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Student Year Started CP1 CP2 CP3 Summer Project
Max Ahmed 2007 Investigating the 'catch-bond' mechanism of staphylococcus aureus using optical tweezers ErbB signalling network and the effect of inhibitors    
Arturo Araujo 2007 The dynamics and robustness of network motifs in transcription networks Emergent properties in morphogenesis by means of computational simulations    
Victoria Harris 2007 Modeling antibiotic resistance in bacterial biofilms as a result of persister cell formation Exploring the effects of microtubule forces on the positioning of the mitotic spindle in various Eukaryote cells    
Raphaela Heussen 2007 Investigating selection pressure on the argonaute family in drosophila and its significance with regards to RNAi Analysis of the ErbB network model and its limitations    
Gwenan Knight 2007 Investigating the evolution of codon allocation      
Julija Krupic 2007 How grating adaptation and rapid eye movements change the percieved event time Regulation of microtubule dynamics by TAO proteins    
Dorothy Kuipers 2007 Lateralisation of pain and touch specific cortical responses in human infants Application of machine learning to fMRI data for diagnosis and treatment prediction of depression    
Kevin Lau 2007 Microfluidic mixing in microbioreactors Modelling Eukaryote kinetochore attachment using biased search and capture    
Sarah Mauthoor 2007 Modelling cerebral autoregulation      
Charles Mullon 2007        
Lorrette Noiret 2007 Estimation of dates of pseudogenization events      
Johannes Riegler 2007 Random X-chromosome inactivation in human The epidermal growth factor receptor network and colorectal cancer    
David Schulz 2007 Time matters: understanding neural dynamics by non-static dimension reduction techniques Dynamic causal model for fMRI analysis: using the Fisher kernel to discriminate cognitive states    
Ross Williamson 2007 Modeling nonlinearities in auditory cortical responses Bayesian advances in fMRI data analysis    


Current Doctoral Students

Student Year PhD Started Topic Supervisor 1 Supervisor 2
FIRST YEAR PhD STUDENTS
Matthew Caldwell 2007 Presynaptic control of inhibitory neurotransmitter release in the cerebellum

Dr. Guy Moss

Pharmacology

Dr. Trevor Smart

Pharmacology

Yoana Dimitrova 2007 Modelling the perception of shape from shading

Prof. Alan Johnston

Phsycology

Dr. Peter McOwan

Queen Mary, UoL

David Fallaize 2007 Simulating T-cell receptor activation on the macromolecular scale

Dr. John Ladbury

Biochemistry

Dr. Mark Williams

Birkbeck

Ben Hall 2007 Visual hearing aid

Prof. John Shawe-Taylor

Computer Science

Prof. Alan Johnston

Psychology

Ed Long 2007 Agent-based modelling of pathological inflammatory processes

Dr. Sylvia Nagl

Clinical Oncology

Dr. Steven Barrett

GlaxoSmithKline R&D Ltd

James Muir 2007 Investigating GABA receptor dynamics with live-cell imaging

Prof. Josef Kittler

Physiology

Prof. Lewis Griffin

Computer Science

Andy Newell 2007 Discriminating visual categories using spatial complexes of basic image patterns

Prof. Lewis Griffin

Computer Science

Prof. Alan Johnston

Psychology

Rosanna Smith 2007 Bio-engineering functional neuronal circuits

Dr. Stephen Prince

Anatomy

Dr. Franco Cacialli

Physics

Sam Tazzman 2007 The evolution of sexual preferences and exaggerated sexual characters through sexual conflict and sexual selection

Prof. Andrew Pomiankowski

Biology

Prof. Rob Seymour

Mathematics

SECOND YEAR PhD STUDENTS
Irenjet Bains 2006
Modelling T cell dynamics in HIV

Prof. Robin Callard

ICH

Dr. Karen Page

Mathematics

Justin Chumbley 2006
Statistical estimation in dynamic models

Prof. Karl Friston

Wellcome Trust Imaging Laboratory

Prof. John Shawe-Taylor

Computer Science

Michael Cohen

2006
The evolution of homeostasis in multicellular organisms

Dr. Buzz Baum

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Dr. Mark Miodownik

King's College

Samantha Lee 2006
Studying neuropeptide signalling Dr. Guy Moss

Pharmacology

Dr. Dave Klenerman

Cambridge

Remigio Picone 2006
Intrinsic and extrinsic control of cell shape and polarity

Dr. Rachel McKendry

London Centre for Nanotechnology

Dr. Buzz Baum

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Andrew Rider 2006
Modelling motion coherence using local alignment rules

Prof. Alan Johnston

Psychology

Dr. Peter McOwan

Psychology

Nuno Rocha Nene
2006
New techniques for agent-based modelling in systems biology

Dr. Sylvia Nagl

Clinical Oncology

Dr. Christopher Clack

Computer Science

Alexander Stewart 2006
The construction of complex gene networks by natural selection

Prof. Andrew Pomiankowski

Biology

Prof. Rob Seymour

Mathematics

Thomas Sumner 2006
Glucose homeostasis

Prof. David Bogle

Chemical Engineering

Prof. Elizabeth Shephard

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

David Wright 2006
Development of binding affinity calculations for HIV reverse tanscriptase inhibitors and design of a binding advisory tool

Prof. Peter Coveney

Chemistry

Dr. Paul Kellam

Dept of Infection

Lisa Willis 2006 Mathematical modelling and experimental investigation of cancer dormancy and metastasis

Dr. Karen Page

Mathematics

Dr. Ian Tomlinson

CRUK

THIRD YEAR PhD STUDENTS
Richard Allen 2005
Modelling endothelial responses to fluid flow.

Prof. David Bogle

Chemical Engineering

Prof. Anne Ridley

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Patricia Almlof

2005
Characterisation of mineral tissue using a Photothermal Microspectrometry: a novel approach to infrared Imaging at the nanoscale.

Dr. Mike Horton

Medicine

Prof. Andrew Pomiankowski

Biology

Ashraf El-Shanawany

2005
Image Analysis of Drosophilia RNAi Cystoskeletal Screen

Dr. Simon Prince

Computer Science

Dr. Buzz Baum

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Will Fletcher 2005
Computational statistics in molecular phylogenetics

Prof. Ziheng Yang

Biology

Dr. Hilde Wilkinson-Herbots

Statistical Science

Tak Fung 2005
The Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building for Management Project: MDSWG

Prof. Rob Seymour

Mathematics

Dr. Greg Hurst

Biology

Yuval Itan 2005
What makes us human? A genomic comparison between humans and chimpanzees

Dr. Mark Thomas

Biology

Dr. Kevin Bryson

Computer Science

Prof. Ziheng Yang

Biology

Johnny Kelsey 2005 The dynamics of the IL-1 network

Prof. Rob Seymour

Mathematics

Prof. Brian Henderson

EDI

Will Konig 2005
Emergent properties of multi-species biofilms

Dr. Mike Wilson

Eastman Dental Institute

Prof. Brian Henderson

Eastman Dental Institute

Paul Kirkby 2005
Extending the parallelism and speed of instruments for stimulating and monitoring live networks of neurons

Dr. R. Angus Silver

Physiology

Dr. Peter Torok

Imperial

Thomas Masters 2005
PDK1 Dyamics Studied by Time-Resolved Intramolecular Fluorsescence Energy Transfer (FRET).

Dr. Angus Bain

Physics and Astronomy

Dr. Banafshe Larijani

CRUK

Thomas Morgan 2005 Investigating putative resuscitation promoting factors in Gram-negative bacteria

Dr. Elaine Allen

Eastman Dental Institute

Prof. David Jones

Computer Science

FOURTH YEAR PhD STUDENTS
Alejandra Barrera

2004


Solid state strain gauge sensor for label free biodetection.

Dr. Christoph Renner

Medicine

Prof. Michael Horton

Bone and Mineral centre

Fatos Berisha

2004


Component analysis of facial motion

Prof. Alan Johnston

Psychology

Dr. Peter McOwan

Psychology

Lewis Dartnell 2004 Modelling the martian radiation environment and it's astrobiological implications

Dr. Andrew Coates

MSSL

Dr. Jamie Ward

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Trevor Graham

2004


Modelling the dynamics of stem cell propogation: investigating the homeostasis of cellular systems and the evolution of cancer

Dr. Karen Page

Mathematics

Dr. Ian Tomlinson

CRUK

Chris Hornsby 2004 Modelling cancer epidemiology

Dr. Karen Page

Mathematics

Dr. Ian Tomlinson

CRUK

Joe Sun

2004


Using ontology in systems biology: a case study of cochlea auditory functions

Prof. Anthony Finkelstein

Computer Science

Prof. Jonothan Ashmore

Physiology

Alex White

2004


Mathematical modelling of the embolization procedure in the treatment of Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)

Prof. Frank Smith

Mathematics

Dr. Neil Kitchen

Institute of Neurology

SUBMITTED PhD STUDENTS
Dmitry Laptev 2003 Computational modelling of spatial and episodic memory

Prof. Neil Burgess

Anatomy

Prof. Peter Dayan

Gatsby

AWARDED PhD STUDENTS
Martin Allan

2000
awarded 2004

Mathematical investigation in the T cell response

Prof. Robin Callard

ICH

Dr. Andrew Yates.

ICH

Prof. Jaroslav Stark.

Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College

Maria Anisimova 2000
awarded 2003
Detecting adaptive molecular evolution: accuracy and power of the ML-based methods. Large scale database search for genes evolving under positive selection

Prof. Ziheng Yang

Biology

Prof. Philip Dawid

Statistical Science

Christian Bottomley 2002
awarded 2006
The dynamics of African river-blindness (Onchocerclasis volvulus)

Prof. Valerie Isham

Statistical Science

Dr Maria-Gloria Basanez

Epidemiology, Imperial College

Daniel Brewer 2002
awarded 2005
A new approach to the biological interpretation and analysis of gene array time series data

Dr. Mike Hubank

ICH

Prof. Jaroslav Stark

Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College

Olivier Cinquin 2002
awarded 2005
Clocks, gradients and molecular networks: mathematical models for morphogenesis

Prof. Claudio Stern

Anatomy and Developmental Biology

Dr. Karen Page

Computer science

David Dale 2002
awarded 2006
Computational molecular evolution

Prof. Ziheng Yang

Biology

Prof. Andrew Pomiankowski

Biology

Szonya Durant 2000
awarded 2004
A computational and psychophysical study of motion induced distortions of perceived location

Prof. Alan Johnston

Psychology

Prof. Philip Dawid.

Statistical Science

Alex Ioaniddes 2003
awarded 2006
Scale-Space and the implicit coding of luminance in V1

Prof. Alan Johnston

Psychology

Prof. Lewis Griffin

Computer science

Tom McCarthy 2001
awarded 2005
Evolution of gene networks in sex discrimination

Prof. Andrew Pomiankowski

Biology

Prof. Rob Seymour

Mathematics

Simon Moon 2002
awarded 2006
The effect of branching processes on Thymocyte development

Prof. Robin Callard

ICH

Prof. Jaroslav Stark

Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College

Chris Mullaley 2002
awarded 2006
Modelling the role of connexins in cochlear function

Prof. Jonothan Ashmore

Physiology

Prof. Andrew Forge

Ear Institute

Jonathan Ward 2001
awarded 2005
Support vector machines for pattern recognition in bioinformatics

Prof. David Jones

Computer Science

Prof. Bernard Buxton

Computer Science

Dr. Paul Kellam

Centre for Virology

WRITING UP
Nicol Harper

2001
writing up (award of Bogue scholarship extended studentship).

Information processing in the auditory system

Dr. David McAlpine

Ear Institute

Prof. Jonothan Ashmore

Physiology

 

 

 

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