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Biological & Biomedical Sciences


Name: Emma Gates

Project Title: Acoustic assessment of Bottlenose Dolphins in relation to boat activity

Host: Professor Paul Thompson, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen

To find out more about Emma's project, please follow this link.





Name: David Catton

Project Title: Control of cell number in the brain of the fruit-fly Drosophila

Host: Dr Alicia Hidalgo, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham

To read more about Dave's project, please click here.




Name: Martin O'Neill

Project Title: The effect of nanoparticle exposure on male reproductive function

Host: Dr Gary Hutchison and Dr Eva Malone, School of Life Sciences, Napier University

Click here to read more about Martin's work.










Name: Abigail Cantor

Project Title: The anti-predator function of animal spots

Host: Dr Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

To read more about this project, please click here.







Name: Rosie McDowell
Project Title: Interactions between the 37 kDa laminin receptor precursors (37LRP) and key ligands
Host: Dr David J Timson and Dr John Nelson, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast

Click here to find out more about what Rosie did over the summer.











Name: Andrew Gee

Project Title: Investigating the hydration status of recreational walkers

Host: Dr Allan Hackett, Centre for Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies, Liverpool John Moores University

Click here to learn about Andrew's project.

Last Updated Wed, 22 October 2008