Wellcome Trust Combined Training Programme
12 week Projects for 2011/2012
Dr Peter Balfe and Professor Jane McKeating / Hepatitis C virus compartmentalizationDr Jessica Blair and Professor Laura Piddock / Investigating the potential of inhibitors of Salmonella efflux in preventing the bacteria’s invasion of human intestinal cells.
Dr Jorge Caamaño and Dr Cecile Benezech / Characterization of Interleukin 7-Producing Mesenchymal Cells from Human Adipose Tissues.
Dr S. John Curnow / Do IL-6 and IL-23 secreted from activated microglia contribute to the differentiation and expansion of Th17 cells?
Dr S. John Curnow / Investigating the phenomenon of dual cytokine and TF expression in subsets of CD4+ T helper cells.
Dr C.W.Dawson and Professor L.S.Young / Exploring the epithelial ‘stem cell phenotype of Nasopharyngeal carcinoma- Examination of the integrity of the Wnt/b-catenin pathway in NPC tumours.
Professor John Heath / Dr Josh Rappoport / Investigating the interaction of key components of the in Fibroblast Growth Factor Signalling pathway.
Professor Ann Logan & Dr Graham Wallace / Glaucoma and Inflammation.
Dr Heather Long and Professor Alan Rickinson / Therapeutic exploitation of CD4+ T cells-characterising the CD4+ T cells used therapeutically for post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD).
Professor Chris McCabe and Professor Jayne Franklyn / PBF and genomic instability in the thyroid.
Professor Jane McKeating and Professor David Adams / In vitro modelling the cytomegalovirus and hepatitis C virus co-infected liver
Professor Jane McKeating and Dr Peter Balfe / A novel approach to the design of anti-viral peptides to inhibit hepatitis C virus infection.
Professor Paul Murray, Dr. Wenbin Wei / Investigation of genetic changes associated with poor outcome paediatric Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Professor Gerard Nash & Dr. Helen McGettrick / Novel regulatory steps in migration of T-cells and neutrophils into and out of tissue during inflammation.
Professor Michael Overduin; Dr Martyn Chidgey / Determination of the effect of inherited mutations on the structure and function of the desmosomal protein plakoglobin (γ catenin).
Dr. S Naeem Shafqat and Professor Wiebke Arlt / Protein expression-purification profiling of P450 oxidoreductase disease mutants.
Dr Alex Sinclair and Dr Jeremy Tomlinson / Investigating the potential of 5α-reductase inhibition in modifying CSF secretion- possibilities for therapeutic use in idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
Dr Zania Stamataki, Professor Jane McKeating / T cell entosis in the liver: It’s a cell-eat-cell world.
Dr Kai-Michael Toellner / The role of IgG for germinal centre B cell selection?
Professor Bryan Turner, Dr Ferenc Mueller and Professor Laura O’Neill / Investigating the effect of environmental toxins on histone modifications across developmentally regulated genes.
Dr Steve Young / Immune cells as “farmers” of the stroma
Dr Steve Young / What is the role of the Lyp phosphatase (PTPN22) in phagocyte signalling?
Professor Steve P Watson / Regulation of shedding and internalisation of the FcgRIIA receptor and the collagen receptor GPVI
Dr Graham Wallace; Dr Steve Young / The effect of hormones on the Characteristics of macrophages
Dr Jianmin Zuo and Professor Martin Rowe / Study of the dual function immune evasion protein BILF1
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Supervisors: Dr Peter Balfe and Professor Jane McKeating
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Office Location: Institute for Biomedical Research office 535
School: Immunity and Infection
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Supervisors: Dr Jessica Blair and Professor Laura Piddock
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Office Location: IBR West Extension
School: School of Immunity and Infection
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Supervisors: Dr Jorge Caamaño and Dr Cecile Benezech
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Office Location: IBR bldg. Room 437
School: Immunity and Infection
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Supervisors: Dr S. John Curnow
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Office Location: University Research Labs, QE Hospital
School: I&I
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Supervisors: Dr S. John Curnow
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Office Location: University Research Labs, QE Hospital
School: I&I
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Supervisors: Dr C.W.Dawson and Professor L.S.Young
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Office Location: Room Ground floor clinical research block
School: Cancer Sciences
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Supervisors: Professor John Heath / Dr Josh Rappoport
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Office Location: Biosciences Tower 5th & Centre for System Biology
School: Biosciences
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Supervisors: Prof Ann Logan & Dr Graham Wallace
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Office Location: IBR (west) 2nd floor
School: CEM/I&I
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Supervisors: Dr Heather Long and Prof Alan Rickinson
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Office Location: Institute for Cancer Sciences room 419
School: School of Cancer Sciences
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Supervisors: Professor Chris McCabe and Professor Jayne Franklyn
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Office Location: IBR Floor 2, Office 223
School: CEM
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Supervisors: Professor Jane McKeating and Professor David Adams
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Office Location: Institute for Biomedical Research office 534
School: Immunity and Infection
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Supervisors: Professor Jane McKeating and Dr Peter Balfe
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Office Location: Institute for Biomedical Research office 534
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Supervisors: Professor Paul Murray, Dr. Wenbin Wei
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School: Cancer Sciences
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Supervisors: Professor Gerard Nash & Dr. Helen McGettrick
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Office Location: N119, N118; 1st Floor IBR West, The Medical School
School: Clinical and Experimental Medicine; Immunity and Infection
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Supervisors: Professor Michael Overduin; Dr Martyn Chidgey
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Office Location: Cancer Studies Bldg; Clinical Research Block
School: Cancer Sciences
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Supervisors: Dr. S Naeem Shafqat and Professor Wiebke Arlt
Contact details: Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (CEDAM)
Email: tel office: 0121 4142764
Office Location: CEDAM (2nd floor IBR)
School: School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
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Supervisors: 1) Alex Sinclair 2) Jeremy Tomlinson
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Office Location: 1) IBR West Extension 2) IBR floor 2
School: 1 Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology and 2 Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences
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Supervisors: Dr Zania Stamataki, Professor Jane McKeating
Contact details: 01214158673
Office Location: 5th Floor IBR Building, Medical School.
School: Immunity and Infection
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Supervisors: Dr Kai-Michael Toellner
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Office Location: IBR, room 432
School: Immunity and Infection
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Supervisors: Professor Bryan Turner, Dr Ferenc Mueller and Professor Laura O’Neill
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School: Immunity and Infection, CEM
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Supervisors: Dr Graham Wallace; Dr Steve Young
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Office Location: (GW) Centre for Translational Inflammation Research. 1st floor QE Hospital; (SY) 3rd floor IBR
School: Immunity and Infection
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Supervisors: Dr Stephen Young
Contact details:. Tel: 0121 414 6480
Office Location: IBR 3rd floor room 332
School: Immunity & Infection
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Supervisors: Dr Stephen Young
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Office Location: IBR 3rd floor room 332
School: Immunity & Infection
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Supervisors: Professor Steve P Watson
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Office Location: level 1: Institute of Biomedical Research
School: School: Clinical and Experimental Medicine
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Supervisors: Dr Jianmin Zuo and Professor Martin Rowe
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Office Location: S217
School: Cancer Sciences