News: Honours projects - Chemistry
Deciphering & exploiting bacterial cholesterol metabolism to combat disease
Honours project: Address the fundamental science behind the use of the steroid cholesterol as a source of energy by bacteria.
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Synthetic biology applications of enzymes
Honours project: Use approaches to generate enzyme catalyst based systems to develop greener and sustainable processes for the production of useful and high value chemicals.
Deciphering the catalytic potential & the electron transfer pathways of microorganisms
Honours project: Study new enzymes and the associated ferredoxins from bacteria found in interesting environments (or genes from metagenomes) or which carry out novel reactions.
Investigating & Exploiting Triplex DNA Structures in Gene Regulation
Honours project: Explore new leads for disruption of DNA triplex structures for treatment of related human diseases.
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Synthesis using Nature’s catalysts; enzymes
Honours project: Projects in this area involve the isolation and study new enzymes from bacteria of interest or taking existing enzymes and adapting them for chemical synthesis.
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Understanding the mechanism of enzyme catalysed reactions of importance in drug metabolism
Honours project: Learn about the mechanism by which the major family of enzymes involved in drug metabolism catalyse oxidative transformations.
Improving food safety using plasma sterilisation
Honours project: Investigate the use of a high energy form of matter (plasma) to improve food safety.
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Using metal-organic frameworks to understand catalysis
Honours project: Insights into industrial catalysis and x-ray crystallography in metal-organic frameworks.
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Reduced dimensionality representations of soft matter
Honours project: Use methods from statistical mechanics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to develop algorithms to automate the dimensionality reduction process.
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