The research work of the school covers the full spectrum of the biosciences, from environmental and ecological to cellular and molecular, including medically-related molecular research. The areas of research are:
Animal Physiology and Behaviour:
* Crustacean neuroendocrinology, growth, reproduction
* Environmental physiology of aquatic organisms
* Fish behaviour
* Integrative behavioural physiology/energetics
* Marine mammals/conservation genetics
Cellular and Molecular:
* Cancer research
* Cell Biology
* DNA damage checkpoints
* DNA repair
* Endothelial development
* Entomology
* Eukaryote chromosome dynamics/repair
* Eukaryotic cell control cycle
* Forensic acarology
* Human neural differentiation and cancer
* Intracellular host-symbiont interactions
* Mechanisms of mammalian signal transduction
* Metabolic regulation
* Metal-microbe interactions
* Microbiology of extreme environments
* Molecular medical/veterinary entomology
* Molecular parasitology
* Neurodegenerative genetics
* Neuroscience
* Reproductive parasites and pathogens of invertebrates
* Vector biology
Ecology and Evolution:
* Ancient DNA and long-term environmental change
* Behavioural ecology
* Biofilms
* Biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems
* Conservation Genetics
* Ecology of clonal animals
* Ecophysiology of aquatic organisms
* Effects of climate change
* Environmental biotechnology
* Evolution of venomous snakes and venom
* Evolutionary and population genetics
* Evolutionary ecology and phylogeography
* Fisheries Genetics
* Geographic variation in lizards, snakes and amphibians
* Molecular and evolutionary ecology
* Molecular ecology and adaptation
* Plant ecology
* Wetland biogeochemistry
* Wetland ecology
Plant Systems and Technology:
* Carbon partitioning
* Physiology and genetics of abiotic stress resistance
* Physiology of plant growth, cell wall proteins and genes
* Plant genomics and metabolomics
* Plant molecular biology
* Plant physiology and carbon partitioning
* Plant water relations
* Plant-rhizosphere interactions
* Single-cell transcriptomics and metabolomics
* The biophysics of growth
