Student Projects
the following is a list of the many students who have carried out Honours, MSc or summer internship projects in the Blaxter lab (to June 2006)
[note that these are not in any order, of importance or alphabet or chronology...]

Each year we take one to three honours students from the Division of Biology honours schools (Genetics, Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Zoology). We also offer short projects to the Wellcome 4 yr PhD school and the local MSc courses. We try to ensure that visiting students (a) get a doable, interesting and challenging project and (b) have fun.

name	class/year	project
Charles Goodway	Honours Evolutionary Biology 2005-2006	Where do tardigrades belong?: Phylogenetic analysis of nematode, tardigrade and arthropod mitochondrial genomes
Pan Fillis	Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD School, third rotation project 2005-2006	Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the ASP gene family
Felicity Royds	Honours Zoology 2004-2005	Molecular barcoding of tardigrade diversity across an altitudinal transect in the southern uplands of Scotland
Emmi Hall	MRes, Bioinformatics, University of York, "long project" 2005	Defining molecular operational taxonomic units with DNA barcode data
Ben Elsworth	Honours Zoology 2002-2003	An unexpected diversity of tardigrades
Tom Chapman	Honours Zoology 2003-2004	Approaches to estimating the diversity of meiofaunal communities with DNA barcodes
Jenna Mann	Honours Zoology 2003-2004	DNA barcoding of tardigrades: measuring diversity with sequences
Jessica	Honours genetics and summer internship 2002-2003	Expressed sequence tags from a colonial sea squirt, Diplosoma
Coll Hutchinson	Honours Genetics 2002-2003	Analysis of ESTs from the acoel flatworm Convoluta (Symsagitiffera) roscoffensis
Ailie Rosie	Summer internship 2004	EST sequencing from neglected animal phyla
Mike Stirton	Honours Zoology 2004-2005	Meiofaunal barcoding on an altitudional transect in the southern uplands of Scotland
Ingrid Iredale	Honours Zoology 1999-2000	DNA barcoding and diversity of nematodes associated with a methane seep in the Firth of Forth
Ronan Roche	Zoology Honours and summer internship 2000-2001	DNA barcoding of marine nematodes
Vilius Pigaga	Genetics Honours 2000-2001	The genomics of trans-splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans
Lisa Hodgson	Molecular Biology Honours 1996-1997	Alternate use of spliced leaders in Caenorhabditis elegans operonic transcript resolution
Robin Floyd	Zoology Honours 1998-1999	Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the coevolution of Wolbachia and filarial nematodes
Aziz Aboobaker	Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD School, third rotation project 1998	The HOX genes of Brugia malayi
Katelyn Fenn	Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD School, third rotation project 2001	Interactions between Wolbachia and its nematode host
David	2004-2005	Tardigrade development: in situ hybridisation to map gene expression patterns
Richard	2002-2003	Bioinformatic investigation of a divergent globin-like gene family
Helen	2001-2002	Are nematode signal peptides efficiently recognised by programmes trained on mammalian data?
Jim Brodie	Genetics Honours 1995-1996	Alternate use of trans-spliced leaders in Caenorhabditis elegans
Jonathan Mudge	Zoology Honours 1998-1999	The mitochondrial genome of Necator americanus
Ruth Cormode	Genetics Honours 2004-2005	The tyrosinases of Caenorhabditis elegans: analysis of knockout mutants
Alasdair Kinloch	Zoology Honours 1997-1998	The phylogenetics of the interaction between the human filarial nematode parasite Wuchereria bancrofti, and its intracellular bacterial symbiont, Wolbachia
Phillipa Pickles	Zoology Honours 1997-1998	Nematode Barcoding with DNA
We sometimes have in-term internships available (~2 hrs a week) and can apply with qualified students for summer internship funding if we are contacted early enough in the year (by December at the latest for projects to be carried out the next summer).