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PhD Students

• Waqas Ahmad
  Supervisors: Richard Nichols and Caroline Brennan
  Identification and Functional Studies of Genetic Variants Causing Neurodevelopmental Disorders in The Pakistani Population
• Srishti Arya
  Supervisors: Jose Duran
  Transforming Meiofaunal Molecular Systematics and Community Ecology Through Nanopore-Based Transcriptomics.
• Janeesh Bansal
  Supervisors: Richard Nichols and Matteo Fumagalli
  Bayesian Inference and AI Approaches to Infer Patterns of Disease Spread From The Genomes of The Malarial Parasite
• Aicha Ben Taher
  Supervisors: Matteo Fumagalli and Eirini Marouli
  Generating Artificial Human Data For Underrepresented Human Populations For Clinical Studies
• Luisa Fernanda Cerda Osnaya
  Supervisors: Caroline Brennan and Elisabeth Busch-nentwich
  Molecular Genetic Mechanisms of Fibromyalgia
• Pedro Charria Romero
  Supervisors: Alexandre Soler and Jose Duran
  Host Gene Capture by Transposable Elements in Eukaryotic Genomes
• Muntaqa Choudhury
  Supervisors: Viji Sastry and Jose Duran
  Establishing Photokinetic Studies in The Super-Resolution Regime to Understand Cell Division Process
• Irlanda Del Angel Miranda
  Supervisors: Charalampos Rallis
  Genetic Basis of Mtor Inhibitors and Drug Repurposing Through High-Throughput Phenotyping in Fission Yeast.
• Ding
  Supervisors: Viji Sastry and Jose Duran
  Centromeric Architecture Control in Distinct Cell Types and Fates
• Rory Donnellan
  Supervisors: Jose Duran and Maurice Elphick
  Dissecting The Cell Dynamics and Genetics of Head Regeneration in Owenia Fusiformis
• Amelia Eneli
  Supervisors: Matteo Fumagalli and Anne Ropiquet
  Migration Patterns of The Anopheles Mosquito in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Deep Learning
• Nicole Forrester
  Supervisors: Paul Hurd and Gabriella Ficz
  Regulation of Stem Cell Differentiation and Organismal Development by Royal Jelly
• Tom Frankish
  Supervisors: Jose Duran and Jacob Arguello
  The Evolution and Molecular Control of Trunk Heterochronies in Annelid Larvae
• Marcus Hicks
  Supervisors: Vicencio Oostra and Yannick Wurm
  How Do Amazonian Butterflies (Specifically Panacea Prola) Adapt to Natural Seasonal Cycles and How Will This Help Them to Cope With Anthropogenic Climate Change?
• Arina Huang
  Supervisors: Vicencio Oostra and Lars Chittka
  Genetic Basis and Selection Maintaining Wing Polymorphism in The Evening Brown Butterfly, Melanitis Leda
• Sarah Hume
  Supervisors: Jacob Arguello and Vicencio Oostra
  Evolution of Olfactory Perception
• Syam Iryanto
  Supervisors: Stephen Rossiter and Matteo Fumagalli
  Genomic Approaches For Assessing Genetic Diversity and Demographic Histories of Bats
• Tabinda Islam
  Supervisors: Maurice Elphick and Alexandre Soler
  Functional Characterisation of Kisspeptin-Type Signalling in An Echinoderm
• Yeahji Jeong
  Supervisors: Elisabeth Busch-nentwich and Paul Hurd
  High Resolution Molecular Diagnostics to Improve Pollinator Health
• Kite Jones
  Supervisors: Maurice Elphick and Elisabeth Busch-nentwich
  Functional Characterisation of Neuropeptides That Act as Ligands For Secretin-Type Receptors in An Echinoderm.
• Baron Koylass
  Supervisors: Matteo Fumagalli and Vicencio Oostra
  Deep Learning Algorithms to Detect Signals of Adaptation From Genomic Data
• Pavol Kramár
  Supervisors: Elisabeth Busch-nentwich and Jose Duran
  Investigating Mechanisms of Functional Compensation Between Paralogous Genes in Embryonic Development
• Hannah Lee
  Supervisors: Ivan Kadurin and Maurice Elphick
  Uncovering An Autoinhibitory Domain of α2δ Subunits Essential For Functional Maturation of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels.
• Jianan Li
  Supervisors: Alexandre Soler
  Epigenetic Warfare Between Eukaryotes and Giant Virus
• Yuemin Li
  Supervisors: Matteo Fumagalli and Laurent Frantz
  Detecting Signatures of Selection in Domesticated Animals
• Aurelien Lingua
  Supervisors: Crystal Vincent and Lee Henry
  Investigating The Mechanisms of Tolerance to Bacterial Infection
• Fernanda Miron Toruno
  Supervisors: Matteo Fumagalli
  Unravelling Human-Pathogen Co-Evolution With Genomics
• Lucy Morgan
  Supervisors: Richard Nichols and Sally Faulkner
  Ranavirus Transmission in Uk Amphibians
• Zoe O'Neill
  Supervisors: Paul Hurd and Elisabeth Busch-nentwich
  Epigenetic Determination of Phenotypic Plasticity in The Honey Bee
• Siri Olsen
  Supervisors: Mario Barros
  Reconstructing Hominin Phylogeny Using a Combined Genomic-Morphometric Approach
• Samuel Palmer III
  Supervisors: Lee Henry
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• Yu Peng
  Supervisors: Mario Barros and Richard Nichols
  Efficient Modelling of Evolution on Phylogenies: From Natural Selection to The Molecular Clock
• Dominic Phillips
  Supervisors: Vicencio Oostra
  Tropical Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Genomics
• Tian Qiu
  Supervisors: Elisabeth Busch-nentwich and Alexandre Soler
  The Role of The Chromatin Modifier Kdm2aa in Melanoma Formation
• Thanushan Ravishankar
  Supervisors: Richard Nichols and David Hone
  Sexual Selection, and Adaptaion Through The Rearing of Populations on Varying Nutritional Availability or Changing Environmental Stress
• Robyn Roach
  Supervisors: Elisabetta Versace and Maurice Elphick
  Exploring The Neurobiological and Cognitive Basis of How Perceptions of Gravity and Motion Are Encoded in The Brains of The Domestic Chick: a Study of Natural and Unnatural Trajectories
• Jose Angel Salazar Lucas
  Supervisors: Maurice Elphick and Christoph Engl
  Functional Characterisation of Orexin-Type Neuropeptide Signalling in An Echinoderm
• Jhonatan Salgado-Garduño
  Supervisors: Nikola Ojkic and Charalampos Rallis
  Decoding Antibiotic Resistance: Cell Death, Phenotypic Responses, and Cell Wall Dynamics
• Roudin Sarama
  Supervisors: Matteo Fumagalli and Elisabeth Busch-nentwich
  Human Genetic Adaptation to Pathogens During The Holocene as Unveiled by Ancient DNA and Machine Learning
• Jenny Stewart
  Supervisors: Vicencio Oostra and Pavel Kratina
  Analysing Phenology and Migration of Amazonian Butterflies Under Climate Change
• Steven Sun
  Supervisors: Maurice Elphick and Arianna Fornili
  Using Computational and Experimental Methods to Predict and Test Novel Neuropeptide-Receptor Partnerships
• Phoebe Swift
  Supervisors: Richard Buggs and Richard Nichols
  Genomic Basis of Low Susceptibility to Ash Dieback
• Benjamin Tapon
  Supervisors: Alexandre Soler and Gabriella Ficz
  How Is DNA Methylation Deposited on The DNA? Revealing The Mechanism Using Evolutionary Epigenome Engineering Approaches
• Natalia Twardowska
  Supervisors: Charalampos Rallis and Nicolae Zabet
  Uncovering Mechanisms of Mtor Inhibition Resistance Through
• Jingcheng Wei
  Supervisors: Jose Duran and Elisabeth Busch-nentwich
  The Evolution and Control of Early Spiral Cleavage
• Lily Winkler
  Supervisors: Jose Duran
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• Olga Xintarakou
  Supervisors: Charalampos Rallis and Maria Castro
  Investigating Mtor Activity Effects on Cellular Metabolism and Cytoarchitecture
• Aminullah Yousafzai Yousafzai
  Supervisors: Richard Nichols
  An Assessment of Urban Trees - Ecosystem Services and Resillience to Climate Change
• Haoran Zhang
  Supervisors: Elisabeth Busch-nentwich
  Molecular Drivers of Cin Seen in Aggressive Cancers
• Peng Zhou
  Supervisors: Alexandre Soler and Paul Hurd
  Characterization of The Evolution of DNA Methylation Readers Across Eukaryotes