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 is indicative of supervisors and projects that may be available in 2023
Name | Department | Research Topic |
Alexandre Almeida | Veterinary Medicine | Genetics of the human gut microbiome |
Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas | Pathology | Researching the Malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum and the nematode Trichinella spiralis |
Andrew Blagborough | Pathology | Investigating the control or elimination of malaria |
Alex Borodavka | Biochemistry | Molecular mechanisms underpinning RNA-controlled self-assembly of multi-segmented viral genomes |
Louise Boyle | Pathology | Molecular mechanisms controlling peptide selection for immune recognition |
Ian Brierley | Pathology | Translational control, Ribosomal frameshifting and readthrough, Virus gene expression, RNA structure and function |
Clare Bryant | Vet | Host recognition of infection |
Betty Chung | Pathology | Researching the interplay of host and pathogen gene regulation |
Pietro Cicuta | Physics | Single cell imaging, host-pathogen systems, motile cilia, cell membranes, automated microscopy and microfluidics |
Francesco Colucci | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Natural killer and other innate lymphoid cells plus immunogenetics |
Colin Crump | Pathology | How viruses interact with and modify host cells during different stages of their infection cycles |
Maike de la Roche | CRUK | Cancer immunology: Hedgehog signalling in the immune system |
Lida Derevnina | Plant Sciences | Crop pathogen immunity |
John Doorbar | Pathology | How HPV infection leads to disease |
James Edgar | Pathology | Endosome and exosome cell biology |
Sebastian Eves-van den Akker | Plant Sciences | Plant-parasite/pathogen interactions |
Brian Ferguson | Pathology | Innate immune signalling, anti-viral immunity, vaccinology |
Andrew Firth | Pathology | RNA virus molecular biology, gene expression, translational control, comparative genomics, and NGS analysis |
Nick Gay | Biochemistry | Molecular and cellular mechanisms of innate immunity |
Camilla Goodle | Biochemistry / Pathology | Alteration of cellular membranes by bacterial virulence proteins |
Ian Goodfellow | Pathology | Characterisation of the novel mechanism of calicivirus protein synthesis |
Stephen Graham | Pathology | Molecular mechanisms by which viruses remodel the composition and architecture of host membranes during infection |
Harriet Groom | Medicine | Using viruses to understand innate immunity and cell metabolism |
Richard Hayward | Pathology | Studying the intracellular biology of the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis |
Charlotte Houldcroft | Genetics | Evolution and diversity of pathogenic double-stranded DNA viruses |
Frank Jiggins | Genetics | The evolution and genetics of hosts and parasites |
Julia Kenyon | Pathology | Structure and function of viral RNAs with a focus on HIV, dengue and flu |
Patrycja Kozik | MRC LMB | Dendritic cells and initiation of immune responses |
Benjamin Krishna | Medicine | Human cytomegalovirus biology in hypoxic environments |
Valeria Lulla | Pathology | Replication and pathogenicity of intestinal RNA viruses |
Nick Matheson | Medicine | HIV and immunometabolism |
Naomi McGovern | Pathology | Researching the distinct properties of human macrophages and dendritic cells in both health and disease |
Vito Mennella | MRC Toxicology / Pathology | Understanding how airways cells respond to infectious agents |
Catherine Merrick | Pathology | Studying the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum |
Yorgo Modis | Medicine | Cellular mechanisms of viral gene sensing and silencing |
Julian Parkhill | Vet | The emergence, transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens |
Uta Paszkowski | Plant Science | Plant-fungal mutualism |
Emma Poole | Pathology | Novel tools to treat human cytomegalovirus infection |
Julian Rayner | CIMR | The molecular mechanisms of malaria infection |
Rahul Roychoudhuri | Pathology | Adaptive immmunity and cancer |
Jeanne Salje | Joint (Pathology / Biochemistry) | The cell biology of obligate intracellular bacteria |
Milka Sarris | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | How leukocyte motion is organised at sites of tissue damage to generate inflammatory responses |
Elena Scarpa | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Phagocytic functions in neural crest cells |
Wilhelm Schwaeble | Veterinary Medicine | The role of complement in health and disease |
Hendrik van Veen | Pharmacology | Drug and lipid transport by bacterial multidrug transporters |
Ross Waller | Biochemistry | Investigating molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells |
Lucy Weinert | Vet | The ecology and genomics of bacterial pathogens |
Martin Welch | Biochemistry | Control of bacterial virulence and biofilm formation in the opportunistic human pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Tim Williams | Vet | Extracellular vesicle research |