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School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences

First Year PhD Student Talks

15 January 2021 - 30 April 2021

Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm
Venue: Online (link circulated by email the morning of the talks)

Note different time for 16th April of 11am - 12pm

Friday 15th January

Name

Supervisor

Title

Zara Farooq

Dr Lesley Howell

Targeting the G Protein-Coupled Receptor, CB2, towards the Development of Novel Anticancer Therapeutics.

Roman Halaksa

Dr Christian Nielsen

Novel oligoglycol-containing polymers for organic electrochemical transistors

Amira Uddin

Dr Devis Di Tommaso

In-silico design of metal-carbonaceous catalysts for the CO2 transformation into value added chemicals

Friday 22nd January

Name

Supervisor

Title

Raphael Leon

Dr Yannick Wurm

Analysing different ant behaviours using the deep learning program DeepLabCut

Danielle Marchant

Dr Pavel Kratina

The effects of microplastics on freshwater communities and ecosystems

Francisco Manuel Martin Zamora

Dr Chema Martin

The role and dynamics of histone modifications in spiral cleavage

Friday 29th January

Name

Supervisor

Title

Magdalena Hübner

Prof Conrad Bessant

Towards an autonomous in silico researcher: Using logic modelling to automate the explanation of unexpected results

Danylo Gorenkin

Dr Aravindan Ilangovan

Elucidation of the F-plasmid relaxosome architecture using Cryo-EM

Christoforos Efstathiou

Prof Viji Draviam

Developing Tools for live-cell imaging in the millisecond regime using Electrically Tunable Lenses

Friday 5th February

Name

Supervisor

Title

Sara Molas Medina

Dr Isabelle Mareschal

The influence of hippocampal mechanisms on visual learning

Jenni Kahkonen

Prof Michael Pluess

Individual Differences in Children’s Sensitivity to the School Context

Anna-Theresa Jieman

Dr Janelle Jones

Strong Black Women? Investigating the role of intersectionality in the experience, treatment, and outcomes of common mental disorders among Black women.

Friday 12th February

Name

Supervisor

Title

Christos Matsingos

Dr Arianna Fornili

Regulation of a proton-sensing GPCR for cancer therapy: A combined in vivo and in silico approach

Pauline de Bigault de Cazanove

Prof Marina Resmini

Biodegradable Plastic: Understanding the chemistry and its environmental impact

Xu Leng

Dr Yao Lu

Durable bioinspired materials for antibiofouling applications

Linchao Sun

Dr Yao Lu

Intelligent biomimetic actuating materials

Friday 19th February

Name

Supervisor

Title

Pascaline Francelle

Dr Ozge Eyice

Bioplastics interactions with microbial communities along the fresh and saltwater interface

Elvira Hernandez Gutierrez

Dr Laura Kelly (Kew), Prof Richard Nichols

Assessing the risk to plant health in the UK from future Agrilus invasions

Weiling Huang

Prof Maurice Elphick

Discovery and functional characterisation of tachykinin-type and bombesin-type neuropeptide signalling systems in an echinoderm.

Friday 26th February

Name

Supervisor

Title

Tongchen Liao

Prof Conrad Mullineaux

Role of CikA in light sensing in Cyanobacteria

Joshua Kaplan

Dr Vidya Darbari

Structural characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence proteins that modulate the host immune response.

Megan Downes

Dr Ewan Main

Overcoming antibiotic resistance: Hijacking Type 3 Secretion System chaperones as novel therapeutics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Friday 5th March

Name

Supervisor

Title

Yonghe Zhou

Prof Lars Chittka

Effort-based decision making in bumblebees

Agnieszka Bubel

Dr Margherita Malanchini

Using DNA to predict behaviour problems from infancy to adulthood.

Friday 12th March

Name

Supervisor

Title

Xiang Li

Dr Cristina Giordano

Novel Electrolysers for Clean Energy Production

Qi Li

Dr Christopher Jones

The role of Fe in conjunction with N-doping on oxygen electrocatalysis

Christian Osborne

Dr Stoichko Dimitrov

Novel optical spectroscopy analysis of printable semiconductors

Azeem Ghulam Nabi

Dr Devis Di Tommaso

In silico design of Cu-based nanoparticles for the CO2 reduction reaction

Friday 19th March

Name

Supervisor

Title

Ana Martinez Rodriguez

Dr Iwan Jones

Disentangling the direct and indirect effects of bioplastics on freshwater communities

Luke Sarre

Dr Alexandre de Mendoza

Understanding the evolution of DNA methylation

Taoping Wu

Dr Lee Henry

Get by with help from your little friends: explaining defensive symbiont dynamics in aphids

Friday 26th March

Name

Supervisor

Title

Xuankai Huang

Dr Isaac Abrahams

New Materials for Next Generation Battery System

Yaojia Long

Dr Yao Lu

High efficiency photothermal systems with the assistance of superwetting materials

Jing Ming

Dr Cristina Giordano

Novel Materials for Waste Valorisation and Biofuels Development

Simiao Yu

Dr Christian Nielsen

New materials for bioelectronic applications

Friday 9th April

Name

Supervisor

Title

Tom Falkenstein

Prof Michael Pluess

The Role of Patients’ Sensitivity in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy

Sophie Heer

Dr Isabelle Mareschal

Determinants of Information Selection During Vision

Adam Tod

Dr Guifen Chen

Neuronal basis of cross-modal sensory integration for navigation

Yuzhu Zhang

Dr Frederike Beyer

Behavioural Tendencies and Mentalizing under Betrayal-Related Threat

Friday 16th April, 11am - 12pm

Name

Supervisor

Title

Anant Khanna

Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero

Towards the rational design of highly emissive materials

Haseeb Ur Rehman Shah

Dr Christopher Jones

MSTAIT – Modelling, Synthesis and Testing of Anti-Inflammatory and Pro-resolving Therapeutics

Peng Ren

Dr Isaac Abrahams

New Li+ ion conducting solid electrolytes for all solid state batteries

Qi Zhao

Dr Devis Di Tommaso

Insight into the active site and reaction mechanism for CH4 activation on metal oxides

Friday 23rd April

Name

Supervisor

Title

Balig Panossian

Dr Lee Henry

You've got a friend in me: Deciphering the genomics of host empowerment by facultative endosymbionts

Said Ismael Ng’ang’a

Dr Laurent Frantz

Genomics of African Indigenous Cattle

Wenbin Kang

Prof Maurice Elphick

Mapping peptidergic motoneurons in an echinoderm

Friday 30th April

Name

Supervisor

Title

Danhong Li

Prof Alexander Ruban

The Role of LHCII Environment in Regulating the Light Harvesting in Green Plants

Saanjbati Adhikari

Prof Viji Draviam

Chromosome segregation: How chromosome-microtubule attachments are monitored?

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