Projects

October 2013 entrance:

The PhD projects available for studies leading to a University of Cambridge PhD degree or Open University PhD degree commencing 1 October 2013 are listed below.

Please note: not every group leader listed will take a PhD student in 2013. The list provides the names of those group leaders who have expressed their interest in taking a PhD student in 2013.

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• M. Madan Babu
  Disordered proteins: evolution and disease
• Mark van Breugel
  Structure and assembly mechanisms of centrioles
• Andrew Carter
  Single molecule studies of the dynein motor
• Paula da Fonseca
  Structure of macromolecular protein complexes
• Michel Goedert
  Prion-like propagation and neurodegenerative diseases
• Ingo Greger
  Glutamate receptor biogenesis, dendritic targeting and allosteric control
• Michael Hastings
  The brain, circadian clocks and sleep
• Ramanujan Hegde
  Protein quality control and disease
• Philipp Holliger
  Synthetic genetics
• Leo James
  Intracellular antiviral immunity
• Gregory Jefferis
  Neural circuit basis of sexually dimorphic behaviour
• Rob Kay
  Understanding chemotaxis
• David Komander
  Understanding atypical ubiquitin chains
• Meindert Lamers
  Structure of the DNA replication machinery
• Jan Löwe
  The bacterial cytoskeleton
• Harvey McMahon
  Uncovering novel endocytic mechanisms
• Garib Murshudov
  Computational methods for structural biology
• Kiyoshi Nagai
  Structure of the spliceosome
• Michael Neuberger
  AID/APOBEC proteins in cancer and immunity
• David Neuhaus
  Protein interactions by NMR
• John O'Neill
  Metabolic Timekeeping
• Lori Passmore
  Molecular machines that regulate mRNAs
• KJ Patel
  Consequences of aldehyde genotoxicity on stem cell function
• Cristina Rada
  AID/APOBEC proteins in cancer and immunity
• Venki Ramakrishnan
  Understanding translation in structural terms
• Felix Randow
  How autophagy defends the cytosol against bacterial invasion
• William Schafer
  Molecules involved in temperature and touch sensing
• Melina Schuh
  Meiosis and aneuploidy in mammals
• John Sutherland
  2′-Acetyl-RNA: did RNA first emerge in protected form?
• Marco Tripodi
  Neural circuits for movement, from assembly to function.
• Roger Williams
  Initiation and inhibition of autophagy