PhD Programme: Projects

October 2012 entrance:

The PhD projects available for studies leading to a University of Cambridge PhD degree commencing 1 October 2012 are listed below. Each PhD applicant can apply to up to 3 projects.

You will need to prepare a statement of interest for each project you select, using the 'LMB PhD Statement of Interest Form' available to download from the How to Apply webpage. Once we have received your statements, which should be uploaded after you have completed the online University application form (GRADSAF), your application will be sent to the supervisors concerned for their consideration.

Please note: not every group leader listed will take a PhD student in 2012. The list provides the names of those group leaders who have expressed their interest in taking a PhD student in 2012.

Madan Babu Mohan Epigenomics & Genome organization	Harvey McMahon Novel Endocytic Mechanisms
Anne Bertolotti Curing misfolding diseases: A molecular approach. Prion-like propagation of protein misfolding.	Sean Munro Super-resolution microscopy of the Golgi apparatus
Alex Betz Initiation of immune responses	Garib Murshudov Super-resolution in Macromolecular Crystallography
Simon Bullock Studying the travels of RNA within the cell	Kiyoshi Nagai Structure of the spliceosome
Andrew Carter The structure and mechanism of dynein	David Neuhaus Protein interactions by NMR
Jason Chin Synthetic genetic code expansion	Lori Passmore Molecular machines that regulate mRNAs
Mario de Bono Behavioural Genomics	K.J. Patel Alcohol derived reactive aldehydes and DNA damage in stem cells
Matthew Freeman Intercellular signalling mechanisms	Cristina Rada/Michael Neuberger Regulation of AID induced DNA deamination
Ingo Greger Glutamate receptor biogenesis and allosteric control	Venki Ramakrishnan The mechanism of translational initiation
Michael Hastings Molecular neurobiology of tidal/lunar body clocks	Felix Randow How autophagy defends the cytosol against bacterial invasion
Ramanujan Hegde Protein quality control and disease Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis	Julian Sale Mechanisms of epigenetic instability
Leo James Intracellular Immunity	Sjors Scheres DNA origami nano-tools for 3D-EM
Greg Jefferis From smell to behaviour in the fruit fly	Melina Schuh Meiosis and aneuploidy in mammals
Robert Kay How cells move	John Sutherland 2'-Acetyl-RNA: did RNA first emerge in protected form?
Leon Lagnado Synapses and vision	Sarah Teichmann Computational Genomics
Meindert Lamers Overcoming DNA errors in survival mode	Sarah Teichmann/Alex Betz Regulation of T helper cell differentiation
Jan Löwe The bacterial cytoskeleton	Jernej Ule Defective RNPs in neurological disorders.
Andrew McKenzie Innate lymphoid cells in disease	Roger Williams PI 3-kinases in signalling, autophagy and disease

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PhD Programme: Projects

October 2012 entrance: