NERC-funded PhD studentships: Department of Life Sciences

The Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet (SSCP) Doctoral Training Partnership integrates six host partners and several business and policy sector partners, to offer an exciting programme that trains and inspires the next generation of environmental experts and leaders to address some of the toughest challenges of our time. The SSCP DTP is funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and is based at the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London.

Projects for an October 2024 start are listed below. Some projects listed are led by a core partner and co-supervised by an Imperial supervisor - these are listed both under the department as well as the core partner and are marked with an asterisk*. For a full list of these and other projects, further details on the studentships, information on eligibility and instructions on how to apply, go to: www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/education/science-and-solutions-for-a-changing-planet-dtp/studentship-opportunities/

For project-related queries, contact individual supervisors. For general enquiries about the SSCP DTP, contact Christiane Morgan, Doctoral Training Coordinator.

Closing date for applications Monday 8 January 2024, midday (12pm GMT).

List of supervisors and projects in Life Sciences in 2024

Project Title	Lead Supervisor
The impact of environmental cues in antimicrobial resistance spreading	Dr Tiago Dias da Costa
Climate impacts on Arctic plant-pollinator networks: a population trait-based framework	Dr Richard Gill
Real-time acoustic monitoring of insect pollinators and their behaviours	Dr Sarab Sethi
The evolution of ecosystem function	Dr Will Pearse
Physical principles underlying the assembly and adaptation of complex microbial communities	Prof Robert Endres
Same-sex sociosexual behaviour in nonhuman primates: causes and functions	Prof Vincent Savolainen
Population genetic engineering of disease vectors and other harmful populations	Prof Austin Burt
Dating and analysing the complete tree of life	Prof James Rosindell
Predicting the thermal adaptation of a disease vector in a changing world	Dr Lauren Cator
The consequences of climate change and fisheries on Antarctic krill carbon sequestration	Dr Emma Cavan
Assembling Functionally Stable Microbial Communities Under Fluctuating Environments	Prof Samraat Pawar
Plant Immunity in a Changing Climate: The Mode of Action of NLR Immune Receptors in High Temperatures	Dr Tolga Bozkurt
Developing the next generation of biodiversity metrics for nature-positive policy and practice	Prof Joseph Tobias
Enhancing seagrass growth and resilience for restoration purposes with microbial manipulations	Dr Emma Ransome
Evolution of adaptive traits in lichens: Mechanisms of chemical self-resistance and heat resistance	Dr Ester Gaya (Kew)/ Prof Thomas Bell*
Extinction risk and threatened evolutionary history in epiphytic flowering plants	Dr Eimear Nic Lughadha (Kew)/ Dr James Rosindell*
Fungi as bioindicators of belowground ecological recovery in woodland regeneration initiatives	Dr Laura Martinez Suz (Kew)/ Dr Martin Bidartondo*
Marine ecosystem change in southwest UK during the Late Devonian mass extinction	Prof Richard Twitchett (NHM)/ Dr Martin Brazeau*
Predicting chemical impacts on environmental microbiomes using species sensitivity distributions	Dr Daniel Read (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)/ Prof Tom Bell*
From lab to land: Advancing synergetic green technologies for the remediation of contaminated land	Dr Gbotemi Adediran (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)/ Dr Jose Jimenez Zarco*
Role of Symbiotic Microbes in Regulating Phytoplankton Growth and Future Ocean Carbon Storage	Prof Thomas Bell

NERC-funded PhD studentships: Department of Life Sciences

List of supervisors and projects in Life Sciences in 2024

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