{"id":57,"date":"2025-12-15T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/?p=57"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:45:33","slug":"congratulations-to-our-school-of-natural-sciences-sns-postgraduate-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/2025\/12\/15\/congratulations-to-our-school-of-natural-sciences-sns-postgraduate-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our School of Natural Sciences (SNS) Postgraduate Researchers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge congratulations to our completed Postgraduate Research (PGR) students from the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). The students have recently completed their thesis and PhD journey at Kent. Our PGR students have studied really hard and been hugely successful in reaching this incredible achievement. We wish you all the best with your next steps for the future!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the following PGR students from the School of Natural Sciences:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Davis \u2013 PhD: Microbiology<\/strong><br \/>\nThesis: Glycerolipid Homeostasis In Candida Albicans, Its Role In Virulence, And The Potential For Lipotoxicity As An Anti-Biofilm Therapeutic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beatrice Pisent \u2013 PhD: Biochemistry<\/strong><br \/>\nThesis: Evaluation Of Complex Antibody Formats Expression In E.coli<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matvey Pilagov \u2013 PhD Biochemistry<\/strong><br \/>\nThesis: Using Novel Techniques In Fluorescent Microscopy To Investigate The Energy Consumption Of HCM-Related Proteins In Striated Muscles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Bragg \u2013 PhD Biochemistry<\/strong><br \/>\nThesis: Understanding CLIC1s Membrane Insertion Mechanism<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Louch \u2013 PhD Biodiversity Management<\/strong><br \/>\nThesis: Understanding The Effects Of Conservation Management, Inbreeding And Diet On Reproductive Fitness In A Threatened Bird Species<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antonios Karamalegkos \u2013 PhD Genetics<\/strong><br \/>\nThesis: Investigating The Effects Of Natural And Synthetic Compounds On The Health And Ageing Of The Model Organism C. Elegans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harriet Gendall \u2013 PhD: Biodiversity Management<\/strong><br \/>\nThesis: Restorying Pillas: Biocultural Complexity In The History And Revival Of The Small Naked Oat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A special thanks also to the fantastic SNS supervisors Campbell Gourlay, Colin Robinson, Neil Kad, Jose Ortega Roldan, Jim Groombridge, Marina Ezcurra and Matthew Hodges for their guidance and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge congratulations to our completed Postgraduate Research (PGR) students from the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). The students have recently completed their thesis and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/2025\/12\/15\/congratulations-to-our-school-of-natural-sciences-sns-postgraduate-researchers\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74978,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[978,124,202868],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sns-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}