Examples of recent BBS Dissertation titles for Genetics 'Majors'

Examples of BBS dissertation titles from previous years

• The genetic basis of repeated rapid adaptation to fresh water environments in three-spined sticklebacks
• Discuss the experimental evidence for and against the "Activation-Transformation" model of anterior-posterior patterning of the vertebrate nervous system"
• Trace the economic and biological causes of the current antibiotic resistance crisis. Is there a solution and, if so, does it lie in the hands of patients, clinicians, regulators or researchers?
• Human (especially female) meiosis is extraordinarily error-prone. What progress has been made in understanding the molecular basis for this genetic problem?
• Transcriptional gene silencing in plants.
• Can the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia eliminate vector-borne disease?
• How can model organism genetics best be combined with identification of the genetic causes of rare recessive diseases, to improve our understanding of basic biology, disease mechanisms, and potential therapies?
• Proposals were announced earlier this year to close down two leading UK mouse genetics facilities. Considering both the scientific and financial issues involved, assess the advisability of these closures.
• Organoids: a bright future?
• Aneuploidy in cancer: lessons so far.
• Transposable elements – a powerful force driving evolution.
• Genetic Mechanisms of pattern formation on the surface of plants and animals.
• Issues with identification and interpretation of variants of unknown significance.
• A case study of differences in incidences of different types of cancer in India, US and the UK and what we can learn from it.
• Control of spindle orientation in asymmetric cell divisions.
• Indole produced by the human gut microbiome has been proposed to affect the progress and severity of a wide variety of health conditions. Critically review these claims and discuss the prospects for using the modulation of indole signalling to improve treatment regimes.
• What is inclusive fitness, and what is it for?
• How important was the functional impact of archaic admixture on the human genome
• "Genetic mechanisms of pattern formation on the surface of plant and animals’.
• Does our modern understanding of epigenetics challenge the tenets of neo-Darwinism?
• Modelling in Biology: accurate descriptions of our pathetic thinking or pathetic descriptions of the real world?