BiPS Summer Studentship Host Labs 2026

Project title: Hybridisation in Papua New Guinea
Project Supervisor: Catherine Kidner
Host Lab: Biodiversity Genomics and Analytics, RBGE
Institution: Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh

Project title: Developing an Automated Platform for High-Throughput Synthetic Biology in Potato
Project Supervisor: Carolina Grandellis
Host Lab: Earlham Institute
Institution: Earlham Institute

Project title: Exploring the molecular basis of the root growth angle in barley
Project Supervisor: Gwendolyn Kirschner
Host Lab: The James Hutton Institute
Institution: The James Hutton Institute

Project title: Structure shapes aroma: microstructural control of volatile release in lemongrass and peppermint
Project Supervisor: Dr Oluwadamilola Okeyoyin
Host Lab: University of the West of England
Institution: University of the West of England

Project title: Investigating the genetics of plant nitrogen nutrition
Project Supervisor: Lucas Frungillo
Host Lab: Plant nutrition lab
Institution: University of Edinburgh

Project title: Leafing through the genome: how leaf genes shape awn development in the grasses
Project Supervisor: Madelaine Bartlett
Host Lab: Bartlett Lab
Institution: Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge University

Project title: Characterisation of a novel FRET-based sensor
Project Supervisor: Paola Asprilla – Alexander Jones
Host Lab: Sainsbury’s Laboratory
Institution: University of Cambridge

Project title: Fruit Industry Pathology Project
Project Supervisor: Kelsey Orr
Host Lab: Driscoll’s Genetics Ltd
Institution: Driscoll’s Genetics Ltd

Project title: How to Break a Wall: Manipulating Plant Cell Wall Stiffness to Counteract the Effects of Warming on Plant Growth
Project Supervisor: Sarah Robinson
Host Lab: Robinson lab
Institution: Sainsbury Lab, University of Cambridge

Project title: Building and testing engineered DNA recorders for plant cell lineage tracing in Arabidopsis thaliana
Project Supervisor: Sarah Guiziou
Host Lab: Guiziou Group
Institution: Earlham Institute

Project title: Investigating natural variation in BIG, a major proteostatic hub
Project Supervisor: Frederica Theodoulou and Xiaowei Li
Host Lab: Proteostasis Lab
Institution: Engineering Biology for Agriculture, Rothamsted Research

Project title: Investigating the effect of barley ear morphology on airflow
Project Supervisor: Annis Richardson
Host Lab: The Plant Shape Lab
Institution: Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Project title: The Ecosystem Service Value of Blue Carbon Ecosystems
Project Supervisor: Thomas Worthington
Host Lab: Global Coastal Wetlands Lab
Institution: University of Cambridge