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.
Find out moreOpen 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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Name: Matthew Sturrock
Year of study: 3
Country: UK
Name: Robert Morris
Year of study: 3
Country: UK
Name: Steven Dyer
Year of study: 3
Country: UK
Name: Brian Reilly
Year of study: 2
Country: UK
Dr Leonie Wilson
PhD title: Understanding and exploiting parasite neurobiology
Country: UK
Current position: postdoctoral researcher, Oxford Expression Technologies.
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