School of Life Sciences

University of Dundee

PhD Supervisors

	Supervisor	Projects
	Professor Dario Alessi FRS FRSE FMedSci Understanding signalling pathways mutated in inherited disorders	China Scholarship Council: Phosphorylation of Rab GTPases in Health & Disease
	Professor Geoff Barton FRSE FRSB Protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis and function prediction	EASTBIO: How cells prevent errors in chromosome inheritance during cell division
	Professor Paul Birch FRSE Plant pathogen interactions	EASTBIO: Hunting for Veghog – elucidation of a novel crossroads between development and immunity in plants EASTBIO: Understanding how plant pathogen effector proteins contribute to host range and nonhost disease resistance China Scholarship Council: Context is everything – how do plant receptor complexes assemble to regulate growth and immunity?
	Professor Julian Blow FRSE FMedSci How DNA replication is organised and controlled to ensure precise chromosome duplication	EASTBIO: How do CDKs phosphorylate the right substrates at the right time?
	Dr Davide Bulgarelli Structure, function and host control of the plant microbiota	EASTBIO: A synthetic community approach to decipher the genetic basis of plant-microbiota interactions in the rhizosphere
	Professor Alessio Ciulli FRSC Chemical and Structural Biology of Targeted Protein Degradation	EASTBIO: Bifunctional small molecules beyond PROTACs: Proximity-inducing new downstream chemistries to rewire cell signaling China Scholarship Council: Structural and Mechanistic Chemical Biology of Degraders Mode of Actions
	Professor Kim Dale FRSB Establishing the vertebrate embryonic body plan	EASTBIO: Post transcriptional Regulation of Oscillatory clock gene expression during somitogenesis
	Professor Ron Hay FRS FRSE FMedSci Role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in transcriptional regulation	China Scholarship Council: Structural and Mechanistic Chemical Biology of Degraders Mode of Actions
	Dr Piers Hemsley Regulation of protein function in plants by S-acylation	EASTBIO: Deciphering the role of translation in temperature-controlled development: Lead supervisor: Dr Martin Balcerowicz EASTBIO: Hunting for Veghog – elucidation of a novel crossroads between development and immunity in plants EASTBIO: Context is everything – how do plant receptor complexes assemble to regulate growth and immunity? : EASTBIO: Your Best Face Forward – how cereals regulate their epidermal surfaces. China Scholarship Council: Context is everything – how do plant receptor complexes assemble to regulate growth and immunity?
	Dr Jens Januschke Dynamics of cell polarisation	EN & MN Lindsay Scholarship: Biophysical modelling of epithelial cell polarity China Scholarship Council: Dynamics of chromatin loops in human genome organisation – molecular regulation and disease mechanisms
	Dr Sarah McKim Developmental biology of plant architecture	EASTBIO: Mummy Dearest: maternal control of grain development: EASTBIO: Your Best Face Forward – how cereals regulate their epidermal surfaces.
	Professor Miratul Muqit FRSE Elucidation of the PINK1 signaling pathway in Parkinson’s disease	China Scholarship Council: Phosphorylation of Rab GTPases in Health & Disease
	Professor Gopal Sapkota Untangling the TGFβ and Wnt signalling networks in cells, development and human diseases	EASTBIO: Bifunctional small molecules beyond PROTACs: Proximity-inducing new downstream chemistries to rewire cell signaling
	Dr Rastko Sknepnek Computational soft condensed matter and biophysics group	EN & MN Lindsay Scholarship: Biophysical modelling of epithelial cell polarity
	Professor Nicola Stanley-Wall FRSE FRSB FEAM Understanding the molecular mechanism of biofilm formation	EASTBIO: Intraspecies competition mechanisms in Bacillus subtilis: EASTBIO: A synthetic community approach to decipher the genetic basis of plant-microbiota interactions in the rhizosphere
	Professor Tomo Tanaka FRSE Mechanisms ensuring proper chromosome segregation in mitosis	EASTBIO: How cells prevent errors in chromosome inheritance during cell division China Scholarship Council: Dynamics of chromatin loops in human genome organisation – molecular regulation and disease mechanisms