School of Biology

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• 758 Finished

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  Long term science 2018/19: Sea Mammal Research Unit Allocation for 2018/19 - Long Term Science

  Hall, A. J. (PI)

  NERC

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Standard

  • Blubber 100%
  • Persistent Organic Pollutant 100%
  • Pups 100%
  • Halichoerus Grypus 100%
  • Energy Balance 66%

• NERC NC National Public Good 2018 - 2023: Sea Mammal Research Unit NC-NPG activities to fulfill NERC's statutory duties.

  Sparling, C. E. (PI) & Hall, A. J. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Standard

  • Harbor Seal 100%
  • Blubber 83%
  • Pinnipedia 64%
  • Marine Mammal 63%
  • Cetacea 63%

• RIG grant Dr Christos Pilotas: Single-molecule structural imaging of mechanosensitive channels under tension

  Pliotas, C. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Standard

  • Transmembrane Protein 100%
  • Membrane Protein 100%
  • Escherichia coli 100%
  • Biological Functions 33%
  • Soluble Protein 33%

• Chronic Bee Paralysis: Chronic bee paralysis virus: The epidemiology, evolution and mitigation of an emerging threat to honey bees

  Evans, D. J. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/03/18 → 31/08/21

  Project: Standard

  • Honey Bees 100%
  • Deformed Wing Virus 50%
  • Population Dynamics 50%
  • Honeybee 50%
  • Virus 50%

• HiCUP: Development of a standardised marine mammal monitoring system for the tidal energy industry

  Hastie, G. D. (PI) & Gillespie, D. M. (CoI)

  NERC

  1/01/18 → 30/06/20

  Project: Standard

  • Turbine 100%
  • Ports and Harbors 62%
  • Scotland 33%
  • Multibeam Sonar 33%

• Tool manufacture and vocal repertoire in: Tool manufacture and vocal repertoire in Hawaiian crows

  Klump, B. C.

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/01/18 → 31/03/18

  Project: Standard

• Experimental Trial for Bycatch Reduction: Experimental trials for bycatch reduction

  Northridge, S. (PI)

  Dept for Environment Food and Rural Aff

  1/01/18 → 31/03/18

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 Catherine Adamson: ISSF3 Catherine Adamson

  Adamson, C. S. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/01/18 → 30/09/18

  Project: Standard

• H2020 MSCA Fellowship AGENTSEAL: Movement of Harbour seals: an individual-based modelling framework as a reliable mangement tool

  McConnell, B. J. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Fellowship

  • Apogee Boost Motors 100%
  • Site Fidelity 100%
  • Ecological Community 100%
  • Harbor Seal 100%
  • Case Study 100%

• develop of passive acoustic tracking: Continued development of a passive acoustic tracking system

  Northridge, S. (PI)

  Dept for Environment Food and Rural Aff

  1/01/18 → 31/03/18

  Project: Standard

• EU MARE 2016-22: FishPi2

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

  European Commission

  14/12/17 → 8/05/19

  Project: Standard

• Ellen Garland - RS URF Enhancement: Sexy singing: Cultural evolution and sexual selection in a complex song display.

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/12/17 → 31/03/21

  Project: Standard

  • Cetacea 100%
  • Megaptera novaeangliae 44%
  • New Zealand 33%
  • Humpback Whale 33%

• Research Fellows Enhancement Award 2017: A large-scale replicated artificial selection experiment.

  Morrissey, M. B. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/12/17 → 31/03/21

  Project: Standard

• Meeting the Sensitivity Grand Challenges: Meeting the sensitivity Grand Challenges in Pulsed Electron Magnetic Resonance

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

  EPSRC

  1/12/17 → 30/11/20

  Project: Standard

  • Gadolinium 100%
  • Distance Measurement 100%
  • Electron-Electron Double Resonance 100%
  • Spin Label 100%
  • Antenna 100%

• SFC ODA GCRF 2017/18 - J JONES: SFC ODA GCRF 2017/18 - J Jones

  Jones, J. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/12/17 → 30/04/18

  Project: Standard

  • Meloidogyne graminicola 100%
  • Genetics 100%
  • Nematode 100%
  • Plant Immunity 33%
  • Oryza 33%

• Coastal natural capital asset: Coastal natural capital asset integration into a 25 year environmental management and assessment plan

  Paterson, D. (PI)

  NERC

  13/11/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Standard

• Carolin Kosiol: Time-series on a phylogenetic tree

  Kosiol, C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/11/17 → 31/10/19

  Project: Standard

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

• BBSRC GCRF-IAA Extension 2017: BBSCR-GCRF-IAA Extension 2017

  Torrance, L. (PI), Jones, J. (CoI) & Kuhfuss, L. L. (CoI)

  BBSRC

  3/10/17 → 28/02/18

  Project: Standard

• BBSRC GCRF-IAA Extension 2017: Prof T Smith - BBSRC Seeding Funding

  Smith, T. K. (PI)

  BBSRC

  3/10/17 → 28/02/18

  Project: Standard

• Elasmobranch Project: Elasmobranch project

  James, M. A. (PI)

  2/10/17 → 30/09/20

  Project: Standard

• NERC Capital: NERC capital investment in new Gatty building

  Hall, A. J. (PI)

  NERC

  1/10/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Standard

• ASSEMBLE Plus: H2020 INFRA ASSEMBLE

  Paterson, D. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/10/17 → 30/09/21

  Project: Standard

  • Microphytobenthos 100%
  • Titanium Dioxide 100%
  • Glyphosate 100%
  • Herbicide 100%
  • Biofilm 100%

• SFC GCRF: Capacity and capability building for sustainable fisheries management in Lake Victoria to underpin food security in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, and related networking for future fisheries-to-human-health collaboration

  Brierley, A. S. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/10/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Standard

• ASSEMBLE Plus: H2020 INFRA ASSEMBLE

  Somorjai, I. M. L. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/10/17 → 30/09/21

  Project: Standard

  • Branchiostoma 100%
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy 53%
  • Cephalochordata 46%
  • Chordata 35%
  • Notochord 33%

• Sexy Singing: Cultural Evolution: Sexy singing: cultural evolution and sexual selection in a complex song display

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/10/17 → 30/09/22

  Project: Fellowship

  • Cetacea 100%
  • Humpback Whale 60%
  • Megaptera novaeangliae 36%

• Prof Martin Ryan - Pathfinder: Virus Replicons: development of attenuated virus vaccines/diagnosis reagents.

  Ryan, M. D. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/10/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Standard

• H2020 MSCA Fellowship SCAVENGER: H2020 MSCA Fellowship SCAVENGER

  Ruxton, G. D. (PI)

  European Commission

  25/09/17 → 24/09/19

  Project: Fellowship

• ISSF3 Invest People - Gloster: ISSF3 Gloster bridging

  Gloster, T. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/09/17 → 28/02/18

  Project: Standard

• Nest Building in Birds: Nest building in birds: a case of collaborative intelligence.

  Healy, S. (PI)

  Templeton World Charity Foundation

  1/09/17 → 29/02/20

  Project: Standard

  • Neglect 100%
  • Cultural Adaptation 100%
  • Social Learning 100%
  • Cognitive Process 100%
  • Relatedness 100%

• Cathy Adamson with Newcastle: Discovery of specific inhibitors of the cellular response to interferon

  Adamson, C. S. (PI)

  1/09/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Standard

• Prof D Evans - BBSRC Seeding: BBSRC Agri-food Technology Seeding Catalyst funding

  Evans, D. J. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/09/17 → 28/02/18

  Project: Standard

• Prof M Ryan - BBSRC Seeding: Prof Martin Ryan - BBSRC Seeding Award

  Ryan, M. D. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/09/17 → 28/02/18

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 Invest People - Czekster: ISSF3 Czekster

  Melo Czekster, C. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/09/17 → 31/08/18

  Project: Standard

  • Adenosine Triphosphate 100%
  • Phosphoribosyltransferase 100%
  • Histidine 37%
  • Pyrophosphate 37%

• ISSF 3 - Helder Ferreira Consumables: ISSF3 - Consumables

  Ferreira, H. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/09/17 → 28/02/18

  Project: Standard

• Dr Stuart MacNeill: Determining the three-dimensional architecture of a four-subunit eukaryotic DNA polymerase and complex

  MacNeill, S. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/08/17 → 30/11/18

  Project: Standard

  • Flap Endonuclease 100%
  • DNA Polymerase 100%
  • Protein Motif 100%
  • Isothermal Titration Calorimetry 100%
  • Chaetomium thermophilum 100%

• Resonant and shaped photonics for under: Resonant and shaped photonics for understanding the physical and biomedical world

  Gunn-Moore, F. J. (PI)

  EPSRC

  1/08/17 → 31/07/22

  Project: Standard

  • Alzheimer's Disease 100%
  • Neural Network 33%
  • FERM Domain 33%
  • Energy Transfer 33%
  • Oxidative Stress 33%

• Role of the Human Cytomegalovirus: Role of the Human Cytomegalovirus Major Immediate-Early 1 Protein in Viral Reactivation from Latency.

  Nevels, M. M. (PI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/08/17 → 31/07/20

  Project: Standard

  • Human Cytomegalovirus 100%
  • Gene Expression 66%
  • Protein Function 50%
  • Immediate Early Gene 50%
  • IFI16 50%

• PICCOLO: Processes Influencing Carbon Cycling: Observations of the Lower limb of the Antarctic Overturning (PICCOLO)

  Fedak, M. (PI) & Boehme, L. (CoI)

  NERC

  31/07/17 → 30/07/21

  Project: Standard

  • Global Ocean 100%
  • Water Salinity 100%
  • Water Temperature 100%
  • Southern Ocean 100%
  • Salinity 72%

• STFC Award: Byte-sized bioinformatics: bringing computational biology to schools

  Meagher, T. R. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  1/07/17 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

• Dr Carolin Kosiol: Genome-wide Molecular Dating

  Kosiol, C. (PI)

  1/07/17 → 31/12/20

  Project: Studentship

  • Allele 100%
  • High Throughput Sequencing 100%
  • Gene Frequency 100%
  • Baboon 100%
  • Comparative Genomics 100%

• ParaHox gene cluster: Determining major general regulatory mechanisms in the ParaHox gene cluster

  Ferrier, D. E. K. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  5/06/17 → 4/06/20

  Project: Standard

  • Branchiostoma 100%
  • Regulatory Element 66%
  • Functional Genomics 50%
  • Evolutionary Genomics 50%
  • Comparative Genomics 50%

• Lesley Torrance: The quikgro potato: an early maturing multiple stress tolerant potato crop for sub-Saharan Africa

  Torrance, L. (PI)

  BBSRC

  2/06/17 → 31/05/19

  Project: Standard

  • Transgenics 100%
  • Heat Stress 100%
  • Allele 100%
  • Protein Interaction 100%
  • Potato Virus Y 100%

• Rebecca McNeil Vacation Scholarship: The functional significance of coloration in sharks.

  Ruxton, G. D. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/06/17 → 12/07/17

  Project: Studentship

• Dr Ildiko: ISSF - Wellcome Trust

  Somorjai, I. M. L. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  15/05/17 → 14/02/18

  Project: Standard

  • Branchiostoma 100%
  • Cephalochordata 44%
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy 33%

• ISSF3 Public Engagement - Gloster: ISSF3 Gloster PE

  Gloster, T. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/05/17 → 31/08/18

  Project: Standard

• Development of Animal Virus Vaccines: Taiwan Partnering Award: Development of Animal Virus Vaccines - the Utilities of Replicon Systems and Infectious Copies

  Ryan, M. D. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/05/17 → 30/04/19

  Project: Standard

  • Immunogenicity 100%
  • Glycoprotein 100%
  • Subunit Vaccine 100%
  • Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus 50%
  • Bovine Ephemeral Fever Virus 50%

• Amazonia: Integrating remote sensing and ground-based spectral analysis to investigate biodiversity of archaeological sites in Amazonia.

  Meagher, T. R. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  1/04/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Standard

• Bycatch of protected species: Assessment of bycatch of protected species in UK fisheries

  Northridge, S. (PI)

  Dept for Environment Food and Rural Aff

  1/04/17 → 31/05/19

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 Seedcorn - Bischoff: ISSF3 Bischoff

  Bischoff, M. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/03/17 → 30/09/20

  Project: Studentship

• ISSF3 Seedcorn - Smith: ISSF3 T Smith

  Smith, T. K. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/03/17 → 30/09/20

  Project: Studentship