| PROJECT TITLE |
MAIN / ROTHAMSTED / LEAD SUPERVISOR |
HOST INSTITUTION |
KEYWORDS |
| Answering key questions around One Health antimicrobial resistance using a new livestock research data platform |
Dr Kristen Reyher |
University of Bristol |
One Health, antimicrobial resistance, data, epidemiology, computer science |
| Automated prediction of health and welfare in captive fish using behaviour from video *AP |
Dr Christos Ioannou / Prof Carlos Garcia de Leaniz |
University of Bristol (apply here) / Swansea University |
Stress, aquaculture, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning |
| Developing a novel approach to improve the welfare of dairy cows: inactivating mastitis-causing bacteria using non-invasive cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) *AP |
Prof John Tarlton / Dr Alexandros Stratakos |
University of Bristol (apply here) / University of the West of England; UWE |
Bovine mastitis, cold plasma, bacterial decontamination, animal welfare |
| Exploring the potential of fungal wheat-root colonisers and their chemical signals for the control of take-all disease |
Dr Javier Palma Guerrero |
Rothamsted Research (Harpenden) |
Take-all, crop protection, natural products, biocontrol, antifungal compounds |
| Factors controlling microbial nitrogen cycling and nitrogen pollution from farm to coast *AP |
Dr Laura Cardenas / Dr Karen Tait |
Rothamsted Research (North Wyke) (apply here) / Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
Nitrogen cycling, nitrous oxide, nitrate |
| Harnessing 3D cameras and deep learning for on-the-fly automated body condition and mobility analysis to improve cattle welfare *AP |
Prof Andrew Dowsey / Prof Melvyn Smith |
University of Bristol (apply here) / University of the West of England; UWE |
Food security, welfare, deep learning, sensing, artificial intelligence |
| How do novel membrane-bound antifungal drug targets control fungal diseases of crops? |
Prof Karen Edler |
University of Bath |
Structural biology, biochemistry, nanotechnology, single-molecule photonics, fungal disease |
| Identifying mechanisms for stem cell division plane orientation in plants |
Dr Jill Harrison |
University of Bristol |
Plant development, plant evo-devo, stem cells, CLAVATA/WUSCHEL, cell division plan |
| Investigating resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus in wheat *CASE |
Prof Kim Hammond-Kosack |
Rothamsted Research (Harpenden) |
Plant virology, entomology, plant science, genetics, molecular biology |
| Investigating the effect of whole genome duplication on cell size and cell division |
Prof Jim Murray |
Cardiff University |
Plant genetics, microscopy, transcriptomics, cell biology, genome biology |
| Irrigraze: Is it time to irrigate pastures in the UK? |
Dr Martin Blackwell |
Rothamsted Research (North Wyke) |
Climate change, livestock, plant and soil, life cycle assessment, spatial mapping |
| Long-term changes in the abundance and phenology of migrating insects as potential drivers of population change in insectivorous birds and bats |
Dr James Bell |
Rothamsted Research (Harpenden) |
Insect biomass, trophic mismatch, bioacoustics, farmland, sustainable agriculture |
| Metabolic engineering in mint plants: increasing essential oil yield through genetic manipulation of biosynthetic pathways |
Dr Simon Scofield |
Cardiff University |
Metabolic engineering, genetic modification, mentha, secondary metabolite biosynthesis, modular gene cloning |
| Novel epigenetic markers of embryo quality to improve fish domestication *AP |
Dr Tetsu Kudoh / Prof Sofia Consuegra |
University of Exeter (Streatham) (apply here) / Swansea University |
Fish farming, domestication, global warming, epigenetics, transcriptomics |
| Positive plastics: biodegradable plastic mulch films for enhanced crop production and environmental benefits |
Dr David Withall |
Rothamsted Research (Harpenden) |
Plastic, soil quality, food production, crop protection |
| Resilient food systems for one health: informing nutritionally balanced diets of the future |
Dr Andrew Mead |
Rothamsted Research (Harpenden) |
Data science, nutrition, diet, health, sustainability |
| Signalling the way forward: understanding plant adaptation to environmental change |
Dr Richard Haslam |
Rothamsted Research (Harpenden) |
Climate, adaption, signalling, transcription, lipids |
| Structure-based drug design against a biosecurity pathogen *CASE |
Prof Nicholas Harmer |
University of Exeter (Streatham) |
Structural biology, drug design, crystallography, enzymes, modelling |
| Sustainable apiculture: the impact of hive density on honeybee productivity and native biodiversity *CASE |
Prof Jane Memmott |
University of Bristol |
Pollinators, honey bee, sustainable agriculture, honey production, biodiversity |
| The epigenetic fate of introgressed DNA in the wheat genome |
Dr Hans-Wilhelm Nuetzmann |
University of Bath |
Introgression, wheat, epigenetics, bioinformatics, plant biology |
| The impact of early life programming on resistance to helminths in ruminant livestock |
Prof Mick Bailey |
University of Bristol |
Livestock, microbiome, parasitology, immunology, agriculture |
| The role of polyamine metabolism in development and stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana |
Prof Hilary Rogers |
Cardiff University |
Polyamines, plant hormones, plant development, stress responses, arabidopsis |
| Understanding insecticide detoxification in key hoverfly pollinator guilds *CASE |
Dr Karl Wotton |
University of Exeter (Penryn) |
Pollinators, insecticides, agriculture, genomics |
| Understanding the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in livestock and risk of zoonotic transmission – a comparative study between the United Kingdom, Thailand and Argentina |
Prof Matthew Avison |
University of Bristol |
Veterinary science, farming, bacteriology, bioinformatics, epidemiology |
| Zymoseptoria tritici-wheat: the metabolic interface of a crop pathogen and its host plant |
Dr Helen Fones (Eyles) |
University of Exeter (Streatham) |
Zymoseptoria tritici, plant-pathogen interactions, genomics, nutrient uptake, metabolomics |
