For further information about any of these projects please contact the supervisor directly.  Applicants are welcome to approach supervisors with their own ideas - the list below is not exclusive, and does not include all supervisors. Please visit our Research Pages for more information.

Please see our Funding page for more information on applying for DTP studentships.

Projects currently on offer

(please note: we are likely to be updating this page regularly over the next few weeks)

• Understanding constraints and conflicts in social coordination (James Herbert-Read) - this project falls within the remit of the Claire Barnes studentship

• Defining the blueprint of the ancestral vertebrate brain (Elia Benito-Gutierrez)

• Community ecology of deep-sea benthic systems (Emily Mitchell)

• Ecological analyses of the oldest deep-sea communities from the Edicaran (~565 million years ago) (Emily Mitchell)

• Grinnell vs. Elton in deep and shallow time: Ecological drivers of lizards and snakes during the last 23 million years (Jason Head)

• Incorporating ecology into virulence evolution: an experimental evolution approach (Helen Leggett)

• Epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms mediating neuronal plasticity (Matthias Landgraf)

• Motor network connectivity – wiring motifs and function (Matthias Landgraf)

• Regulation of dendritic and synaptic growth by metabolic reactive oxygen species (Matthias Landgraf)

• Critical period and network tuning (Matthias Landgraf)

• Neuron-glia interactions during development and repair (Matthias Landgraf)

• The ancient past of Africa: reconstructing paleobiomes over the last 800k years (Andrea Manica) 

• Co-evolution of colour vision and coloration in colourful songbirds (Nick Mundy)

• Evolution of red carotenoid coloration in birds (Nick Mundy)

• Mechanisms of sexual dimorphism in avian coloration (Nick Mundy) 

• Predicting the evolution of influenza (Derek Smith)

• Exploring the function of bimolecular condensates in translational regulation  (Tim Weil)

• Establishing the mechanism of the calcium wave at egg activation (Tim Weil)

• Testing the function of calcium in programmed cell death (Tim Weil) 

• Neural circuit mechanisms of memory-based decision-making (Marta Zlatic)