Agriculture & Environmental Biosciences: Student cohort

Current Final Years

Jack Jarvis Optimising water chemistry for rainbow trout in the Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) Shani Ali Attributing the source of antimicrobial resistant diarrheal pathogens in African children
Chidimma Gift Omenoba The epigenetic fate of introgressed DNA in the wheat genome Sara Hall Environmental and animal welfare impacts of different dairy production systems: a holistic approach
Luca Hahn Corvid connections: how do social bonds influence stress, health, nutrition and cultural knowledge? Emily Carr Roles of proteins in root exudates in root-soil interactions in monocots (wheat) and dicots (Arabidopsis)
Jaimie Barnes Understanding insecticide detoxification in key hoverfly pollinator guilds Anusha Mohan-Kumar Semiochemical-based alternative concepts for the management of wireworms
Kingsley Hunt The dynamics of microbiome interactions Matthew Turk Saving Cassava: A novel gene in a deadly virus
Nick Cherbanich The predicting individual: expectations and their influence on emotional state and welfare Jack Carpenter Transcriptional landscaping in plant stem cells: from chromatin to gene regulatory networks
Amaia Alcalde Anton Evolutionary shifts in the developmental control of neuron number Nathan Roberts Control of ovule number in Brassica species
Callum Teeling Investigating the role of myoinhibitory peptide (MIP) signalling in marine larval settlement and metamorphosis Beth Tindall-Jones The biology and biotechnological potential of marine fungi processing
Natasha Brock Re-engineering amino acid metabolism in wheat grain using CRISPR/Cas9

Current Third Years

Afsal Ayoob Khan Interventions to reduce enteric methane emissions in early life of cattle Emily Darby Going Green: reprogramming roots into shoots using TCP transcription factors
Ana Paul Cipriano Drifting behaviour and colony health in social bees Jade Smith Investigating fungal pathogen effector localisation within plant cells
Lisa Moiseienko Reducing antimicrobial resistant bacteria with the use of cold atmospheric plasma: Mechanism of action and influence of mutation and horizonal gene transfer Kerstin Lieu Effects of perturbing polyamine metabolism on development and stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
Liberty O’Brien Plastics in the Environment: Enhancing carbon sequestration and crop production Melissa Ferreira Predicting the effects of coinfection on TB dynamics, pathology and treatment
Courtney Swink To kill or not to kill: deciphering the metabolic triggers of a facultative algicidal bacterium Ponticoccus Samantha Siomko Rational microbial-based interventions against enteric disease in young livestock
Suleiman Mustapha Developing a push‐pull bio‐insecticidal strategy to control establishment pests in oilseed rape based on attractant and repellent semiochemicals

Current Second Years

Bruno Carlos Ramos Automated prediction of health and welfare in captive fish using behaviour form video Jen Thomas Development of dendritic signal processing in the brain: a role for GABAergic interneurons?
Foteini Xeni Ageing and body clock rhythms: The importance of a social network Adilia Shakirova Exploiting the chemical genomics of Pseudomonas spp. for natural product antifungals effective against fungal pathogens of wheat
Rosie Rickward Exploiting animal personality to reduce chronic stress in captive fish populations Charlotte Wilson Branching Out: Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Axillary Bud Fate in Berries
Elizabeth Rentería Land use, competition and bee health: linking pollinator performance across tropical and temperate systems Hannah Fryer The genetic control of pea growth and yield under environmental stress
Una Kranzelic The mechanistic basis of sensory processing for bee-plant interactions Anderson Map based cloning and characterisation of plant loci conferring resistance to a root infecting take-all fungus
Amber Williams Understanding the epigenetic basis for variability in stress responses in plants Noah Walker Impact of fungal antioxidants on crop disease
Claire Ittleson Coral venom in the era of climate change Phos Hayes Fungal-bacterial interactions in wetwood of British broadleaf trees
Helene Rittscher One Crop Health Implications for Fungal Disease and Mycotoxin organelle dynamics in plants Terry McAvoy Can we predict and optimise the assembly and succession of host microbiomes?
Tori Mallinson Quantifying the impact of exposure to multiple anthropogenic stressors on bumblebee health Vasili Tsourekas Climate change impacts on Fusarium Head Blight disease and mycotoxin risk in wheat production

Current First Years

Lizzie Youens Does time of day predict stress resilience/sensitivity across species? Lara Pearson Determining impacts of exposure to environmentally relevant chemicals on tissue repair in fish
Feihui Yu Multi-camera machine vision of a whole cattle herd for assessing the impact of interventions for environmental sustainability Corin Mylett Grow fast, die young: coordination of plant stem elongation and leaf senescence
Katherin Rodriguez Leon Understanding the drivers of floral specialisation and its impact on bee nutrition and health Miranda Johnstone How do microplastics affect pesticide risk in honeybees?
Pip Young Linking dairy cows’ day-to-day behaviours with affective states and welfare Cathal McGurgan Closing the Door: Understanding the Role of cGMP Signalling in Plant Immune Defence Against Pathogen Entry
Fiona Sobolewski Bravo Fish-Parasite ‘Omic Interactions: Deciphering Genomic, Proteomic, and Nutritional Mechanisms Driving Host Resistance Ted Warner Younger, happier and more productive plants: using developmental genetics to improve herb yields and quality
Christopher Moser-Purdy Corvids calling: understanding the origins of complex communication Katie Morgans The visual ecology of the cabbage stem flea beetle pest and its natural enemies for improved biomonitoring and sustainable control
Sophie Truepenny From cognition to nutrition and health: how do bees differ in their choices of plants? Charity Mareya Characterising secondary metabolite-based resistance mechanisms from ancestral introgressions into modern wheat