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 |
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| Stella Constantinou |
LifeSciences MSc 2008 |
Digital transcriptomics of Litomosoides sigmodontis |
| Davide Figini |
QGGA MSc 2010 |
Splice site consensus conservation in nematode genomes of differing AT content |
| Graham Thomas |
WT 4yr PhD rotation |
The genome of the Wolbachia of Litomosoides sigmodontis |
| Craig |
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Horizontal gene transfer into animal genomes: fact or fiction |
| Siobhan Simpson |
XZoology Honours 2009 |
DNA barcoding of cryptic lumbricine earthworm taxa |
| Hayden Selvadurai |
Wellcome Trust 4yr PhD school rotation project
2008 |
A digital transcriptomic analysis of gene expression in male and female Litomosoides sigmodontis |
| Alex Mladek |
Honours Zoology
2007-2008
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DNA barcoding of earthworms |
| Harriet Gurney |
Honours Zoology
2007-2008 |
DNA barcoding of earthworms |
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 Thomas |
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
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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
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Alternate use of trans-spliced leaders in Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Jonathan Mudge |
Zoology Honours
1998-1999
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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 |
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