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.

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• 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
• Cell Biology Project
  Division at extremes: how to cut an archaeal cell into two
• 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
  Statistics and machine learning for map interpretation
• 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.