Liverpool, University of, PhD, Biological Sciences (Microbiology)
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years: 3 |
Supervision and research interests include: molecular approaches to microbial ecology, extra-chromosomal elements and antibiotic resistance, gene transfer, gene cloning and molecular basis of bacterial pathogenicity, environmental consequences of release of genetically engineered micro-organisms, biochemical and molecular characterisation of actinomycete enzymes, microbial differentiation, parasitic protozoa, cell cycle events in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, physiology and molecular biology of thermophilic streptomycetes, phenetic identification of actinomycetes, actinomycetes and phages in soil, screening of such microbes for useful metabolites, fungal nutrition, marine fungi, rhythmic growth in fungi, long-distance translocation in fungal mycelia, fungal protoplasts, metal-binding peptides and proteins in fungi, late-blight disease in celery, witches' broom disease of cocoa, variation and genetic structure in Phytophthora populations, molecular biology of plant cell cultures, wastewater microbiology, waste stabilisation ponds.
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