Projects

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Vitamin utilisation by malaria parasites
Understanding the proteins responsible for our sense of touch
Understanding the pathogenesis of the urinary tract pathogen Proteus mirabilis
Understanding how gram-negative bacteria respond to oxidative stress
Transport mechanisms and drug resistance in malaria transporters
To what degree does autotransporter folding inside the bacterial cell resemble autotransporter folding in bulk solution?
The biology of the mitochondrion of apicomplexan parasites
Targeting ion transport in apicomplexan parasites with new generation antimalarials
Synthetic nanotubes to mimic biological ion channels
SynBio enabled biosensors
Student research projects in tumour immunology and liposome targeting
Structural basis of Resolvin mediated GPCR signalling
Structural basis of Endometriosis
Structural basis of drug resistance in the Malaria parasite
Sponge and coral microbiomes
Skeleton formation in soft corals and calcareous sponges
Shigella virulence and vaccine development
Serotype-converting bacteriophages and O-antigen modification in Shigella flexneri
Redesign and engineering of the autotransporter β-barrel domain
Plasmodium falciparum lipid metabolism as a target for malaria intervention strategies
Olfactory pattern recognition in nematodes
Nutrient acquisition in apicomplexan parasites
Novel nutrient/metabolite transporters in apicomplexan parasites
New molecular targets for drugs to treat human and animal nematode parasites
Molecular tools to reveal protein function and identify drug targets
Molecular mechanisms of innate immunity
Lipid Regulation of Ion Channels
Identification of target genes of developmental transcription factors Brachyury, Gata and Caudal in sponges
Identification of molecular mechanisms of action and direct target genes of developmental signalling pathways in sponges
Identification of 2000 novel protein isoforms in the human and mouse genomes
How do biological molecules distinguish between ions?
Functional characterisation of novel autotransporter proteins
Function of molecular chaperones in the export and display of parasite proteins
Erythrocyte membrane modifications during malaria infection
Engineering the secretory pathways of yeast
Diseases of amino acid transport
Development of a simple, inexpensive therapeutic cancer vaccine
Designing new channel inhibitors for treating chronic pain
Coral regeneration
Computational models of nerve conduction
Chromosome condensation and T cell development
Cellular adaptations that allow the transmission and survival of Plasmodium falciparum when taken up by the mosquito
Caenorhabditis elegans as a potential animal model to study host-pathogen interactions
Biologically inspired membranes for the efficient desalination of water
A yeast surface display nanobody factory
A chytrid fungus nanobody toolkit and genetic transformation approaches
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