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14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Riccardo Beltramo. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. ... Riccardo Beltramo dissects the neural circuits underlying visual processing and perception, spatial

14 Jul 2024: Chris Jiggins works on many aspects of Heliconius evolutionary biology, including evolutionary developmental biology of wing patterning, the genetic and behavioural basis for speciation, the sensory ecology of mimicry and analysis

14 Jul 2024: Natasha Yelina studies plant meiosis, contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms of recombination control and the role of epigenetic marks (cytosine DNA and histone methylation) in shaping crossover frequency landscapes ... Research Areas.

14 Jul 2024: Laura Itzhaki's research focuses on a class of proteins with very distinctive architectures, known as tandem-repeat proteins, in particular ankyrin, HEAT and ARM repeat proteins that play important roles ... Research Areas. Protein engineering and design.

14 Jul 2024: Juan Mata investigates how cells remodel gene expression in response to stress and how these transcriptional and translational changes are coordinated.

14 Jul 2024: Guy Brown works on the mechanisms of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the brain, particularly the roles of microglial phagocytosis.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Ben Luisi. Professor of Structural and Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Biochemistry.

14 Jul 2024: Research Areas. Pigmentation. Neural crest cells. Evolution and development. Evolutionary genetics. ... Metabolomics. Behavioural analysis of fish mate preference and courtship behaviours. Machine learning to categorise fish phenotypes.

14 Jul 2024: Vito Mennella's research aims to understand how airways cells respond, adapt and survive when confronted with different types of insults such as toxic particulates, drugs targeting the airways and infectious ... agents. Research Areas. Environmental

14 Jul 2024: The group is looking to understand the mechanisms that underpin the spatial and temporal coordination of egg and early embryo development, with a particular interest in the role of biomolecular ... Research Areas. Early development. Egg activation.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Andrew J Murray. Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. ... Andrew Murray investigates mitochondrial function: how this is altered in metabolic diseases,

14 Jul 2024: Ecological field sampling. Analytical chemistry of carbon and nutrients. Mathematical modelling.

14 Jul 2024: Sarah Lloyd-Fox works on measuring early brain function and behaviour across the perinatal period and understand how individual differences in neurodevelopmental trajectories relate to poverty associated challenges in the UK. ... Research Areas. Early

14 Jul 2024: Paul Bays investigates the nature of the internal representations our brains construct and sustain to interact with the world and the computations performed on them to achieve behavioural goals. ... Areas for Collaboration. Neural recordings in rodents.

14 Jul 2024: Beverley Glover's research focuses on the development of floral features which enhance pollination success, in particular the co-evolution of flowers and animal pollinators, and the evolution of developmental programmes ... Research Areas. Plant

14 Jul 2024: Greg Davis' lab investigates basic and applied problems in vision, cognition and attention.

14 Jul 2024: Chris Howe's work covers a number of areas in the biochemistry and molecular biology of photosynthetic organisms, and the evolutionary processes that gave rise to them.

14 Jul 2024: Research Areas. Brain pathology . Chronic hypoxic encephalopathy. Sleep diseases and epilepsy . ... Neuroscience. Neurobehaviour. Epileptogenesis. Sleep. Research Theme.

14 Jul 2024: Helen Mott studies the structure, dynamis and membrane interactions of signalling proteins, including small G proteins and their downstream effectors.

14 Jul 2024: Theme Lead, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour. Rebecca Lawson uses computational models, pharmacology and brain imaging to understand how humans learn to build expectations about the world around them. ... Research Areas. Cognitive Neuroscience.

14 Jul 2024: Emma Poole studies latent infections of the Human Cytomegalovirus, and the molecular mechanisms that control latency, allowing the development of potential novel therapeutics.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. James Wood. University Professor and Head of Department, Department of Veterinary Medicine. ... James Wood studies the dynamics of infectious diseases particularly for emerging or zoonotic diseases at the

14 Jul 2024: John Welch uses phylogenetic and comparative methods, particularly the inference of past evolutionary events from genomic sequence data, to understand the processes which shape DNA sequence variation within and between populations.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Rebecca Kilner. Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Director, University Museum of Zoology. ... Rebecca Kilner's research focuses on the relationship between social behaviour and evolution.

14 Jul 2024: Theme Lead, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour. Amy Milton studies the neurochemical, molecular and intracellular basis of the reconsolidation process, for aversive (fear) and appetitive (addictive drug) memories. ... Research Areas. Behavioural

14 Jul 2024: Tony Green studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms whereby aberrant protein signalling subverts blood cell formation and results in certain blood cancers.

14 Jul 2024: Theme Lead, Infection and Immunity . Kate Baker is a veterinary trained researcher working on the genomic epidemiology of enteric bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Ritwick Sawarkar. University Lecturer, MRC Toxicology Unit and Department of Genetics. ... Theme Lead, Molecules and Cells: The Building Blocks of Life . Ritwick Sawarkar studies how our cells sense and

14 Jul 2024: Eyal Maori studies the RNA interconnections of infection, immunity and genome dynamics. ... In particular, how RNA flows between individuals, and how it promotes social immunity and epigenetic communication between honeybees and other closely interacting

14 Jul 2024: Benjamin Simons adresses the mechanisms that regulate stem and progenitor cell fate, by combining cell lineage-tracing approaches and single-cell gene expression profiling with concepts and methods from statistical physics ... Research Areas.

14 Jul 2024: Erik Clark studies developmental patterning systems: the collections of regulatory rules, biophysical processes, and specific conditions that enable multicellular animals to reproduce their own complex organisation each generation, starting from

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Sepiedeh Keshavarzi. Assistant Professor in Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience . ... Research Areas. Systems Neuroscience. Neural Circuits. Spatial Orientation.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Alex Cagan. Assistant Professor, Departments of Genetics, Pathology, and Veterinary Medicine . ... Theme Lead, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health. Alex Cagan investigates evolutionary processes

14 Jul 2024: Research Areas. Learning and Memory. Cognitive development. Translational memory assessment (animals, children, adults, AI). ... Obesity. Memory. Cognitive development. Neuro-Covid. Psychoimmunology . Research Themes. Contact us. Postal Address:.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Jason Head. Reader in Vertebrate Evolution and Ecology, Department of Zoology, Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University Museum of Zoology, Director of Postgraduate Education. ... Jason Head studies

14 Jul 2024: Ross Waller investigates the subcellular organisations, molecular complexities, endosymbiotic partnerships, and genomes of diverse protists.

14 Jul 2024: Jane Dobson's research focuses on epidemiology and presentation of different forms of cancer in dogs, including a particular interest in breed predispositions to cancer, especially flat-coated retrievers and histiocytic

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Nick Holmes. Senior University Lecturer, Department of Pathology. Nick Holmes studies how lymphocytes (cells which carry highly specific receptors to cope with the many different existing infectious

14 Jul 2024: Lynn Dicks studies insect conservation, biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and high quality evidence synthesis. ... Techniques. Field sampling of insects and birds: transect walks, pan traps, sticky traps, pitfall traps, point counts.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. David Belin. Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology. ... David Belin studies the neural, cellular and molecular substrates of inter-individual vulnerability to develop

14 Jul 2024: The Dupree Group is focused on understanding the biosynthesis and function of polysaccharide components of the plant cell wall. ... Gut microbiome and health. Research Themes. Contact us. Postal Address:. School of the Biological Sciences.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Jon Simons. Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology. ... Research Areas. Cognitive neuroscience. Memory. Cognitive control. Ageing. Neurological and psychiatric disorders.

14 Jul 2024: Sumru Bayin studies the molecular mechanisms that regulate stem cell behaviours and age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain. ... Research Areas. Regeneration. Cerebellum. Neonatal development. Neural stem cells. Lineage plasticity.

14 Jul 2024: Theme Lead, Molecules and Cells: The Building Blocks of Life. James Edgar's group focuses on the roles that endosomes and exosomes play in health and disease, in particular identifying the

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Jeff Dalley. Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology. ... Stress-induced perturbations of CNS development. Peri-natal programming. Epigenetics. Research Theme.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. John Mollon. Professor of Visual Neuroscience, Department of Psychology. ... John Mollon studies visual perception – and the genetic variations in perception between individuals.

14 Jul 2024: Jennifer Gallop studies how cells control their movement during embryonic development and throughout the life of an organism, in particular the actin cytoskeleton that gives them their shape and exerts force ... Research Areas. Development and cancer.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Betty Chung. Medical Research Council Career-Development Fellow, Department of Pathology. ... Betty Chung studies the regulatory mechanisms of host and intracellular pathogen interaction during infection.

14 Jul 2024: Alex Clarke's research tests how the environment changes the dynamics of visual and semantic activity in the brain, using a multimodal brain imaging framework with emerging methodologies including augmented reality, ... Research Areas. Cognitive

14 Jul 2024: Diagnostic flow cytometry. Cytochemical stains. Light microscopy. Areas for Collaboration. Advanced diagnostic techniques in haematology and immunology. ... Clinical microbiology (including AMR/AMS and infection control). Comparative research