The areas for PhD supervision include: Animal Health and Welfare; Biogeochemical Cycles; Brain Function and Neuro-Degeneration; Cell Biology; Developmental Systems and Ageing; Environmental Microbiology; Environmental Resource Management and Ecosystems; Epidemiology and Modelling; Food Security; Gene Expression; Genomics and Bioinformatics; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Molecular Systems Biology; Infectious Disease; Molecular Structure and Mechanism; Network Reengineering; Neuroscience; Pathogenesis Mechanisms; Plant Science; Signalling Pathways; Synthetic Biology; Biotechnology; Plant Pathology and Entomology.