School of Life Sciences

University of Dundee

PhD Supervisors

	Supervisor	Projects
	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
	Professor Julian Blow FRSE FMedSci How DNA replication is organised and controlled to ensure precise chromosome duplication	EASTBIO: The function of non-canonical phosphorylation by cyclin-dependent kinases EASTBIO: The regulation of chromosome replication by DBF4-Dependent Kinase
	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 EASTBIO iCASE: Novel bifunctional chemistries for unbiased exploration of targeted protein degradation mechanisms
	Dr. William Farnaby MRSC	EASTBIO iCASE: Novel bifunctional chemistries for unbiased exploration of targeted protein degradation mechanisms
	Professor Ian Gilbert FMedSci FRSE FRSC Design and synthesis of potential therapeutic agents	EN & MN Lindsay Scholarship: Developing in silico approaches for compound optimisation in Drug Discovery: targeting polypharmacology using Artifical Intelligence. EN & MN Lindsay Scholarship: Computer-aided drug discovery (CADD) methodologies for the identification and optimisation of bioactive compounds
	Dr Piers Hemsley SFHEA FRSB Regulation of protein function in plants by S-acylation	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.
	Dr Tony Ly	EASTBIO: The function of non-canonical phosphorylation by cyclin-dependent kinases
	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 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
	Professor Tomo Tanaka FRSE Mechanisms ensuring proper chromosome segregation in mitosis	EASTBIO: How cells prevent errors in chromosome inheritance during cell division EASTBIO: The regulation of chromosome replication by DBF4-Dependent Kinase
	Professor Ulrich Zachariae Computational Biophysics and Drug Discovery	EN & MN Lindsay Scholarship: Developing in silico approaches for compound optimisation in Drug Discovery: targeting polypharmacology using Artifical Intelligence. EN & MN Lindsay Scholarship: Computer-aided drug discovery (CADD) methodologies for the identification and optimisation of bioactive compounds
	Dr. Fabio Zuccotto	EN & MN Lindsay Scholarship: Developing in silico approaches for compound optimisation in Drug Discovery: targeting polypharmacology using Artifical Intelligence. EN & MN Lindsay Scholarship: Computer-aided drug discovery (CADD) methodologies for the identification and optimisation of bioactive compounds