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1 Jul 2024: Ian Goodfellow's research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms that viruses used to translate and replicate their genomes, with particular interest in Noroviruses, members of the Caliciviridae family and hepatitis

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1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Steve Russell. Professor of Genome Biology and Acting Head of Department, Department of Genetics. ... Steve Russell explores aspects of transcriptional regulation and chromatin architecture at a genome

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1 Jul 2024: Chris Gilligan uses epidemiological modelling to predict the spread and to optimise surveillance and control of invasive pests and pathogens of staple agricultural crops, horticultural, forest and natural ecosystems. ... Research Areas. Food security.

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1 Jul 2024: Theme Lead, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health . Ben Steventon studies the mechanisms that control body axis elongation in early vertebrate embryos. ... Metabolism and development. Research Themes. Contact us. Postal Address:. School of the

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1 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

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1 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.

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1 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.

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

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1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Emília Santos. NERC Independent Research Fellow and Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology. ... Metabolomics. Behavioural analysis of fish mate preference and courtship behaviours. Machine learning to

1 Jul 2024: Theme Lead, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour . David Bulmer uses normal and diseased human tissue to determine the mediators responsible for the activation of pain sensing nerves (nociceptors) in Irritable Bowel Syndrome ... Psychology – effect

1 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

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

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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Henrik Jönsson. Professor of Computational Morphodynamics and Director, Sainsbury Laboratory.

1 Jul 2024: Theme Lead, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour. Hannah Clarke studies the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders. ... Research Areas. Behaviour. Emotion. Cognition.

1 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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Sue Jones. University Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. ... Sue Jones studies glutamatergic synapses onto dopamine neurons, with a particular interest in NMDA

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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Paul Bays. University Lecturer, Department of Psychology. ... Research Areas. Computational cognitive science. Human behaviour. Visual perception. Working memory.

1 Jul 2024: Debra Spencer studies how individual, family and social environment factors influence physically aggressive behaviour in children; how prenatal influences interact with postnatal experience to shape brain development and behaviour; and optimizing

1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Beverley Glover. Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Department of Plant Sciences. ... Beverley Glover's research focuses on the development of floral features which enhance pollination

1 Jul 2024: Research Areas. Psychology. Perception. Vision. Attention . Techniques. Psychological testing. Eye-tracking. Mathematical modelling. ... Areas for Collaboration. Attention (Oncology, Neurological Patients). Animal Colouration (Zoology). Gaze Perception

1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Nick Brown. Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. ... Nick Brown's research is currently focused on how adhesion receptors are linked with the cytoskeleton to

1 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.

1 Jul 2024: Research Areas. Brain pathology . Chronic hypoxic encephalopathy. Sleep diseases and epilepsy .

1 Jul 2024: Rebecca Kilner's research focuses on the relationship between social behaviour and evolution. ... With experiments in the field and the laboratory, the group has derived novel general insights into the evolution of social behaviour and demonstrated how

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

1 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.

1 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

1 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.

1 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.

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

1 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

1 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

1 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 ... and mathematics.

1 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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Ewa Paluch. Professor of Anatomy, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. ... Areas for Collaboration. Cancer cell mechanics and migration . Research Theme.

1 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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Lucy Cheke. University Lecturer, Department of Psychology. ... Research Areas. Learning and Memory. Cognitive development. Translational memory assessment (animals, children, adults, AI).

1 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

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

1 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.