BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Japan Partnering Awards
This scheme will fund British and Japanese scientists in systems biology as it seeks to foster bilateral relationships. In collaboration with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the project will provide support for up to four years and assist groups in producing high-impact publications, new grant applications and reciprocal access to facilities. The amounts provided to UK winners by the BBSRC (listed below) will be matched by the JST for Japanese partners.
Award winners: Austin Smith and Hitoshi Niwa
Institutions: University of Cambridge and RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology, Kobe
Value: £56,000
Systems biology of pluripotent stem cells
Award winners: Judith Armitage and Hisao Moriya
Institutions: University of Oxford and Okayama University
Value: £33,000
Biological networks
Award winners: Ken Haynes and Masaru Tomita
Institutions: Imperial College London and Keio University
Value: £51,000
Redox regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida glabrata
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Oliver Creighton
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £159,514
Community and landscape: transforming access to the heritage of the Poltimore estate
Award winner: Gauvin Bailey
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £91,162
Rococo architecture and spirituality in South America
Award winner: Terence Flaxton
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £241,550
A knowledge-transfer fellowship in high-resolution imaging
Award winner: James Nicholls
Institution: Bath Spa University
Value: £33,295
Alcohol and public health: culture, policy and delivery
Award winner: M. Grierson
Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Value: £254,326
Sound, image and the brain: cognitive live-arts technology in contemporary game-oriented and accessibility paradigms
Award winner: Steve Barker
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £29,363
Beyond semantics: a theory of language in which semantics has no role in explaining how language functions
Award winner: Daniel Katz
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £53,146
The poetry of Jack Spicer
Award winner: Michelle Montague
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £25,306
Consciousness and thought: cognitive phenomenology
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: B.A. Wallace
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Value: £478,495
Parallel electrophysiological characterisation of sodium channels
Award winner: I. Manners
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £204,017
Triblock terpolymers for self-assembled nanolithography
Award winner: B.M. Gibbs
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £172,405
Reception plate method for structure-borne sound sources
Award winner: G. Srivastava
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £326,408
Phonon engineering of nanocomposite thermoelectric materials
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Award winners: Dov Stekel and Naotake Ogasawara
Institutions: University of Nottingham and Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Value: £23,000
Diversification of transcriptional regulatory networks underlying the genetic variation of E.coli species
Using experimental and computing techniques, this project will explore how varying E.coli strains thrive in the human gut. Researchers from Nottingham will collaborate with scientists at the Nara Institute and the University of Osaka. It is hoped that the results will improve understanding of the biology of E.coli strains and aid international efforts to control future outbreaks.