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Projects

October 2020 entrance:

The PhD projects available for studies leading to a University of Cambridge PhD degree commencing 1 October 2020 are listed below.

Radu Aricescu

Supra-molecular architecture of synaptic receptors

David Barford

Structure of yeast chromosome segregation

John Briggs

Structural Biology of HIV-1 assembly

Albert Cardona

The pianist and the piano keys: how brain circuits drive behavior

Andrew Carter

Viral transport by the dynein/dynactin motor and Building a minimal contractile machine

Jason Chin

Encoded cellular synthesis of non-natural polymers

Gerry Crossan

Developmental origin of germ cell tumours

Benjamin Falcon

Selective cell vulnerability in neurodegenerative disease

Julian Gough

Systematic Cell Reprogramming and Personal genomics

Ingo Greger

Role of glutamate receptor dynamics in synaptic plasticity

Ramanujan Hegde

Membrane protein biogenesis and quality control

Philipp Holliger

Synthetic Genetics

Gregory Jefferis

Neural Circuits for Sex and Memory in the Fly

Patrycja Kozik

Molecular mechanism of the endosomal escape pathway

Jan Löwe

Structure and function of the Divisome

Kate McDole

How the embryo gets its shape: mechanobiology meets development

Harvey McMahon

The molecular origins of Parkinson’s Disease

Garib Murshudov

How cells attack bacteria invading their cytosol

Kelly Nguyen

Molecular mechanism of telomere maintenance

Felix Randow

How cells attack bacteria invading their cytosol

Jing Ren

Developmental assembly of the serotonin system

Katja Röper

Kidneys in a dish

Christopher Russo

Studying the physics of cryo-EM to design and build new microscopes for biology

Julian Sale

How structured DNA drives epigenetic variation

William Schafer

Probing the structure and function of neural connectomes

Marta Shahbazi

Pluripotent stem cell fate decisions in a 3D context

John Sutherland

How did translation arise?

Rebecca Taylor

Investigating transmissible protein aggregates in C. elegans

Marco Tripodi

From cognition to action

Roger Williams

Feast, famine and repair

Joseph Yeeles

Building the replisome

Marta Zlatic

Circuit mechanisms of learning and action selection

The LMB exceptionally considers applications for research-only MPhil students provided they obtain their own competitive funding and have the support of a group leader in the Laboratory. For information contact enquiries.