Megan McDonald – Projects — University of Birmingham

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United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Fungal pathogens
Genome plasticity
Population genomics
Plant Pathology
Genome sequencing

Research activity per year

2 Finished
5 Active

7 results

Active

FASTAR: Rapid fungal adaptation driven by Starship transposons
McDonald, M.
Medical Research Council
1/09/24 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
Starship transposons: Carriers of adaptive cargo across species boundaries in pathogenic fungi?
Tsai, H. & McDonald, M.
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
1/01/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research Councils
SeptPROTECT: Rapid effector discovery to protect wheat from Septoria tritici blotch disease
McDonald, M. & Kettles, G.
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Research Councils
Bayer - Optimising a high-throughput CRISPR gene-editing protocol for Septoria tritici blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) to explore gene essentiality and pathogenicity
McDonald, M.
BAYER
1/08/23 → 31/07/27
Project: EU
Syngenta - MIBTP Case Studentship - Graeme Kettles
McDonald, M. & Kettles, G.
SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
1/10/22 → 30/09/26
Project: EU
Finished

A pipeline for high-throughput microbial isolation, sorting, screening and synthetic community assembly
McDonald, M., van Schaik, W., McDonald, J., Quick, J., Overton, T., Cox, M., Jackson, R., Crouch, L., Tsai, H. & Blair, J.
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
1/08/23 → 31/07/24
Project: Research Councils
Identifying novel fungicide targets in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici via CRISPR gene-editing
McDonald, M.
The Royal Society
31/01/22 → 31/05/23
Project: Research Councils