Bath

• • Adaptive evolution of a yeast for palm oil replacement: genotype-phenotype relationships by nanopore sequencing
    Main supervisor: Dr Daniel Henk
    Student: Gina Smethurst
  • Chronic effects of G protein-biased mu-opioid receptor agonists in the brain
    Main supervisor: Dr Chris Bailey
    Student: Rebecca Annells
  • Environmental bacteria as a reservoir of novel antibiotic resistance mechanisms
    Main supervisor: Dr Susanne Gebhard
    Student: Frank Eardley

Bristol

• Acoustic camouflage: moth wings as metasurface provide bimodal stealth against bat biosonar
  Main supervisor: Dr Marc Holderied
  Student: Simon Reichel
• Animal emotion and welfare: a decision-making and computational approach
  Main supervisor: Prof Michael Mendl
  Student: Molly Davidson
• Cerebro-cerebellar interactions in goal directed behaviour
  Main supervisor: Prof Richard Apps
  Student: Hayley Reeve
• Cholinergic modulation of cerebellar dependent motor learning
  Main supervisor: Prof Zafar Bashir
  Student: Crissy Iosif
• Constructing catalytically proficient and functionally diverse enzymes from simple, de novo designed proteins
  Main supervisor: Dr Ross Anderson
  Student: Tim Neary
• Drivers of larval gregariousness in Lepidoptera
  Main supervisor: Dr Stephen Montgomery
  Student: Callum McLellan
• Encoding of decision making by dopamine neurons
  Main supervisor: Dr Paul Dodson
  Student: Gabbie Portlock
• How do dogs respond to changes in cortisol levels in conspecifics and humans?
  Main supervisor: Dr Nicola J Rooney
  Student: Zoe Parr-Cortes
• Neuronal control of mitochondria trafficking down long-range axons
  Main supervisor: Dr Michael Ashby
  Student: Naomi Berthaut
• Structure-function studies of the bacterial plasmid defence system Wadjet
  Main supervisor: Prof Mark Szczelkun
  Student: Zac Collins
• Unravelling a novel role for the mineralocorticoid receptor in dentate gyrus neurogenesis
  Main supervisor: Prof Hans Reul
  Student: Sam Haque
• You are what your mother eats: understanding mother-offspring interactions in tsetse vectors of disease
  Main supervisor: Dr Sinead English
  Student: Hester Weaving

Cardiff

• Developing plants as an expression system for mammalian ion channels
  Main supervisor: Dr Mark Young
  Student: Ryan Coates
• Molecular analysis of the interaction of Bin pesticidal protein with its receptor
  Main supervisor: Dr Colin Berry
  Student: Lainey Williamson
• Plasticity of visual information processing and the consequences of neurodevelopmental disorders
  Main supervisor: Prof Frank Sengpiel
  Student: Rosie Craddock
• Unravelling how Histone Deacetylases (HDACs) regulate progenitor cell differentiation
  Main supervisor: Dr Michael Taylor
  Student: Sean Hubbert

Exeter

• Adaptive evolution of stress coping style in guppies
  Main supervisor: Prof Alastair Wilson
  Student: Jack Cameron
• Building a model of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) axis
  Main supervisor: Prof Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
  Student: Zoe Plain
• Developmental drivers of social behaviour and their fitness consequences
  Main supervisor: Dr Neeltje Boogert
  Student: Tobit Dehnen
• Evolutionary and mechanistic basis of virus host shifts
  Main supervisor: Dr Ben Longdon
  Student: Sarah Walsh
• Investigating mitochondrial complex I assembly as a factor for disease
  Main supervisor: Dr Vicki Gold
  Student: Emma Buzzard
• Quantitative in vivo analysis of ligand-receptor interactions in the Wnt signalling network
  Main supervisor: Dr Steffen Scholpp
  Student: Michael Dawes

Rothamsted

• Flight-to-light and the decline in British moths
  Rothamsted supervisor: Dr James Bell
  Student: Ishbel Hayes