Available projects

The projects are organised into Departmental Research Group and title.

Potential applicants should always approach the potential supervisor/head of group in the first instance to discuss eligibility.

Please note this page is updated regularly.

Brockington Group

Brockington Group: Defining the Evolutionary Mechanisms Underlying a Novel Eukaryotic Gene Cluster

Brockington Group: Understanding the Rules of Convergent Evolution

Brockington Group: Why Do Plants Accumulate Animal-type Neurotransmitters?

Carr Group

Carr Group: Disrupting aphid-mediated transmission of cucumber mosaic virus

Carr Group:Understanding the effects on abiotic stress of mutualistic viruses of plants

Cunniffe Group

Cunniffe Group: Modelling Fungicide Resistance in Monocyclic Plant Pathogens (BBSRC iCASE Project)

Cunniffe Group: Modelling pest and pathogen entry and spread pathways to enhance the UK Plant Health Risk Register

Cunniffe Group: Optimising Landscape Scale Control of Plant Disease

Derevnina Group

Derevnina Group: Decoding Sensor-Helper NLR communication mechanisms

Edwards Group

Edwards Group: Biodiversity benefits of restoration in sub-Saharan Africa

Edwards Group: Forecasting climate change impacts on Andean endemics and microendemics

Esquivel-Muelbert Group

Esquivel-Muelbert Group: Ecology and Evolution of tree size

Eves-van den Akker Group

Eves-van den Akker Group: Effectostimulins: plant-derived molecules which stimulate pathogen infection.

Eves-van den Akker Group: How and why organisms edit their own genomes: the novel case of plant-parasitic HYP effectors

Glover Group

Glover Group: How to Trick a Fly - Evo-devo of petal spots and their role in speciation

Glover Group: Spurring evolution: understanding the development and diversification of nectar spurs

Henderson Group

Henderson Group: Exploring the centromere paradox in Arabidopsis

Henderson Group: Mapping and Remodeling the Recombination Landscape in Chlamydomonas

Henderson Group: Understanding interactions between genetic diversity and recombination in plant genomes

Henderson Group: Unlocking recombination in plant genomes via epigenetic modification

Hibberd Group:

Hibberd Group: Genetic circuits for plant engineering biology

Hibberd Group: The evolution of C4 photosynthesis gene expression

Hibberd Group: The role of Myb-related transcription factors in chloroplast development.

Kromdijk Group

Kromdijk Group: Increasing crop water use efficiency via altered regulation of stomatal conductance

Paszkowski Group

Paszkowski Group: Seeing nutrition: how does cell-specific regulation of SMAX1 enable productive plant-fungal cooperation?

Patron Group

Patron Group: Biosynthesis of plant terpenoids

Patron Group: Engineering gene regulatory networks for crop disease-resistance

Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Bartlett Group

Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Bartlett Group: Defining and transforming the molecular and morphological landscape of developmental phase change in grasses

Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Bartlett Group: The development and evolution of floral diversity

Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group

Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group: Programmatically Redesigning Nature's Best Biocomposite: The Plant Cell Wall

Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group: Structure and function of mycorrhizal fungi effector proteins

Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group: Transcription factor coordination of liverwort responses to oomycete infections

Warsame Group

Warsame Group: Decoding transcriptional dynamics underlying drought stress responses in cowpea

Warsame Group: Quality under stress: How drought stress affects the nutritional quality of legume seeds

Warsame Group: Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Drought Tolerance in Cowpea

Webb Group

Webb Group: How TLWD proteins form the spindle at the centre of circadian clocks.

Webb Group: The circadian clock as a regulator of yield traits in wheat

Webb Group: The mechanisms of circadian gating of signalling

Webb Group: The role of TOC1 in regulating plant growth