Dr Johnathan Dalzell
RESEARCH FOCUS
Plant interactions
As a research group, our aim is to understand how plants interact with other organisms, both above and below ground. Our core focus is trying to understand how parasites find, invade and manipulate crop plant hosts, however are also interested in how plants interact with microbes in the soil. Through a better understanding of the biology underpinning these events, we hope to develop new approaches promote crop plant health, and support the sustainable intensification of agriculture. We use a variety of research tools and approaches to achieve this, including transcriptomics, bioinformatics, reverse genetics, plant transformation, behavioural assays, and a variety of other molecular biology techniques.
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Open to PhD applications from those having at least a 2.1 degree (or equivalent) in a life science, who are interested in exploring molecular aspects of plants and their parasites.
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Research Students
Phd Title: Understanding neuropeptide biology in plant parasitic nematodes
Name: Matthew Sturrock
Year of study: 3
Country: UK
Phd Title: Exploring the biology and sensory perception of entomopathogenic nematodes
Name: Robert Morris
Year of study: 3
Country: UK
Phd Title: Understanding plant-parasite interactions ex planta
Name: Steven Dyer
Year of study: 3
Country: UK
Phd Title: Probing the basis of parasite plasticity and pathogenicity
Name: Brian Reilly
Year of study: 2
Country: UK
Alumni: where are they now?
Dr Leonie Wilson
PhD title: Understanding and exploiting parasite neurobiology
Country: UK
Current position: postdoctoral researcher, Oxford Expression Technologies.
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