My Dissertation Experience – Maya Bennison

My Dissertation Experience Supervisor and project title: Dr Clive Price / Professor Paul Bates: An investigation in to the roles of Transcription Factor 7 like 2 and Phospholipase C Delta 1 in colorectal cancer Why I chose this topic I have been interested in cancer and genetics since before I even started university, so I Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Maya Bennison[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Hannah Rudd

Supervisor and project title: Professor Ian Dodd – Do root hairs affect the physiological response of barley (Hordeum vulgare ) in drying soil? Why I chose this topic… To be quite honest, I didn’t. Unfortunately, for my research project, we were required to rank four topics in order of what we’d most like to do. Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Hannah Rudd[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Maria Kontopyrgou

My Dissertation Experience Supervisor and project title: Dr. Dayi Zhang: Phosphorus forms determining growth and phosphatase activity of Microcystis aeruginosa. My project as its name suggests examined the effect of 59 different phosphorus types on the growth of Microcystis aeruginosa and the expression of a critical protein alkaline phosphatase. What I investigated… Microcystis aeruginosa is Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Maria Kontopyrgou[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Jed Winstanley

My Dissertation Experience Supervisor(s) and project title(s): Karen Wright – The endocannabinoid system as a therapeutic target in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Cell Biology) Prof Christian Holscher – The pathophysiology of depression and current therapeutic approaches (Neurobiology) Why I chose these topics… I’ll start with a brief overview of both my projects because my dissertation set-up Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Jed Winstanley[…]