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Dr Johnathan Dalzell

School of Biological Sciences
Johnathan Dalzell

Dr Johnathan Dalzell

School of Biological Sciences

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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  • j.dalzell@qub.ac.uk
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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Transcriptomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Reverse genetics
  • Plant transformation
  • Behavioural assays
  • Molecular biology techniques

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Invent 2014 & Invent 2015 Agri-Food category winner

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Research students

PhD Title Understanding neuropeptide biology in plant parasitic nematodes
Country UK
   
PhD Title   Exploring the biology and sensory perception of entomopathogenic nematodes 
Country   UK
   
PhD Title  Understanding plant-parasite interactions ex planta
Country   UK 
   
PhD Title Probing the basis of parasite plasticity and pathogenicity
Country UK

 

 

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Understanding and exploiting parasite neurobiology
Country UK
Current Position  postdoctoral researcher, Oxford Expression Technologies. 
   

 


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