Research Areas


All projects currently available within Faculty of Science are listed below by project title.

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Currently available projects

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A chemical genetic approach to studying the role of epigenetics in development
A novel approach to new generation of thermoelectric materials
A study on the structure and dynamics of membrane transporters by EPR spectroscopy
Air Cushioning in Water Impact
Ammonium removal from waste-water - gaining insight from electrochemical studies of anammox cytochromes
Atmospheric Budgets of Gases Relevant to Climate
Augmented Reality for Image Guided Endoscopic Surgery
Biofunctionalization of liposomes for tumour-targeted drug delivery
Boundary Layer Flows Past Multiple Aerofoils and/or Ground Effects
Click Helicenes for Bioimaging
Constructing, analysing and visualising small RNA networks
Counting rational points on varieties
Design and Synthesis of Mcl-1 Inhibitors
Determining the factors that influence patient acceptability and perception of a medication in order to explore any relationships with adherence to therapy
Developing Calixarenes to Target i-Motif and G-quadruplex Nucleic Acids
Distance distribution and intersection numbers in finite Cayley graphs
ESR11 To study cell migration in vivo using pigment cells in Xenopus embryos
Exploring boryl/silyl-cyclopentadienyl metal complexes for electrocatalytic small molecule activation
Flow prediction and optimisation in a microfluidic device for spatial localisation of individual bacterial spores
Fluid-Structure Interaction
From microbes to man: How iron is sensed through iron-sulfur cluster-containing transcriptional regulators
Identification of small molecule inhibitors of the human proinflammatory P2X4 receptor by rational drug design
Identifying the mechanisms determining the demography of migrants and residents in partially migratory populations
Isoform-selective Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors
Jellyfish Bloom Risks and Management Implications in Northern Europe
Metallacycle Catalysts for Asymmetric Flow Reactions
Model theory and applications to number theory
Molecular Dynamics simulations and EPR spectroscopic studies of thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals
Molecular Investigations Tumour-Initiating Populations of Melanoma Cells for Clinical Applications
Molecular machines and multichromophore array
Nanostructured thin films for non-invasive drug delivery
New Methodology in Organic Synthesis
Nonlinear waves on Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS)
Non-redfieldian processes in the shelf sea carbon pump: organic matter dynamics and carbon overconsumption
Novel hydrogel based drug delivery systems: understanding structure and transport properties using NMR
Novel mechanisms in Blood Cancers drug-resistance
Optimising drug properties by cocrystal formation
Representations of p-adic groups and Arithmetic
Respiratory Proteins Monitored by Paramagnetic Crosstalk
Role of Eigensolutions in Boundary Layer Transition
Role of Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) in the generation of neuronal diversity in the spinal cord
Shelf-sea gross and net production estimates from triple oxygen isotopes and oxygen-argon ratios in relation to phytoplankton physiology
Signalling during development and antibiotic production in the multicellular bacterium, Streptomyces coelicolor.
Smith normal form of incidence matrices
Structural and Functional Analysis of the Interaction of Dietary Galacto-oligosaccharides with Galectin 3
Structural biology of inositol phosphate interconversions relevant to industry
Structural determinants of coiled-coil affinity in a cancer regulator
Synthesis of compounds to interact with i-Motif DNA
Synthesis of natural products and analogues using solid phase methodology.
The role of DNA damage and repair in human lens cell physiology
The Southern Ocean: Barrier or Blender?
Time Series Data Mining
Topics in Model Theory
Understanding how a small protein helps a big one store iron
Winter nutrient processing, denitrification and carbon cycle feedbacks in continental shelf seas