PhD Research

Phd Research Students

Debate continues regarding the impact on infected farms of Ovine Johne’s disease (OJD), a chronic enteric disease of sheep caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Accurate estimation of annual mortality rates and the proportion attributable to OJD could provide an insight into the financial significance of this disease. The study quantified OJD mortalities in 12 flocks across fo...

Phd Research Students

Johne’s disease is characterised by a lengthy incubation period, measured in years. It is well known that cows with severe infections commonly shed the causative organism, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, into their milk, and may also infect their unborn calf in utero. The organism can be isolated from extra-intestinal sites in such cases. There is a smaller body of evidence for this in sheep, b...

Research Plan for PhD Study

In the area of secure multiparty computation, most researchers either propose general solutions in theory or design protocols for specific problems in practice. However, as the general, theoretical solutions are usually of intolerable complexities, specifically tailored protocols often lack of systematic privacy validation procedures. Therefore, a method bridging the gap between the prohibitive...

Panel: Post-PhD Research - the Trails and Tribulations of Beginning Post-Doctoral Research Following a PhD

Potential PhD Research Projects 2012 – 2013

The world faces critical food security issues due to the combined pressures of population growth, depletion of finite resources and uncertainty in future climate. Of particular concern is the depletion of stocks in wild fisheries, and land-based aquaculture is one response to this problem. This research will look at opportunities to engineer highly efficient, integrated food production systems ...