Student Profiles

I’m Diyanath, I’m a final year student at the University of Newcastle.   My project combines cancer biology and genomics with bioinformatics and data science to investigate the genetic associations of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. I use large clinical and genomic datasets to examine how genomic variants (changes in DNA) are linked to disease risk and progression in patients with these blood cancers. Developing tools to predict how early-stage chroni

I’m Esme and I’m a third year student at the University of York.  All cells in the human body are coated in a layer of sugar molecules. These sugars are important indicators of ‘self’ to the immune system so it can identify ‘normal’ cells. However, cancer cells are often covered in these sugar ‘self’ signals, allowing them to hide from the immune system. My work is interested in exploiting this. To do this, I use genetic manipulation to trick cancer cells into coating themsel

Greetings! My name is Krishna, and I am a third year student at the University of Sheffield. My PhD project involves the mechanistics of how viruses known as bacteriophages interact with the cell surface of Enterococcal bacteria. These bacteriophages specifically target bacteria living in the digestive systems of humans and animals.  We particularly focus on how these viruses use a complex sugar structure on the bacterial surface called Enterococcal Polysaccharide Antigen (EP