Recent titles of Research Projects offered

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

Integrating ancient African Y-chromosome lineages into present-day phylogenies.
Topoisomerase II depletion by the auxin-inducible degron system in human cells.
Mammalian epigenetic control: chromosome architecture and topology in vivo – new insights from genomic imprinting.
Dissecting Ras inhibition by a novel class of Ras-interacting proteins - a synthetic approach.
CRISPR-mediated deletion of transposable elements.
How does an innate immune system recognize a pathogen that is very similar to the host?
Mechanisms regulating genomic stability during germline development.
Examine the role of polymerase gamma(tam) in mitochondrial DNA replication and elimination.
Functional circuitry of odour discrimination in Drosophila larvae.
Comparative analysis of cancer gene expression data.
Genetic basis of bullseye pattern formation in Hibiscus flowers.
Screening for genes that regulate axonal endoplasmic reticulum structure.
Analysing single cell learning and behaviour with machine learning approaches.
Drosophila nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
Exploring population turnover using evolutionary genetic simulation.
Systems-level quantitative analyses of spindle pole asymmetric fate.
The role of centrosome anchoring and release in Drosophila dorsal-ventral axis formation.
A New Approach to the Treatment of UTIs.
Why does life history predict genomic diversity?

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.
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 endogenous 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.

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