Kreft Lab: University of Birmingham

Postdoctoral Positions

Sorry, we have no open positions currently but watch this space.

PhD Students

We are currently offering 1 CENTA PhD project and 2 MIBTP PhD projects with specific deadlines

NERC funded CENTA2 PhD studentship on Resistant rivers: can antimicrobial resistance spread through our river networks? This project is for people with a more quantitative background in engineering, physics, mathematical or computational biology or similar. You will be modelling water flow and antimicrobial restistance dynamics and talk to stakeholders from the Water Industry and government agencies.
Application deadline 10 January 2020.
BBSRC funded MIBTP project in collaboration with Dr Daniele Vigolo in Chemical Engineering on Combining microfluidics and mathematical modelling to study interactions between individual bacteria. You will be using microfluidics and microscopy to do some cool microbiology on predatory bacteria or plasmid transfer and use the experimental results to inform mathematical models.
Application deadline 12 January 2020.
BBSRC funded MIBTP project supervised by Dr Joshua Larsen in GEES (Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences) and co-supervised by Dr Jen Drummond (GEES) and myself on Does E. coli survive in rivers on its way from the farm to the fork? You will be taking a closer look at the transport and survival of antimicrobial resistant E. coli from sewage to rivers. A combination of microbiology and hydrology.
Application deadline 12 January 2020.

We are also open year round to applicants with their own funding, please read the general project description for PhD projects in the kreftlab on Find a PhD.

Undergraduate and Masters Student Summer Projects

We offer undergraduate and postgraduate lab projects and computational projects. Please ask if you are interested.