Current Final Years

Meg Warden	Ancestral functions of genes regulated by imprinting in mammals	Akshita Jindal	NetClamp: a new experimental tool to manipulate neural networks
Amy Amin	Probing the function of dopaminergic inputs to the cerebellum	Carolina Gaudenzi	Interaction of Regulatory Factor X (RFX) factors and the mineralocorticoid receptor
David Alliband	Autophagy control of human neuroinflammatory signalling pathways	Niharika Singh	How are astrocytes made? Transcriptional regulation of astrocyte specification across development and adulthood
Alexandre Pinto	How do untranslated regions of cannabinoid receptor type 1 mRNA determinereceptor subcellular localisation and function	Lucie Tkacova	Investigating the Mitochondrial Basis of Neuronal ageing
Tanya Kaur	Run, eat, sleep, repeat: Hypothalamic integration of homeostatic and circadian	Salma Haniffa	Visual-spatial processing within the retrosplenial cortex
Tom Gerrard	Phenotypic and Genotypic diversity in Moraxella catarrhalis: Using Population Biology to Understand Antimicrobial Resistance and Pathogenesis	Meg Sambrook	Functional roles of presynaptic opioid receptors
Joe Flanagan	Investigating the molecular and synaptic mechanisms which underlie the sustained antidepressant effects of NMDA receptor antagonists	Iwan Williams	Cutting edge novel technologies to investigate lysosomal channels and transporters important in recovery post-autophagy

Current Third Years

Chenxing Jiang	Unravelling the molecular mechanisms of organelle communication in the regulation of cellular lipid metabolism and developmental processes	Elsa Oakes	The cellular and synaptic mechanisms for the effects of psychedelics on flexible memory representations in the hippocampus
James Boyd	Genetic Engineering Tumour Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) to achieve enhanced tumour killing	Rabia Sevil	Investigating the role of senescence in musculoskeletal ageing
Ben Murcott	Understanding the genetic basis of reproductive strategy in a parasitic nematode system	Ríona Burke	Non-genetic paternal effects on offspring reproduction and health: mechanisms and evolutionary consequences in a bird model system
Cameron Haddow	Molecular mechanisms of the ubiquitin system	Selina Diether	Understanding receptor-mediated mechanosensing and signalling in cell barrier function during tissue homeostasis and stress responses
Hanady Nehme	Understanding the Role of Extracellular Vesicle/Exosome Transport in the Visual System	Jennika Bates	Exploring genotype-phenotype correlations in Sox10 mutations

Current Second Years

Emily Davis	Studying early human embryo development using stem cell models	Fotis Gkoutzourelas	Decoding secret conversations inside cells: Understanding how organelle interactions in human cells are regulated during the cell cycle
Chelsea Stevens	Imaging analysis of muscle progenitor and stem cell activation in differentiation and repair	Jonathan Odira Osano	Sub-cellular localisation and functional effects of micro/nanoplastics on aquaculture fish with coherent Raman microscopy
Ajay Elamaran	The molecular basis of host manipulation by a parasitic worm	Kelli Gallacher	Enhancing MITF transcription factor activity using protein engineering to investigate melanocyte development and improve melanoma treatment
Andrew Cadzow	Time-resolved kinetic and structural understanding of essential enzymes to develop novel herbicides	Tom Jenniches Perez	Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Enzyme Activity in Brain and Beyond
Foteini Xeni	Ageing and body clock rhythms: The importance of a social network	Morgan Jones	The arthropod megaphylogeny and the origin of Earth’s biodiversity
Emilee Sinkala	Divergent sleep behaviour – An evolutionary approach to understand why we sleep	George Mather	Characterising the role of in vivo cell-to-cell communication in the stress system
Florrie Newman	Investigating the role of neuronal metabolism in excitation/inhibition balance	Tom Duffy	Combining artificial intelligence based drug discovery and automated patch clamping to revolutionise our understanding of lysosomal ion channels
Gabi Bergmane	How do GluD1 glutamate receptors in the hippocampal CA2 region control social behaviours and related mental health conditions?	Tumi Moswete	Investigating the impact of neuroactive drug exposure on the developmental and functional neurobiology of the vertebrate brain
Trevor Au Yeung	Investigating the interactions of incretin hormone mimetics with hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system arginine vasopressin and oxytocin release	Yolanda Li	Development of dendritic signal processing in the brain: a role for GABAergic interneurons?

Current First Years

Brent Foster	Decoding signal computation in pluripotent stem cells	Yana Skvortsova	The molecular basis of regulating branched microtubule nucleation
Chris Slack	Investigating the structure, function and dynamics of the P2X7 receptor ballast domain	Ashvini Wijayapala	Rhomboid proteolysis: a novel regulator of synaptic function
Krishna Kerai	Maintaining human lung – the role of fibroblasts and lipids in alveolar regeneration	Louis Grelet	How visual systems are adapted to their environments
Maddie Vincent	Unlocking the molecular mechanisms governing stem cell dormancy	Victoria Lievens	Defining the neuronal autophagosome assembly site: spatiotemporal control ATG9A trafficking in human iPSC-derived neurons
Michael Perret	Developing an axenic media to grow the currently uncultivable Mycobacterium leprae	Ciara Brennan	Defining the role of astrocytes in neuronal health and the implications of neuroinflammation
Amy Jones	Role of cholesterol and cholesterol metabolites in brain development	Raven Huiberts	Standing up to threats: Understanding the neural mechanisms underpinning threat-related changes in balance control
Rose Pugh	Mechanisms of colour change in chameleon prawns – from genes to sensory ecology	Olivia Rose	Novel targets for overcoming antimicrobial resistance and tolerance: multikinase network signalling in Burkholderia pseudomallei