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Dr Alice Baynes
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences

Topics

  • Aquatic pollution
  • Investigations into the impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on aquatic organisms 
  • Comparative endocrinology
  • Developmental mechanisms in molluscs

PhD projects for research students

Research supervision

Doctoral research

NERC funded PhD position: Unravelling unexpected impacts of pharmaceuticals on mollusc development. Application deadline is 5pm on Wednesday 17th December 2025. Please note that this project is only available to Home students (not international). 

First supervisor

Eghosa Maurice Imiuwa (2021-2024) 'Impacts of anti-depressant drugs on Biomphalaria glabrata' Awarded

Konstantinos Panagiotidis (2020-2024 NERC London DTP): ‘Effects of environmental pollution on Molluscan endocrinology’ Awarded 

Dr. Georgina Fauconier (nee Collins) (2019-2022 NERC London DTP): ‘A ‘new’ microsporidian in the UK: Investigations into a formerly unknown microsporidian infecting juvenile European Smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) from the River Thames’. Awarded.

Dr. Nicola Beresford (Brunel staff member, Part-time 2013-2021): ‘oestrogens and anti-androgens in the aquatic environment and their effects on fish’. Awarded.

Second supervisor

Ieva Reuangkhuma (2025-2028 NERC London DTP) 'Interactive Effects of Antibiotics and Temperature on Freshwater Bacteria'

Wendy Areiza (2023-2027 NERC London DTP) ‘Determination of lipid dysregulation by per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances in aquatic macroinvertebrates’.

Dr. Christopher Green (2011-2014 Defra) ‘Assessing the roles of anti-androgenic and oestrogenic mixtures on endocrine disruption in fish’. Awarded.

PhD External Co-supervisor 

Lucy Wright (2024- NERC QUADRAT) ‘Neuroendocrine disruption in marine shellfish: uncovering cellular and developmental mechanisms of action using a sentinel bioindicator species’ – First supervisor Dr Victoria Sleight, University of Aberdeen.

Saltana Parvin (2023- DFG Germany) ‘Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms that generate a remarkable open coil “banana” shell phenotype in Lymnaea stagnalis’ - First supervisor Prof Dan Jackson, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany.

PhD Research Development Advisor (Brunel)

Ushemegbe Rita Ekhareafo (2022-2025 NERC London DTP) ‘Environmental Assessment of Chemical Contamination from Abandoned Coal and Mineral Mines: A multidisciplinary approach’ Supervised by Prof Rakesh Kanda (Brunel) and Dr Olwenn Martin (UCL)

Marta Straszkiewicz (2020- Brunel staff member - part-time) ‘Occurrence and Fate of Household chemicals in domestic wastewater’. Supervised by Prof Rakesh Kanda and Dr Tom Miller.