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Anaesthesia / sleep theme

Anaesthesia, sleep and systems neuroscience

This theme investigates the benefits of sleep, how sedatives and anaesthetics work, and how ageing or dementia affect sleep and neuronal connectivity.

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Bacterial pathogenesis theme

Bacterial pathogenesis

Addressing the emerging challenges posed by the spread of antimicrobial resistance with the aim of developing a deeper, holistic understanding of bacterial-bacterial and pathogen-host-microbiome interactions

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Cell developmental biology theme

Cell and developmental biology

Biologists and modellers study how plants, worms, flies, fish and mammals develop, how adult tissues maintain themselves, and how pathogens and hosts interact

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Ecosystems and the environment theme

Ecosystems and the environment

This theme works on understanding, managing and engineering how people can best interact with nature

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Evolutionary biology theme 2

Evolutionary biology

This theme focuses on understanding the evolution of life on Earth for science solutions and sustainable development

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Glycobiology theme

Glycobiology

Encompassing the study of structures and functions of sugars attached to proteins and cell surfaces along with receptors that recognise them

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Infection and immunity theme 2

Infection and immunity

This research theme researches a wide variety of pathogens, studies both development and function of immune systems as well as how pathogens interact with immune responses

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Integrated Systems Biology theme

Integrative systems biology

This theme brings together scientists who are developing and applying mathematical, statistical and computational approaches to understand biology

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Membrane biology theme

Membrane biology

We focus on membrane proteins and membrane protein complexes, encompassing a wide range of techniques from molecular biology, biochemistry, and structural biology

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Molecular mechanisms of disease

Molecular mechanisms of disease

This theme focuses on the molecular mechanisms of human diseases, employing a range of structural, biochemical and cell biology techniques

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Molecular plant theme

Molecular Plant and Microbial Systems

We focus on fundamental and applied microbial and plant molecular biosciences, combining a broad range of computational, synthetic biology, biochemical and biophysical methods

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Synthetic biology theme

Synthetic biology

This theme works on engineering biology for cutting-edge research in healthcare and industry, including DNA assembly, building artificial proteins, gene circuits, genome engineering and gene drives

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Postgraduate research

Interested in studying a PhD at the Department of Life Sciences? Find out more about postgraduate research opportunties.

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