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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).

 

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Meloidogyne incognita
The plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita .
Plant parasitic nematodes cause major economic losses worldwide. Meloidogyne incognita parasitises cotton and other crops . See NEMBASE3 for analyses of ESTs from this parasite and many other nematodes.
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