Biological Sciences PhD Graduate Awarded Prestigious Grant by Malacological Society of London in 2023

PhD graduate Dr Bovern ARROMRAK from the School of Biological Sciences was awarded the Early-Career Research Grant by the Malacological Society of London in 2023. This highly competitive grant is conferred on students and researchers who have demonstrated exceptional potential and achievements in their respective fields.

A major part of Bovern's research from his PhD thesis centres around understanding the interaction between animal hosts and their associated microbial community under extremely high thermal environments, which holds significant implications to unravel the mechanisms that govern their tolerance range and limit under warming oceans in the future.

The awarded grant was applied with the support of his PhD supervisor, Professor Juan Diego GAITÁN-ESPITIA, that aims as a follow-up work from this PhD thesis, to delve deeper into the working mechanisms underpinning organismal survival and tolerance under extreme conditions. Currently, Bovern is a Postdoctoral fellow being supervised by Professor Bayden RUSSELL at the School of Biological Sciences.