School of Biology

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• 41 Active
• 758 Finished

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  Remote sensing for sustainable use of se: Remote Sensing for sustainable use of seasonally dry tropical forests - Learning to live with the forest

  Meagher, T. R. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  1/04/19 → 31/03/21

  Project: Standard

• Does vocal complexity reliably convey: Does vocal complexity reliably convey genetic quality information in humpback whales?

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  31/03/19 → 30/03/22

  Project: Standard

  • Humpback Whale 100%
  • Amplicon Sequencing 81%
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex 81%
  • Cetacea 59%
  • Marine Mammal 40%

• Schistosomiasis, shallow-water fisheries: Schistosomiasis, shallow-water fisheries and human resilience around Lake Victoria: towards a multidisciplinary solution for interlinked human-health and food-security challenges

  Brierley, A. S. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  30/03/19 → 30/09/21

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 Rafael: Rafael da Silva

  Guimaraes da Silva, R. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  27/03/19 → 29/02/20

  Project: Standard

  • Adenosine Triphosphate 100%
  • Phosphoribosyltransferase 100%
  • Histidine 100%
  • ATP 100%

• ISSF3 - Tracey Gloster Biomolecular kits: Tracey Gloster biomolecular kits

  Gloster, T. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  25/03/19 → 29/02/20

  Project: Standard

• Live, Attenuated, Foot & Mouth Disease: Live, Attenuated, Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Vaccines

  Ryan, M. D. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  11/03/19 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

• CABFishMAN - Conserving Atlantic: CABFishMAN

  James, M. A. (PI)

  3/03/19 → 2/03/22

  Project: Standard

  • Fishing Effort 100%
  • Fishing Ground 33%
  • Fishing Vessel 33%
  • Spatial Distribution 33%
  • Mapping Method 33%

• Roland Proud - SFC ODA 18/19: Supporting Lake Victoria fisheries management: building legacy and capacity by providing data security and improving processing methods for fisheries survey data

  Proud, R. H. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/03/19 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

• Cognition and foraging niches in archer: Cognition and foraging niches in archerfish (Toxotes chatareus)

  Rendell, L. E. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  26/02/19 → 14/07/19

  Project: Standard

• Continuation of the Gill Net Acoustic: Continuation of the Gill Net Acoustic Monitoring Project

  Northridge, S. (PI)

  Dept for Environment Food and Rural Aff

  22/02/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Standard

• Developing a dynamic co-management: Developing a dynamic co-management bycatch risk assessment to protect biodiversity in an artisanal shrimp trawl fishery in Peru

  James, M. A. (PI) & Mendo, T. (Researcher)

  British Council

  15/02/19 → 14/02/20

  Project: Standard

• Ellen Garland: Humpback whale culture

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/02/19 → 31/03/21

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 Round 4 _ Stuart McQuarrie: ISSF3 funding round 4

  Gloster, T. (PI) & White, M. (CoI)

  1/02/19 → 31/08/19

  Project: Standard

  • CRISPR 100%
  • Nuclease 100%

• John Jones - SFC ODA 18/19: John Jones - Characterisation and improved management strategies of an invasive pest species in Kenyan potato production

  Jones, J. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  7/01/19 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

• Cyclic oligoadenylate signalling: Cyclic oligoadenylate signalling - a new type of antiviral response

  White, M. (PI)

  1/01/19 → 31/12/21

  Project: Standard

  • CRISPR 100%
  • Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat 58%
  • Nuclease 53%

• Which came first: the parent or the egg?: Which came first: the parent or the egg? The evolution of parental care and egg size in marine fishes

  Sheard, C. E. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/01/19 → 30/04/19

  Project: Standard

  • Teleost 100%
  • Offspring 100%
  • Parental Behavior 66%
  • Life History 33%
  • Body Size 33%

• Andrew Brierley - SFC ODA18/19: Towards fish 'biocontrol' of human schistosomiasis infection: a potential win-win for himan health, food security and economic development in East Africa

  Brierley, A. S. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  11/12/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

• Tania Mendo - SFC ODA 18/19: Low cost electronic monitoring: improving data collection in artisanal fisheries in Peru

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

  11/12/18 → 2/07/19

  Project: Standard

• Andrew Brierley - SFC ODA18/19 - 2: |mproved capability for scientific fishing on Lake Victoria

  Brierley, A. S. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  11/12/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

• Cutting-edge fisheries research: Cutting-edge fisheries research for sustainable management of Lake Victoria's silver cyprinid

  Brierley, A. S. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/12/18 → 30/11/21

  Project: Standard

  • Cyprinid 100%
  • Rastrineobola argentea 100%
  • Expert Opinion 50%

• Selkie Boat Engine replacement: Selkie Boat Engine replacement

  Hall, A. J. (PI)

  1/12/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Standard

• Six thousand miles and counting: Six thousand miles and counting: how far can a humpback whale song revolution spread around the globe?

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  5/10/18 → 4/02/20

  Project: Standard

  • Humpback Whale 100%
  • Social Learning 100%

• Investigating the mechanisms: Investigating the mechanisms underlying the antiviral activity of ISGylation

  Hughes, D. J. (PI)

  1/10/18 → 30/09/21

  Project: Studentship

  • Herpesviridae 100%
  • Zinc Finger 100%
  • Antiviral Protein 100%
  • Dinucleotide 100%
  • Virus 80%

• Tom Meagher - SFC ODA 18/19: Amazonian sustainable biological resources

  Meagher, T. R. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/10/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Standard

• ISSF Award IGEM team: ISSF iGEM

  Gloster, T. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  16/08/18 → 1/07/19

  Project: Standard

• Cultural evolution and sexual selection: Cultural evolution and sexual selection in a complex song display

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/08/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

  • Breeding Site 100%
  • Cetacea 100%

• ISSF award Lindsay Tulloch: ISSF3 Lindsay Tulloch

  Smith, T. K. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/08/18 → 31/01/19

  Project: Standard

  • Trypanosomatidae 100%
  • Acetogenin 100%
  • Furan 100%
  • Adenosine Triphosphate 100%
  • Synthetase 100%

• ISSF Bela Bode Contribution EPR Upgrade: ISSF Bela Bode Contribution EPR Upgrade

  Evans, D. J. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/08/18 → 1/07/19

  Project: Standard

  • EPR Spectroscopy 100%
  • Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 50%
  • Kd 44%
  • Spin Label 44%
  • NTA 33%

• ISSF Welfare Room BSRC (CMP, DOH, DJE): ISSF Welfare Room BSRC (CMP, DOH, DJE)

  Evans, D. J. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/08/18 → 28/02/19

  Project: Standard

• Nucleotide Excision Repair: Nucleotide Excision Repair- Lighting up a Dark Pathway

  White, M. (PI) & Penedo, C. (CoI)

  1/08/18 → 31/12/21

  Project: Standard

  • Transcription Factor IIH 100%
  • Copurification 100%
  • Nucleotide Excision Repair 50%
  • Base Excision Repair 50%
  • Excision Repair 50%

• Microbes to Megafauna Modelling: Microbes to Megafauna Modelling of Arctic Seas (MiMeMo)

  Brierley, A. S. (PI)

  1/07/18 → 30/06/21

  Project: Standard

  • Arctic Ocean 100%
  • Barents Sea 100%
  • Ecosystem Approach 100%
  • Schools (Fish) 100%
  • Food Web 100%

• John Jones - SFC ODA 18/19: Accelerated mapping and marker development for the Zhonghua source of resistance to root-knot nematodes in rice

  Jones, J. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/07/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

• NSFPLR-NERC Thwaites-Amundsen Regional: NSFPLR-NERC Thwaites-Amundsen Regional Survey and Network (TARSAN)

  Boehme, L. (PI)

  1/07/18 → 30/06/23

  Project: Standard

  • Land Ice 100%
  • Antarctic Region 96%
  • Meltwater 75%
  • Trough 64%
  • Deep Water 64%

• Andrew Brierley - SFC ODA 18/19: Capacity and capability building for sustainable fisheries management in Lake Victoria to underpin food security in Uganda

  Brierley, A. S. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/07/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

• Anne Smith ISSF WISSA Award: ISSF Anne Smith

  Smith, V. A. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/07/18 → 1/08/18

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 Kirsten Bentley ext 6 months: ISSF3 - Kirsten Bentley ext

  Evans, D. J. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/07/18 → 6/09/18

  Project: Standard

  • Virus 100%
  • DNA Template 57%
  • Recombinant Virus 50%
  • Enterovirus 50%
  • Polymerase 50%

• ISSF3 Stakeholder Account: ISSF3A stakeholder account

  Evans, D. J. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  4/06/18 → 3/06/19

  Project: Standard

• Carbon storage in intertidal environment: Carbon storage in intertidal environments (C-SIDE)

  Paterson, D. (PI)

  1/06/18 → 31/05/21

  Project: Standard

• EU Best 2.0: EU BEST Collaboration 2016

  Hall, A. J. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/06/18 → 30/09/18

  Project: Standard

• Testing the function of signature: Testing the function of signature whistles and other acoustic signals in the bottlenose dolphins' communication system: an experimental playback approach

  Tyack, P. L. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/06/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Standard

• Resolving the paradox of statis: Resolving the paradox of stasis: addressing the missing fraction problem.

  Morrissey, M. B. (PI)

  1/05/18 → 31/10/22

  Project: Standard

  • Soay 100%
  • Evolution 100%
  • Reidentification 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • Life History 66%

• Cryogen-free arbitrary waveform EPR: Cryogen-free arbitrary waveform EPR for structural Biology and Biophysics

  Bode, B. E. (PI), Lovett, J. E. (CoI), Pliotas, C. (CoI), Schwarz-Linek, U. (CoI), Smith, G. M. (CoI), Stewart, A. J. (CoI) & White, M. (CoI)

  1/05/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Standard

  • EPR Spectroscopy 100%
  • Histidine 40%

• Posttranslational control: Posttranslational control of our innate immune response: exploring a novel role for ISGylation

  Hughes, D. J. (PI)

  1/05/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Standard

  • Interferon Type I 100%
  • ISG15 90%
  • Interferon-Stimulated Gene 53%
  • Antiviral Activity 45%
  • Paramyxoviridae 45%

• ESPRC IAA Rafael Da Silva/Tracey Gloster: EPSRC IAA application Feb 2018

  Guimaraes da Silva, R. (PI)

  EPSRC

  1/05/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Standard

• Dr Rafael da Silva - Wellcome Trust: Unravelling structure nd mechanism of adenine(22)-tRNA methyltransferase: towards novel antibiotics against MRSA

  Guimaraes da Silva, R. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/05/18 → 30/04/20

  Project: Standard

  • Dynamics 100%
  • Staphylococcus Aureus 100%
  • Methyltransferase 100%
  • Transfer RNA 100%
  • Adenine 33%

• SOCIOCOMPLEXITY - New Paradigms: H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant 2017

  Gardner, A. (PI)

  European Research Council

  1/05/18 → 31/10/24

  Project: Standard

  • Evolution 100%
  • Kin Selection 53%
  • Genetics 51%
  • Relatedness 39%
  • Sex Allocation 38%

• Prof M Holden MRC: Holistic approach to unravel antibacterial resistance in East Africa (HATUA)

  Holden, M. (PI), Gillespie, S. H. (CoI), Keenan, K. L. (CoI), Kesby, M. (CoI), Lynch, A. (CoI), Sabiiti, W. (CoI), Sloan, D. J. (CoI) & Smith, V. A. (CoI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/05/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Standard

  • Urinary Tract Infection 100%
  • Antibiotic Resistance 83%
  • Antibiotics 81%
  • Escherichia coli 57%
  • Urinary Tract 57%

• Understanding the canary in the cage: Understanding the canary in the cage: harp seals as indicators of climate change impacts in the Arctic

  Grecian, J.

  NERC

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Standard

• Tracey Gloster: Understanding the activity and function of hexosaminidase D

  Gloster, T. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/04/18 → 30/09/21

  Project: Standard

  • CRISPR 100%
  • Nuclease 68%
  • Aspergillus terreus 50%
  • Ascomycota 50%
  • Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat 50%

• Estimating the effective population size: Estimating the effective population size in experimental evolution lines for adaption to a new sexual mating system.

  Kosiol, C. (PI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Standard

  • Gene Frequency 100%
  • Sexual Selection 83%
  • Allele 83%
  • High Throughput Sequencing 83%
  • Drosophila pseudoobscura 83%