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Microbiology Doctoral Students' Small Grants announced

20 December 2018

As part of a range of activities to support the new UCL Microbiology Domain, Grand Challenges have just awarded five Doctoral Students’ Small Grants.

UCL doctoral students with an interest in Microbiology were invited to submit applications identifying interdisciplinary topics as bases for further research and consider critical issues. We received a total of 8 applications, all of excellent quality and addressing Grand Challenges priority themes such as antimicrobial resistance, plastic pollution, and food innovation.

Five awards were made under the scheme - the full list is detailed below.

Reports on the research and outcomes of their work will be included on the Grand Challenges website and blog in due course. We look forward to sharing the findings and impacts from each of the projects.

Activity1st applicant2nd applicantAmount awarded
A Hybrid Approach to Generating a High-quality Complete Genome Sequence of Clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 6BMr Modupeh BettsMr Seth Jarvis£1850
Enzymatic degradation of plastic: Identification of polyethylene-degrading enzymes in Bacillus sp. YP1 and evolution of PET hydrolase for more efficient degradation of PET plasticMs Tania RodinMs Luba Prout£2000
Unravelling the microbiomes in the cheese making process: from raw milk to mature cheeseMrs Catherine WalkerDr Ronan Doyle£2000
Characterising the respiratory resistome in chronic lung disease using novel metagenomics approachesMs Sylvia RofaelDr Lucy van Dorp£2000
An untapped resource: evaluating the use of hospital resected lung collections for characterising the within-host genetic diversity of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosisDr Camus NimmoDr Lucy van Dorp£2000