MRes Biological Sciences supervisor list | Biological Sciences

Academics in Biological Sciences who could be your potential supervisor for the MRes Advanced Biological Sciences .

Find out more about their research areas by clicking on their name. You can contact them by e-mail to learn more about their projects.

Cell and Developmental Biology

Dr Claire Clarkin : PI Skeletal biology
Dr Salah Elias : PI Normal and cancerous breast epithelial biology
Dr Emily Gwyer Findlay : PI T cell immunology
Dr Kif Liakath-Ali : PI Cellular logic of RNA splicing
Dr Kedar Natarajan : PI Single-cell omics, regulatory networks in health and disease
Dr Nicole Prior : PI Liver development and regeneration
Dr Marcin Przewloka : PI Mechanisms of cell division
Dr Neil Smyth : PI Extracellular matrix
Dr Jeff Thompson : PI Evolutionary developmental biology
Dr David Tumbarello : PI Organelle and protein quality control
Dr Mariana Vargas-Caballero : PI Neuronal networks, excitability and synaptic plasticity
Dr Yihua Wang : PI Cell signalling in cancer and lung fibrosis
Dr Angus Wann : PI Cellular and tissue mechanobiology and primary cilia

Ecology and Evolution

Microbiology

Dr Tomislav Cernava : PI Plant-microbe interactions
Dr Marc Dumont : PI Environmental microbiology
Dr William King : PI Microbe-Plant interactions and environmental microbiome
Dr Andrew Lawrence : PI Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, protein structure and function
Dr Nela Nikolic : PI Bacterial resilience and stress adaptation
Dr Franklin L. Nobrega : PI Bacterial immunity and phage therapy
Dr Fatima Pereira : PI Gut microbiome
Dr Eamonn Reading : PI Structural proteomics, membranes and multidrug efflux
Professor Jeremy Webb : PI Microbial biofilms and their control
Dr Sandra Wilks : PI Microbiology, biofilms and environmental health

Molecular and Precision Biosciences

Dr Triana Amen : PI Molecular cell biology of organelles
Dr Emily Brookes : PI Neuroepigenetics
Dr Salah Elias : PI Normal and cancerous breast epithelial biology
Professor Rob Ewing : PI Molecular interaction networks in cancer and development
Dr Emily Gwyer Findlay : PI T cell immunology
Dr Andrew Lawrence : PI Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, protein structure and function
Dr Franklin L. Nobrega : PI Bacterial immunity and phage therapy
Dr Kif Liakath-Ali : PI Molecular precision in RNA splicing
Dr Richard Meek : PI Enzyme engineering
Dr Kedar Natarajan : PI Single-cell omics, regulatory networks in health and disease
Dr Fatima Pereira : PI Gut microbiome
Dr Eamonn Reading: PI Structural proteomics, membranes and multidrug efflux
Professor Paul Skipp : PI Proteomics
Professor Ivo Tews : PI Protein interactions and cell membranes
Dr Mariana Vargas-Caballero : PI Neuronal networks, excitability and synaptic plasticity
Professor Jeremy Webb : PI Microbial biofilms
Dr Joern Werner : PI Protein-ligand interactions
Professor Phil Williamson : PI Structural biology of neurodegenerative disease and membrane transport

Neuroscience

Dr Melissa Andrews : PI Neuroregeneration
Dr Emily Brookes : PI Neuroepigenetics
Dr James Dillon : PI Neurodevelopmental
Professor Diego Gomez-Nicola : PI Neuroimmunology and neurodegeneration
Dr Kif Liakath-Ali : PI RNA misregulation and neurodegeneration
Professor Amrit Mudher : PI Neurodegenerative diseases
Dr Kedar Natarajan: PI Single-cell omics, regulatory networks in health and disease
Professor Vincent O'Connor : PI Synaptic transmission & signalling
Professor Jessica Teeling : PI Neuroimmunology
Dr Mariana Vargas-Caballero : PI Neuronal networks, excitability and synaptic plasticity
Dr Herman Wijnen : PI Molecular basis of behaviour and biological timing
Dr Luis Yanez-Guerra : PI Pharmacology, GPCRs

Plants and Food Security

Course Director: Dr Fatima Pereira