Bangor University, PhD, Biological Sciences

Areas of research: Animal physiology and behaviour (crustacean neuroendocrinology, growth, reproduction; environmental physiology of aquatic organisms; fish behaviour; integrative behavioural physiology/energetics; marine mammals/conservation genetics); cellular and molecular (cancer research; cell biology; DNA damage checkpoints; DNA repair; endothelial development; entomology; eukaryote chromosome dynamics/repair; eukaryotic cell control cycle; forensic acarology; human neural differentiation and cancer; intracellular host-symbiont interactions; mechanisms of mammalian signal transduction; metabolic regulation; metal-microbe interactions; microbiology of extreme environments; molecular medical/veterinary entomology; molecular parasitology; neurodegenerative genetics; neuroscience; reproductive parasites and pathogens of invertebrates; vector biology); ecology and evolution (ancient DNA and long-term environmental change; behavioural ecology; biofilms; biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems; conservation genetics; ecology of clonal animals; ecophysiology of aquatic organisms; effects of climate change; environmental biotechnology; evolution of venomous snakes and venom; evolutionary and population genetics; evolutionary ecology and phylogeography; fisheries genetics; geographic variation in lizards, snakes and amphibians; molecular and evolutionary ecology; molecular ecology and adaptation; plant ecology; wetland biogeochemistry; wetland ecology); plant systems and technology (carbon partitioning physiology and genetics of abiotic stress resistance; physiology of plant growth, cell wall proteins and genes; plant genomics and metabolomics; plant molecular biology; plant physiology and carbon partitioning; plant water relations; plant-rhizosphere interactions; single-cell transcriptomics and metabolomics; the biophysics of growth).

Upper 2nd Class Honours degree required.

The research work of the school covers the full spectrum of the biosciences, from environmental and ecological to cellular and molecular, including medically-related molecular research; areas of research are: animal physiology and behaviour, cellular and molecular, ecology and evolution and plant systems and technology.