ICB CDT PhD Studentships 


Thomas Wells 

Chemical approaches to improving photosynthesis 


Zhili Chen

Computational studies of Rubisco 


Ignacio Gispert Contamina

Cells and organelles as embedded biomodules in artificial cells


Felix Thorsten Sheffield

Novel techniques for high throughput membrane permeability assays in the agrochemical industry


Livia Kalossaka 

Functionally optimised biofilms for building  façades


Maeve Kavanagh

Primary charge transfer in the Photosystem II reaction centre

 

Syngenta Funded PhD Studentships 


Tom Kitto 

A multifunctional biomimetic lab-on-a-chip assault course for agrochemical bioavailability screening 


Hannan Seyal 

Smart Bioisoesteres: Beyond a spatial mimic to improved plant biology 


Yu Cheng 

3D bio-printing model tissues for targeted discovery in the agri-tech industry 


Shameem  Golestaneh 

Plug and play microfluidics for frontier Agri-Tech assays 


Sarah Walton 

Electrons, leaves, and light: investigating surface photodegradation of agrochemicals 

 

NexGenAgriChem PhD Projects (Completed)


Qi Yuan

The development and application of quantum chemistry based tools to predict the photochemical stability and photoproducts of herbicides


Nate Barlow

New technologies for modelling, monitoring and predicting agrochemical transport in plants


Sophie Sim

A novel two dimensional infrared spectroscopic tool to study herbicide interaction in plants


Tarun Khanna

Development and application of the AMBER Molecular Mechanics force field to investigate herbicide interaction in plants


Ololade Adeniji

Novel chemical probes to investigate the metabolism and mode of action of insecticides


Wouter Mooij

Novel chemical probes to probe the metabolism and mode of action of fungicides


Mladen Stojanovic

Chemical dissection of the targets of insecticides with a novel mode of action


Roman Fedoryshchak

Lipidated proteomics: Chemical validation of protein lipidation pathways as antifungal targets


Heng Zhang

Multiscale analysis of protein and DNA structures: from atomic structures to large-scale conformational substructures


Tom Mickleburgh

New technologies for the quantification of protein copy number and protein-protein interactions in single plant cells


Valerio Converso

Biochemical imaging of compounds in plants


Elizabeth Noble

Using fluorescence imaging to probe the distribution, delivery and uptake of agrochemicals in plants


Zijing Liu

Transcriptomic and proteomic data analysis: extraction of landscapes through geometric dimensionality reduction and multi-scale clustering