Students will be able to chose from projects in groups with interests spanning bacteriology, paratisology, immunology and virology from the Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry, Medicine, Physics, Plant Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, plus the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.
The following list of supervisors offered projects in 2024:
Name | Department | Research Topic |
Alexandre Almeida | Veterinary Medicine | Genetics of the human gut microbiome |
Louise Boyle | Pathology | Molecular mechanisms controlling peptide selection for immune recognition |
Clare Bryant | Veterinary Medicine | Host recognition of infection |
Colin Crump | Pathology | How viruses interact with and modify host cells during different stages of their infection cycles |
John Doorbar | Pathology | How HPV infection leads to disease |
Andrew Firth | Pathology | RNA virus molecular biology, gene expression, translational control, comparative genomics, and NGS analysis |
Camilla Goodle | Biochemistry / Pathology | Alteration of cellular membranes by bacterial virulence proteins |
Stephen Graham | Pathology | Molecular mechanisms by which viruses remodel the composition and architecture of host membranes during infection |
Benjamin Krishna | Medicine | Human cytomegalovirus biology in hypoxic environments |
Nick Matheson | Medicine | HIV and immunometabolism |
Catherine Merrick | Pathology | Studying the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum |
Yorgo Modis | Medicine | Cellular mechanisms of viral gene sensing and silencing |
Jeanne Salje | Joint (Pathology / Biochemistry) | The cell biology of obligate intracellular bacteria |
Ross Waller | Biochemistry | Investigating molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells |
Tim Williams | Veterinary Medicine | Extracellular vesicle research |
Adrian Liston | Pathology | Immunotherapeutics to fight infection and neuroinflammation |
Ben Luisi | Biochemistry | Structure and mechanism of bacterial multi-drug efflux pumps |
Cinzia Cantacessi | Veterinary Medicine | Gastrointestinal helminths, host-parasite interactions and high-throughput sequencing technologies |
Ionna Mela | Pharmacology | DNA Nanostructure Development and Aptamer Selection |
John McCafferty | Medicine | Recombinant antibody technology |
Kate Baker | Genetics | Bacterial genetics and antimicrobial resistance |
Klaus Okkenhaug | Pathology | PI3 kinases in immunity, infection and cancer |
Mark Wills | Pathology | Immunological mechanisms regulating human cytomegalovirus infection |
Maria Adelaida Duque-Correa | Stem Cell Institute | Tissue damage, regeneration and stem cell perturbation by parasitic worms |
Nerea Irigoyen | Pathology | Role of virus protein translation in pathogenicity and disease |
Sam Wilson | Medicine | Innate Immune Barriers to the Emergence and Pathogenesis of Pandemic Viruses |
Somenath Bakshi | Engineering | Microfludics platforms to study bacteria and virus infections |
Virginia Pedicord | Medicine | Interaction between the microbiome and immune cell function |