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The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project URB/01881/G Dr Cecilia Mascolo Department of Computer Science University College London Award £1,380 Quality of Service Aware Service Discovery for Pervasive Computing URB/01882/G Dr Eamonn Mallon Department of Biology University of Leicester £1,386 The energetic cost of the immune response in bumblebees URB/01883/G Dr David Evans Department of Biological Chemistry John Innes Centre £1,200 The Reactivity of a Synthetic Analogue of the Dinickel Sub-Site of Acetyl-CoA Synthase URB/01884/G Professor Nicholas Harrison Department of Chemistry Imperial College London £1,460 Kinetics of CO adsorption and oxidation on ZnO (10-10): A Computer modelling study URB/01885/G Dr Matthew Turner Department of Physics University of Warwick £1,260 Reverse engineering chemical muscle URB/01886/G Dr Gill Reid School of Chemistry University of Southampton £1,400 Synthesis and characterisation of multidentate antimony-containing ligands and their metal complexes URB/01888/G Professor Mark Johnson Health Sciences Group Leeds Metropolitan University £1,400 The effect of electrode placement of transcutaneuous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on experimentally induced pain in healthy volunteers URB/01890/G Professor Fridrun Podczeck School of Health, Natural and Social Sciences University of Sunderland £1,050 Investigation of the fracture/strength properties of compacts made from binary powder mixtures using a progressive multiple layer approach URB/01892/G Dr Klaus Ersfeld Department of Biological Sciences University of Hull £1,400 Chromosome localisation in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei URB/01893/G Dr Joseph Holden School of Geography University of Leeds £1,400 How does peatland drainage and susequent peat restoration management affect soil microbial activity and dissolved organic carbon release? URB/01894/G Dr Grigory Vekstein School of Physics and Astronomy University of Manchester £1,050 Magnetic reconnection and the origin of the solar corona URB/01896/G Dr Christine Mumford School of Computer Science Cardiff University £1,200 Meta-Heuristics for the Travelling Salesman Problem URB/01898/G Dr George Constantinides Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London £1,280 Hardware Accelerated Bayesian Inference for Gene Network Reconstruction URB/01899/G Dr Nicholas Dunne School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Queen's University of Belfast 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,400 Page 1 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Evaluation of the Efficacy of Adding Supplementary Amounts of Gentamicin Sulphate to Acrylic Bone Cement URB/01900/G Dr Michael Went School of Physical Sciences University of Kent £1,400 Copper Complexes for Imaging and Treatment of Hypoxic Tissues URB/01906/G Dr Christopher Howe Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge £1,400 Organization of the dinoflagellate genome URB/01907/G Professor Charles Ellington Department of Zoology University of Cambridge £1,400 Flapping wing micro air vehicles URB/01909/G Dr Arthur Richards Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Bristol £1,200 Demonstration of Decentralized Control of Robotic Vehicles URB/01912/G Dr Nicola Edelstyn School of Psychology Keele University £1,400 Recognition memory, conscious recollection and executive function in patients with moderate Parkinson's Disease URB/01913/G Dr Stewart Clark Department of Physics University of Durham £1,200 Calculation of the electronic structure of materials from first principles URB/01914/G Professor Victor Abrashkin Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Durham £1,200 The local analogue of the Grothendieck conjecture in the case of characteristic 2 URB/01916/G Dr Karen Wilson Department of Chemistry University of York £1,400 Novel nano-structured hydrocarbon combustion catalysts for pollution control URB/01918/G Professor Bruce Batchelor School of Computer Science Cardiff University £1,375 Web-based Sensing and Control for Industrial Machine Vision Systems URB/01919/G Dr Kinwah Wu Department of Space and Climate Physics University College London £1,430 X-ray Emission from Relativistic Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes URB/01920/G Dr John Love Department of Biological Sciences University of Exeter £1,400 Endogenous 3' UTRs as Transgene Terminator Sequences in Arabidopsis thaliana URB/01921/G Dr Derek Jackson Centre for Coastal and Marine Research University of Ulster £1,050 Delineation of littoral cells along a coastal section of Co. Down, Northern Ireland URB/01922/G Professor Michael Graham Gore Biomolecular Sciences Group University of Southampton £1,400 Investigating the sub-class specificity of the binding of kappa light chains to protein L from Peptostreptococcus magnus URB/01923/G Dr Peter D Haynes Theory of Condensed Matter Group 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £ 900 Page 2 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award University of Cambridge Quantifying the physical significance of optimised local orbitals in linear-scaling quantummechanical calculations URB/01924/G Mr John Bacon School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia £1,400 Correlating the acoustic response of the rotary scanning sonar to bedform height and wavelength URB/01926/G Professor Kenneth Long Department of Physics Imperial College London £1,480 Validation of the mechanical properties of the scintillating-fibre tracker for MICE URB/01928/G Dr Gloria Rudenko Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research University of Oxford £1,360 Disruption of Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) gene expression site silencing in African trypanosomes unsing RNAi URB/01929/G Dr Zsuzsanna Nagy Department of Pharmacology University of Birmingham £1,400 The effects of oxidative stress in the brain URB/01930/G Dr Marc in het Panhuis Department of Chemistry University of Hull £1,400 Optimum conditions for dispersing carbon nanotubes with surfactants URB/01932/G Dr David MacEwan School of Medical Sciences University of Aberdeen £1,400 TNF life/death switching signalling URB/01933/G Dr Rodney Coleman Department of Mathematics Imperial College London £1,280 Fitting long-tailed probability distributions from censored data URB/01934/G Dr Luke Alphey Department of Zoology University of Oxford £1,200 Genetic Control of pest insects URB/01935/G Dr Florian Hollfelder Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge £1,400 Investigating cell entry by non-viral gene therapy vectors: Clathrin mediated endocytosis? URB/01936/G Dr C Robin Hiley Department of Pharmacology University of Cambridge £1,200 A study of the abnormal-cannabidiol receptor of the vasculature URB/01938/G Dr Peter Doerner Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences University of Edinburgh £1,400 Regulation of TCP gene activity in Arabidopsis URB/01939/G Dr Duncan H Gregory Department of Inorganic Chemistry University of Nottingham £1,200 Nitride materials for hydrogen storage URB/01940/G Dr Gordon Curry Division of Earth Sciences University of Glasgow £1,100 Stable isotope analysis of fossil New Zealand shells to reconstruct oceanic temperatures URB/01941/G Dr Graham Kirby School of Computer Science 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,200 Page 3 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award University of St Andrews Experimental Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Storage Architectures on a Wide-Area Testbed URB/01942/G Dr Andreas Hofmann Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology University of Edinburgh £1,200 Mapping protein-protein interactions of cyclase-associated protein (CAP), a protein involved in cell development URB/01946/G Dr Philip Davies Civil and Mechanical Division University of Warwick £1,400 Enhanced low-energy methods of greenhouse cooling for food production in hot, arid climates URB/01947/G Dr Robert James School of Science and Environment Coventry University £1,394 Physiological and biomechanical responses to load carrying during level, uphill and downhill walking on a treadmill URB/01948/G Dr Michael R Ladomery Bristol Genomics Research Institute University of the West of England £1,400 Proteomic analysis of mRNA-bound proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana URB/01949/G Dr Jeremy Field Department of Biology University College London £1,480 Reproductive costs in wasps URB/01951/G Dr David J Timson School of Biology and Biochemistry Queen's University of Belfast £1,340 Expression and purification of a-synuclein in native conformation URB/01952/G Dr Mike Price School of Science and the Environment Coventry University £1,394 The effects of hypoxia and gradient on pace selection during treadmill walking URB/01953/G Dr Johannes Zimmer Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath £1,302 Analysis in asymmetric metric spaces URB/01954/G Dr Sarah Whitehouse Department of Pure Mathematics University of Sheffield £1,200 The ring of stably numerical polynomials URB/01955/G Dr Nicholas Besley School of Chemistry University of Nottingham £1,200 The Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on Protein Amide l Bands URB/01956/G Dr Sarah Newbury Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences University of Newcastle £1,400 Investigation of the role of mRNA decapping enzymes in Drosophilia development URB/01958/G Professor Francis L W Ratnieks Department of Animal and Plant Sciences University of Sheffield £1,400 Behavioural Ecology of Ant Foraging: Effect of Branching Angles on Trail Choice at Trail Bifurcations URB/01959/G Professor Geoff Hide Biosciences Research Institute University of Salford £1,400 Development of a diagnostic procedure, based on DNA, for the parasite Trypanosoma Brucei (causative agent of sleeping sickness) 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 Page 4 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project URB/01960/G Dr Andrew Furley Department of Biomedical Science University of Sheffield Award £1,400 The role of Contactin-Associated Proteins (CASPRs) in development of the vertebrate nervous system URB/01962/G Dr Nicholas John Kruger Department of Plant Sciences University of Oxford £1,400 Flux analysis in metabolic networks - the impact of growth in stable-isotope [13C] substrates on metabolism in cell cultures URB/01964/G Professor Martin Buck Department of Biological Sciences Imperial College London £1,480 How does an AAA+ protein become specialised? URB/01965/G Professor Miles Cox School of Psychology University of Wales, Bangor £1,400 Alcohol Attention Control Training Programme URB/01966/G Dr Benjamin Varcoe Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sussex £1,325 The Search for Schrodingers Cat URB/01967/G Dr Jenni Harvey Division of Pathology and Neuroscience University of Dundee £1,400 Linking obesity with memory dysfunction: Regulation of AMPA receptor trafficking in hippocampal neurons by leptin URB/01970/G Dr Craig Adam School of Chemistry and Physics Keele University £1,395 Approaches to a forensic database of inks URB/01972/G Dr Andrea Munsterberg School of Biological Sciences University of East Anglia £1,400 Characterization of candidate genes involved in somite patterning and differentiation, in particular myogenesis URB/01973/G Dr Richard Callaghan Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences University of Oxford £1,395 Integrated mathematical and experimental study of tumour and endothelial cell migration URB/01975/G Dr Mark Gilbertson Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Bristol £1,200 Particle manipulation using ultrasound URB/01977/G Professor Mark Weller School of Chemistry University of Southampton £1,300 Improving on Nature. Analogues of Unusual Fluorescent Minerals URB/01978/G Dr Gillian Thompson Department of Archaeological Sciences University of Bradford £1,400 Identifying the cultural relationships between the island peoples of the North Atlantic and their use and management of wood resources URB/01980/G Dr Greg Hurst Department of Biology University College London £1,480 Investigating the effect of extreme sex ratio bias on animal behaviour URB/01981/G Dr Dean Willis Department of Pharmacology 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,475 Page 5 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award University College London Investigation into the role of NADPH oxidase subunits in Toll-like receptors signaling in macrophages URB/01983/G Dr Miodrag Stojkovic Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics University of Newcastle £1,400 Growth of human embryonic stem cells under animal-free conditions URB/01984/G Professor Chris Swan Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College London £1,460 Extreme Ocean Waves: Experimental Observations and Numerical Modelling URB/01985/G Dr Chang-Tsun Li Department of Computer Science University of Warwick £1,400 Content-Based Image Retrieval for Mammogram Database URB/01986/G Dr Kevin G Moffat Department of Biological Sciences University of Warwick £1,400 The Role of Torp4a in Protection from Oxidative Neurodegeneration URB/01988/G Dr Nigel Ternan School of Biomedical Sciences University of Ulster £1,400 Investigation of the effect of carbon catabolite repression on organophosphonate metabolism within a phosphonoacetate metabolising strain of Agromyces Fucosus URB/01989/G Dr Rob de Jeu Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Durham £1,200 Counting points on elliptic curves over finite fields URB/01990/G Dr Ed Hathorne Department of Earth Sciences Open University £1,400 Improving the utility of laser ablation ICP-MS of biogenic carbonates for palaeoclimate studies: Effect of particle size URB/01991/G Dr Rachael James Department of Earth Sciences Open University £1,400 Quantifying the effect of shell size on trace element incorporation in planktonic foraminifera: Implications for climate studies URB/01992/G Dr Thomas Richardson Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Bristol £1,320 Development of a UAV dynamic model using both constrained and free-flight test data URB/01994/G Dr David Pearson School of Psychology University of Aberdeen £1,050 An investigation of cognitive processes during the encoding and retrieval of emotional visual stimuli URB/01995/G Professor Tony Miles Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Bath £1,400 Strain in the femur during impaction grafting revision hip replacement URB/01996/G Dr Jonathan McMaster Department of Inorganic Chemistry University of Nottingham £1,400 Magnetic Circular Dichroism as a Tool to Probe Mo Complexes Relevant to the Active Sites of Mo-containing Enzymes URB/02000/G Dr James J Bell Institute of Biological Sciences University of Wales, Aberystwyth 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,400 Page 6 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Genetic isolation of estuarine populations of the marine gastropod Littorina saxatilis URB/02002/G Dr Jane Catherine Quinn School of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences University of Edinburgh £1,396 The role of Gli3 in early cortical development URB/02003/G Dr Ross W Boyle Department of Chemistry University of Hull £1,380 Synthesis of self assembling liquid crystalline complexes URB/02005/G Dr Neil Thomas Centre for Biomolecular Sciences University of Nottingham £1,400 Using enzymes in fluorous solvents to clean Old Masters URB/02006/G Dr Klaus-Ulrich Neumann Department of Physics Loughborough University £1,100 Investigation of Atomic Magnetism by Neutron Scattering URB/02007/G Dr Alison Howard Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences University of Newcastle £1,400 Characterisation of the promoter region/s of the human GLYT1 gene URB/02008/G Professor Ian Dryden School of Mathematical Sciences University of Nottingham £1,400 Statistical analysis of archaeological field survey data using Bayesian techniques URB/02011/G Dr Nicola Hawkes Vector Research Group University of Liverpool £1,315 Isolating the acetylcholinesterase gene(s) implicated in insecticide resistance in sandflies, vectors of leishmaniasis URB/02013/G Dr Costas Foudas High Energy Physics Group Imperial College London £1,480 Higgs production via vector boson fusion at the LHC URB/02014/G Professor Rex Godby Department of Physics University of York £1,200 Vertex corrections beyond the GW approximation URB/02016/G Dr Robert Newman School of Mathematical and Information Sciences Coventry University £1,348 Hardware for wireless sensor networks URB/02017/G Dr Arno Kraft School of Engineering and Physical Sciences - Chemistry Heriot-Watt University £1,050 Mechanical properties of modified silica nanoparticle-polymer composites URB/02018/G Dr Elena Gaura School of Mathematical and Information Sciences Coventry University £1,200 Simulating locationing algorithms for ad-hoc wireless sensor networks URB/02019/G Dr Christopher Prior Department of Physiology and Pharmacology University of Strathclyde £1,400 Development of a novel optical technique for measuring communication between nerve cells in the living brain URB/02020/G Dr Douglas McLean Department of Computing Science and Mathematics University of Stirling 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,200 Page 7 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Modelling microtubule dynamics in a moving boundary model of neurite elongation URB/02021/G Dr Ifan Hughes Department of Physics University of Durham £1,200 Electromagnetically Induced Transparency with laser-cooled Rubidium atoms URB/02022/G Professor Charles Adams Department of Physics University of Durham £1,200 Fast optical switching applied to quantum information processing using ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices URB/02023/G Dr Derek Atkinson Department of Physics University of Durham £1,303 Magneto-electronic interactions of domain walls in nanoscale magnetic structures URB/02028/G Dr Paul A Campbell Department of Surgery and Molecular Oncology University of Dundee £1,335 Optimisation of therapeutic ultrasound by computational modelling URB/02030/G Dr Victoria Braithwaite Institute of Evolutionary Biology University of Edinburgh £1,400 Do male sticklebacks make antibiotic nests? URB/02031/G Dr Christopher J H Elliott Department of Biology University of York £1,400 Neuromuscular control of ovary contractions in Drosophila melanogaster URB/02032/G Dr Lynne Sneddon School of Biological Sciences University of Liverpool £1,400 Proximate mechanisms underlying boldness in rainbow trout URB/02033/G Dr David Marshall Cardiff School of Computer Science Cardiff University £1,200 A Speech Driven Computer Generated Emotional Talking Head URB/02035/G Dr Anthony Blazevich Department of Sport Sciences Brunel University £1,392 Determinants of strength expression in unlearned movements URB/02036/G Dr Robert H Insall School of Biosciences University of Birmingham £1,400 A screen for mutants with altered SCAR levels and phosphorylation URB/02037/G Dr Andrew Westwell School of Pharmacy University of Nottingham £1,400 The synthesis of TOP message constructs and regulation of mRNA translation URB/02038/G Dr Paul Barlow School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh £1,300 A bioinformatic approach to the flexibility of multidomain complement proteins URB/02040/G Dr Cornelia H de Moor Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology University of Nottingham £1,400 mRNA Localisation and Translation in Osteoblast Attachment URB/02041/G Dr Timothy G Wright Department of Physical Chemistry University of Nottingham £1,200 Spectroscopic Studies of NO Complexes and Metal-Containing Radicals 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 Page 8 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project URB/02042/G Professor Jonathan Percy Department of Chemistry University of Leicester Award £1,388 The Generation and Study of Long-lived Difluorinated Enols URB/02043/G Dr John S Snaith School of Chemistry University of Birmingham £1,200 Synthesis of 3-Spiro Piperidines by Carbonyl Ene and Prins Cyclisation URB/02044/G Dr Carlo De Lillo School of Psychology University of Leicester £1,400 Executive Functions and cross-modality binding in serial temporary memory URB/02047/G Professor David Gray Institute of Immunology and Infection Research University of Edinburgh £1,400 Immune regulation by B cells - the role of TGFb URB/02048/G Dr Peter Moerters Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath £1,200 Probabilistic proofs for tail estimates of branching trees URB/02049/G Dr Jacco van Loon Astrophysics Group Keele University £1,270 A spectral atlas of the galactic globular cluster omega Centauri: a roadmap of late stellar evolution URB/02052/G Dr Greg Michaelson Department of Computer Science Heriot-Watt University £1,200 Comparative evaluation of C++ and Hume for real-time motion tracking URB/02056/G Dr Timothy J Bussey Department of Experimental Psychology University of Cambridge £1,400 Perihinal cortex - a perceptual role in object recognition memory? URB/02057/G Dr Robert Mokaya Materials Chemistry Group University of Nottingham £1,310 Optimised super-microporous aluminosilica materials URB/02058/G Dr James Curley Sub-department of Animal Behaviour University of Cambridge £1,200 The effects of impaired maternal care on the behavioural development of mouse offspring URB/02062/G Dr Julian Hibberd Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge £1,400 The evolution of C4 photosynthesis URB/02064/G Professor Jim Burdess School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering University of Newcastle £1,200 Determination of the thermal distribution function of an AFM cantilever URB/02065/G Dr Ian Roulstone Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Surrey £1,400 A Hamiltonian problem in data assimilation for numerical weather prediction URB/02066/G Dr Richard Aspinall Department of Immunology Imperial College London £1,160 Construction of a CCR9 Fcy fusion protein URB/02067/G Professor David Grundy 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,400 Page 9 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Department of Biomedical Science University of Sheffield An investigation into the effect of Trichinella spiralis induced enteric inflammation on distension induced peristalsis in the small intestine URB/02068/G Professor C David Garner Department of Inorganic Chemistry University of Nottingham £1,400 Development of Chemical Analogues of the Catalytic Centres of Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes URB/02070/G Dr Tom Smulders School of Biology University of Newcastle £1,400 Olfactory detection of different food types by magpies (Pica pica) URB/02072/G Dr Sarabjit Mastana Department of Human Sciences Loughborough University £1,400 Genetic analysis of apolipoprotein genes in Coronary Artery Disease in Asiatic Indians URB/02073/G Dr Norah Spears Genes and Development Group University of Edinburgh £1,400 The role of PLC - beta 1 in reproduction URB/02074/G Dr Cedric Lacey Institute for Computational Cosmology University of Durham £1,400 The star formation history of the Universe URB/02075/G Dr Carlton Baugh Institute for Computational Cosmology University of Durham £1,400 The clustering of galaxies as a function of their stellar mass URB/02077/G Dr Aviva Tolkovsky Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge £1,400 Does mitochondrial PI3P mark them for degradation by autophagy? URB/02078/G Dr Mark Thomson Department of Physics University of Cambridge £1,200 A study of neutrino oscillations using upward going neutrino-induced muons in the MINOS detector URB/02080/G Dr Christopher Adams School of Chemistry University of Bristol £1,361 Tethering metal-bipyridine compounds to electrodes URB/02081/G Dr Paul Roche Faulkes Telescope Project Cardiff University £1,400 Photometric and spectroscopic studies of Open Clusters URB/02082/G Dr Ivana Evans Department of Chemistry University of Durham £1,400 Designing Materials for Fuel Cells: The Chemistry of R2Mo4O15 (R=La,Ce,Pr,Nd,Sm,Eu) Phases URB/02083/G Dr Michael M Dworetsky University of London Observatory University College London £1,465 Elemental Abundances in Normal and Chemically Peculiar A and B Stars from Optical Spectra URB/02084/G Dr Nadja Reissland School of Psychology University of Aberdeen £1,200 The effect of depressed mood on infant emotional development from 7 to 9 months of age 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 Page 10 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project URB/02085/G Dr Karen Horsburgh Division of Neuroscience University of Edinburgh Award £1,400 Do LXR agonists increase apolipoprotein E expression and stimulate neuritic growth? URB/02086/G Professor Mark Birkinshaw Department of Physics University of Bristol £1,330 Optical and infra-red images of active galaxies URB/02088/G Dr M Grazia Francesconi Department of Chemistry University of Hull £1,380 Preparation and characterisation of the first ternary nitride-fluoride URB/02089/G Dr Maria Uther Department of Psychology University of Portsmouth £1,400 Investigation of vocal tract articulatory changes in speech directed at infants URB/02091/G Professor John R Helliwell School of Chemistry University of Manchester £1,400 The structural chemistry of carotenoid colours URB/02092/G Professor Margaret Collinson Department of Geology Royal Holloway, University of London £1,475 Ferns and fires: experiments enabling application of fossil fern charcoal to characterise ancient fires and their environmental impacts URB/02094/G Dr Amanda Clare Department of Computer Science University of Wales, Aberystwyth £1,200 Fault detection in Grid-enabled laboratory automation systems URB/02096/G Mr Jamie Taylor Institute for Energy Systems University of Edinburgh £1,100 Design and construction of an automated multi-axis flow measurement system for a novel flow table URB/02099/G Dr Kevin D Smith Department of Bioscience University of Strathclyde £1,100 AGP Glycosylation as an earlier marker for Down's syndrome in maternal plasma during pregnancy URB/02102/G Dr Jorge Tovar School of Biological Sciences Royal Holloway, University of London £1,480 Cloning and transgenic expression of a Giardia gene encoding a putative WRKY transcription factor URB/02106/G Dr Anil Fernando Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Brunel University £1,480 Joint motion and disparity estimation for stereo video sequence URB/02108/G Professor Colin Please School of Mathematics University of Southampton £1,200 Mathematical modelling of protein reactions within microfluidic devices URB/02109/G Professor Gareth Jones School of Mathematics University of Southampton £1,317 Relations between the wallpaper patterns and their groups URB/02110/G Dr Mark Dennis School of Mathematics University of Southampton 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,280 Page 11 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Computing the writhe framing of a twisted ribbon URB/02111/G Dr Christine Currie School of Mathematics University of Southampton £1,400 Investigation of the Impact of HIV on Tuberculosis in Kenya for the World Health Organisation Using a Statistical Model URB/02114/G Dr Julie Christian School of Psychology University of Birmingham £1,316 Differentiating between attitudinal and normative motivations to exercise URB/02115/G Dr Anthony McGregor School of Psychology Cardiff University £1,400 An investigation of landmark use and spatial memory in the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) URB/02117/G Dr Joanna Bryson Department of Computer Science University of Bath £ 940 Understanding the Adaptive Advantage to Costly Communication URB/02119/G Dr Grant Trewartha Sport and Exercise Science Research Group University of Bath £1,392 Identification of the key technical characteristics of successful evasive running manoeuvres in rugby union URB/02120/G Dr Andrea Manica Department of Zoology University of Cambridge £1,350 Coordination of activities in vertebrate groups URB/02122/G Dr Pia Nystrom Department of Archaeology University of Sheffield £1,375 Examination of dental microwear on human anterior teeth: exploring dietary and extra-dietary wear patterns URB/02123/G Professor Alan Armstrong Department of Chemistry Imperial College London £1,480 A New Organocatalyst for Asymmetric Synthesis URB/02125/G Dr Jennifer Tooze Department of Haematology St George's Hospital Medical school £1,480 Comparison of prognostic markers for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) employing flow cytometry and fluroescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) URB/02126/G Dr George Britovsek Department of Chemistry Imperial College London £1,480 New Catalysts for the Selective Oxidation of Alkanes URB/02129/G Dr Robert Davies Department of Chemistry Imperial College London £1,480 Heterocuprates: New tools for asymmetric synthesis URB/02130/G Professor Michael J Barlow Department of Physics and Astronomy University College London £1,035 An IPHAS study of the structure of the northern Milky Way using A0 main sequence stars URB/02132/G Dr John Ellis Department of Physics University of Cambridge £1,392 Growth and structure of ultrathin layers of ice on single crystal metal surfaces URB/02133/G Professor Jane Endicott 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,400 Page 12 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Department of Biochemistry University of Oxford Characterisation of the cyclin A Skp2 binding site URB/02134/G Dr Andy Graham Department of Chemistry University of Wales, Swansea £1,400 New routes to Oxabicycloalkane containing natural products as potential inhibitors of Protein Phosphatases URB/02138/G Dr Robert O J Weinzierl Department of Biological Sciences Imperial College London £1,430 Functional Dissection of a Basal Transcription Factor URB/02139/G Dr Johanna van Hooff Department of Psychology University of Kent £1,400 Understanding our bias toward negative information: An electrophysiological study of the emotional Stroop task URB/02140/G Professor Geoffrey Moore School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy University of East Anglia £1,200 Investigating the order within an unfolded protein by fluorescence spectroscopy URB/02141/G Dr Fritz Albert Muhlschlegel Department of Biosciences University of Kent £1,100 CO2 is a major regulator of fungal virulence URB/02142/G Dr Vania Braga Cell Molecular Biology Section Imperial College London £1,460 Understanding junction stability in epithelial cells URB/02143/G Dr Sarah Thompson Department of Physics University of York £1,400 Remote Imaging of Giant Magnetoresistance with Spatial Resolution URB/02144/G Dr Nicholas Bryan School of Chemistry University of Manchester £1,200 Radionuclide interactions with Humic Substances URB/02145/G Professor Barry T Jones Department of Psychology University of Glasgow £1,050 Eye movements as a direct representation of differential alcohol-related attentional bias between lighter infrequent and heavier frequent social drinkers URB/02146/G Professor David R Fearn Department of Mathematics University of Glasgow £1,400 Evolution of a freezing mixture URB/02149/G Dr Plamen Angelov Department of Communications Systems Lancaster University £1,260 Study of map-building and target recognition with autonomous mobile robot Pioneer-DX3 URB/02151/G Dr Joerg Hardege Department of Biological Sciences University of Hull £1,386 The basis of gregariousness in spiny lobster URB/02153/G Dr Paul Skarratt Department of Psychology University of Hull £1,400 Investigating the special role of object onset in visual attention using inhibition of return (IOR) 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 Page 13 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project URB/02154/G Dr Alton Horsfall School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering University of Newcastle Award £1,370 Stress evolution in electrically stressed interconnect features URB/02157/G Dr Simon Gibbons Centre for Pharmacognsoy and Phytotherapy School of Pharmacy, University of London £1,480 Hypericum plant natural products as a source of new antibacterial agents URB/02158/G Dr Anne Verhoef Department of Soil Science University of Reading £1,250 Analysis of the diurnal variation of the ratio of soil heat flux to net radiation for various land surface types URB/02162/G Dr Ryan Donnelly School of Pharmacy Queen's University of Belfast £1,400 Pressure Sensitive Drug Delivery Systems for Photodynamic Therapy URB/02164/G Professor Philip Maini Centre for Mathematical Biology University of Oxford £1,200 Intracellular modelling in bacterial chemotaxis URB/02165/G Dr Brian Gibson School of Biological and Molecular Science Oxford Brookes University £1,395 Role of Grx1 in protecting brewing yeast against superoxide stress URB/02166/G Dr Gareth Anthony Taylor Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Brunel University £1,475 Optimal design and implementation of a streaming video server and client using RTSP and RTP/UDP across a wireless LAN URB/02170/G Dr Kirsten Harvey Department of Pharmacology School of Pharmacy, University of London £1,160 Interactors of the glycine receptor alpha1 subunit and their role in human startle disease URB/02171/G Dr Daniel Moore Department of Mathematics Imperial College London £1,325 A MATLAB implementation of High Order MIRK Methods for solving two point boundary value problems URB/02172/G Professor Graham J Sewell Department of Pharmacy Kingston University £1,390 Development and evaluation of a unit dose system to prepare liquid doses from oral cytotoxic drugs URB/02173/G Dr Parastou Donyai Department of Pharmacy Kingston University £1,400 Development and validation of assays testing the oxidant/antioxidant status of Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) infusions URB/02176/G Professor Dimitri Vvedensky Department of Physics Imperial College London £1,410 Self-Organisation of Quantum Dots in Semiconductor Systems URB/02177/G Professor Frances Kirwan Mathematical Institute University of Oxford £1,200 Counterexamples to Motzkin's conjecture on the combinatorics of simplicial polytopes URB/02178/G Dr Andrew Bushby Department of Materials 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,280 Page 14 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Queen Mary, University of London Deformation behaviour of nanocrystalline metal URB/02179/G Dr Iain Young Department of Veterinary Preclinical Science University of Liverpool £1,400 The Molecular Pathogenesis of Dilated Cardiomyopathy URB/02181/G Dr Rachel Norman Department of Computing Science and Mathematics University of Stirling £ 900 A host-host-pathogen model with vaccination and its applications to real systems URB/02182/G Dr Karen Birch School of Sport and Exercise Sciences University of Leeds £1,400 The impact of physical activity status upon cardiovascular disease risk factors in postmenopausal women URB/02184/G Dr Anne Cunningham School of Health, Natural and Social Sciences University of Sunderland £1,394 Expression and regulation of CLCA-2 in human alveolar epithelial cells URB/02189/G Dr Roger Bennett Department of Physics University of Reading £1,400 Scanning tunnelling microscopy of supported nanostructures and surfaces URB/02190/G Dr Paul Mulheran Department of Physics University of Reading £1,400 Simulating protein aggregation processes on surfaces URB/02194/G Dr Sarah Hainsworth Department of Engineering University of Leicester £1,400 Micromanipulation of Powders at High Temperature in the Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope URB/02196/G Dr Geoff Smith Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath £1,315 The geometry of triangle centres URB/02197/G Dr Michael Weir School of Computer Science University of St Andrews £1,200 Robustness and smoothness properties of Forward Chaining robot navigation under perturbation URB/02198/G Dr Heather Macdonald Faculty of Applied Sciences University of the West of England £1,394 Does Chlamydomonas reinhardtii respond to the plant hormone auxin? URB/02199/G Miss Elizabeth Wilcock School of Science and the Environment Coventry University £1,250 Physical activity patterns of patients taking part in phase 3 cardiac exercise rehabilitation URB/02200/G Professor Patrick Unwin Department of Chemistry University of Warwick £ 950 Modelling of diffusional processes at carbon based electrodes URB/02206/G Dr Mark C Bagley School of Chemistry Cardiff University £1,397 Synthesis of aminopyrazoles and N-heteroarylureas using microwave irradiation URB/02207/G Professor Charles A Marsden School of Biomedical Sciences 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,200 Page 15 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award University of Nottingham Effects of early life adversity on emotional learning in the adult rat URB/02208/G Dr Christine Thomas Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of Liverpool £1,200 Search for small-scale features near the Earths core mantle boundary using seismic array data URB/02212/G Professor Peter J Heggs School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science University of Manchester £1,200 Operating Characteristics of a Vertical Thermosiphon Reboiler Generating Steam at Reduced Pressures URB/02215/G Dr Dylan Gwynn-Jones Institute of Biological Sciences University of Wales, Aberystwyth £1,400 UV-B impacts on plant-herbivore interactions: a cafeteria approach URB/02218/G Dr Robin May School of Biosciences University of Birmingham £1,400 The molecular basis of resistance to the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans URB/02219/G Dr Mark C Field Department of Pathology University of Cambridge £1,400 Role of E1 in endocytosis in trypanosomes URB/02221/G Professor A Jennifer Mordue Department of Zoology University of Aberdeen £1,100 Host-masking semiochemicals against Scottish Biting Midges URB/02222/G Dr Georg Held Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge £1,392 Adsorption of bio-related chiral molecules studied by IR spectroscopy and Photoelectron Spectroscopy URB/02223/G Dr Louise Phillips School of Psychology University of Aberdeen £1,380 The role of inhibition in labelling facial expressions of emotion URB/02225/G Professor Valerie Anne Randall Department of Biomedical Sciences University of Bradford £1,400 Investigations into factors which promote hair growth in balding URB/02226/G Dr Merideth Gattis School of Psychology Cardiff University £1,400 Infant Imitation and Attention URB/02227/G Dr Roger Grand Institute for Cancer Studies University of Birmingham £1,400 The significance of the interaction of adenovirus early region 1A with C terminal binding protein - interacting protein (CtlP) URB/02228/G Professor Sir David King Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge £1,350 The surface geometry of thin layers of rust URB/02229/G Dr Robert J Poole Department of Engineering University of Liverpool £1,200 Non-Newtonian fluid flow through a gradual contraction: the 'cat's ears' effect URB/02230/G Dr Robert J Harvey 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,160 Page 16 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Department of Pharmacology School of Pharmacy, University of London Exploration of signalling pathways involving the glycine receptor alpha3 subunit in inflammatory pain URB/02231/G Professor Chris Hawes School of Biological and Molecular Sciences Oxford Brookes University £1,400 Identification of novel Golgi associated matrix proteins URB/02232/G Professor A Mark Pollard Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art University of Oxford £1,400 Developing a new dating technique for North American archaeology: the application of distal micro-tephochronology URB/02234/G Dr Charles Day School of Computing and Mathematics Keele University £ 900 An exploration of the usefulness of Neural Network techniques for mining huge datasets generated by the SuperWASP project URB/02235/G Dr John Preater Department of Mathematics Keele University £1,200 Stochastic Modelling of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs URB/02236/G Professor Patricia Kuwabara Department of Biochemistry University of Bristol £1,250 Transposon-mediated mutagenesis: Improving the efficiency of Drosophila mos-1 transposition in the C. elegans genome URB/02237/G Professor Andrew Halestrap Department of Biochemistry University of Bristol £1,400 Characterising the properties of novel sanglifehrin derivatives as inhibitors of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore URB/02238/G Dr Jonathan Lawry Department of Engineering Mathematics University of Bristol £1,300 Behavioural cloning of decision and control rules in robotics URB/02239/G Professor David Lydall Institute for Ageing and Health University of Newcastle £1,200 Dissecting the roles of a conserved DNA Damage response protein at uncapped telomeres URB/02240/G Dr Elizabeth Veal Institute of Cell and Molecular Biosciences University of Newcastle £1,100 Investigating the conservation of the stress-sensing mechanisms regulating the activation of fungal AP-1 like transcription factors URB/02242/G Professor Stuart J Ferguson Department of Biochemistry University of Oxford £1,400 Probing the attachment of heme to protein to give cytochromes URB/02243/G Dr Alistair Elfick Institute of Materials and Processes University of Edinburgh £1,389 Does the Mechanical Response of Articular Cartilage to Load Induce a Piezoelectric Modification of the Synovial Fluid? URB/02244/G Dr Sandra Telfer Department of Veterinary Pathology University of Liverpool £1,100 Transmission of haemoparasites between introduced black rats and native rodents in Madagascar URB/02246/G Professor Michael Merrifield 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,200 Page 17 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham Innovative Science with the Faulkes Atlas of Nearby Galaxies URB/02248/G Dr Gaia Scerif School of Psychology University of Nottingham £1,400 The effects of motivational incentives on response inhibition: behavioural and electrophysiological measures URB/02249/G Dr Nicola Pitchford School of Psychology University of Nottingham £1,400 Understanding the developmental linkage between colour preference and colour term acquisition: the role of colour exposure, attention and memory URB/02250/G Dr Marina Bloj Department of Optometry University of Bradford £1,400 Detection and discrimination of computer generated colour gradients: a psychophysical investigation URB/02252/G Dr Fiona Benson Department of Biological Sciences Lancaster University £1,400 Investigation of the interaction of alpha-synuclein with metal ions URB/02256/G Professor Kathy Whaler Grant Institute of Earth Science University of Edinburgh £1,070 Inferring flow in the Earth's deep interior from geomagnetic observations URB/02257/G Professor Rainer Roehe Sustainable Livestock Systems Group Scottish Agricultural College £1,200 Development of a stochastic simulation programme to predict selection response in livestock based on polygenic and quantitative trait loci URB/02261/G Dr Richard Thompson Department of Chemistry University of Durham £1,400 Water ingress and hydrolysis effects in polyester films URB/02262/G Dr Francisca Mutapi Institute for Immunology and Infection Research University of Edinburgh £1,400 Comparison of immune responses to defined schistosome antigens URB/02264/G Dr Elizabeth Packham Institute of Genetics University of Nottingham £1,200 Identification of upstream regulators of TBX5 expression URB/02265/G Dr Yulia Hicks Institute of Magnetics, Electronics and Electrical Systems Cardiff University £1,200 Modeling, analysing and exploiting dependencies between the parts of a moving human figure in the context of computer graphics applications URB/02267/G Dr Tamas Szekely Department of Biology and Biochemistry University of Bath £1,308 Mortality cost of sex chromosome in vertebrates URB/02268/G Dr Mark Kerrigan Department of Human Health Sciences University of Westminster £1,280 The capacity of Regulatory Volume Increase (RVI) in articular chondrocytes URB/02270/G Dr Thomas Korff School of Sport and Education Brunel University 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,450 Page 18 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Differences between mechanical and muscular pedal stroke efficiency in cycling URB/02272/G Professor Jeff Cole School of Biosciences University of Birmingham £1,400 Nitrate sensing by bacteria: is the transcription regulator itself regulated? URB/02273/G Dr Sarah Rose NDRC King's College London £1,480 Phosphorylation of NMDA subunits in L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease URB/02274/G Dr Sudaxshina Murdan Department of Pharmaceutics School of Pharmacy, University of London £1,480 Jojoba oil microemulsions for transdermal drug delivery URB/02276/G Dr Edward Daw Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sheffield £1,400 Pulsed Electron Beams in Saturated Vapour by Thermionic Emmission URB/02277/G Dr Lee Thompson Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sheffield £1,200 Towards the Acoustic Detection of Very High Energy Neutrinos URB/02278/G Dr Chris Booth Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sheffield £1,200 Target Development for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment URB/02279/G Dr Ian Dawson Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sheffield £1,400 Radiation Background in the ATLAS Detector for High Luminosity LHC URB/02280/G Dr Susan Cartwright Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sheffield £1,200 Direct and Indirect Searches for Supersymmetric Dark Matter URB/02281/G Dr Diana Roman School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds £1,350 The effect of regional tectonic setting on local stress field response to episodes of magmatic activity URB/02285/G Dr Gordon T Cook Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre University of Glasgow £1,400 Radiocarbon Dating the Formation and Occupational Phases of Crannogs in Loch Tay, Perthshire (Scotland) URB/02288/G Professor Jotun Hein Department of Statistics University of Oxford £1,397 Combining Stochastic Grammars for Genome Research URB/02289/G Dr Thomas Neukirch School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews £ 900 Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares URB/02294/G Dr Simon Fox School of Biological Sciences University of Plymouth £1,400 Elucidating the profile of ITAMs in tissue and free macrophages populations URB/02295/G Dr Naomi Quinton Academic Unit of Oncology and Haematology University of Leeds 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 £1,200 Page 19 of 20 The Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursaries in Science 2005 Application Ref. Supervisor/Institution/Project Award Are polymorphisms within the steroid hormone receptors (estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor) associated with endometrial cancer (EC) in a British population? URB/02297/G Professor Jorg Feldmann Department of Chemistry University of Aberdeen £1,250 Electrospray Mass Spectrometry for small organoarsenicals URB/02298/G Dr Terry Moore School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham £1,050 An NMR method to monitor Engine Health URB/02300/G Dr Richard Layfield Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge £1,400 Constrained Allyl Amido Complexes of Transition Metals URB/02301/G Professor David Leach Institute of Cell Biology University of Edinburgh £1,400 Control of Sister-Chromatid Exchange URB/02302/G Dr Tom Little Institute of Evolutionary Biology University of Edinburgh £1,400 The female-biased sex ratio of freshwater Ostracods URB/02304/G Dr Stefano Luzzatto Mathematics Department Imperial College London £1,280 Regularity of foliations in nonlinear dynamical systems URB/02305/G Dr Martyn Quick School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews £1,200 Probabilistic generation of symmetric groups and transformation semigroups URB/02307/G Professor William J Kerr Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry University of Strathclyde £1,100 New Economical Magnesium Base Reagents for Use in Asymmetric Organic Synthesis URB/02308/G Professor Peter J Halling Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry University of Strathclyde £1,100 Solid phase biocatalysis: How enzymes behave with solid attached substrates URB/02312/G Dr Daniel St Johnston Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge £1,200 Locating and sequencing posterior localisation domain of Miranda-GFP in Drosophilia eggs URB/02313/G Dr Jason Greenwood Department of Physics and Astronomy Queen's University of Belfast £1,200 Dynamics in an Electrostatic Ion Trap URB/02316/G Dr Sinead Rhodes Department of Psychology University of Stirling £1,400 Investigating the expectancy effect in language comprehension: Are on-line predictions really driven just by semantic memory? URB/02319/G Dr Rebecca Goss Department of Chemistry University of Exeter £1,400 Synthesis of fluorinated cyclohexanoic acids 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS Tel: 020 7631 0566 Page 20 of 20
