International Undergraduate Summer School

29 June 2025 to 22 August 2025

Sorry the application deadline (midnight (GMT) 16 Jan 2025 GMT) has now passed

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The deadline for submission is midnight 16 Jan 2025 (GMT). For eligibility see Conditions of Award.

Include all relevant information on the form itself – additional papers will not be accepted.  

Once you have completed the form, pressing the 'SEND' button will automatically enter your application into our registration system. We will then use the 'Tutor email' data to contact your tutor for a reference.

Eligibility

Applicants should be registered on a degree course. Students in their first or final year of study are not eligible.

About you | Your current degree course | Qualifications | Science projects | Personal statement | Equal opportunities monitoring | Availability and terms & conditions

About you

Contact Address

Your current degree course

Qualifications

Please detail any relevant qualifications. These will include school qualifications and any key qualifications and exam results to the present time.

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Science projects

Select 3 projects. The selected projects will not be ranked and you may be allocated any of the projects selected

Project Details A B C
Molecular mechanisms of starch synthesis in plants and applications for improving crop quality - David Seung
Investigating plant immune receptors - Jonathan Jones
Assessing the antimicrobial potential of bacterial natural products - Andrew Truman
Boosting nutrition in wheat - Philippa Borrill
Cell-to-cell communication during pathogen attack - Christine Faulkner
Characterisation of a new antibiotic active against Gram-negative bacteria - Dmitry Ghilarov
Engineering plant immunity for improved food security - Mark Banfield
Engineering root architecture using synthetic gene circuits - Sarah Guiziou
Exploring genome variation and structure in crop populations using bioinformatic methods - Jose de Vega
Exploring the evolution of plant-pathogen interactions - Phil Carella
Functional and evolutionary dynamics of plant NLR immune receptors - Sophien Kamoun
Genetic lockdown of root disease: improving the benefits of nitrogen-fixing crops - Sanu Arora
How do bacteria predict when winter is coming - Luisa Jabbur
How do living organisms tell the time? - Antony Dodd
How do we protect wheat from a cereal killer? - Diane Saunders
Hunting for new phages to trigger chemical defence in soil bacteria - Susan Schlimpert
Investigating how Pseudomonas bacteria colonise plant root systems - Jacob Malone
Investigating meiosis in plants - Chris Morgan
Investigating role of plant hormones and nitrogen in reproductive development of Brassica crops - Steve Penfield
Mechanisms of photosynthetic protein production in plants - Michael Webster
Molecular biology of plant-insect interactions - Saskia Hogenhout
Molecular dynamics simulations for studying phase separation - Richard Morris
Regulation of iron uptake in plants and for human nutrition - Janneke Balk
RNA Structure Biology in Plants - Yiliang Ding
Root legume nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhiza signalling - Myrian Charpentier
Shaping Diversity - Enrico Coen
Understanding how fungi cause disease in plants - Nick Talbot
Understanding how pathogens cause disease in plants - Wenbo Ma
Understanding plasmid segregation to prevent plasmid-borne antimicrobial resistance - Tung Le
Wheat Genetics - Simon Griffiths

Personal statement

What is your motivation for applying to the International Undergraduate Summer School?

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How would this align with your scientific interests?

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How would this align with your career goals?

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What is your motivation for the projects you have selected?

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Outline your top three attributes/characteristics which you feel will be important for success in the summer school. You should refer to any specific examples from your experiences, such as paid work, work experience or extracurricular activities that have helped you to develop these skills.

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Please let us know any additional information (optional)

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Equal opportunities monitoring

The Institute collects information from all applicants on key characteristics which are related to equal opportunities. The information collected will form a confidential statistical record which will not be used for any purpose other than monitoring the Institute's performance in respect of equal opportunities.

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Availability and terms & conditions

Are you available for the whole period between 29 June 2025 and 22 August 2025?

# We will email your tutor for a reference using the email you have provided and also email you on the progress of your application. CHECK that both the email addresses you have given are correct, if they are not you will have to resubmit your application. There is no opportunity for correcting emails once the application has been submitted.

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