{"id":2494,"date":"2020-02-19T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:18:51","slug":"msc-by-research-project-opportunities-for-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/02\/19\/msc-by-research-project-opportunities-for-september-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"MSc by Research Project Opportunities for September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We offer MSc by research degrees, whereby the student carries out a research project for a full year in a member of staff\u2019s research group.<\/p>\n<p>This is an increasingly popular option for students who prefer to gain extensive experience in laboratory (or in some cases computational biology) research, as preparation for a PhD application or a career in the biotechnology or health sciences research areas. The number of students taking up the project opportunities on offer in the School have steadily increased in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Direct link to apply for:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1238\/genetics\">MSc by Research in Genetics:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1236\/cell-biology\">MSc by Research in Cell Biology:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1235\/biochemistry\">MSc by Research in Biochemistry:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1239\/microbiology\">MSc by Research in Microbiology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/1237\/computational-biology\">Msc by Research in Computational Biology:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Projects available for September 2020:<strong><br \/>\nall listed projects will incur additional research costs of \u00a31500\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/cancer-and-ageing\/\">Cancer and Ageing<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1185\/garrett-michelle\">Prof Michelle Garrett<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supramolecular Self-associating Amphiphiles (SSAs) for the treatment of cancer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/649\/von-der-haar-tobias#supervision\">Dr Tobias von der Haar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Towards the biological degradation of plastic materials<\/li>\n<li>Genes, health, disease and ageing: a data science approach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1027\/tullet-jennifer#supervision\">Dr Jenny Tullet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding how RNA Polymerase III acts to promote longevity and health<\/li>\n<li>Eating and Sleeping: Understanding how SKN-1\/Nrf acts in the nervous system to promote satiety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/2081\/ezcurra-marina#supervision\">Dr Marina Ezcurra<\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Live strong and healthy \u2013 Understanding the links between the microbiome, muscle function and healthy ageing<\/li>\n<li>Effects of host-microbiome interactions on the ageing nervous system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1287\/goult-ben#supervision\">Dr Ben Goult<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mechanical signaling mis-regulation in metastasis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1095\/gourlay-campbell#supervision\"><strong>Dr Campbell Gourlay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The roles of RAS in controlling cell fate \u2013 a yeast model of oncogenic potential<\/li>\n<li>Investigating the role of mitochondria in regulating cell health and ageing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1137\/wass-mark#supervision\">Dr Mark Wass<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigating the determinants of SARS Coronavirus-2 pathogenicity<\/li>\n<li>Predicting protein function<\/li>\n<li>Investigating determinants of virus pathogenicity<\/li>\n<li>Investigation of drug-adapted cancer cell lines<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of the muscle sarcomere. A bioinformatics approach to the interaction between myosin and myosin binding protein-C<\/li>\n<li>Using cancer genomics to identify biomarkers of cancer resistance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/3191\/korzelius-jerome#supervision\">Dr Jerome Korzelius<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Age-related changes in the gut: more than just a gut feeling?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1303\/kad-neil#supervision\">Dr Neil Kad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Correcting the code of life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1179\/fenton-tim#supervision\">Dr Tim Fenton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigating the role of APOBEC3 enzymes in acquired resistance to chemotherapy drugs<\/li>\n<li>Exploring a role for APOBEC3 genes in mammalian evolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/cellular-architecture-and-dynamics\/\">Cellular Architecture and Dynamics<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1301\/mulvihill-dan#supervision\">Professor Dan Mulvihill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does phosphorylation of a molecular-motor regulate cellular growth?<\/li>\n<li>Bubbling at the surface\u201d: Generating vesicles to enhance recombinant protein production and storage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1034\/mulligan-christopher#supervision\">Dr Christopher Mulligan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Probing the mechanism of INDY (<em>I\u2019m not dead yet<\/em>) transporters: a target for the treatment of cancer, diabetes and obesity<\/li>\n<li>The path <em>to<\/em> least resistance: probing the mechanism of integral membrane transport proteins essential for antimicrobial resistance in bacteria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1530\/thompson-gary#supervision\"><strong>Dr Gary Thompson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Approaches to Rapid Protein Structure Determination by NMR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1287\/goult-ben#supervision\">Dr Ben Goult<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deciphering the talin code &#8211; a cellular code that enables cells to feel their environment<\/li>\n<li>Wiring the brain &#8211; deciphering how neurons make the right connections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1096\/ortega-roldan-jose-luis#supervision\">Dr Jose Ortega Roldan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In-cell structural biology: CLIC1 structure, function and drug binding inside tumour cells<\/li>\n<li>Understanding antimicrobial activity in live cells<\/li>\n<li>Engineering proteins for the production of antimicrobial peptides<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1303\/kad-neil#supervision\"><strong>Dr Neil Kad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigating the molecular basis of human heart disease using cutting-edge imaging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1065\/xue-wei-feng#supervision\">Dr Wei-Feng Xue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrative atomic force microscopy for structural analysis of bio-molecules<\/li>\n<li>Structural biology of amyloid aggregates<\/li>\n<li>Synthetic biology approach to self-assembled fibrous bio-materials<\/li>\n<li>Computational structural biology of filamentous disease associated amyloid assemblies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/industrial-biotechnology\/\">Industrial Biotechnology<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1189\/smales-mark#supervision\"><strong>Professor Mark Smales<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generation of Coronavirus protein antigens for development of diagnostics and novel vaccine approaches<\/li>\n<li>Engineering of Mammalian Cells for Enhanced Biotherapeutic Protein and Gene Therapy Production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1157\/buscaino-alessia#supervision\">Dr Alessia Buscaino<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biofuels: could the yeast <em>Scheffersomyces stipitis<\/em> help?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1064\/moore-simon#supervision\">Dr Simon Moore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Towards quinine analogs for novel Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) therapeutics<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Synthetic biology refactoring of an anti-tumour drug from a deep-sea marine bacteria<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Cell-free biosynthesis of xenobiotics<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1948\/lawrence-andrew#supervision\">Dr Andrew Lawrence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigating the biosynthesis of the unusual base, DMB<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin analogues as probes and imaging agents<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin B12 forms a pact to cure cancer<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/infectious-diseases\/\">Infectious Diseases<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1025\/shepherd-mark#supervision\">Dr Mark Shepherd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The CydDC transporter of <em>E. coli<\/em>: biochemical characterisation of an antimicrobial target<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/653\/tsaousis-anastasios#supervision\">Dr Anastasios Tsaousis<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigating the effect of both symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 infections in the diversity of the human gut microbiome<\/li>\n<li>Using <em>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em> as a model to explore the pathogenic role(s) of microbial gut parasites<\/li>\n<li>Exploring Cryptosporidium transportome and how it affects the intracellular interactions with its host<\/li>\n<li>Exploring the eukaryotic gut microbiome among animals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/3190\/hall-becky#supervision\">Dr Becky Hall<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elucidating the role of the host environment in controlling the fungal-host pathogen interaction<\/li>\n<li>Investigating the role of polymicrobial interactions in antimicrobial resistance<\/li>\n<li>Exploring the potential use of bacteria to kill fungal pathogen<strong>s<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/evolution-reproduction-and-genome-organisation\/\">Evolution, Reproduction and Genome Organisation (ERGO)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1157\/buscaino-alessia#supervision\">Dr Alessia Buscaino<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using CRISPR-Cas9 to shuffle the <em>Candida albicans<\/em> genome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1035\/farre-belmonte-marta#supervision\">Dr Marta Farr\u00e9 Belmonte<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigating the adaptation of South Asian cattle breeds to extreme climates \u2013 can we identify genomic regions responsible for these traits?<\/li>\n<li>The role of APOBEC3 genes: from cancer to mammalian genome evolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1036\/ellis-peter#supervision\"><strong>Dr Peter Ellis<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does wrongful expression of germline genes drive HPV cancer pathology<\/li>\n<li>Are Y-linked genes the explanation for the differential prevalence of certain cancers between men and 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