EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
The ERC's second Advanced Grants Awards, each worth up to EUR3.5 million (£3.1 million), are provided to established researchers. UK-based winners in the life sciences are listed below: others will be published in the coming weeks.
Award winner: David Attwell
Institution: University College London
Brain energy supply and the consequences of its failure
Award winner: Wendy Bickmore
Institution: Medical Research Council
Determining the roles of the nuclear periphery in mammalian genome function
Award winner: Christine Britch
Institution: Newcastle University
Development of high-throughput in vivo oncogenomic screening strategies in acute leukaemia
Award winner: Alistair Brown
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Spatial and temporal regulation of the fungus-host interaction during life-threatening fungal infections
Award winner: Timothy Coulson
Institution: Imperial College London
Linking ecological and evolutionary dynamics in theory, in the lab and in the field
Award winner: John Diffley
Institution: Cancer Research UK
The initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication: mechanism, regulation and role in genome stability
Award winner: Jeff Errington
Institution: Newcastle University
Origins, proliferation and pathogenesis of L-form (cell wall-deficient) bacteria
Award winner: Michael Hausser
Institution: University College London
Cellular and circuit determinants of dendritic computation
Award winner: Alasdair Houston
Institution: University of Bristol
The evolution of mechanisms that control behaviour
Award winner: Irene Leigh
Institution: University of Dundee
Tissue engineering to evaluate novel treatments for skin cancer and genetic disease
Award winner: Anne Magurran
Institution: University of St Andrews
Biological diversity in an inconstant world: temporal turnover in modified ecosystems
Award winner: Alfonso Martinez Arias
Institution: University of Cambridge
Molecular origin and function of dynamic heterogeneities in mouse ES cells and pre-implantation embryos
Award winner: Josephine Pemberton
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Wild evolutionary genomics
Award winner: Adrian Podoleanu
Institution: University of Kent
Combined time domain and spectral domain coherence gating for imaging and biosensing
Award winner: Christopher Ponting
Institution: Medical Research Council
Derived and ancestral RNAs: comparative genomics and evolution of ncRNAs
Award winner: Benjamin Sheldon
Institution: University of Oxford
Evolutionary social ecology in wild populations
Award winner: Tim Spector
Institution: King's College London
The role of epigenetic factors in the aetiology of common complex diseases using twins
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Award winner: George Thompson
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £5.7 million
Light alloys towards environmentally sustainable transport second generation
This project aims to reduce the environmental impact of transport by seeking to improve the design of high-performance light alloys. Professor Thompson and his team of eight multidisciplinary academics will investigate methods of forming complex components and engineering surfaces for low environmental impact.