Projects
The Genetics Department offers the choice of “wet” or “dry” projects, which are undertaken in the Lent Term.
Examples of project titles offered from recent previous years
- Investigating the mechanisms of pattern regulation in the zebrafish tailbud
- Signalling mechanisms controlling petal patterning
- Generation of mutant mouse ESCs to investigate mechanisms controlling
- Modelling the demographic and selective processes shaping diversification of a crater lake cichlid fish
- Regulation of transposon alternative splicing in the soma and germline
- Is Topoisomerase 2 alpha required to maintain mitotic chromosome
- Dynamics of TRIM28 activity upon rapid depletion
- Lactobacillus versus E. coli
- Diet-induced alterations of skeletal morphology in an East African cichlid: Intersections of epigenetics and phenotypic plasticity
- Exploring population genetic spatial processes
- Characterising plant molecular compasses and their role(s) in petal pattern
- Exploration and bioinformatics analysis of disease comorbidities
- Demographic history of diverse species from whole genome sequences
- mRNA decay and the control of germline stem cell differentiation
- 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?
