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15 May 2024: Our researchers are making advances in animal, human, plant and microbial science, from the molecular and cellular levels through to tissues, organs, whole organisms, populations, ecosystems, biodiversity, and human behaviour. ... This is a unique

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15 May 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Emma Rawlins. Senior Group Leader, Gurdon Institute and Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. ... Emma Rawlins investigates the mechanisms that control stem cell behaviour in developing

15 May 2024: Psychological and Behavioural Sciences. Duration: 3 years  UCAS code: C800. The Psychological and Behavioural Sciences course is an exciting, broad and flexible degree that covers all aspects of psychology. ... Students are introduced to a range of

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15 May 2024: David Coomes uses high-resolution remote sensing to understand how forests are responding to global environmental changes including logging, land management and climate change, addressing key issues in ecology and conversation.

15 May 2024: Most recently, Matthias’ team has begun investigating how transient embryonic experiences specify neuronal excitable and synaptic properties important for network stability; also shaping animal behaviour and resilience to challenges in later

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15 May 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Clare Bryant. Professor of Innate Immunity, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Medicine. ... produced by patients link to chronic inflammatory diseases such as allergies and Alzheimer’s

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15 May 2024: Jim Haseloff works in Synthetic Biology for engineering plant growth. The lab has constructed a series of tools for controlling gene misexpression and marking specific cells in growing plants and is ... now working on a new generation of genetic circuits

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15 May 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.

15 May 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

15 May 2024: Edgar Turner studies how landscapes can be managed to maintain biodiversity and healthy functioning ecosystems, while still allowing agricultural development to take place.

15 May 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Mark Johnson. Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology. ... Research Areas. Cognitive neuroscience. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. Typical and atypical functional brain

15 May 2024: Research Areas. Systems neuroscience. Circuit mechanisms of behaviour. Learning and memory. ... Decision-making . Connectomics. Techniques. Optogenetics. Functionalists imaging of neural activity. Learning and memory tasks.

15 May 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Jeongmin Choi. Group Leader, Department of Plant Sciences. Jeongmin Choi's research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underpinning how nutrient signalling regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

15 May 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Giles Oldroyd. Russell R Geiger Professor of Crop Sciences and Director of the Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences. ... Giles Oldroyd studies interactions between plants and beneficial

15 May 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Ian Henderson. Professor of Genetics and Epigenetics, Department of Plant Sciences. ... Genetics. Flow cytometry. Areas for Collaboration. Long read DNA sequencing and genome assembly.

15 May 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

15 May 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

15 May 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

15 May 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.

15 May 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

15 May 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

15 May 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

15 May 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. David Aldridge. Professor in Zoology, Department of Zoology. David Aldridge works on applied freshwater ecology, with a particular emphasis on bivalve molluscs. Research Areas. Ecology. Aquatic.

15 May 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.

15 May 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.

15 May 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

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

15 May 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

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

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

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

15 May 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

15 May 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.

15 May 2024: Theme Lead, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology. Adam Pellegrini studies how ecosystems respond to fire, using natural variability as a platform to test hypotheses around mechanisms. ... Ecological field sampling. Analytical chemistry of carbon and

15 May 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

15 May 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.

15 May 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

15 May 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.

15 May 2024: Research Areas. Brain pathology . Chronic hypoxic encephalopathy. Sleep diseases and epilepsy .

15 May 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

15 May 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.

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

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

15 May 2024: Emma Poole studies latent infections of the Human cytomegalovirus, and the molecular mechanisms that control latency, allowing the development of potential novel therapeutics.

15 May 2024: Search site. School of the Biological Sciences. Jennifer Gallop. Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Gurdon Institute and Department of Biochemistry. ... Research Areas. Development and cancer. Cells. Actin cytoskeleton. Filopodia. Actin regulatory lipids