NLD BBSRC DTP

Durham Biosciences work in collaboration with Newcastle and Liverpool on a Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Please see below our current projects which are available for October 2024 entry. For information on how to apply, please visit the NLD DTP website.

Please note that these projects are available to Home (UK) candidates only. We cannot accept applications from non-UK candidates for these projects.

The deadline for applications is Monday 22nd July 2024.

Signalling dynamics in intestinal stem cell homeostasis and ageing

Supervisor: Dr David Doupe

Watering the flowers gene x environmental control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence

Supervisor: Dr Jo Hepworth

Understanding the host recognition of nonself alien DNA and initiation of epigenetic silencing

Supervisor: Dr Jungnam Cho

How does Src kinase protect and regulate cytokines?

Supervisor: Dr Tim Davies

How do plants regulate root development in response to soil stresses? Role of VAMP family proteins and their interactors in signalling

Supervisor: Prof Keith Lindsey

Maturation of microbial metalloenzymes – determinants of correct metalation

Supervisor: Dr Peter Chivers

DNA mechanics under the control of DNA damage

Supervisor: Dr Aakash Basu

New SIM PROTACs for Targeted Protein Degradation in Plants

Supervisor: Prof Steven Cobb