School of Biology

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  Bacterial covalent adhesion targets: Bacterial covalent adhesion targets

  Schwarz-Linek, U. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  17/06/19 → 4/08/19

  Project: Studentship

• Investigating the dual role of mate choi: Investigating the dual role of mate choice genes in behavioural isolation and hybridization

  Ritchie, M. G. (PI)

  NERC

  1/06/19 → 31/05/22

  Project: Standard

• Object manipulation without hands: Object manipulation without hands: kinematics and evolution of nest building by birds

  Sugasawa, S. (PI)

  BBSRC

  20/05/19 → 19/05/22

  Project: Fellowship

  • Beak 100%
  • Leg 100%
  • Hummingbirds 100%
  • Foot 100%
  • Spatial Memory 100%

• Chicken Stress: H2020 MSCA ITN Chickenstress

  Smith, V. A. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/05/19 → 30/04/23

  Project: Standard

  • Gallus Gallus 100%
  • Bioinformatics 77%
  • Differentially Methylated Regions 66%
  • Epigenetics 66%
  • Epigenomics 66%

• ISSF3 Laura Aitken ext - translation: ISSF3 - Laura Aitken extension

  Aitken, L. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/04/19 → 30/09/19

  Project: Standard

• 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

  • Cetacea 100%
  • Humpback Whale 85%
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex 50%
  • Amplicon Sequencing 50%
  • Gene Flow 50%

• 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

• 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%

• Ellen Garland: Humpback whale culture

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/02/19 → 31/03/21

  Project: Standard

• 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

• 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%

• 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%

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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%

• 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%

• 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%

• 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

• 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

• 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 97%
  • Meltwater 56%
  • Trough 48%
  • Deep Water 48%

• 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%

• 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%

• 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

• ISSF3 Stakeholder Account: ISSF3A stakeholder account

  Evans, D. J. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  4/06/18 → 3/06/19

  Project: Standard

• EU Best 2.0: EU BEST Collaboration 2016

  Hall, A. J. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/06/18 → 30/09/18

  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

• 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

• 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

  • Genetics 100%
  • Kin Selection 91%
  • Relatedness 61%
  • Sex Allocation 55%
  • Cooperation 51%

• 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 62%
  • Interferon-Stimulated Gene 43%
  • Ubiquitins 36%

• 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

  • Life History 100%
  • Soay 85%
  • Quantitative Genetics 85%
  • Arctic Char 85%
  • Lifespan 85%

• 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