Our research students

Hana Abbara

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Tukur Abdullahi

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Human Coronaviruses; Type I and Type III Interferons ; Interferon stimulated genes; Immune responses; Virus and cell culture

Benjamin Adu

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Oluwapelumi Adurosakin

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Developmental Biology, Stem cell Research, Cell culture techniques

Kimia Aghasoleimani

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Dilsher Almahmada

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Jeffrey Asaju

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Androglobin and proteins.

Felix Astejada

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

William Atkinson

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Plant genetic engineering; Plant physiology

Aygun Azadova

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Amishasingh Beeharry

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Glioblastoma; Liquid Biopsy; Nucleosome repositioning Research interests: Nucleosome repositioning in Glioblastoma from liquid biopsies based on cfDNA

Negin Behboodi

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Peter Betts

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Ecophysiology; Stable Isotope Analysis Research interests: Metabolic Ecology

Michael Bevins Cameron

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Atlantic salmon

Phoebe Blair

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Research interests: Cancer Biology; Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs); Multiple Myeloma

Jason (Jay) Burk

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Coral reef genomics & ecology; Insect identification & ecology; Wildlife photography (terrestrial & marine)

Emma Burroughs

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Benjamin Calvert

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Deep learning, signal processing

Zelin Chen

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: marine benthic biodiversity; community change; food web structure Research interests: Impacts of offshore oil and gas infrastructure on marine benthic biodiversity and food web structure

Isabella Ciuta

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: nucleosome positioning; cancer biology; transcription factors; bioinformatics

Louis Clay

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: MPV17; MPV17 splice-variants

Hannah Coburn

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Ornithology; Movement ecology; Population modelling

Russ Connelly

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Seahorses!; 3D Printing; Scientific SCUBA Surveys

Jacob Cook

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Antifouling biocides

Joe Dawson

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Marine Management; Fish Biology & Phenology; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Mengjie Fan

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Isabelle Firth

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Cnidarian metamorphosis ; Marine biofilms ; Combining art with science

Aliza Fowad

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Prosate Cancer, Androgen Receptor Activity, Nano-flower Generation and Design

Julia G Passos

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Oskar Gardner

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Prostate Cancer; Androgen Signalling; Computational Genomics

Teddy Gaskin

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Plants, CSR Strategies, Hyperspectral Reflectance, Leaf Economics Spectrum, Phylogenetics

Serap Gokcen Dogan

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Aleyna Guney

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: TRAIL, Death receptor signalling; Apoptotic Pathways; Colorectal cancer Research interests: Apoptotic signalling pathways; Role of TRAIL-R2 in Chemotherapy-Induced Apoptosis

Jessica Hardy

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Daniel Hearn

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: miRNA's and Gene regulation; Prostate Cancer; Bioinformatics

Drew Henderson

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Danyang Hu

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ece Imam Moustafa

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Plant physiological responses to abiotic stress

Shashi Jha

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Haleigh Jorgeson

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Molecular ecology; Biogeochemical cycling; Marine ecology; Environmental DNA

Piotr Kasznicki

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Photosynthesis - foliar and non foliar; Stomata; Wheat; Gas exchange; Chlorophyl fluorescence; Thermal imaging

Joshua Kent

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Cancer biology; Microscopy; Image analysis using FIJI/ImageJ

Sherece Kesner

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: salt marsh; habitat connectivity; temperate estuaries ; seals

Rashin Khalaj

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Harry Lang

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Structural biochemistry; Molecular biology; X-ray crystallography; Metalloproteins Research interests: Structural Biochemistry; Molecular biology; Haem proteins crystallography

Grace Long

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Dai Ma

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Nitrogen cycle; Nitrogen cycle microbial; Oyster aquaculture

Alice Malcolm-McKay

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: The wonders of seagrass; Blue carbon; ...and how one links to the other!

Aidan Meekings

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Structural Biochemistry; X-ray Crystallography; Molecular Biology; Metalloproteins; Ammonia Oxidisong Archaea Research interests: Structural Biochemistry; X-ray Crystallography of Metalloproteins; Copper Homeostasis in N.Maritimus

Alexandra Milliken

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Plant Physiology; Chlorophyll Fluorescence ; Natural Variation; Gas Exchange

Chiemeziem Njoku

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: endocrine disrupters, prostate cancer, androgen receptor signalling cell culture, cloning, luciferase assay, western blotting, etc Research interests: Prostate cancer

Caitlin O'Shea

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Parkinson's Disease; Motor Neurone Disease; Targeted protein degradation; Protein folding and misfolding; Intrabodies; Molecular biological techniques

Joe Perry

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: morphometrics Research interests: Morphometry and fertility

Deimante Ramonaite

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Pseudoviruses; Seasonal Coronaviruses; Virology

Jessica Rhodes

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Chalk Reefs & Underwater Ecosystem Monitoring; UK Diving; Citizen Science

Lucinda Robinson

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Nature Based Solutions ; Salt marsh restoration ; Wetland creation ; Leaky dams for flood management

Charlotte Rush

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Biodiversity Modelling ; UK Biodiversity Policy

Katerina Schiffnederova

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Oenone Scott

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: R Coding; Ocean Models; Invertebrates; Deep Sea; Rock pools

Amy Shurety

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Jake Smallbone

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Research interests: Environmental Microbiology; Marine Ecology; Marine Biochemistry

Lucy Smith

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Vaterite switching; Atlantic salmon movement & migration Research interests: Is incidence of vaterite switching higher in hatchery vs. wild outmigrating juveniles?; What are the patterns in size at outmigration of Atlantic salmon in the North Atlantic?; For cohort matched outmigrating post-smolts and returning adults is there a difference in the distribution of size and age at outmigration?; Do populations that are geographically distant in the UK undergo different migration trajectories?

Riaz-Ali Somji

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Virology; The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR); Human Seasonal Coronaviruses ; Autophagy in human coroanviruses

Antonio Stanic

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Phylogenomics; Cold-water coral; Taxonomy

Katarina Stanka

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Alicia Talavera Caro

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: microbiology, molecular biology, environmental microbiology

Tiffany Teoh

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Human Coronaviruses; Interferon stimulated genes - IFITM1,2,3; Virus and cell culture

Ben Townsend

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Soil microbiomes; Molecular community profiling techniques

Mert Uyaroglu

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: cryo-EM; porin cytochrome complexes; antimicrobial resistance; laboratory maintenance Research interests: Structure of extracellular porin cytochrome complexes; Efflux pumps in antimicrobial resistance

Myo Wai

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Research interests: Phenomics technologies to improve sugar beet water use efficiency

Yidi Wang

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Prostate Cancer; DNAzyme

Lewis Williams

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: Time-resolved X-ray Crystallography; Haem Proteins; Spectroscopy

Hugo Woodward-Rowe

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Charlotte Worrall

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Francesca Wright

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Life Sciences

Ask me about: TP53; CRISPR; Characterisation of Mutations; Bayesian Networks as an Artificial Intelligence Agent