Posts in PhD Project

Systematic Identification of Conserved Protein Functions in Human Fungal Pathogens

SupervisorsEdward Wallace, Edward.Wallace@ed.ac.ukChristopher Wood, Chris.Wood@ed.ac.uk   Project DescriptionFungal pathogens of humans are a major global[…]

Development of Cybergenetic Twins for Enhanced Biomanufacturing Processes

Supervisors Lucia Bandiera, lucia.bandiera@ed.ac.uk Filippo Menolascina, filippo.menolascina@ed.ac.uk Project Description Biomanufacturing plays a critical role across[…]

Vector Databases for Genomic Foundation Models

Supervisors Johnny Millar, jonathan.millar@ed.ac.uk Ian Simpson, ian.simpson@ed.ac.uk Project Description Large scale genome sequence datasets are[…]

Identifying Mechanistic Patient Sub-Groups Via Their Genomes

Supervisors Konrad Rawlik, Konrad.Rawlik@roslin.ed.ac.uk Ava Khamseh, ava.khamseh@ed.ac.uk Project Description The key challenge of precision medicine[…]

Mining the Multi-Omic Literature

Supervisors Kenny Bailllie, Kenneth Baillie j.k.baillie@ed.ac.uk Mirella Lapata, Maria.Lapata@ed.ac.uk Ian Simpson, ian.simpson@ed.ac.uk Project Description For[…]

Using MAIC for Genomic Embedding

Supervisors Konrad Rawlik, Konrad.Rawlik@roslin.ed.ac.uk Ian Simpson, ian.simpson@ed.ac.uk Project Description This project will establish the foundations[…]

Self-Supervised Learning for Cardiac MRI: Fast Image Reconstruction and Prescription

Supervisors Mehrdad Yaghoobi, m.yaghoobi-vaighan@ed.ac.uk Lucy Kershaw , Lucy.Kershaw@ed.ac.uk Project Description Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Cardiac[…]

AI for Discovering Affordable Therapies Against Neglected Tropical Diseases

Supervisors Diego Oyarzún, d.oyarzun@ed.ac.uk Shay Cohen, scohen@inf.ed.ac.uk Project Description Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a[…]

Stratifying Cancer Treatment Responses in Mesothelioma With AI-Driven Bioimaging

Supervisors Carsten Gram Hansen, carsten.g.hansen@ed.ac.uk Yunjie Yang, y.yang@ed.ac.uk Project Description Cancers, as a result of[…]

Probabilistic Modelling for the Timing and Consequences of Cancer-Associated Copy Number Alterations

Supervisors Michael Nicholson, michael.nicholson@ed.ac.uk Tibor Antal, tibor.antal@ed.ac.uk Project Description Determining when cancer associated DNA mutations[…]