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Esteemed academics from top UK universities to take part in Black in Academia panel event at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/esteemed-academics-from-top-uk-universities-to-take-part-in-2018black-in-academia2019-panel-event-at-leicester
An upcoming event at the University of Leicester will see some of Britain’s leading academic minds take part in a discussion on equality in Higher Education on Thursday 26 October.
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New scientific technique helps catch wildlife criminals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/peregrine-falcon
DNA tests co-developed by scientists from the University of Leicester and Scotland’s wildlife forensic lab are helping to catch criminals involved in the illegal sale of protected bird species.
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Protecting endangered animals from illegal wildlife trade using mobile DNA sequencing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/09-illegal-wildlife-trade-conference
University of Leicester researchers presenting innovative DNA analysis methods for testing samples to find species-of-origin at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference between 11-12 October
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Pioneering vascular research receives major boost from the British Heart Foundation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/professor-bown
The British Heart Foundation has awarded nearly £900,000 to a University of Leicester professor to continue his pioneering heart valve research.
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Leicester Physics students ‘prove’ Santa’s Christmas magic is REAL
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/christmas-magic
A group of Physics students at the University of Leicester have ‘proved’ that there is such a thing as Santa’s Christmas magic.
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History
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision/history
Find your research degree supervisor in History at Leicester.
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Wellcome boost for structural biologists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/wellcome-trust-awards
Leicester researchers studying our molecular machinery have been awarded £3.89 million in research funding by the Wellcome Trust.
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Epigenetics and global health case study
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/epigenetics/case-studies/epigenetics-global-health
Epigenetics can help us understand global health trends, as epigenome is dynamic and frequently responds to environmental cues. For more information, take a look at our website.
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University of Leicester astronomers help James Webb Space Telescope glean new insights from distant world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/jwst
• A NASA-coordinated study has today revealed the early origins of a planet 700 light years away • Astronomers from the University of Leicester contributed to research that used the famous James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to investigate the atmosphere of distant planet...
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Available PhD projects
https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/research-degrees/phd-projects
Browse PhD projects and the supervisors who run them in the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester.