Projects: Summer 2022

Projects offered for SIPBS Internships, starting Summer 2022.

1 Offered Project Summaries

The table below lists PIs who indicated they would welcome SIPBS internship applicants for project work in Summer 2022.

PI Topics Project Title
Prof G Gould fat cell; lipid droplet; ageing; diabetes Characterising ageing fat cells
Prof W Harnett Antiinflammatory properties and therapeutic potential of the secreted parasitic worm product ES-62
Dr A Kurdi prescriptions; pharmacy; data analysis Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the prescribing pattern of mental health medications in the UK: a cross-national comparison study
Prof G McConnell microscopy;image analysis; image processing TBA
Dr L Pritchard computational biology; bioinformatics; (i) transcriptional regulation, microbiology, microbial genomics; (ii) whole-genome metabolic modelling; metabolism; cardiomyocytes TBA: up to 2 students
Dr Z & Dr N Rattray Cancer; Bioinformatics; Data Analysis TBA: can take 2-4 students
Dr N Tucker Microbiology, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, transcriptional regulation, nitrogen metabolism, infection Comparing nitrosative stress responses between Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains PA01 and the Liverpool Epidemic Strain

2 Project Descriptions