Recent titles of Research Projects offered

The Department offers the choice of ‘wet’ or ‘dry’ projects, which are undertaken in the Lent Term.

Characterising the function of specialised ribosomes during germline stem cell self-renewal and differentiation
Comparison of CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene-tagging protocols
Evolutionary variation of the fine-scale recombination map in cichlid fish
The species concept and genomic differences between orangutans
Hemizygote disadvantage in Arabidopsis
Identifying cancer vulnerabilities
Synthetic approach to dissecting Ras inhibition by a novel class of Ras-interacting proteins
Phenotypic and molecular analysis of mice carrying mutations in genes regulating epigenetic machinery during development
Integrating biological information in C.elegans to understand the causes of phenotypic variation
Evolution of endogemous small RNAs across arthropods
Mechanochemical signalling in aggregates of embryonic stem cells
Engineering a synthetic light controlled gene expression system for plants
RNA modifications as regulators of protein synthesis during cell stress
Isolation & characterisation of mitochondrial mutants using targeted restriction enzymes in Drosophila

Using sequence data to understand influenza evolution
Identification of protein localisation signals in yeast
Epigenetic regulation of imprinted genes
Translational control of stem cell differentiation
Genetically supervised self-organisation in aggregates of embryonic stem cells
The role of FGF in zebrafish posterior body elongation
How much do small RNAs in mammalian sperm contribute to preimplantation development?
Genome reduction and pathogenicity in bacteria
Indole signalling and persistence
The coding potential of imprinted priRNAs
The immune response to the parasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardi in resistant and susceptible Drosophila lines
Consequences of transposon activity on gene transcription in the tomato plant
The role of endoplasmic reticulum in cell physiology
Characterisation of ZFP expression in the brain
Germ line consequences of genotoxic stress caused by mutation of C. elegans heterochromatin & RNAi factors
Testing odour discrimination in Drosophila larvae
RNAi screen for kinases required for oocyte polarity

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