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Agriculture and Food Security

Charlotte Walsh
My project focuses on the variance of seed quality due to protein modification by the Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier (SUMO) family of proteins.…
Christopher Dixon
I am attempting to produce the potato resistance protein Rx as a recombinant protein in vitro and determine its mode of action.…
Dan Bruce
This project aims to explore the relationship of PYL/PYR/RCAR proteins with eW5, a novel ligand that shows positive modulation of early plant growth and is hypothesised to interact with the PYL/PYR/RCAR family.…
Daniel Cowan-Turner
My main interests are in mechanisms of regulation and the evolution of regulatory networks in plants and photosynthetic organisms. I completed my BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Newcastle Unversity. Then I completed an Mphil investigating the role of the trehalose-6-phosphate signalling on…

Declan Gray
My current research is performed on the Gram-positive model organism Bacillus subtilis.…