Biological Sciences PhD/Mphil

Animal Physiology and Behaviour with specialisations in: Crustacean neuroendocrinology, growth, reproduction Environmental physiology of aquatic organisms Fish Behaviour Integrative behavioural physiology/energetics Marine mammals/conservation genetics Cellular and Molecular with specialisations in: Cancer Research Cell Biology DNA damage checkpoints DNA repair Endothelial development Entomology Eukaryote chromosome dynamics/repair Eukaryotic cell control cycle Forensic acarology Human neural differentiation and cancer Intracellular host symbiont interactions Mechanisms of mammalian signal transduction Metabolic regulation Metal microbe interaction Microbiology of extreme environments Molecular medical/veterinary entomology Molecular parasitology Neurodegenerative genetics Neuroscience Reproductive parasites and pathogens of invertebrates Vector biology Ecology and Evolution with specialisations in: Ancient DNA and long term environmental change Behavioural ecology Biofilms Biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems Conservation Genetics Ecology of clonal animals Ecophysiology of aquatic organisms Effects of climate change Environmental biotechnology Evolution of venomous snakes and venom Evolutionary and population genetics Evolutionary ecology and phylogeography Fisheries Genetics Geographic variation in lizards, snakes and amphibians Molecular and evolutionary ecology Molecular ecology and adaptation Plant ecology Wetland biogeochemistry Wetland ecology Wetlands for Pollution Control Plant Systems and Technology with specialisations in: Carbon partitioning Physiology and genetics of abiotic stress resistance Physiology of plant growth, cell wall proteins and genes Plant genomics and metabolomics Plant molecular biology Plant physiology and carbon partitioning Plant water relations Plant rhizosphere interactions Single cell transcriptomics and metabolomics The biophysics of growth