School of Biology

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  LIFTS grant - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Standard Doctoral Network

  Mills, S. (PI), Sullivan, F. (CoPI), Donnelly, P. (CoI), McCartney, M. (CoI) & Gunn-Moore, F. J. (CoI)

  LIFTS - St Andrews Leadership Initiative for Tailored Support

  1/02/25 → 31/10/25

  Project: Standard

• Native Mass Spectrometry, the first steps

  Shirran, S. (PI) & Synowsky, S. (CoI)

  British Mass Spectrometry Society

  1/08/24 → 31/07/25

  Project: Standard

  • Mass Spectrometry 100%

• Ferrier Responsive: The evolution of developmental system drift in axial specification in Spiralia

  Ferrier, D. (PI)

  1/05/24 → 30/04/27

  Project: Standard

  • Axial Patterning 100%

• Impact of Microplastics Pollution

  Hope, J. (PI)

  Marine March Initiative

  1/05/24 → 31/10/25

  Project: Standard

• SMRU NERC NC NPG Round 2 2024-2029

  Sparling, C. (PI) & Russell, D. J. (CoI)

  NERC

  1/04/24 → 31/03/29

  Project: Standard

• Rohit Newton Fellow: How does biodiversity in many forms produce a tropical hotspot? A test using freshwater fish communities of the Western Ghats

  Magurran, A. (PI)

  26/03/24 → 25/03/27

  Project: Fellowship

• Clarissa BBSRC: Dissecting the mechanism and regulation of bacterial secreted peptidases and their role in biofilms

  Melo Czekster, C. (PI) & Shirran, S. (CoI)

  BBSRC

  1/03/24 → 28/02/27

  Project: Standard

• Deep learning: Linkage effects and balan: Deep learning: Linkage effects and balancing selection

  Kosiol, C. (PI)

  BBSRC

  14/02/24 → 13/08/25

  Project: Standard

  • Gene Conversion 100%
  • Balancing Selection 100%

• 1851 - Benito grant: Project Title How does evolution break functional barriers to fine-tune adaptation?

  Bailey, N. (PI)

  Royal Commission for the Exhibition 1851

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Standard

• Meta Change: Biodiversity change across time and space in the Anthropocene: Leveraging metacommunity modelling, land-use change, and open data to achieve deeper understanding

  Dornelas, M. (PI)

  European Research Council

  1/01/24 → 31/12/28

  Project: Standard

  • Random Sampling 100%
  • Time Series 100%
  • Price 100%
  • Species Composition 100%
  • Beta Diversity 50%

• Emma W ECF: Population Divergence in Reproductive -Omics and Emerging Reproductive Isolation

  Whittington, E. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Fellowship

• Tatiana Dimitriu URF: Helping Bacteria resist antimicrobial resistance

  Dimitriu, T. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/01/24 → 30/11/30

  Project: Fellowship

  • Mobile Genetic Elements 100%
  • Plasmid 90%
  • Restriction Modification System 90%
  • Transfer DNA 90%
  • DNA Transfer 90%

• The transition from a sexual to a parent: The transition from a sexual to a parental brain via nest building

  Healy, S. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/12/23 → 30/11/26

  Project: Standard

  • Nesting Behavior 100%
  • Zebra Finch 100%

• Tenovus PhD: Blocking extracellular protease activity to disrupt biogilms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Melo Czekster, C. (PI)

  Tenovus-Scotland

  27/09/23 → 26/09/26

  Project: Studentship

• Quantifying how host genotype: Quantifying how host genotype and microbiome composition combine to influence susceptibility to Dothistroma needle blight disease in pine trees

  Smith, V. A. (PI)

  BBSRC

  3/04/23 → 2/04/26

  Project: Standard

• Is Phenology Evolving In Response: Is Phenology Evolving In Response To Climate Change?

  Morrissey, M. (PI)

  NERC

  1/03/23 → 30/06/26

  Project: Standard

• ACTNOW: HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-04. ACTNOW: Advancing understanding of Cumulative Impacts on European marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services for human wellbeing

  Smout, S. (PI), Paterson, D. (CoI) & Russell, D. J. (CoI)

  UKRI (EU)

  1/03/23 → 28/02/27

  Project: Standard

• Multi-layered bacterial genome defences: Multi-layered bacterial genome defences: linking molecular mechanisms to bacteria-MGE conflicts in single cells, populations, and communities.

  White, M. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/01/23 → 31/07/27

  Project: Standard

  • Synergism 100%
  • Restriction Modification System 100%
  • Mobile Genetic Elements 100%

• Everyfish: HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01-11. Everyfish: Digital transition of catch monitoring in European fisheries

  James, M. (PI) & Mendo, T. (CoI)

  UKRI (EU)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/26

  Project: Standard

  • Conveyor Speed 100%
  • Repeated Exposure 100%
  • Tissue Injury 100%
  • Conveyor 100%
  • Histological Analysis 50%

• Supermolecular structure predictions: Supermolecular structure predictions validated from sparse experimental data

  White, M. (PI)

  EPSRC

  1/11/22 → 31/10/25

  Project: Standard

• Ellen Garland URF Extension 2022 - 2025: URF Renewal - YGR028

  Garland, E. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/10/22 → 30/09/25

  Project: Fellowship

  • Cetacea 100%
  • Humpback Whale 41%
  • Social Learning 40%
  • Baleen Whale 40%

• RS URF Renewal Enhanced Expenses 2022: RS URF Renewal Enhanced Expenses 2022

  Garland, E. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/10/22 → 30/09/25

  Project: Fellowship

• Unravelling structure and function of: Unravelling structure and function of the tRNA methyltransferases NSUN2 and METTL1: towards overcoming resistance to and potentiating 5-fluorouracil action

  Guimaraes da Silva, R. (PI)

  Cunningham Trust

  27/09/22 → 26/09/25

  Project: Studentship

  • Oxidoreductase 100%
  • Proline 100%
  • Reductase 100%
  • Turnover Number 83%
  • Enzyme 33%

• Do fish cooperate to inspect predators?

  Webster, M. (PI) & Schweinfurth, M. (PI)

  BBSRC iCASE PhD studentship through EASTBIO Doctoral Training Programme

  27/09/22 → 26/09/26

  Project: Standard

  • Gasterosteus aculeatus 100%
  • Phoxinus phoxinus 50%
  • Minnows 50%
  • Mutualism 50%

• BATSPEAK: BATSPEAK

  Vernes, S. (PI)

  European Research Council

  1/05/22 → 30/04/27

  Project: Standard

  • Mammalia 100%
  • Chordata 100%
  • Chiroptera 87%
  • X Chromosome 81%
  • Y Chromosome 63%

• Birds without borders or isolated island: Birds without borders or isolated islands? Connectivity of Chagos seabirds

  Brierley, A. (PI)

  Bertarelli Foundation

  1/10/21 → 30/09/25

  Project: Standard

• H2020-BG-2018-2020. SEAwise.: H2020-BG-2018-2020. SEAwise. Shaping ecosystem based fisheries management

  Smout, S. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/10/21 → 31/07/25

  Project: Standard

• CBASS: ERC-2020-ADG. CBASS

  White, M. (PI)

  European Research Council

  22/04/21 → 21/04/26

  Project: Standard

  • CRISPR 100%
  • Cyclic Nucleotide 71%
  • Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat 71%
  • Adenosine Monophosphate 37%
  • Bacteriophage 36%

• Sonja Vernes UKRI Future Leaders: Mammalian vocal communication as a model for human language; from genes and brains to behaviour

  Vernes, S. (PI)

  UK Research and Innovation

  1/11/20 → 31/10/25

  Project: Fellowship

  • Mammalia 100%
  • Chordata 85%
  • X Chromosome 74%
  • Chiroptera 55%
  • Y Chromosome 52%

• Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Bio: Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

  Dornelas, M. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/05/19 → 30/04/29

  Project: Standard

  • Biodiversity 100%
  • Time Series 43%
• Finished

  Benthic Responses to Extreme Weather Events

  Hope, J. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/05/24 → 30/04/25

  Project: Standard

• Marine mammal nutrient cycling

  Sparling, C. (PI)

  Natural England

  1/04/24 → 28/02/25

  Project: Standard

• Photo-ID of bottlenose dolphins

  Sparling, C. (PI)

  Natural England

  1/04/24 → 28/02/25

  Project: Standard

• Tenovus Research Grant: Development of a novel co-culture 3D cell-culture air-liquid interface platform as a model for the respiratory system to investigate the complex interplay between respiratory viruses and the innate immune response.

  Wignall-Fleming, E. (PI)

  Tenovus-Scotland

  1/04/24 → 31/03/25

  Project: Standard

• Clarissa IAA: New methods for biocatalysis of nucleoside analogues

  Melo Czekster, C. (PI)

  Edinburgh Napier University

  1/01/24 → 31/03/24

  Project: Standard

• The Role of Clinical Stringent Response: The Role of Clinical Stringent Response-Activating Mutations in Promoting Horizontal Gene Transfer and Antibiotic Resistance Dissemination

  Hobbs, J. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/12/23 → 30/11/24

  Project: Standard

• STFC Knowledge Exchange Institutional: STFC Knowledge Exchange Institutional Award 2023-2024

  Meagher, T. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  21/11/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Standard

• Slow release of antibiofilm peptides: Slow release of antibiofilm peptides to halt bone infections

  Melo Czekster, C. (PI) & Shirran, S. (CoI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/10/23 → 31/03/25

  Project: Standard

• Natalie Pilk. RS: Evolution of parental care under climate change

  Pilakouta, N. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/09/23 → 31/10/23

  Project: Standard

  • Offspring 100%
  • Climate Change 87%
  • Additive Effect 75%
  • Reproductive Success 75%
  • Parental Behavior 75%

• Terry Smith - BBSRC - IAA: BBSRC-IAA Explorer; Utilization Of Crithidia For The Formation Of Highly Valuable Biologics And Chemicals From Bio-waste Or Valorized Feedstocks.

  Smith, T. K. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/09/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Standard

• Jens Tilsner BSPP: Imaging viral negative strand RNA

  Tilsner, J. (PI)

  The British Society for Plant Pathology

  15/08/23 → 14/08/24

  Project: Standard

• IAA - Biocatalytic synthesis of targeted: Biocatalytic synthesis of targeted nucleotide analogues and isotope labelled versions thereof

  Guimaraes da Silva, R. (PI)

  EPSRC

  5/08/23 → 4/02/24

  Project: Standard

• Optical tweezers-confocal microscope: A correlative, ultra-stable, optical tweezers-confocal microscope for high-resolution molecular and cellular mechanobiology

  Penedo, C. (PI), Annibale, P. (CoI), Bruce, G. (CoI), Gather, M. (CoI), Guimaraes da Silva, R. (CoI), Melo Czekster, C. (CoI), O'Hagan, D. (CoI), Schwarz-Linek, U. (CoI), Smith, T. K. (CoI), Tilsner, J. (CoI), Varela, J. (CoI) & White, M. (CoI)

  BBSRC

  1/08/23 → 31/07/24

  Project: Standard

• EPSRC IAA - Mark James: Setting up a small-scale fisheries data collection system for the Republic of Palau (SSF-Palau)

  James, M. (PI)

  EPSRC

  1/06/23 → 31/05/25

  Project: Standard

• BBSRC IAA Pathfinder - M James: Empowering the Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation to improve the efficacy and efficiency of data acquisition for fisheries stock assessment

  James, M. (PI) & Mendo, T. (CoI)

  BBSRC

  1/05/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Standard

• Development of a remote blood-sampling: Development of a remote blood-sampling device for animals

  McKnight, C. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/05/23 → 31/10/23

  Project: Standard

  • Oxygen Blood Level 100%
  • Blood Oxygen Level 100%
  • Marine Mammal 40%

• Nano-nets: using virus-like particles: Nano-nets: using virus-like particles to build functional surfaces

  Tilsner, J. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/05/23 → 30/09/23

  Project: Standard

• David Ferrier Co-I with F: FRANCE: Wnt/TCF-mediated transcriptional repression in embryonic development, the interaction with Barhl2

  Ferrier, D. (PI)

  NERC

  1/05/23 → 30/06/24

  Project: Standard

  • Lampetra planeri 100%
  • Xenopus tropicalis 100%

• Insights from Seal Diet: Southeast England Harbour Seal Decline: Insights from Seal Diet

  Russell, D. J. (PI)

  Dept for Environment Food and Rural Aff

  1/04/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Standard

• PIV5-based vectors and defective inter: PIV5-based vectors and defective interfering particles; applications in biopharmaceuticals and health care

  Hughes, D. (PI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/04/23 → 31/05/25

  Project: Standard

  • Virus Type 100%
  • Paramyxovirinae 100%
  • Recombinant Protein 100%
  • Cell Line 50%