School of Biology

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• 758 Finished

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  Benthic Responses to Extreme Weather Events

  Hope, J. A. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/05/24 → 30/04/25

  Project: Standard

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

  Ferrier, D. E. K. (PI)

  1/05/24 → 30/04/27

  Project: Standard

• Impact of Microplastics Pollution

  Hope, J. A. (PI)

  Marine March Initiative

  1/05/24 → 31/10/25

  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. B. (PI)

  Tenovus-Scotland

  1/04/24 → 31/03/25

  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)

  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%
  • Evolution 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%

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

  Bailey, N. W. (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

  • Time Series 100%
  • Price 100%
  • Body Size 100%

• 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

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

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

  Medical Research Council

  1/10/23 → 31/03/25

  Project: Standard

• 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

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

  James, M. A. (PI)

  EPSRC

  1/06/23 → 31/05/25

  Project: Standard

• 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

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

  Hughes, D. J. (PI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/04/23 → 31/05/25

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

  UKRI (EU)

  1/03/23 → 28/02/27

  Project: Standard

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

  Morrissey, M. B. (PI)

  NERC

  1/03/23 → 30/06/26

  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%
  • Evolution 100%

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

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

  UKRI (EU)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/26

  Project: Standard

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

  White, M. (PI)

  EPSRC

  1/11/22 → 31/10/25

  Project: Standard

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

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/10/22 → 30/09/25

  Project: Fellowship

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

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/10/22 → 30/09/25

  Project: Fellowship

  • Cetacea 100%
  • Amplicon Sequencing 50%
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex 50%
  • Baleen Whale 50%

• Do fish cooperate to inspect predators?

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

  BBSRC iCASE PhD studentship through EASTBIO Doctoral Training Programme

  27/09/22 → 26/09/26

  Project: Standard

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

• 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

• Sue Healy TWCF: Transitions in the evolution of cognition: the case of hummingbirds and the bees

  Healy, S. (PI)

  Templeton World Charity Foundation

  1/08/22 → 28/02/25

  Project: Standard

• Genomics of Host-Parasite Coevolution: Genomics of Host-Parasite Coevolution: A Test of Arms Race and Red Queen Dynamics in a Wild Insect System

  Bailey, N. W. (PI) & Zhang, X. (CoI)

  3/07/22 → 2/07/25

  Project: Standard

  • Teleogryllus oceanicus 100%
  • Field Cricket 66%
  • Parasitoid 66%
  • Morphs 66%
  • Social Environment 66%

• Bycatch Monitoring Programme: Defra Tender Submission - Bycatch Monitoring Programme

  Northridge, S. (PI) & Thomas, L. (CoI)

  1/06/22 → 31/05/25

  Project: Standard

• Demographic shifts in the global: Demographic shifts in the global sea floor

  Dornelas, M. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/05/22 → 30/04/25

  Project: Standard

• Molecular basis for Rift Valley fever ph: Molecular basis for Rift Valley fever phlebovirus NSs protein function

  Schwarz-Linek, U. (PI) & White, M. (CoI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/04/22 → 31/03/25

  Project: Standard

• NERC Open Access Funding: NERC Open Access Funding

  Sparling, C. E. (PI)

  NERC

  1/04/22 → 31/03/25

  Project: Standard

• PoMoSelect: Disentangling Modes of Selec: PoMoSelect: Disentangling Modes of Selection

  Kosiol, C. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/02/22 → 31/01/25

  Project: Standard

  • Allele 100%
  • Evolution 100%
  • Gene Conversion 83%
  • Genomics 77%
  • Balancing Selection 66%

• BATSPEAK: BATSPEAK

  Vernes, S. (PI)

  European Research Council

  1/01/22 → 31/07/25

  Project: Standard

  • Animal Communication 100%
  • Machine Learning 100%
  • Mormoopidae 100%

• Joyful by nature a comparative approach: Joyful by nature: a comparative approach to the evolution and function of joy in intelligent species

  Janik, V. (PI)

  Templeton World Charity Foundation

  15/12/21 → 14/12/24

  Project: Standard

  • Positive Emotion 100%
  • Positive Affect 50%

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

  Brierley, A. S. (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. C. (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%

• Drivers of Ocean Change in Amundsen Sea: Drivers of Ocean Change in the Amundsen Sea (DeCAdeS)

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

  NERC

  1/07/20 → 30/06/25

  Project: Standard

• NSF with Lincoln: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO BIOACOUSTICS: Integrating phylogenomics, biophysics, and functional genomics to unravel the evolution of hearing and sin

  Bailey, N. W. (PI)

  NERC

  1/03/20 → 28/02/25

  Project: Standard

  • Genomics 100%
  • Ensifera 75%
  • Intraspecific Variation 50%
  • Evolutionary Adaptation 50%

• 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 50%
  • Species Richness 35%