How to apply
Application Overview
Applications for studentships for October 2021 entry are now open
How to apply
Please forward a CV and covering letter, plus a completed copy of the NLD BBSRC DTP Studentship Application Details Form (template below) to bbsrcdtp@liverpool.ac.uk.
Please ensure you also forward a copy of your passport and English language certificate/s (international candidates only), and your degree certificates and transcripts, including any partial transcripts if applicable.
Newcastle-Liverpool-Durham (NLD) BBSRC DTP Studentship Application Details Form
NLD DTP Application Details Form 2021.docx
University of Liverpool
Dr Igor Barsukov - Understanding the function of microtubule-associated signalling networks in health and disease: role of adaptor proteins in network assembly
Dr Ian Copple - Unravelling species differences in stress responses to inform the selection, and reduce the use, of animals in preclinical drug safety testing
Dr Carrie Duckworth - New approaches for investigating intestinal barrier function in-vitro
Prof Claire Eyers - Enhanced and robust characterisation of dynamic protein post-translational protein modifications
Dr Brendan Geraghty - The effect of pressure modulation on cell fate decisions during early development
Dr Dean Hammond - Decoding muscle wasting
Prof Greg Hurst - Investigating the biology and importance of microbial symbiosis in the plant pest, Empoasca decipiens
Dr Aditi Kanhere - How to heal an injured heart? – a study of gene expression regulation in cardiomyocytes
Dr Niall Kenneth - Linking the unfolded protein response to oxygen sensing - A phosphoproteomic approach to identify novel substrates of the ER kinase PERK
Prof Luning Liu - Biosynthesis and reprogramming of bacterial organelles
Dr Jill Madine - Searching for amyloid forming bacteria using bioinformatics and experimental approaches
Dr Peter-John Mäntylä Noble - Can hybrid (unsupervised and supervised) text-mining methods be used for efficient, accurate, automated annotation of companion animal electronic health records to better understand drivers of antibiotic use in veterinary care?
Dr Andrew Marshall - The origins of pain perception: Studying the role of somatosensory area p3c connectivity
Dr Urszula McClurg - Development of a Reverse ChIP-Sequencing (RChIPS) technology to discover novel proteins regulating gene expression
Dr Mark Morgan - Ubiquitylation Dynamics in Adhesion Complexes: Impact on Cell Migration and the Transcriptional Landscape
Prof Georgios Oikonomou - Deciphering the role of host-pathogen-microbiome interactions in the development of bovine digital dermatitis
Dr Rachel Oldershaw - Validating NMR metabolomics as a novel technology for measuring drug safety using human induced pluripotent stem cell-cardiomyocytes
Dr Vicencio Oostra - Architecture and evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying environmental responses in butterflies
Prof Luminita Paraoan - Understanding why vision declines with age: assessing functional pathways in the retinal pigment epithelium with molecular approaches and computational modeling
Prof Bill Paxton - Development of sensitive molecular viral assays to screen anti-SARS-CoV-2 formulations
Dr Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan - The role of circadian rhythms and redox signalling in musculoskeletal stem cell ageing
Prof Dan Rigden - Exploring structural ensembles to enhance unconventional Molecular Replacement and facilitate Cryo-EM map interpretation
Dr Natalia Sanchez-Soriano - Investigating the role of Tau in synaptic architecture and function
Dr David Turner - How does NF-𝜅B influence cell fate decisions during early mammalian development?
Dr Peter Walley - Characterising the genetic control of quality attributes in Pak Choi Brassica rapa subsp. Chinensis (L.).
Dr Stuart Wigby - Characterising and delaying the early signs of ageing
Dr David Wilkinson - Unravelling the role of a serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) as a gatekeeper to chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells
Dr Bettina Wilm - Developing an ex vivo tissue slice model of injured kidney to analyse how immune cells and ageing influence the endogenous regenerative response
Newcastle University
Dr Vasilios Andriotis - Regulation of plant embryogenesis by carbohydrate availability
Dr David Bolam - Mining the human gut microbiome for novel industrially relevant glycoenzymes
Dr Chien-Yi Chang - Cross-kingdom sensing: investigating platelet-released signals and bacterial responding mechanisms in bacterial lifestyles switch and biofilm formation
Prof Colin Harwood - Iterative automation pipeline for the engineering and characterisation of industrial enzymes
Dr Seamus Holden - Developing new tools to understand bacterial cell wall biophysics using single molecule microscopy, deep learning and quantitative modelling
Dr Catherine Jones - Understanding how glycan patterning in the rhizosphere drives microbial niche differentiation
Prof Akane Kawamura - Chemokine signalling network targeted by tick saliva proteins
Dr Matthew Leach - Intelligent Monitoring of Health in a Model Organism: Detection and Alleviation of Stress and Pain in Zebrafish
Dr Katrina Madden - Interrogating the role of KDM5 in inflammation
Dr Jon Marles-Wright - Dissecting the role of a membrane-associated bacterioferritin complex in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Dr Sergey Melnikov - Using ribosomes as molecular thermometers to predict optimal growth conditions and peer into the ancient history of life on Earth
Prof Tracy Palmer - Characterisation of a novel protein toxin family secreted by the animal and human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus
Prof Janet Quinn - Phosphate sensing as a vital virulence determinant in a major pathogen of humans, Candida albicans
Prof Jenny Read - Imaging the neural mechanisms of distance estimation in insects
Dr Louise Reynard - Investigating how alternative splicing processes affect cartilage biology from development to old age
Dr Josana Rodriguez - Understanding the molecular and biophysical mechanisms that drive cell contact re-establishment after division
D Tom Smulders - Can natural feed supplements improve stress resilience in commercial laying hens?
Prof Konstantinos Stellos - Understanding the epitranscriptional rules of escaping detrimental innate immune activation
Dr Henrik Strahl von Schulten - Uncovering the killing-mechanism of bactericidal antibiotics
Dr Elizabeth Veal - Targeting redox-active cysteine residues in protein kinases as a new therapeutic approach to ageing and age-associated diseases
Prof Waldemar Vollmer - Engineering of broad-spectrum chimeric antibacterial lysins for use in household cleaning products
Dr Adam Wollman - Next generation infra-red glucose biosensors
Dr Laura Young - Linking eye movements with image analysis methods for high resolution retinal imaging in the living human eye
Prof Nikolay Zenkin - Structure and functions of the novel type of RNA polymerases and their application in synthetic biology and biotechnology
Durham University
Dr Daphne Bazopoulou - Early-life redox-regulated events as determinants of the ageing process
Prof Martin Cann - Chromatin regulation by carbon dioxide
Dr Vincent Croset - Transcriptional control of learning and memory
Dr Timothy Davies - How does cell identity affect cytokinesis?
Dr David Doupe - Transcriptional regulation of intestinal stem cell ageing
Dr Tim Hawkins - Mapping the dynamics and regulation of the skin cell cytoskeleton during ageing
Dr Miguel de Lucas - Uncovering the molecular mechanism regulating stress-induced flowering
Prof Ari Sadanandom - Tag your it!!!: How Do Post Translational Modifications enable adaptive responses in plants