Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Centre projects

Project Title

Principal Supervisor/ School

Co-supervisor(s)/ School(s)

Profiling the changes in plant root cap gene expression in response to stresses in soil

Dr Sacha Mooney

School of Biosciences


Prof. Malcolm Bennett Biosciences

Prof Hai-Sui Yu Civil Engineering

Modelling the methionine/folate cycles within the ovarian follicle

Dr Kevin Sinclair

School of Biosciences

Professor Helen Byrne School of Mathematical Sciences

From Model to Crop: modelling IAA regulated root development in cereals


Prof. John King

School of Mathmatical Sciences

Prof. Malcolm Bennett School of Biosciences,

Dr Matt Loose School of Biology

Prof. Robbie Waugh Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee

The student will work closely with Dr Alistair Middleton CPIB.


Identifying and quantifying the conserved ancestral gene regulatory network for mesendoderm

Dr Matt Loose

School of Biology

Prof. John King School of Mathematical Sciences

Integrative modelling of angiogenesis and progesterone production in the developing corpus luteum

Dr Markus Owen

Mathematical Sciences

George Mann, Morag Hunter School of Biosciences

Jim Maas School of Biosciences, MyCIB

Bob Robinson Veterinary Medicine & Science

Professor Helen Byrne

Mathematical Sciences