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Spaceflight and brain: plasticity under extreme conditions
Spaceflight represents an extreme environment, characterized by microgravity and space radiation, offering the possibility to study brain plasticity under abnormal conditions. Prev...
Plastics, Chemicals, and Pollution: How Science Can Guide Global Policy for a Healthier Planet
This project aims to enhance global decision-making on chemicals and plastic pollution by providing robust and science-based guidance to policy-makers at key international forums l...
Next generation organ-chip models - integrating 3D mechano-predictive environments
The project focuses on developing, validating and adopting 3D matrix environments within organ-chip models to explore the impact of local physical cell environment on phenotype and...
Hippocampal navigation and place recognition
The existence of place, directional, boundary and grid cells in the rat hippocampal formation provides strong evidence that it functions as a cognitive map containing map-like repr...
Do not forget the father: Multigenerational effects of adult male Phthalate exposure
While the adverse effects of maternal lifestyle and in utero exposures on offspring development and health are well studied, the effects of adult male preconceptional exposures hav...
A Research Platform Addressing Outstanding Research Challenges for Nanoscale Design and Engineering of Multifunctional 2D Materials
Emerging materials science and nanoscale engineering spawn extraordinary structures. During my ERC-StG, I discovered a new family of internally-ordered 3D atomic laminates that I c...
SBIR Phase I: Advanced Ransomware Countermeasure
The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to provide ransomware countermeasures. Commercially available antivirus solutio...
Development of Understanding of the effects of Laser Cladding on Novel Iron- Based Hardfacing Materials
Nuclear power plants are complex engineering structures with a multitude of different components required to make them operate.One area that rarely hits the headlines, but it funda...
WAARC: Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture
Universities, funders and researchers are in the midst of an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion revolution.The recognition that university research cultures are exclusionary has now...
Investigating mucin-immune interactions in the female reproductive tract during helminth infection
Helminths are parasitic worms that cause infections in mammalian hosts, including people.One of the most common forms of helminth infection is schistosomiasis, caused by parasitic...
Autonomous multi-agent systems for constrained devices in bu ilding automation domain
The automation system needs to evaluate the state of the environment and the capabilities afforded by the equipment, and consequently, based on the requirements needs to put in to...
Optical Tomography (OCT) and Deep Learning for Breast Cancer
The development on new materials and the study of their properties underpins technological development.At the current time, one of the biggest challenges society faces is how to su...
Towards a cost effective high quality 5 qubit device (Q High-5)
Purpose and goal: The expected project results are summarized as follows: Development of 5 qubit logic structures Fabrication of wafer scale 5 qubit architectures Validation of des...
Spatial and temporal regulation of nutrient sensing
Project Summary / Abstract Cells need to sense the nutrient availability to adjust their survival strategy. In eukaryotic cells, the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 (mTOR...
Flight of Urban Windborne Debris
Windborne debris (roof tiles, branches) accounts for anywhere between 10 and 30% of the damage during windstorms.A previous EPSRC project funded a PhD student to look at the free f...
SCARLETT - SCAlable, structured and Resource efficient indoor robotic harvesting of LETTuce
If a robot had to pick up an apple in darkness, should we build a complex AI based vision system or just 'switch on' the light? The same is the challenge of getting robot...
Microfluidics for Synchrotron to unlock structural changes in biomolecules
This is a project in close partnership with Diamond, the UK's national synchrotron science facility, to develop microfluidic tools for use on high energy beams used to probe m...
Tensor Tomographic Imaging for Foliage Penetration (FOPEN)
The main aim of this PhD is to develop the tools that are fundamental in resolving the challenges faced by Radar Imaging, especially in a forestry environment. For instance, how wo...
The Role of free Extracellular DNA in determining The Environmental Antibiotic Resistome
Free extracellular DNA (FED) is DNA dissolved in waters and in soils, where it arrives after being excreted by livingorganisms or following the disruption of living cells.FED can b...
An ethical investigation into environmental sustainability in healthcare.
Healthcare as an industry is one of the most environmentally destructive on earth in almost every respect (e.g. energy use, harmful gas emissions, and physical waste).The enormous...