Studentships
PhD studentships to start 2012
ERC Advanced Investigator Award
Faculty Funded Studentship
ITN Studentship
BBSRC DTP Studentship
Luccock and Jeffcock Research
ERC Advanced Investigator Award
Title: To Investigate the Evolution of Endosymbioses between Anaerobic Ciliate Protozoa and Archaebacteria Ref CB083
Supervisor: Prof Martin Embley & Dr Genoveva Esteban
Sponsor: ERC 3 year studentship
Contact for further details: Prof Martin Embley
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Title: Understanding carbohydrate uptake by members of the human gut microbiota Ref CB086
Supervisor: Prof Bert Van Den Berg
Sponsor: Faculty
Contact for further details: Prof Bert Van Den Berg
Further particulars
Title: Telomeres and the DNA damage response Ref CB087
Supervisor: Prof D Lydall
Sponsor: EU sponsored CodeAge Joint Training and Research Network
Contact for further details: Prof D Lydall
Further particulars
Title: Transport, translation and telomeres Ref CB088
Supervisor: Prof David Lydall
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP 4 year integrated PhD
Contact for further details: Prof D Lydall
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Title: The influence of sirtuin-controlled circadian rhythmicity and diet on likespan in honeybees Ref CB089
Supervisor: Prof Dianne Ford
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP 4 year integrated PhD
Contact for further details: Prof D Ford
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Title: Resistance to copper toxicity in Staphylococcus aureus Ref CB090
Supervisor: Dr Kevin Waldron
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP 4 year integrated PhD
Contact for further details: Dr K Waldron
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Title: The role of superoxide in DNA damage signalling Ref CB091
Supervisor: Dr Julian Rutherford
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP 4 year integrated PhD
Contact for further details: Dr J Rutherford
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Title: Recruitment condensin to replication origins in Bacillus subtilis Ref CB093
Supervisor: Prof Jeff Errington
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP 4 year inegrated PhD
Contact for further details: Prof J Errington
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Title: Comparative study of cyclin B regulation in meiotic and mitotic cell division Ref CB092
Supervisor: Dr Suzanne Madgwick
Sponsor: Luccock and Jeffcock Research 4 year integrated PhD
Contact for further details: Dr S Madgwick & Dr M Levasseur
Further particulars
Studentships Filled
Title: Correcting your mistakes: how do human mitochondria ensure the quality of newly made proteins?
Supervisor: Prof R Lightowlers
Sponsor: BBSRC
Contact for further details: Prof R Lightowlers
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Title: Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection: oestrogen and the epithelial defences of the urinary tract
Supervisor: Dr J Hall
Sponsor: MRC MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr J Hall
Title: Understanding the mechansims underlying age-associated declines in resistance to infection
Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Veal
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr E Veal
Title: Local microenvironment control of epithelial ion transport and innate defence: role in the pathogenesis of chronic airways disease
Supervisor: Dr M Gray
Sponsor: MRC MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr M Gray
Title: The link between the developmental disorder Treacher Collins syndrome and the regulation of the tumour suppressor p53
Supervisor: Dr Nick Watkins
Sponsor: BBSRC 3 Year PhD
Contact for further details: Dr N Watkins
Title: Understanding the molecular mechanisms by which complex glycansare metabolized in the human microbiota
Supervisor: Prof Harry Gilbert
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Prof H Gilbert
Title: Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis and Degradation
Supervisor: Prof W Vollmer
Sponsor: MRC 3 Year PhD
Contact for further details: Prof W Vollmer
Title: Structural studies of biofilm-associated proteins from human pathogens
Supervisor: Dr Paula Salgado
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP Mres/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr P Salgado
Title: Molecular mechanisms of bacterial persistance
Supervisor: Prof Kenn Gerdes
Sponsor: BBSRC MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Prof K Gerdes
Title: The Regulation of Heterochromation by Bromodomain AAA-ATPases
Supervisor: Dr Simon Whitehall
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr S Whitehall
Title: Alu repeats, cancer and genetic disease
Supervisor: Dr Nick Watkins
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr N Watkins
Title: How to kill non-growing bacterial pathogens
Supervisor: Dr L Hamoen
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr L Hamoen
Title: Investigating the roles of a novel mRNA quality control enzyme in gene expression and telomere maintenance
Supervisor: Dr C Schneider
Sponsor: Ruth & Lionel Jacobson Trust MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr C Schneider
Title: Investigating copper homeostasis in a human fungal pathogen
Supervisor: Prof C Dennison
Sponsor: John William Luccock & Ernest Jeffcock
Contact for further details: Prof C Dennison
Title: PhD studentship to study the origin and diversification of eukaryotes using statistical phylogenetics
Supervisor: Prof M Embley
Sponsor: EU 3 Year PhD
Contact for further details: Prof M Embley
Title: Genes Required for the Response to Reactive Oxygen Species and their Role in Lifespan
Supervisor: Prof Brian Morgan
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Prof B Morgan
Title: How do viruses trick the ribosome into making 2 polypeptides from a single open reading frame?
Supervisor: Dr Jeremy Brown
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr J Brown
Title: Nutrient modulation of gut inflamnatory responses to microbial challenges
Supervisor: Prof J Hesketh
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Prof J Hesketh
Title: Simplified in-process detection of protein higher order structure and aggregation
Supervisor: Prof J Lakey & Dr P Levison
Sponsor: BBSRC BRIC Award
Contact for further details: Prof J Lakey
Further particulars
Title: Heterogeneity and regulation of key cellular decisions in Bacillus subtilis
Supervisor: Dr Leendert Hamoen & Prof Darren Wilkinson
Sponsor: BBSRC DTG 3 year PhD
Contact for further details: Dr Leendert Hamoen
Further particulars
Title: Regulation of gene expression through coupling of transcription and translation
Supervisor: Dr Nikolay Zenkin
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Dr N Zenkin
Title: Biological Function of a Ubiquitous RNA Ligase
Supervisor: Prof Kenn Gerdes
Sponsor: BBSRC DTP MRes/PhD Studentship
Contact for further details: Prof K Gerdes
Title: Novel inhibators of transcription and mechanisms of their action
Supervisor: Dr N Zenkin
Sponsor: Shared Funding Scheme 3 Year PhD
Contact for further details: Dr N Zenkin
