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Ph.D. Studentship Opportunities: Ph.D. students in the group work on research projects that enable them to make new contributions to techniques in bioinformatics
and the understanding of biological systems. Students typically develop software to analyse biological data and mine databases. They may also then apply this new software in collaboration with
"wet-lab" groups. Recent students have carried out projects in the following areas:
1. Development of more accurate secondary structure prediction methods (see JPred and references therein.)
2. Developed a new method for classifying protein kinases and applied this to a range of genomes see papers here.
3. Developed novel techniques for the analysis and prediction of protein-protein interactions from 3D structural data see papers here.
4. Developed methods to identify possible functional sites from analysis of multiple protein sequence alignments - see paper here.
Ph.D. projects are developed in discussion with the student and designed to be individual to the student, and provide a range of training in bioinformatics research
techniques. Possible future project areas include: (1) The prediction of protein kinase specificity from sequence and structural data and (2) Development of methods to identify microRNA promoter
sites.
Ph.D. Applicant Requirements: Ph.D. applicants should have a strong
interest in computing. Some prior experience of programming in a Unix/Linux environment is helpful as it gives an indication of aptitude for the work but this experience is not essential. Previous students have come from first degrees in: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Theoretical Physics and Genetics, but we also welcome applications from students of other disciplines such as Computer Science and Mathematics.
Please see the School of Life Sciences Ph.D. web pages for details of how to apply and the funding
opportunities.
Please note that opportunities for funding non-UK/EU citizens resident in the UK are very limited.
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