List of available projects

Title	Description
Brockington Group: Defining the Evolutionary Mechanisms Underlying a Novel Eukaryotic Gene Cluster	NERC / UF / OTHER
Brockington Group: Understanding the Rules of Convergent Evolution	NERC / UF / OTHER
Brockington Group: Why Do Plants Accumulate Animal-type Neurotransmitters?	NERC / UF / OTHER
Carr Group: Dicistroviruses: potential natural biocontrol agents against pest insects carried by bees?	NERC C-Clear DTP / University Trust Funds (UF) / OTHER
Carr Group: Disrupting aphid-mediated transmission of cucumber mosaic virus	NERC C-Clear DTP/ BBSRC DTP/ University Trust Funds (UF) / OTHER
Coomes Group: Priority CASE Project Restoring Scotland’s Native Woodlands: Understanding Benefits and Constraints Using the Cairngorms Connect Landscape Restoration Project	NERC / UF / OTHER
Coomes Group: Passive Rewilding the Woodlands in the Southern Alps of New Zealand	NERC / UF / OTHER
Coomes Group: Will Forests Be Effective Nature-based Solutions as the World’s Climate Changes?	NERC / UF / OTHER
Cunniffe Group: Modelling polygenic fungicide resistance management in an uncertain world	BBSRC (& SBS DTP) / UF / OTHER
Cunniffe Group: Optimising Landscape Scale Control of Plant Disease	BBSRC (& SBS DTP) / NERC / UF / OTHER
Cunniffe Group: Tainted Love? Modelling the epidemiology, ecology and evolutionary consequences of pollinator-transmitted plant disease	NERC / UF / OTHER
Davies Group: Extracellular ATP Signalling in Plants – Waving with Calcium	BBSRC DTP / UF
Derevnina Group: Mechanisms of suppression of NLR-mediated immunity by potato cyst nematodes	UF / OTHER
Edwards Group: Carbon and biodiversity co-benefits of restoration in sub-Saharan Africa	NERC / UF / OTHER
Edwards Group: Impacts of selective logging on avian communities and survival	NERC / UF / OTHER
Edwards Group: What are the conservation implications of ‘steeper’ tropical forests?	NERC / UF / OTHER
Eves-van den Akker Group: Cell wall degrading enzymes of parasitic nematodes	BBSRC DTP / UF / OTHER
Glover Group: How to Trick a Fly - Evo-devo of petal spots and their role in speciation	NERC C-Clear DTP / BBSRC DTP / University Trust Funds (UF)
Glover Group: Iridescence in flowers – how and why?	NERC DTP / BBSRC DTP / UF / OTHER
Glover Group: Spurring evolution: understanding the development and diversification of nectar spurs	NERC DTP / BBSRC DTP / UF / OTHER
Harris Group: Epigenome engineering: priming chromatin for pathogen resistance	UF / OTHER
Harris Group: Mechanisms of transcriptional activation downstream of DNA methylation	UF / OTHER
Harris Group: Readers of the ‘histone code’: the missing link in triggering gene activity	UF / OTHER
Henderson Group: Mapping and Remodeling the Recombination Landscape in Chlamydomonas	UF / OTHER
Henderson Group: Understanding interactions between genetic diversity and recombination in plant genomes	UF / OTHER
Henderson Group: Unlocking recombination in plant genomes via epigenetic modification	UF / OTHER
Hibberd Group: Akaya PhD Project	OTHER
Hibberd Group: The evolution of C4 photosynthesis gene expression	NERC / UF / OTHER
Hibberd Group: The role of Myb-related transcription factors in chloroplast development.	NERC / UF / OTHER
Luginbuehl Group: Exploring the rules of trade in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis	UF
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Robinson Group: How does a plant's cellular architecture impact its properties?	Royal Society
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Robinson Group: Mechanical and hormonal regulation of plant development	UF / OTHER
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group: Contrasting functionality of a glycerol phosphate acyl transferase in roots and shoots (Rotation project)	UF / OTHER
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group: Transcription factor coordination of liverwort responses to oomycete infections	UF / OTHER
Webb Group: Engineering the internal and external environment of leafy crops to enhance indoor growth and provide food for space exploration	DTP CASE
Webb Group: Mechanism controlling the propagation of Ca2+ signals in plants	DTP
Webb Group: The circadian clock as a regulator of yield traits in wheat	BBSRC DTP
Webb Group: The mechanisms of circadian gating of signalling	BBSRC DTP

Title

Description

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

NERC / UF / OTHER

Brockington Group: Understanding the Rules of Convergent Evolution

NERC / UF / OTHER

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

NERC / UF / OTHER

Carr Group: Dicistroviruses: potential natural biocontrol agents against pest insects carried by bees?

NERC C-Clear DTP / University Trust Funds (UF) / OTHER

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

NERC C-Clear DTP/ BBSRC DTP/ University Trust Funds (UF) / OTHER