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The Department of Biological Sciences at the 九色视频 offers a wide array of research fields and academic expertise across several biological disciplines. Here's a breakdown of the main fields of research and focus areas:
| Soil microbiology, molecular environmental microbiology, soil nutrient cycling including sulphur cycling, fungal and bacterial weathering, biodegradation, Listeria in fresh-cut produce | |
| Science education and insect ecology | |
| Pomology, Tree Fruit Physiology and Apple Pathology | |
| Greenhouse Gas Balances in Terrestrial Ecosystems, Soil Carbon Stocks, Carbon Stocks in Harvested Wood Products | |
| Rehabilitation of industrial residue sites and mine tailings. Restored industrial and mine waste sites, engineered soils, constructed wetlands |
| Neuroscience, Cellular Neurobiology, Neuro-Nanotechnology | |
| Food Packaging, Bioactive Compand, Probiotics, Nanocomposite, Antioxidant, Packaging Materials | |
| Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Complex 1, AMP-activated Protein Kinase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Transcription, Metabolic Pathway | |
| Food nutritional impact on host health and microbiome, with focus in novel carbohydrates and sweeteners | |
| Human nutrition, dietary intake and intervention in healthy and clinical cohorts and impact on health/clinical parameters, diet/microbiota interactions, vitamin K-dependent proteins | |
| Cancer Immunology, Immune phenotyping in health and disease, Myeloid cells and Innate immune responses to viral infection | |
| Neurobiology and neuroendocrine aspects of glial cells; Neuroendocrinology; Neuroinflammation; Neurodegeneration; Biological role of brain-targeted drugs | |
| Computational Biophysics - Protein and peptide aggregation and self-assembly - Neurodegenrative disorders - Modelling biomolecular complexes - Drug design - Molecular dynamics simulations - Density functional theory | |
| Structure-Function Analysis of Bacterial Proteases | |
| Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer, Breast Cancer, DNA Damage Response, Molecular Signalling, Targeted Therapeutics Development, Oncobiology | |
| Cancer Immunotherapy; Mechanisms of innate immunosuppression in the tumour microenvironment; DC vaccines; Endometriosis | |
| Major Depressive Disorder, Neuroscience, Metabolic Pathway Neuroscience, Kinase Neuroscience, Astrocyte Neuroscience, Electroconvulsive Therapy Neuroscience | |
| Food Science and functional food with focus in sustainable proteins, peptides and amino acids; Food technofunctional properties and Maillard Reaction; Glucose management. | |
| Food Protein Chemistry/Biochemistry; Functional Food Ingredients/Nutraceuticals; Bioactive Peptides; Food Digestibility; Food Processing and Bioprocessing |
| Equine Virology, Clinical Virology, Molecular Diagnostics, Vaccinology | Ann Cullinane |
| Mare and Foal Nutrition and Feeding; Feeding for Performance | |
| Immunology of Domestic Animals; Animal Behaviour; Equine Husbandry | |
| Assisted Reproduction in both Humans and Farm Animals; Male Fertility and Sperm Physiology | |
| Equine, parasitology, one health, AMR, Mircobiota, industry impact | |
| Rhodococcus Equine, Streptococcus Equine, Mycotoxins | Tom Buckley |