PhD Candidate Angelika was born and raised in a small town called Choszczno, in Poland. Little did she know, she will never return to her homeland after visiting Scotland during summer holidays back in 2012. Despite not knowing English, passion for science was her biggest motivation to learn the language,…
PhD Candidate Originally from England, Emma obtained a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Surrey. Her undergraduate degree included a 12-month industrial placement at GlaxoSmithKline’s Medical Research Centre (Hertfordshire, England), working within the Protein and Cellular Sciences department to design and generate candidate protein targets. Afterwards, in September…
PhD Candidate I am a UKRI-BBSRC-funded PhD student in Professor Gail Preston’s lab. Bacterial diseases are an increasing threat to both commercial and subsistence crop production. Plant immunity is strongly dependent on environmental factors. Despite this, little is known about the impact of environmental conditions on disease development and severity….
Chancellor’s Fellow (PI) Born in Salford, raised in Wigan, educated in Bolton, Leighton started out as a Chemist, earning a degree (BSc (Hons)) in Forensic and Analytical Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde, before realising that wasn’t his calling and turning into a computational biologist for his final year project…