Applications for entry in October 2024 via our student competition have now closed. Applicants should be available for interview from Tuesday 16th-Thursday 18th January 2024. Interviews will be held remotely.
You can find out more by exploring more than 30 research groups that investigate the mechanisms underlying health and disease at the Dunn School.
Supervisor: Dragana Ahel & Ivan Ahel
Molecular mechanisms of genome stability and cancer
Supervisor: Ivan Ahel
Regulation of genome stability and human disease
Supervisor: Pedro Carvalho
Mechanisms of protein quality control in health and disease
Supervisor: Omer Dushek & P. Anton van der Merwe
Understanding the molecular reach of therapeutic CD3-targeting bi-specific antibodies to optimise efficacy
Supervisor: Omer Dushek & P. Anton van der Merwe
Understanding and exploiting antigen discrimination by T cells
Supervisor: Fumiko Esashi
Understanding DNA breaks at centromeres
Supervisor: Ervin Fodor
Molecular mechanisms of influenza virus replication
Supervisor: Matthew Freeman
Rhomboid-like proteins: from molecular principles to their role in human disease
Supervisor: Natalia Gromak
Function of R-loops in health and disease
Supervisor: Ulrike Gruneberg
Molecular mechanisms safe-guarding genome stability and preventing cancer during mammalian cell division
Supervisor: Monika Gullerova
The role of RNA modifications in RNA dependent DNA damage response
Supervisor: Bass Hassan
Mechanism evaluation of lethality dependencies in cancers of mesenchyme
Supervisor: Anjali Hinch
The landscape of de novo mutations in humans
Supervisor: Georgia Isom
Transport to the bacterial outer membrane: building a barrier that confers antimicrobial resistance
Supervisor: Girish Ram Mali
Mechanistic studies on protein folding and assembly of ciliary dynein motors
Supervisor: Jordan Raff
Centrioles and centrosomes in health and disease
Supervisor: Anthony Roberts
Cryo-EM of Transport Complexes that Build the Cell’s Antenna
Supervisor: Sumana Sanyal
Viral manipulation of host cell biology for biogenesis and immune evasion
Supervisor: Emma Slack
Decision-making in the intestinal immune system – what makes an oral antigen and immunogen?
Supervisor: Geoffrey L Smith & Sumana Sanyal
A study of human E3 ubiquitin ligases that act as virus restriction factors