Bath
- Exploring genotype‐phenotype correlations in Sox10 mutations
Main supervisor: Prof Robert Kelsh (University of Bath)
Student: Jennika Bates - Ordering the Disordered in Parkinson’s disease to Derive Peptides Inhibitors of
alpha‐Synuclein Toxicity
Main supervisor: Prof Jody Mason (University of Bath)
Student: Lucy White Stenner
Bristol
- Drifting behaviour and colony health in social bees
Main supervisor: Dr Christoph Grueter (University of Bristol)
Student: Ana Paula Cipriano - Molecular mechanisms of the ubiquitin system
Main supervisor: Prof Christiane Schaffitzel (University of Bristol)
Student: Cameron Haddow - Analysis of the mechanism of protein secretion through the Sec machinery and
exploitation as a polypeptide sequencing device
Main supervisor: Prof Ian Collinson (University of Bristol)
Student: Dulcie Havers - The cellular and synaptic mechanisms for the effects of psychedelics on flexible
memory representations in the hippocampus
Main supervisor: Prof Jack Mellor (University of Bristol)
Student: Elsa Oakes - Catching antibiotic factories in action
Main supervisor: Prof Matthew Crump (University of Bristol)
Student: Emily Lai - Genetic Engineering Tumour Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) to achieve enhanced
tumour killing
Main supervisor: Prof Linda Wooldridge (University of Bristol)
Student: James Boyd - Elucidating mechanisms of beta‐lactam antibiotic resistance through serial
crystallography and molecular simulations
Main supervisor: Prof James Spencer (University of Bristol)
Student: Laura Parkinson - Simulation‐led engineering of Diels‐Alderase activity and selectivity for
sustainable biosynthesis of new antibiotics
Main supervisor: Dr Marc van der Kamp (University of Bristol)
Student: Magdalena Kaźmierczak - Investigating the role of senescence in musculoskeletal ageing
Main supervisor: Dr Chrissy Hammond (University of Bristol)
Student: Rabia Sevil - Mechanistic analysis of DNA helicases using nanopore‐based single molecule
assays
Main supervisor: Prof Mark Dillingham (University of Bristol)
Student: Thomas Chambers
Cardiff
- Determining the molecular mode of action of Home and Personal Care (HPC)
product preservatives and characterising antimicrobial resistance in problematic
bacterial contaminants
Main supervisor: Prof Eshwar Mahenthiralingam (Cardiff University)
Student: Brooklyn Rowlands - Understanding the Role of Extracellular Vesicle/Exosome Transport in the Visual
System
Main supervisor: Dr Ben Mead (Cardiff University)
Student: Hanady Nehme - Predicting the effects of coinfection on TB dynamics, pathology and treatment
Main supervisor: Dr Joanne Lello (Cardiff University)
Student: Melissa Ferreira
Exeter
- Understanding mechanisms of synergy between bacterial anti‐phage defences.
Main supervisor: Prof Stineke van Houte (University of Exeter)
Student: Anna Richmond - Unravelling the molecular mechanisms of organelle communication in the
regulation of cellular lipid metabolism and developmental processes
Main supervisor: Prof Michael Schrader (University of Exeter)
Student: Chenxing Jiang - To kill or not to kill: deciphering the metabolic triggers of a facultative algicidal
bacterium Ponticoccus
Main supervisor: Dr Katherine Helliwell (University of Exeter)
Student: Courtney Swink - How biofilms protect themselves against bacteriophage infection and how they
fail
Main supervisor: Dr Wolfram Moebius (University of Exeter)
Student: Piotr Burzyński
Rothamsted
- Understanding the roles of behavioural ecology, genes, plant hosts and fuel for
flight to predict the migratory range of aphids
Rothamsted supervisor: Dr James Bell (Rothamsted Research)
Student: Jen Thomas
Exeter/MBA
- Mechanisms underlying the coral larval settlement
Lead supervisors: Dr Elizabeth Williams (University of Exeter), Dr Vengamanaidu Modepalli (Marine Biological
Association)
Student: Imran Luqman bin Muhammad Hatta