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Postgraduate School of Life Sciences

 

The Organisms, Evolution and Ecology Research Theme includes the following sub-groups:

  • Evolution and Diversity
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Ecology and Conservation
  • Microbiology and Infectious Disease
  • Developmental Biology
  • Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology
  • Plant Biology
  • Animal Behaviour and Biomechanics
  • Ecosystems and Global Change
  • Computational and Evolutionary Biology

 

Principal Investigators in this theme:

Name: Professor David Aldridge
Topic: Freshwater ecology and conservation; ecology and control of invasive species; sustainable environmental management; aquaculture
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: d.aldridge@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/david-aldridge
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alexandre Almeida
Topic: High-resolution and large-scale approaches to investigate the function and diversity of the human microbiome in health and disease
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: aa2369@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-alexandre-almeida
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Bill Amos
Topic: Evolutionary genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: w.amos@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/william-amos
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Robert Asher
Topic: Morphology and interrelationships of living and extinct mammals
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: rja58@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/robert-asher
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Madan Babu
Topic: Systems biology regulatory genomics intrinsically disordered proteins biological networks GPCR signalling gene regulation and gene expression noise
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: madanm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-m-babu
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andrew Balmford
Topic: Costs and benefits of conservation; conservation and agriculture
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: apb12@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-balmford
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Sir David Baulcombe
Topic: Gene expression
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: dcb40@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/davidbaulcombe
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Elia Benito Gutierrez
Topic: Evo-Devo
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Zoology
Email: eb647@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/elia-benito-gutierrez
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Mark Blaxter
Topic: Tree of life
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mb35@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/programmes/tree-of-life
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jamie Blundell
Topic: Evolutionary dynamics of cancer a disease of somatic evolution in our tissues.
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: jrb75@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/our-research/blundell
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Paul Brakefield
Topic: Evolution and diversity butterflies and other insects
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: pb499@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/paul-brakefield
 Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Sam Brockington
Topic: Evolution and diversity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Plant Science
Email: sb771@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/sambrockington
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Michael Brooke
Topic: Island conservation priorities seabird biology population dynamics of endangered species
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: m.brooke@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/michael-brooke
 Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor Malcolm Burrows
Topic: Neural processing in local circuits that control natural limb movements
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: mb135@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/malcolm-burrows
 Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor John Carr
Topic: Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Plant Sciences
Email: jpc1005@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/john-carr
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Jason Chin
Topic: Evolution and synthesis of new function
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: chin@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/j-chin
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jeongmin Choi
Topic: Plant Symbiosis with Beneficial Fungi
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jc913@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/jeongmin-choi
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Betty Chung
Topic: Gene expression, Translation control, abiotic (temperature, pH etc..) and biotic (infection) stresses, Host:pathogen interactions,
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: bcy23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/betty-chung
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Tim Clutton-Brock
Topic: The evolution of animal breeding systems
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: thcb@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/tim-clutton-brock
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor David Coomes
Topic: Forest ecology and conservation
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: dac18@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/davidcoomes
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Isidro Cortes-Ciriano
Topic: Cancer Genomics
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/cortes-ciriano
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nik Cunniffe
Topic: Modelling the spread, detection, evolution and control of plant pests and pathogens.
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Plant Sciences
Email: njc1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/cunniffe-nik
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Julia Davies
Topic: Signalling
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jmd32@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/juliadavies
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Lida Derevnina
Topic: Plant immunity, effector biology, host pathogen interaction
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: LD645@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/crop-pathogen-immunity
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Lynn Dicks
Topic: Conservation science: agroecology, insect conservation, evidence-based conservation, science-policy interface
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: lvd22@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-lynn-dicks
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Richard Durbin
Topic: Mathematical and computational genetics; bioinformatics; genome evolution; ancient and environmental DNA; cichlid
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: rd109@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/research-groups/durbin
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Edwards
Topic: Tropical forest ecology and conservation; impacts of land-use change (selective logging, farming, restoration) on biodiversity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology (incl. Plant Biology)
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: dpe29@cam.ac.uk
Website: pending
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker
Topic: Plant-parasite/pathogen interactions
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: se389@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/sebastianevesvandenakker
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Walter Federle
Topic: Animal biomechanics, insect-plant interactions
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Zoology
Email: wf222@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/walter-federle
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Daniel Field
Topic: Macroevolution, ornithology, palaeontology, systematics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Zoology & Earth Sciences
Email: djf70@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.fieldpalaeo.com/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Gilligan
Topic: Epidemiology and modelling
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: cag1@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/chrisgilligan
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Beverley Glover
Topic: Evolution and development
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: bjg26@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/beverleyglover
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nick Goldman
Topic: theoretical molecular evolution, comparative genomics data analysis and modelling, statistical computational molecular sequence analysis, algorithms for Next Generation Sequencing
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: goldman@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/goldman/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Grant
Topic: Microbial Pathogenesis
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: ajg60@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ajg60%40cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Howard Griffiths
Topic: Physiological ecology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: hg230@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/howardgriffiths
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jake Harris
Topic: Epigenetics, chromatin, immunity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: cjh92@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/chromatin-and-memory
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Jim Haseloff
Topic: Synthetic Biology for engineering plant growth
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jh295@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/jimhaseloff
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jason Head
Topic: vertebrate palaeontology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: jjh71@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-jason-head
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ian Henderson
Topic: Genetic and epigenetic inheritance in plants
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: irh25@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/ianhenderson
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr James Herbert-Read
Topic: Behavioural Ecology, Animal Behaviour, Sensory Biology, Marine Biology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: jh2223@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/behavioural-ecology/marine-behavioura...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Julian Hibberd
Topic: Molecular physiology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jmh65@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/julianhibberd
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Florian Hollfelder
Topic: Synthetic and chemical biology: mechanistic enzymology, directed evolution, technologies for droplet microfluidics, since cell transciptomics, developmental cell biology in 3D
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: fh111@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/hollfelder
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Philipp Holliger
Topic: Synthetic biology of nucleic acid replication
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/p-holliger
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Christopher Howe
Topic: Biochemistry and evolution of photosynthesis
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: c.j.howe@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/howe.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Matt Hurles
Topic: Genomic mutation and genetic disease
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: meh@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/hurles-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Jiggins
Topic: Evolutionary Genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: cj107@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://heliconius.zoo.cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Rufus Johnstone
Topic: Animal communication mate choice and reproductive skew
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: raj1003@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/rufus-johnstone
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alexander Jones
Topic: Determining the mechanisms controlling plant hormone patterns and dynamics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: alexander.jones@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/jones-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Henrik Jönsson
Topic: Development of live imaging techniques and Computational Morphodynamics models at the cellular level.
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: henrik.jonsson@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonsson-henrik
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Rebecca Kilner
Topic: Behaviour, Social Evolution, Co-evolution, Parental Care, Animal Communication
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: rmk1002@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/rebecca-kilner
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Johannes Kromdijk
Topic: Environment plant physiology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jk417@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/johanneskromdijk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski
Topic: Natural genetic variation (in malaria)
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: dominic@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/kwiatkowski-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mara Lawniczak
Topic: Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Malaria; Biodiversity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity,
Department: Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mara@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/lawniczak-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Helen Leggett
Topic: Host-Parasite Evolution and Genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: hl448@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-helen-leggett
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Fiona Leigh
Topic: Molecular Plant Breeding and the Study of Crop Genetic Diversity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: NIAB
Email: fiona.leigh@niab.com
Website: https://www.niab.com/about-us/people/dr-fiona-leigh
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser
Topic: Hormonal control of shoot branching
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences and Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: ol235@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/developmental-biology
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr James Locke
Topic: Plant and microbial systems biology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences (Sainsbury Laboratory)
Email: james.locke@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/locke-james
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andrea Manica
Topic: Evolutionary Ecology: response of animals and humans to changing environments
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Zoology
Email: am315@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://eeg.zoo.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Marioni
Topic: Computational and evolutionary genomics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: marioni@ebi.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/marioni/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Inigo Martincorena
Topic: Somatic evolution
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: im3@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/martincorena-group
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Matthew Mason
Topic: Function of the middle ear in vertebrates
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Physiology, Development & Neuroscience
Email: mjm68@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/matthew-mason
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Eric Miska
Topic: Control of gene expression through non-coding RNA
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: eam29@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/eric-miska
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Emily Mitchell
Topic: Deep-time Ecology, Palaeobiology, Palaeoecology, Origins and evolution of early animals, Life in the Universe
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Zoology
Email: ek338@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/palaeobiology/deep-time-ecology-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Edwige Moyroud
Topic: Genetics, Development, Evolution, Plant biology, Evo-Devo, Flower development, Molecular Biology, Imaging, Modeling, Pattern formation, Cell differentiation, Pollinator behaviour
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: The Sainsbury Laboratory and Department of Genetics
Email: em500@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-edwige-moyroud
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nick Mundy
Topic: Adaptive evolutionary genetics of vertebrates
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: nim21@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/nicholas-mundy
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Elizabeth Murchison
Topic: Transmissible cancers
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: epm27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Leila Muresan
Topic: Microscopy image analysis
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: lam94@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/muresan
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jyoti Nangalia
Topic: Clonal Evolution, Cancer and Ageing
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: jn218@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/nangalia
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr François Nédélec
Topic: Cell morphogenesis and developmental biology using synthetic and systems biology approaches and computer modelling
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Plant Sciences (Sainsbury Laboratory)
Email: francois.nedelec@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/nedelec-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Giles Oldroyd
Topic: Development of symbiotic associations in plants
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: gedo2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cropsciencecentre.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Uta Paszkowski
Topic: Plant Molecular Genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Plant Sciences
Email: up220@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/utapaszkowski.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kiran Raosaheb Patil
Topic: Gut microbiota and xenobiotics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Toxicology Unit
Email: kp533@mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/research/patil-programme
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Adam Pellegrini
Topic: How ecosystem functioning will respond to global change with a current focus on how disturbances affect carbon cycling
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: ap2188@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/pellegrini-adam
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Ms Eqbal Radwan
Topic: Plant biotechnology, plant molecular biology, nanobiotechnology in plant production
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biology
Email: ernp2030@gmail.com
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J8Iu9SYAAAAJ&hl=en
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sarah Robinson
Topic: Plant development with a particular focus on biomechanics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences (Sainsbury Laboratory)
Email: sarah.robinson@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/robinson-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Henrik Salje
Topic: Infectious disease dynamics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: hs743@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Emilia Santos
Topic: Morphology and Evolution
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: es754@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/emilia-santos
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Aylwyn Scally
Topic: Evolutionary genomics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: aos21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/aylwyn-scally
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sebastian Schornack
Topic: Common and contrasting processes in plant-pathogen interactions and symbiosis developmental processes
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: sebastian.schornack@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: www.schornacklab.net
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Claire Spottiswoode
Topic: Evolution and ecology of birds
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Zoology
Email: cns26@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.africancuckoos.com, www.africanhoneyguides.com
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr John Sutherland
Topic: Chemical origins of molecular biology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: johns@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/bill-sutherland
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor William Sutherland
Topic: Conservation biology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: w.sutherland@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/sutherland.htm
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Tanentzap
Topic: Ecosystems and global change
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: ajt65@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/andrewtanentzap
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicholas Thomson
Topic: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: nrt@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/thomson-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Edgar Turner
Topic: Conservation science insect ecology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: ect23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-edgar-turner
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ross Waller
Topic: Molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: rfw26@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.wallercellevolution.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Alan Warren
Topic: Mechanisms of ribosome assembly
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: ajw1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-alan-j-warren-fmedsci
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Alex Webb
Topic: Circadian signal transduction
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: aarw2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/alexwebb
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Welch
Topic: The causes of molecular evolution
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: jjw23@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/john-welch
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Martin Welch
Topic: Microbial Cell-Cell Communication
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology (incl. Plant Biology), Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: mw240@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/welch
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Eske Willerslev
Topic: Past human population genomics, environmental DNA, and pathogen evolution.
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: ew482@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-eske-willerslev
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Jennifer York
Topic: Behavioural ecology & Bio-inspired design
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour,
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: jy364@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/jenny-york
Applications from potential students are welcome

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