics and the evolution of bacteria

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