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Awards Made 2014 Awards made 2014 LEVERHULME DOCTORAL University of Sheffield Dr Christopher Bayliss SCHOLARSHIPS Professor Rob Freckleton University of Leicester Institutions received £1,050,000 to fund Centre for advanced biological modelling Mutate and survive: how bacteria fight viruses fifteen PhD students over three years. (CABM) £158,130 Durham University University of Southampton Dr Elizabeth Bayne Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Professor Damon Teagle University of Edinburgh Leverhulme Durham doctoral training Understanding maritime futures: Regulation of RNAi-directed chromatin programme in visual culture opportunities, challenges, and threats modification by ubiquitin and SUMO £175,891 University of Edinburgh University of Warwick Professor Jan Palmowski Dr Morgan Beeby Professor James Smith Bridges: bringing together the social and Imperial College London Perfect storm – interdisciplinary doctoral mathematical sciences to understand social Evolutionary pathways to rotary motors: training information evolution and mechanism of the archaellum £117,620 University of Glasgow RESEARCH PROGRAMME GRANTS Professor Karen Lury Professor Simon Belt Collections: an Enlightenment pedagogy for The nature of knots University of Plymouth the twenty-first century Quantification of sea ice carbon within Arctic Dr Dorothy Buck ecosystems University of Huddersfield Imperial College London £173,049 Professor Martin Richards Knots in nature: DNA, the knotted molecule Genetic journeys into history: the next of life Dr Alexander Belton generation £1,739,476 University of Lancaster Quantum random walks and quasi-free University of Lancaster Professor Paul Sutcliffe quantum stochastic calculus Professor Gert Westermann Durham University £84,895 Doctoral scholarship programme in Scientific properties of complex knots interdisciplinary research on infant £1,692,509 Professor Gavin Bremner development University of Lancaster Innovation for sustainable living Auditory-visual congruence and young London School of Economics and Political infants’ perception of object persistence Science Mr Michael Ramage £334,712 Professor Mike Savage University of Cambridge The challenge of escalating inequalities Natural material innovation Dr Saverio Brogna £1,748,091 University of Birmingham University of Nottingham What are the functions of ribosomes within Professor Markus Owen Professor Darren Robinson the nucleus? Mathematics for a sustainable society University of Nottingham £147,656 Sustaining urban habitats: an interdisciplinary approach Dr Glenn Burley Open University £1,745,632 University of Strathclyde Professor Patrick McAndrew Transformable photonic circuitry: using DNA Open world learning (OWL) RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS to create the next generation of molecularly active surfaces Queen’s University Belfast Sciences £231,276 Professor James McElnay Leverhulme interdisciplinary network on Professor Andrew Adamatzky Professor Robert Cernik cybersecurity and society (LINCS) University of the West of England University of Manchester Artificial Paramecium: intelligent distributed Using diffracted X-rays to form images with University of Reading sensing and manipulation by ciliates chemical and structural information Professor Catriona McKinnon £249,754 £247,737 Climate justice: ethics, politics, law Dr Tim Albrecht Dr Kevin Chalut Royal Holloway, University of London Imperial College London University of Cambridge Professor Paul Hogg Charge transfer processes in small metal Physical biology of early mammalian The Magna Carta doctoral centre for nanoparticles embryogenesis and acquisition of pluripotency individual freedom £174,768 £223,277 Awards made 2014 Professor Neil Champness Professor Stefan Doerr Dr Duncan Gill University of Nottingham Swansea University University of Huddersfield Structural elucidation and reactivity Carbon sequestration from wildfires? Convergent synthesis of aconitine modification in metal-organic frameworks Quantifying the role of pyrogenic carbon £133,481 £260,350 £231,575 Dr Stephen Goldup Dr Hugo Christenson Dr Michael Doube Queen Mary, University of London University of Leeds Royal Veterinary College, University of London Mechanically chiral rotaxanes as switchable Effects of topography on ice nucleation Act big, get big. Bone cell activity scaling enantioselective catalysts among species as a skeletal adaptation £162,138 £104,326 mechanism £192,009 Dr Simon J Clarke Dr Anjali Goswami University of Oxford University College London Dr Dominic Dwyer Untangling the enigmatic origins of placental Synthesis and control of the properties of Cardiff University mammals with fossils and genomics solids using soft chemical approaches Generality and specificity in food learning: £112,319 £143,884 questioning the received wisdom £300,233 Professor David Clayton Dr Lucie Green University College London Queen Mary, University of London Professor Ian C Eperon Neurogenomics of perception University of Leicester Solar magnetic activity: bridging the gap £312,618 Is RNA splicing regulated by collisions between observation and theory between proteins bound to a freely-diffusing £304,505 Professor Nicola Clayton RNA chain? University of Cambridge £249,416 Professor Michaele Hardie Novel approaches to testing belief state University of Leeds Structurally dynamic cages and frameworks attribution in children and corvids Dr Heather Jane Ferguson £239,463 £147,728 University of Kent Imagining the self in fictional worlds: evidence Dr Lee Haynes Dr Matthew Cook from autism spectrum disorder University of Liverpool Queen’s University Belfast £225,482 Mapping mitotic calcium signals in Synthesis and anticancer investigation of Professor Matthew Charles Fisher mammalian cells with targeted sensors diazonamide A Imperial College London £176,554 £160,889 The emperor’s new clothes – are chytrid fungi leaving amphibians naked? Professor Michael Hayward Dr Peter Culmer £264,405 University of Oxford University of Leeds Topochemical reduction of 4d and 5d Sense and sensibility: an optimisation Dr Sonja Franke-Arnold transition metal oxides framework for tactile sensing University of Glasgow £105,122 £193,864 Quantum memory and processing of orbital angular momentum information in atomic Professor Ortwin Hess Dr Sheila Cunningham gasses Imperial College London University of Abertay Dundee £249,507 Extreme nonlinear chirality in THz The ‘me’ in memory: exploring the developing metasurfaces self and its influence on cognition Dr Keara Franklin £184,819 £106,336 University of Bristol How do plants sense temperature? Dr Andrew Horsfield £157,901 Dr Judith Curran Imperial College London University of Liverpool Novel excited electron devices: a Dr Kristian Franze Control of biological responses by isolated computational investigation synthetic material variables University of Cambridge Forces in neuronal development and growth £147,073 £225,287 £166,156 Dr Michael Hough Dr Hai Deng Dr Lucia Garrido University of Essex University of Aberdeen Brunel University London Enzyme catalysis in action: 3D movies of Using spectrometric and genetic techniques Multisensory processing of faces and voices in X-ray induced chemical reactions in protein for new fluorometabolites discovery person identity recognition crystals £69,089 £202,083 £173,794 Dr Ross Denton Professor Andre Gerber Professor Steven Howdle University of Nottingham University of Surrey University of Nottingham Catalytic alkylation reactions of free amines Development of a novel translatome analysis A clean and versatile route to hierarchical with alcohols method and application in aging structured functional devices £142,396 £163,720 £234,691 2 Awards made 2014 Professor Brian Huntley Dr Ian Lane Professor Jon May Durham University Queen’s University Belfast University of Plymouth Modelling vegetation development during Production of ultracold hydrogen by In the dancer’s mind: creativity, novelty and Pleistocene glacials and interglacials molecular fragmentation the imagination £249,730 £180,142 £246,061 Dr Geoffrey Hyett Professor Kurt Langfeld Dr Fernando Montealegre-Z. University of Southampton University of Plymouth University of Lincoln A new method of nanosynthesis: chemical The density of states approach for simulations The evolution of acoustic communication in control of nanostructure in films of dense matter in QCD fossil and extant insects £95,903 £137,065 £249,154 Dr Michael Ingleson Dr Ai-Lan Lee Dr Ian Moore University of Manchester Heriot-Watt University University of Oxford New routes to B,N-oligoacenes for application Dual catalysis: gold and photoredox catalysis Thinking inside the box: how do plants build in oxygen reduction catalysis for stereoselective synthesis organised walls? £167,561 £106,832 £248,344 Dr Andrew Jackson Professor Huiyun Liu Dr Karen Mullinger University of Liverpool University College London University of Nottingham Evolutionary genomics of free-living and High-efficiency GaAsP nanowire solar cells on Revealing the origin of human alpha parasitic amoebae silicon oscillations using ultra high-field fMRI-EEG £112,582 £181,602 £264,470 Dr Andrew Jamieson Professor Bradley Love Dr Ryan Nichol University of Leicester University College London University College London DNA templated synthesis of de novo protein Probing the ultra-high energy universe with Circumventing limits in memory retrieval ß-motifs ANITA and ARA £256,226 £129,566 £220,205 Dr Stephen Lynch Dr Peter Jarowski Dr Sergei Novikov Cardiff University University of Surrey University of Nottingham Quantum optics of mid gap chalocogen
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