The Genomics and Infectious Diseases Research Group welcomes applications for doctoral study that enhance our research themes. We may be able to support you in obtaining funding or consider hosting you as a self-funding candidate.
Please visit the Research Degree page of the School of Life Sciences for more information.
Possible doctoral research areas may include:
- Association of Human Endogenous Retroviruses with Human Diseases. For further information, contact Dr. Adele McCormick.
- Screening for novel antivirals and other antimicrobials. For further information, contact Dr. Adele McCormick and Dr. Vincenzo Torraca.
- Antimicrobial Resistance, Persistence, Pathogenesis and Microbial Genomics of Enterobacterial Pathogens. For further information, contact Dr. Vincenzo Torraca.
- Stress Adaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. For further information, contact Dr. Beth Sawyer.
- Diversity, Evolution and Molecular Ecology of Arthropod Vectors and the Parasites/Pathogens they Transmit (and other parasitology projects). For further information, contact Dr. Polly Hayes.
- Investigation of genes responsible for quorum sensing in biofilm for adhesion, invasion, and proliferation in Salmonella enterica serovars. For further information, contact Dr. Anjali Ghosh.
- Antitubercular and antimalarial drug discovery using medicinal chemistry and metabolomics technologies. For further information, contact Dr. Saki Raheem.
- Computational methods for protein structure prediction: in silico molecular modelling of ligan binding; lectin-carbohydrate interactions; autophagy in Trichomonas vaginalis; role of melanocortin peptides in osteoarthritis. For further information, contact Dr. Paul Curley.
- Identification and evaluation of host-parasite interactions using metagenomic approach from data obtained from molecular scatological methods. For further information, contact Dr. Nilu Kannangara.