DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
FINAL YEAR
RESEARCH PROJECT
2015-16
Biology
Biochemistry
Biotechnology and microbiology
Ecology
Genetics
Molecular Cell Biology
CONTENTS
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Important dates
Selecting your project
Original projects
Allocation of projects
Information for year away students
Working on your project
Failure to complete a project
Safety guidelines
Project supervision
Lab book
Research work and writing up
List of staff offering projects
Checklist: Making your project choice
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DEGREE COURSES & SPECIALIST DEGREE CO-ORDINATORS
SINGLE SUBJECT DEGREE
Biology (BIO) – Dr Richard Waites
SPECIALIST DEGREES
Biotechnology and microbiology (BTM)
Ecology (ECO)
Genetics (GEN)
Molecular Cell Biology (MCB)
COMBINED COURSE DEGREE
Biochemistry (BCH)
IMPORTANT DATES
Project information sessions:
Biology and specialist degree students – Monday 27 April at 09.00 in B002
Biochemistry students – Monday 27 April at 16.00 in B0006 – to include talks from YSBL
staff
Project presentations:
The Centre for Immunology and infection (CII) will hold two information sessions to
showcase their projects. (These will also be available on VLE: CII Projects.) Students
interested in their projects should attend:
Monday 27 April:
Wednesday 29 April:
17:00-18:00 in B/B/103
12:00-13:00 in B/M/052
09.00 am on Monday week 4 of summer term (4 May 2015)
Deadline for submitting your project choice online
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Week 8, Summer term 2015
Projects allocated
Monday Week 1, Autumn term 2015
Project work begins (up to 14 days work in the summer vacation is allowed).
Friday Week 10, Spring term 2016
End of experimental work.
Week 1, Summer term 2016
Submission of project report.
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SELECTING YOUR PROJECT
When you decide on your project, you normally decide the topic of the project and the
person who will act as your project director. Your project director must be an academic
member of staff, or a postdoctoral fellow or other supervisor acting in consultation with an
academic member of staff. The project director's job is to advise on and supervise your
work, and to ensure that you are carrying out your work safely.
It is important to reach a good decision over the choice of your project, so do not rush it.
The ideas for your project may originate from an idea of your own, from something listed
online, or something between the two.
Think of an idea or area of study you would like to pursue, and read through the titles to
find the ones that interest you. Only the titles are shown; fuller descriptions are on the
web, follow the links from the project page:
http://www.york.ac.uk/biology/intranet/currentundergraduatestudents/commonpages/projects/
All projects are considered suitable for Biology degree students (except those for
Biochemists only), but you should be sure that your selection of modules in the second
year has not omitted any essential background. If you are a specialist degree student,
you should check that the projects that interest you are suitable for your degree course
and personal background. The suitability of each project for specialist degree students is
indicated after its title, but some flexibility may be possible here. Consult the project
director and confirm with the appropriate Degree Co-ordinator if necessary.
If you are a Biochemistry student, select a project marked BCH (this will include projects
being offered by Chemistry members of staff).
Projects are listed by Director’s surname and by research focus area.
You should visit possible project directors to discuss projects with them. Do not leave it
until the last few days before trying to contact possible directors. Some directors will
arrange to be available at particular times to meet students; see the timetable for full
details. Some directors require that you meet them to discuss the project before selecting
that project; see online for details. Some projects have special requirements (eg Home
Office training course) so check these carefully.
Students currently on placement at a European University or in Industry, incoming
Erasmus students and those returning from Leave of Absence: if you are unable to
see potential project directors in person, please contact them by phone or e-mail.
If you have a proposal for an ORIGINAL PROJECT, clearly distinct from the titles online,
you must complete a form (available online) and consult the Chair of the Board of Studies
(Dr Richard Waites) before discussing with a potential project director. You may wish to
discuss your proposals with your supervisor but you should not approach a potential
project director at this stage.
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You must submit seven project choices, indicating your order of preference. No more
than two proposals may be with the same director. By submitting two proposals for the
same director, you could decrease your chances if those projects are over-subscribed.
There is no need to rush your decision. Projects are not allocated on a first-come firstserved basis, and no project director is allowed to promise any advertised project
before all the choices are submitted.
You must make your choices online – see the link from the Project pages. The deadline
for making your choices is 09.00 am on Monday week 4 of the summer term (4 May
2015).
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS
The Undergraduate Office aims to assign as many students as possible to their first,
second or third choice of project in the first round. If this is not possible, fourth to seventh
choices may be allocated. Allocations will be published at the beginning of week 8.
INFORMATION FOR YEAR AWAY STUDENTS ONLY:
FINAL YEAR PROJECTS AND YEAR AWAY PROJECTS
The following are guidelines that should be adhered to should a year away student
consider suggesting a final year project in an area related to that worked on during their
placement:
1.
In all cases you must, in the first instance, discuss plans for a project in an area
related to your placement work with the Chair of the Board of Studies. You will need
to demonstrate how the project differs from that undertaken during your placement.
2.
You will need to identify, and be accepted by, a project director within the Biology
Department who has some expertise in your proposed project area. In some cases
your industrial supervisor may agree to act as a co-director, but cannot direct the
project alone. The external supervisor will play no part in the examination of the
project.
3.
It is a normally held principle that work should not count towards more than one
assessment. Therefore, on no account should data obtained as part of your
placement work be used in your final year project. You will be asked to sign a
declaration that this is the case (see under 5 below).
4.
Should your project work entail collecting data prior to your return to York, you must
discuss your data collection schedule with your internal project director. If this
entails more than two weeks work, the project will count as an ‘early start’ (see p6 for
the implications of this). All data must be collected within the normally allowed
project period.
5.
To inform the examiners, you must include a signed acknowledgement at the front of
your project report that there has been no data transfer between your placement
work and the final year project. This statement will not contribute to the word limit of
your report.
6.
You must accept that if examiners detect an overlap in data or report text between
your year-away placement and final-year project you might lose marks.
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WORKING ON YOUR PROJECT
Working on your project involves a number of issues that need serious consideration. You
will need to budget your time with care, and, of course, be aware of the time which is
available for project work. Your independent style of working will require extra
consideration of safety. Limited financial resources will necessitate financial budgeting.
Behind these practical considerations there are the questions of how to tackle an
independent research project, and what role your director should play in your work.
There is no single best way of working on a project; your approach must depend on
the nature of your project, and will draw also on the particular experience, opinions and
expertise of your project director. Clear planning is essential; it is recommended that you
start your project by writing a summary of your preliminary goals and plan for the first
experiments (about one side of A4). Your strategy and tactics should also develop as your
experiments start to yield results. This is why it is important to consult regularly with your
project director.
Your relationship with your project director is an important element in your project,
since they are there to provide you with support and guidance. Where necessary, your
project director should assist you in providing or obtaining equipment or materials, or in
making arrangements for use of facilities or for fieldwork, and is expected, when
appropriate, to demonstrate the use of equipment or methods, or to help in the
understanding of advanced or difficult concepts or techniques. It is important that you ask
for the advice that you need; some projects will require more help and advice than others.
Your project director will have to declare, at the end of your project, how much advice was
given to you. Do not let this put you off consulting - no-one will be impressed if you make
mistakes because you did not seek sensible advice when you needed it. You must consult
your project director regularly during the course of the project about progress and plans for
future work. Your project director should be prepared to meet with you in order to provide
advice and support on project work once a week on average. More advice and support
than this may be appropriate, especially in the first few weeks of project work, or where
specialist methods or difficult concepts are involved. Departmental guidelines for project
directors are given in this booklet, for information.
The teaching laboratory staff provide another vital source of information.
Normal project work is done during the autumn and spring terms only. However,
where a project requires fieldwork or materials available only during the summer months, it
may be started in the summer vacation. You should consult your project director about
this. All project students may work up to 14 days in the long vacation, in addition to
general background and preparatory reading.
Normal laboratory project work should be done between 8.30am and 5.30pm on
weekdays only. Project students who need to maintain living organisms or whose
experiments take longer than the working day may be given special permission to work
outside normal hours, when a porter is on duty, so long as their work is not considered
dangerous. You will be given details of the code of practice for such work before you start
your project. To work in the laboratories outside normal hours, you will need a form signed
by your project director (forms are available from teaching labs).
It is important to budget your time wisely. Your project will occupy a great deal of your
time (and interest) during the course of your final year and it is important to maintain a
sensible balance between project work and study associated with your final year modules.
It is sensible to aim at an average of around two clear days work per week on your
project.
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Laboratory space (if your project requires it) will be assigned to you in the project
laboratories adjoining the first and second year teaching laboratories or in your project
director’s laboratory, but when necessary, you may be required to use equipment in the
Technology Facility and this will be negotiated with your director at the time.
Safety must always be an important consideration. In comparison with previous years
you may be working more independently and may be using more expensive and
potentially more dangerous equipment and materials. It is vital, therefore, that before
starting with new equipment or materials, you must read the manufacturer's handbook
on equipment, check the hazards of materials, and receive instructions in their use
from your project director or an appropriate technician or postgraduate research
worker. Throughout the project you must be particularly aware of standards of safety.
This applies, of course, to yourself, and to the equipment and materials you are using, but
in addition it is important not to forget your responsibility for others working beside you,
who may not be aware of the hazards of your equipment or materials. Safety guidelines
are spelt out in more detail in this booklet and on the web; be sure to read and be
familiar with these. If you use your own car as part of your project work, you should be
sure that your policy covers you for 'business use'; if in doubt, check with the Teaching
Laboratories.
If your project involves work with live vertebrates, Home Office rules and procedures
apply; see guidelines in this booklet or web safety pages for details.
Financial budgeting is a necessary part of your project. Project work can be very
expensive. It is, therefore, an important aspect of your training that you learn to plan your
work not only with an eye to the scientific feasibility, but also to the financial feasibility of
the experiments you contemplate.
You would be wise to plan your work with the finishing date clearly in mind. You must
finish practical work by 5.30pm on Friday Week 10 of the spring term of your final
year. Any extension requires the permission of the mitigating circumstance committee
(Chair, Dr Louise Jones), and will only be allowed for compelling reasons.
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SAFETY GUIDELINES FOR PROJECTS
Current safety legislation places the responsibility for safety upon all involved in a project.
Therefore, the student and the project director are jointly responsible for the safety of your
project. If, after consulting your project director, you still have any concerns about safety
issues, you should consult the Biology Safety Adviser, Dr David Nelson. You must, in
conjunction with your project director, carry out a risk assessment of the work being
planned. The risk assessment must identify all possible hazards associated with work and
record a set of procedures that will be adopted to reduce the risks to an acceptable level.
The student and the supervisor must sign the risk assessment and submit a copy to the
Teaching Laboratories. Work cannot begin until this form has been submitted.
The following safety rules delineate more closely the responsibilities of all involved in
project work:
1.
Project directors, in accepting you for a particular project, shall become jointly
responsible with you for the safe conduct of the project. The project director will
ensure that:
 written safety protocols for the planned work are given to you where appropriate
 proper safety instruction is given to you for all new tasks which involve new or
unfamiliar hazards
 appropriate safety equipment is provided for you
 the facilities available in the teaching laboratories, or elsewhere if work is to be
conducted outside the teaching laboratories, are satisfactory for the safe conduct
of the work
 you are instructed, precisely, how to dispose of any hazardous waste.
 you adopt and comply with safety procedures.
2.
Project directors shall discuss with you the necessary safety precautions before work
begins. Project directors should ask you to provide a short (maximum A4) list of
precautions you think are necessary; this document forms a useful basis for
discussion.
3.
Project directors will be expected to ascertain, at intervals, whether work is being
conducted safely.
4.
Should a technician in charge of project students note any unsafe or potentially
dangerous practices, they will insist that the work ceases immediately. The project
director will be informed and work can only commence again after the project
director has remedied the situation. The technician shall consult the Biology Safety
Adviser if doubt exists about the safety of any work.
A project student who is working in an unsafe manner a second time will receive a
written censure from the Chair of Biology Board of Studies. This note will state
clearly that a third unsafe act will result in experimental work on the project being
terminated immediately. For exceptional cases of stupidity, the ban on experimental
work will be immediate.
5.
Accident reports: All accidents in the laboratory must be notified to the Projects
Technician, the Biology Safety Adviser (Dr David Nelson) and your project director,
and an Accident Report form completed.
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6.
Electrical apparatus: All AC mains powered apparatus will have a label on it giving
the safety check date and expiry date. Do not use if such a label is not evident.
7.
Radio-isotopes: Before starting work involving radio-isotopes you must complete a
form (download from the web) after discussing your work with your project director.
Full safety training must be given to you by your project director.
8.
Live vertebrates: To qualify for a Home Office Licence, you will be required to attend
the "Home Office Personal Licensees Training Course”, a two-day course taking
place in mid-June, consisting of lectures, discussions, videos and practicals based
on a comprehensive booklet, and ends with a multi-choice test on which you must
achieve 70%. All those working with live vertebrates must inform the Biology Safety
Adviser in writing. All such persons should have undergone a course of anti-tetanus
injections which are still valid. If you have not done so, or are uncertain, please
arrange a visit to the Medical Centre immediately. Anyone who intends to work on
live vertebrates without having undergone such a course MUST inform the Biology
Safety Adviser of this intention.
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Field work: In addition to the normal safety rules issued to all project students, all
students carrying out fieldwork must obtain the special safety instructions from the
Teaching Lab before beginning their project (available on the web). They must then
discuss with their project director all aspects of project safety before commencing
work. In addition, each time fieldwork is undertaken the student must obtain the
appropriate medical and emergency kits from Teaching Labs, and give them back on
their return.
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Working out of hours: You may only do laboratory work on your projects during
normal working hours (ie 8.30am-5.30pm weekdays). Working at other times
requires special permission - a form for such permission can be obtained from
Teaching Labs. You may only complete limited necessary work outside normal
hours and you may not work outside normal hours simply because you prefer to or
you want to catch up!
Project students are encouraged to use the Biology Safety web-pages
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/web/safety/index.htm for information on specific safety
issues. The pages contain general codes of good practice for certain types of activity.
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GUIDELINES FOR PROJECT SUPERVISION
The following are the guidelines for project supervision agreed by the Board of
Studies.
1.
If so requested by their project student, a project director should be prepared to meet
with the student in order to provide advice and support on project work about once a
week. It is recommended that the student either telephones the project director or
contacts them by e-mail in order to make an appointment.
2.
More advice and support than this may be appropriate, especially in the first few
weeks of project work, or where specialist methods or difficult concepts are involved.
3.
Where necessary, project directors are expected to assist in providing or obtaining
equipment or materials, or in making arrangements for use of facilities or for
fieldwork, and they are expected, when appropriate, to demonstrate the use of
equipment or methods, or to help in the understanding of advanced or difficult
concepts or techniques.
4.
Normally both project director and project student should ensure that they meet to
discuss the progress of a project approximately once every two weeks during term
time.
5.
It is a Board of Studies requirement that your project should entail the collection and
analysis of quantitative data, or require computer programming or both, and that this
should form a significant part of your work and written report. If you think your
project is unlikely to meet this requirement you should discuss it with your Project
Director at the earliest opportunity.
6.
If attempts by a project director to make contact with their project students are
repeatedly ignored, the project director will record the fact, but will not persist. The
project director will, however, inform the Chair of the Board of Studies and the
student’s supervisor.
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A project director should give detailed advice to each of their project students on the
general form, arrangements of contents, presentation of data and style of writing
appropriate to a particular project write-up.
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A project director should encourage the student to produce draft sections in good
time, eg before the end of Week 7 of the Spring Term. The student should not
assume that the director will be available during the Easter vacation.
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Detailed comment or editing may be given for teaching purposes on drafts of small
parts of the project write-up. Here, ‘small parts’ is taken to mean one doublespaced, typed page from each of four sections of the draft report (i.e. a maximum of
four pages across the whole report). If the report contains more than four sections,
the student should indicate which four they would like the detailed feedback on.
Only general comments should be made on the remainder of the report. Project
Directors should not re-write significant amounts of the manuscript nor make
detailed comments on the final draft of the project report. Draft project reports
should be commented on by the Project Director ONLY – if the project is co-directed,
it should be agreed which Director will take on this role. Students should not ask
other members of staff or PhD students to comment on their reports.
If any project student believes that they are not being treated in accordance with the above
guidelines, or that they are not receiving the support or advice to which they are entitled,
they should raise this point, in the first instance, with their supervisor (or if this is not
appropriate, Dr Richard Waites (Chair, Biology Board of Studies). Project directors may
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have reasons for their view on how much assistance is appropriate, or simply may not
realise that a student feels unfairly treated; accordingly, complaints or queries will be
resolved with tact and discretion.
YOUR LAB BOOK
No matter what type of project you undertake (laboratory or field-based, or analysis of
information gathering from the literature, databases or computer simulations) you are
required to keep notes of the detailed design of the study, the methods actually used, the
results obtained and your immediate reaction to them. The place for all this is your lab
book. You must make an entry in this every day that you do research, and should ideally
write in it while you are actually doing the work, or at any rate later the same day. Every
entry must be dated, and the book should be filled in chronological order, like a diary,
though you might want to have a separate section for recipes, methods, etc. that you refer
to repeatedly.
The book must have bound pages, not loose-leaf, so that nothing gets lost. If your work
generates printouts (e.g. statistical analyses), plots, photographs, maps etc, then stick
them into the book on the appropriate page. If you think you might need output that is not
in electronic form for your report then keep clean duplicates of the hard copies. Items that
cannot be stuck in the book must be kept in an appropriate file, clearly labelled and dated,
and referred to in the lab book. Your lab book does not have to be neat, but it does have
to be legible and comprehensible. Help yourself by drawing up outline tables for the data
you are planning to collect, so that when you get to the field, bench or computer you can
just fill in the boxes.
The main purpose of your lab book is to enable you to know exactly what you did and
when you did it, and what the result was, so that you can plan your work and can present
an accurate account of it. You are writing it for yourself. However, you will be required to
hand it in with your project report, in case the project assessors need to look at it. Your lab
book will not be marked, but the project report is fairly brief and the assessors may
sometimes feel they need more information in order to mark the report fairly, especially if
your presentation is not quite perfect ("Surely there is something missing in this protocol?"
"Show me the raw data - I can't work out what this analysis means!" "Surely this standard
error is an order of magnitude too low?").
Your lab book will be returned to you after the degree results are posted unless your
project director wishes to retain it.
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RESEARCH WORK AND WRITING UP
Below is some very general advice on how to approach your project work. However, as no
prescription can match the needs of every project, you should consult with your project
director on how this advice applies to your particular project.
PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH
The broad strategy of your research work will vary considerably depending on your own
preferences, on the recommendations of your project director, and above all on the nature
and logic of the research project that you have selected. Nevertheless, some general
advice is possible.
Having been allocated a project, it is vital to define the question or questions that the
project will attempt to answer. If you have difficulty in defining the question(s) clearly you
should discuss the matter with your project director.
It may well be that, after carrying out some initial experiments, the direction of the project
may change. If this happens you will need to re-define the question.
It is very unlikely that your project will succeed in finding satisfactory answers if you do not
have clear questions in mind from the outset.
Before beginning actual experiments or observations you should try to construct a written
plan of your research, certainly of the first phases. Discuss ideas with your project director
first, then draw up a draft plan and give it to your project director for comment.
READING THE LITERATURE
It is essential that you read the most important scientific papers and other literature
concerning your project before proceeding too far with your research.
Most students will read around possible research topics a little before selecting their
project. However, in general, it is not worth going into any depth at this stage because you
may well become too committed to a topic that you may not then be allocated. When
selecting a project, background reading should be directed to deciding firstly whether you
are strongly motivated by the particular topic, and, secondly, to making sure that there is a
problem to be studied, and that the work to be done during the first stages of the
investigation can be clearly defined.
Once your project topic has been determined you should, as soon as convenient, study
the key references relating to the subject, and carry out a literature survey to locate other
relevant papers. You should already be familiar with using the Web of Science system in
the library. Copies of papers not in the library can be obtained through inter-library loans,
or by going in person to the British Library (at Boston Spa, near Tadcaster), or from one of
the major science libraries in London or elsewhere. Check first that your project director
does not already have a copy of a paper you want.
When surveying the relevant literature, do not make the common mistake of confining
yourself only to the precise topic that you are to study. Investigate a wide range of
comparable mechanisms, situations or species. (For example, if your project is on
maternal behaviour in gerbils, do not read papers only on maternal behaviour in gerbils look at papers on maternal behaviour in a wide range of other species, and on other
aspects of the behaviour and physiology of gerbils and related species.)
When reading up on their topic during the early stages of a project, many students are apt
to scan through papers in a rather aimless way, as if just casting around for some good
ideas, or expecting to absorb a detailed understanding of the subject without much
directed effort. Avoid this. Instead, you should write down a list of questions concerning
the theory and method of your topic, and then try to find and write down answers to them.
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Make brief notes on all the relevant papers or articles you find or read, taking special care
to record the authors, date, title and journal, clearly and accurately, so that you can
incorporate any reference in your project write-up without having to mount a major search
to find it again.
List of staff offering projects 2015-2016
Biology – max 4 projects unless stated otherwise (phones 01904 32….)
Prof Ian Bancroft (max 2 projects)
Dr Daniela Barilla
Dr Christoph Baumann
Dr Colin Beale
Dr Gonzalo Blanco
Dr Will Brackenbury (max 1 project)
Prof Michael Brockhurst (max 1 project)
Prof Neil Bruce, CNAP (max 3 projects)
Dr Leo Caves
Dr Sangeeta Chawla
Dr Setarah Chong
Dr Dawn Coverley (max 3 projects)
Dr Kanchon Dasmahapatra
Prof Seth Davis (max3 projects)
Dr Pierre Dechant (max 2 projects)
Dr Chris Elliott
Dr Gareth Evans
Dr Paul Genever
Prof Ian Graham (max 2 projects)
Dr Allison Green (max 3 projects)
Prof Sue Hartley (max 1 project)
Dr Mike Haydon (max 2 projects)
Prof Jane Hill
Dr Ian Hitchcock (max 1 project)
Dr Angela Hodge
Dr Pen Holland (max 2 projects)
Dr Harv Isaacs
Dr Louise Jones
Prof Paul Kaye (max 2 projects)
Dr Marika Kullberg (max 3 projects)
Dr Dimitris Lagos (max 2 projects)
Prof Mark Leake (max 1 project)
Dr Frans Maathuis
Prof Norman Maitland (max 2 projects)
Dr Fabiola Martin (max 1 project)
Dr Peter Mayhew
Prof Peter McGlynn
Prof Simon McQueen Mason (max 2 projects)
Dr Michael Plevin
Prof Jennifer Potts (max 2 projects)
Dr Betsy Pownall
Dr Paul Pryor (max 3 projects)
Ms Emma Rand
Dr Kelly Redeker
Dr Elva Robinson (max 1 project)
Dr Antal Rot (max 1 project)
Dr Michael Schultze
Dr Nathalie Signoret (max 3 projects)
Prof Maggie Smith
Dr Katie Smith (Max 2 projects)
Prof Jenny Southgate (max 2 projects)
Dr Sean Sweeney
Prof Chris Thomas
Dr Daniel Ungar
Dr Marjan van der Woude (max 1 project)
Dr Richard Waites
Dr Jamie Wood (max 2 projects)
Prof Peter Young
ian.bancroft@york.ac.uk
phone 8778
daniela.barilla@york.ac.uk
phone 8715
christohp.baumann@york.ac.uk phone 8828
colin.beale@york.ac.uk
phone 8615
gonzalo.blanco@york.ac.uk
phone 8593
william.brackenbury@york.ac.uk phone 8284
Michael.brockhurst@york.ac.uk phone 8576
neil.bruce@york.ac.uk
phone 8777
leo.caves@york.ac.uk
phone 5335
sangeeta.chawla@york.ac.uk phone 8575
setarah.chom@york.ac.uk
phone 8534
dawn.coverley@york.ac.uk
phone 8664
kanchon.dasmahapatra@york.ac.uk phone 8635
seth.davis@york.ac.uk
phone8915
pd583@york.ac.uk
phone 5370
chris.elliott@york.ac.uk
phone 8654
gareth.evans@york.ac.uk
phone 8571
paul.genever@york.ac.uk
phone 8649
ian.graham@york.ac.uk
phone 8750
allison.green@york.ac.uk
phone 8916
sue.hartley@york.ac.uk
phone 8640
mike.haydon@york.ac.uk
phone 8803
jane.hill@york.ac.uk
phone 8654
ian.hitchcock@york.ac.uk
phone 8914
angela.hodge@york.ac.uk
phone 8562
eph505@york.ac.uk
phone 8734
harry.isaacs@york.ac.uk
phone 8696
louise.jones@york.ac.uk
phone 8695
paul.kaye@york.ac.uk
phone 8840
marika.kullberg@york.ac.uk
phone 8850
dimitris.lagos@york.ac.uk
phone 8930
mark.leake@york.ac.uk
phone 8566
frans.maathuis@york.ac.uk
phone 8652
n.j.maitland@york.ac.uk
phone 8700
fabiola.martin@york.ac.uk
phone 8907
peter.mayhew@york.ac.uk
phone 8644
peter.mcglynn@york.ac.uk
phone 8688
simon.mcqueenmason@york.ac.uk phone 8775
michael.plevin@york.ac.uk
phone 8682
jennifer.potts@york.ac.uk
phone 8679
betsy.pownall@york.ac.uk
phone 8692
paul.pryor@york.ac.uk
phone 8563
emma.rand@york.ac.uk
phone 8737
kelly.redeker@york.ac.uk
phone 8560
elva.robinson@york.ac.uk
phone 5338
antal.rot@york.ac.uk
phone 8927
michael.schultze@york.ac.uk phone 8690
nathalie.signoret@york.ac.uk phone 8928
maggie.smith@york.ac.uk
phone 8686
Katie.smith@york.ac.uk
phone 8552
jennifer.southgate@york.ac.uk phone 8705
sean.sweeney@york.ac.uk
phone 8537
chris.thomas@york.ac.uk
phone 8646
dani.ungar@york.ac.uk
phone 8656
marjan.vanderwoude@york.ac.uk phone 8841
richard.waites@york.ac.uk
phone 8684
jamie.wood@york.ac.uk
phone 5370
peter.young@york.ac.uk
phone 8630
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Chemistry – max 1 project unless stated otherwise
Dr Fred Antson
Dr Marek Brzozowski
Dr Paul Clarke
Prof Gideon Davies
Dr Anne Duhme-Klair
Dr Ian Fairlamb
Dr Martin Fascione
Dr Gideon Grogan
Prof Rod Hubbard
Prof Peter O’Brien
Dr Alison Parkin
Dr Anne Routledge
Dr Seishi Shimizu
Prof Tony Wilkinson
Prof Keith Wilson (max 2 projects)
fred.antson@york.ac.uk
marek.brzozowski@york.ac.uk
paul.clarke@york.ac.uk
gideon.davies@york.ac.uk
anne.duhme-klair@york.ac.uk
ian.fairlamb@york.ac.uk
martin.fascione@york.ac.uk
gideon.grogan@york.ac.uk
rod.hubbard@york.ac.uk
peter.obrien@york.ac.uk
Alison.parkin@york.ac.uk
anne.routledge@york.ac.uk
seishi.shimizu@york.ac.uk
tony.wilkinson@york.ac.uk
keith.wilson@york.ac.uk
phone 8255
phone 8265
phone 2614
phone 8260
phone 2587
phone 4091
phone 8822
phone 8256
phone 8267
phone 2535
phone 2561
phone 4540
phone 8281
phone 8261
phone 8262
CHECKLIST: MAKING YOUR PROJECT CHOICE
1.
If you are planning a project is based on your own original concept, fill in an
“original project” form and arrange to discuss with the Chair of the Board of Studies
as soon as possible, before the end of week 2.
2.
Decide on SEVEN projects, no more than two with the same director; you may
discuss your choices with potential project directors, some make it a requirement
that you contact them.
3.
Check that your choices are appropriate for your degree.
4.
Fill in your choice online when the link becomes available.
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/itsupport/cfm/projects/
The deadline is 09.00 am on Monday week 4 of term 6 (4 May 2015).
Don’t miss the deadline. Late submissions cannot be accepted as this holds up the
allocation process for everybody else.
5.
Watch your email in week 8 for details about project allocation.
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