Case Studies

Hear from our DTP students about their DPhil projects:

Sarah-Beth Amos

Sarah-Beth is a BBSRC iCASE student in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company UCB, with Prof Mark Sansom. She works on developing Markov State model analysis of disorder in protein-membrane interactions.

Mirjam Hazenbosch

Mirjam's field work is based in Papua New Guinea, investigating how smallholder farming can be made more sustainable.

Jisoo Jean

JJ's current work focuses on developing a modular platform for enzyme cyclization to confer drastic improvements in thermal resilience to a wide range of enzymes.

Katerina Johnson

Katerina's research is interdisciplinary in nature and spans the fields of neuroscience, behaviour, molecular biology, microbiology, metagenomics and evolution.

Pablo Munoz-Rodriguez

Pablo's research focused on the systematics of the sweet potato and closely related wild species.

Thomas Pak

Thomas is a mathematical biologist, his research involves modelling the processes of cell competition in multicellular organisms.

Sheng Pong

Sheng researches the role of tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs) in gene regulation in Dr Monika Gullerova's laboratory for his DPhil project.

Shamma Rattan

Shamma is an Oxford Brookes student, researching the function and evolution of the Wnt signalling ligands in Drosophila melanogaster.

James Walker

James is working with the Animal Flight group working on visual guidance in birds.

Andrew Wood

Andrew did his internship as a research assistant with the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker