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Activities between the University of British Columbia and Exeter include a joint research symposium focused on Community, Culture, Creativity, and Wellbeing held at Exeter in May 2018 and a faculty-led, co-funded initiatives in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Climate Change and Digital Humanities.

University of South Florida

University of South Florida and Exeter have entered into a 5 year student exchange between the two Universities. They launched the University of Exeter / University of South Florida Research Catalyst Fund to provide grants to support joint research initiatives between the two institutions.

Tsinghua University

The University of Exeter and Tsinghua University have launched a jointly-awarded PhD degree programme in climate and environmental sciences which supports six students to be co-supervised between Tsinghua's Department of Earth System Science and Colleges at Exeter that conduct research on earth systems and environmental sciences. Read more.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

A partnership between Exeter and HKUST will enable students embarking on Engineering or Computer Science undergraduate degrees at HKUST to finish their degree at Exeter, before spending a fifth year at Exeter's Law School, completing either an LLM (Master of Laws) or a Juris Doctor (JD). Read more.

Nanyang Technological University

NTU and Exeter are working in partnership to deliver six split-site Biomedical PhD studentships. If successful, you will benefit from expert supervision from researchers in both institutions and have the opportunity to research and live in two great locations, for up to eighteen months in each.

University of Geneva

To celebrate, and further extend, the strong relationship of staff within the University of Exeter and the University of Geneva, the two universities have launched a new seed fund to support developing research links.

University of Queensland

The University of Exeter and The University of Queensland have partnered to establish the QUEX Institute, a new multi-million pound partnership designed to bolster their joint global research impact. Read more.

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Dr Dibyendu Dutta

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Publications

2021

Cell growth model with stochastic gene expression helps understand the growth advantage of metabolic exchange and auxotrophy

Journal: mSystems

Published: 31/08/2021
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00448-21
ISSN: 2379-5077
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00448-21

2020

Gain-of-function mutagenesis through activation tagging identifies XPB2 and SEN1 helicase genes as potential targets for drought stress tolerance in rice

Journal: Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Published: 30/11/2020
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03823-0
EID: 2-s2.0-85103618875
ISSN: 14322242 00405752
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85103618875&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2018

A small-molecule inhibitor of the DNA recombinase Rad51 from Plasmodium falciparum synergizes with the antimalarial drugs artemisinin and chloroquine

Journal: Journal of Biological Chemistry

Published: 30/11/2018
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.005009
EID: 2-s2.0-85066155281
ISBN: 1083351X 00219258
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85066155281&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Distribution of fitness effects of mutations obtained from a simple genetic regulatory network model

Journal: Scientific Reports

Published: 30/11/2018
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46401-7
EID: 2-s2.0-85068684109
ISBN: 20452322
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85068684109&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Mathematical modeling of movement on fitness landscapes

Journal: BMC Systems Biology

Published: 30/11/2018
DOI: 10.1186/s12918-019-0704-0
EID: 2-s2.0-85062372986
ISBN: 17520509
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062372986&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Phenomenological models as effective tools to discover cellular design principles

Journal: Archives of Microbiology

Published: 30/11/2018
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-019-01641-z
EID: 2-s2.0-85062793092
ISBN: 1432072X 03028933
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062793092&partnerID=MN8TOARS