Niels MadsenCutting the cost of war: the resolution of inter-group conflict in Kalahari meerkats (CRAM_UBIO25ARIES)
Cutting the cost of war: the resolution of inter-group conflict in Kalahari meerkats (CRAM_UBIO25ARIES)
About the Project Background Avoiding wars and minimizing the harm they do is a key goal for humanity in the coming century. In the wild, rival social groups of animals … Read More Read More
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Antonio SanchezFunded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage: Digital twin simulations of visual perception to explore animal camouflage
Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage: Digital twin simulations of visual perception to explore animal camouflage
About the Project Background: The core challenge of understanding animal colouration is complex: animals exist in intricate ecosystems that interact differently with various observers, including predators, prey, potential mates and … Read More Read More
Categories:Developing hybrid AI on wearables and video for fine-grained cattle behavioural monitoring
Developing hybrid AI on wearables and video for fine-grained cattle behavioural monitoring
About the Project Background: Do you want to help revolutionise how we understand animal behaviour and welfare? Social network data is now a powerful tool for studying both human and … Read More Read More
Categories:MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Identifying and imaging pathological mechanisms in Parkinson’s Disease, from cells to behaviour.
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Identifying and imaging pathological mechanisms in Parkinson’s Disease, from cells to behaviour.
About the Project Parkinsons’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and current therapies are limited. PD manifests as a movement disorder characterised by loss of dopaminergic neurons … Read More Read More
Categories:MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding cellular mechanisms underlying the autism spectrum-linked Neurofibromatosis type 1
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding cellular mechanisms underlying the autism spectrum-linked Neurofibromatosis type 1
About the Project Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are increasingly common developmental disabilities, but they are not well understood. We therefore study the most common monogenetic disorder Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) … Read More Read More
Categories:MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Migration of Pseudomonas aeruginosa towards antibiotics: mechanisms and consequences
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Migration of Pseudomonas aeruginosa towards antibiotics: mechanisms and consequences
About the Project Background: P.aeruginosa is a globally significant “priority” bacterial pathogen (WHO) that causes life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infections. Whilst P.aeruginosa is widely studied in liquid-culture, most cells in natural and … Read More Read More
Categories:Funded PhD - Small yet powerful: how miRNAs fuel resilience to stress
Funded PhD - Small yet powerful: how miRNAs fuel resilience to stress
About the Project Summary of the project: Anxiety disorders are complex mental health illnesses driven by multiple genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Exposure to stressful situations is a major risk factor … Read More Read More
Categories:Funded PhD - Architectural immunity in ants
Funded PhD - Architectural immunity in ants
About the Project Human and animal societies function as complex systems, whose properties emerge from who individuals interact with, where, and when. Recent work has shown that social, spatial and … Read More Read More
Categories:Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Individual variation, Allee effects and the invasive potential of guppies
Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Individual variation, Allee effects and the invasive potential of guppies
About the Project How are some animals able to survive and breed when moving into a novel habitat? This is a key question in the study of invasive species, and … Read More Read More
Categories:Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - The evolution of habitat preference during cichlid fish adaptive radiation
Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - The evolution of habitat preference during cichlid fish adaptive radiation
About the Project Adaptive radiations — groups of closely related ecologically divergent species that have evolved from common ancestry — make up a high proportion of global species diversity. A … Read More Read More
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