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Comparative analysis of immune response programmes employed by epithelial cells to fight natural infections in C. elegans
Microsporidia infections cause disease in agriculturally important hosts like fish, honeybees and shrimp, leading to significant economic impacts. Studying immune responses in the...
When food goes bad: understanding biofilm formation to prevent food spoilage
Almost 10% of the world's population do not get enough to eat. Since the global population is predicted to rise to 9.8 billion by 2050, we need to increase levels of food availabil...
Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-R: Future of Construction Workplace Health Monitoring
Given the disproportionate rate of fatalities and injuries in the construction industry and the potential of ambiguous health and hazardous situations with respect to the impending...
Animals, ecology, and the rural social system: pastoralists and their Cistercian neighbours in upland southern France, 1100-1350
Inspired by the innovative fields of medieval animal and environmental history, my research aims to enhance our understanding of how medieval animals could be considered agents tha...
Veterinary medicines and feed additives in the environment following use in the poultry industry
Veterinary medicines are a mainstay of modern farming practice and are widely used to treat disease and to protect the health of animals. However, following their use these chemica...
University of Manchester - Oxford Nanopore PromethION
Technological developments in how we identify, characterise and count molecules (e.g. DNA) in cells has been fundamentally altered through the development of a new technique by Oxf...
Collaborative Research: Interactions of Sustainable Urban Design with Gentrification Processes
Cities around the world aim to advance sustainable and resilient built environments that equitably reduce carbon emissions, mitigate heat island effects, and enhance urban livabili...
Collaborative Research: Interactions of Sustainable Urban Design with Gentrification Processes
Cities around the world aim to advance sustainable and resilient built environments that equitably reduce carbon emissions, mitigate heat island effects, and enhance urban livabili...
Mechanisms of Pathogenicity and Host Specificity of the Oomycete Plant Pathogen Phytophthora palmivora
Phytophthora palmivora is a fungus-like eukaryotic microorganism that causes devastating diseases of numerous agriculturally and ecologically important plants, including cacao, a t...
ERI: Dynamic membranes in anaerobic wastewater treatment systems: Enhancing mitigation of emerging microbial threats to promote safe water reuse
Anerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) are providing new opportunities to design, build, and deploy a new generation of treatment processes that can recover clean water from wastew...
NRT-URoL: A Convergent Training Program on Biological Control
Living systems have a remarkable ability to self-regulate and adapt by using feedback to respond to their ever-changing environment. For example, bacteria migrate towards food sour...
Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology
The Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology (QCB) aims to revolutionize our understanding of cells via the creation of whole-cell models that faithfully capture...
Postdoctoral Fellowship: PRFB: Estimating the role of floral isolation in complex trait evolution and plant speciation
This action funds an NSF Plant Genome Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2024. The fellowship supports a research and training plan in a host laboratory for the Fel...
Explaining variation in extreme selfish behavior: Untangling the co-evolutionary relationship of cannibalism, dispersal and kin discrimination.
Selfish behavior can provide significant advantages in nature, allowing individuals to increase their survival and reproductive success at the expense of others. One of the most ex...
Collaborative Research: Assessing current and future dust flux from the Northern Great Plains, U.S. with extreme climate variability and insights from the 1930s Dust Bowl drought
Dust storms rarely happen in the Northern Great Plains today, but a dust storm in 2022 could illustrate future storms under intense drought conditions. The last time extensive drou...
Collaborative Research: Assessing current and future dust flux from the Northern Great Plains, U.S. with extreme climate variability and insights from the 1930s Dust Bowl drought
Dust storms rarely happen in the Northern Great Plains today, but a dust storm in 2022 could illustrate future storms under intense drought conditions. The last time extensive drou...
China Eximbank provides RMB 290 million concessional loan for Vang Vieng Cement Plant No. 2 Construction Project
China Eximbank provides RMB 290 million concessional loan for Vang Vieng Cement Plant No. 2 Construction Project In 1999, Lao Cement Public Company (LCC) was established as a joint...
China Eximbank provides $20 million export seller's credit for 30MW Thapanzeik Hydropower Plant Construction Project
China Eximbank provides $20 million export seller's credit for 30MW Thapanzeik Hydropower Plant Construction Project On November 20, 1998, China International Trust and Investment...
Is cultured meat a threat or opportunity for UK farmers?
This research will critically assess the potential impact on UK agriculture of cultured meat, a technology with possibly profound and uncertain implications for the future of food...
Eleventh African Materials Research Society (A-MRS) Conference
This award to the Materials Research Society (MRS) will be predominantly used to support travel and participating costs of students and young scientists currently working in Americ...