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Pandemic Potential of Avian Influenza in the UK: Modelling Cross-Species Transmission and Spillover to Humans
The 2022 Avian Influenza outbreak in the UK is largest on record and the first time farm-to-farm transmission and animal-to-human transmission has been identified[1]. Read more
Plants and people in Mesolithic Scotland: examining hunter-gatherer-plant interactions over 5 millennia.
The aim of the PhD project is to consider the role and importance of different plant food and fuel resources in hunter-gatherer subsistence in Mesolithic Scotland. Read more
Chromosome substitution strains from Chinese wild mice
Supervisors. Principal supervisor. Professor/Dr Minyan Wang…. (XJTLU). Co-supervisor. Professor/Dr Jing Zhao……...(JITRI). Read more
Surveillance, detection, and environmental drivers of avian influenza-like viruses in African birds
Avian influenza is highly contagious, and if it spills over into human populations, could cause future influenza pandemics. When poultry are infected, the animals should be housed under strict biosecurity measures to prevent direct or indirect contact with wild birds. Read more
SynBac: Synthetic Baculovirus Genomes for Next-generation Drug Discovery and Gene Therapy
Baculovirus is a highly efficient delivery system for recombinant genes into eukaryotic cells, with great impact on the production of eukaryotic proteins, including high-value drug targets for pharmaceutical development. Read more
Public Responses to Climate Impacts on Animal Welfare
Media coverage of the negative effects of the climate and nature emergencies on the welfare of wild and captive animals is becoming commonplace, yet we understand little about how this influences people’s environmental and animal welfare attitudes and behaviours. Read more
One-Flu: Wastewater-Guided Environmental Surveillance Platform to Understand the Ecology of Zoonotic Influenza A Virus (IAV) Threats
As evidenced by the current Covid-19 pandemic, the human population remains highly susceptible to zoonotic viral threats. Novel respiratory-borne, viral pathogens are of particular concern, given their pathogenic potential, ease of transmission, and lack of effective “off-the-shelf” pharmaceutical interventions. Read more
A miRNA taming floral homeotic genes
Background. The floral structure significantly influences the interaction of angiosperms with their environment, not least because it defines the set of species by which plants are pollinated. Read more
Impacts of disease (chytridiomycosis) and environmental contaminants on wildlife conservation (amphibians)
Wildlife are in peril due to numerous threatening processes. Amphibians (especially frogs) are the most endangered Class of Vertebrates. Read more
Fish, predator and collective behaviour
How do animals interact in groups? What benefits and costs can this bring? What are the ecological effects of social living? How do differences between… Read more
MScR: Fish, predator and collective behaviour
How do animals interact in groups? What benefits and costs can this bring? What are the ecological effects of social living? How do differences between… Read more
Conservation of pollinator biodiversity and sustainable management of pollination services in agroecosystems
Wild and managed pollinators provide a wide range of benefits to society in terms of contributions to food security, farmer and beekeeper livelihoods, social and cultural values, as well as the maintenance of wider biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Read more
Coronavirus antagonism of innate immune responses
When a virus infects a host, the innate immune response is activated to control the infection. Therefore, all pathogenic viruses have evolved ways to counteract that response to ensure their replication and transmission to a new host. Read more
Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT): Investigation of the role in acquired drug resistance in colon cancer
Research Group:
Institute of Cancer Therapeutics
Despite treatment advances, one of the most common cancers, colorectal cancer (CRC), still has a 45% mortality rate, and one of the major problems is the build-up of resistance to cancer drugs during treatment (‘acquired resistance’) such that over time the drugs stop working. Read more
The Sheffield Children’s Hospital/Insigneo Institute for In Silico Medicine PhD Programme in Digital Health: Advanced Healthcare Communication
Supervisor(s). Professor Jim Wild (representing a team of potential supervisors from Insigneo) and Professor Paul Dimitri (representing a team of potential supervisors from SCH). Read more