Beyond Smoking and Drinking: The Role of HPV in Head and Neck Cancers

Head and neck cancers are a group of cancers that affect the mouth, lips, nasopharynx, pharynx, larynx and sinuses. Common risk factors associated with head and neck cancers are alcohol and tobacco consumption, however recent studies have demonstrated a causal link between human papillomavirus (HPV) and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). HPV has been shown Read more about Beyond Smoking and Drinking: The Role of HPV in Head and Neck Cancers[…]

My Dissertation Experience: Lucia Garcia-Figueras Gonzalez

Supervisor and Project title: Professor Paul O’Shea. ‘Studying disease using interactome analysis; the innate immune system in Alzheimer’s disease’. Why I chose this topic: As a biology with psychology student, I was particularly interested in the biological aspect and understanding of the brain and the underpinned processes that mould behaviour or cause diseases. The brain Read more about My Dissertation Experience: Lucia Garcia-Figueras Gonzalez[…]

My dissertation experience – Rebecca Chatwin

Supervisor and project title: Jackie Parry, ‘Interkingdom signalling between Saccamoeba limax and Chromobacterium violaceum’   Why I chose this topic I always found the interaction between molecules very interesting. The mechanisms of disease in the human body, in particular, has always piqued my interest and so this project gave me a way of investigating a topic Read more about My dissertation experience – Rebecca Chatwin[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Josh Jenkinson

Supervisor and project title: Karen Wright- Investigating the effects of atypical cannabinoid O-1602   Why I chose this topic: Although you select the top areas you would like your dissertation to be related to, there is also a section in which you can put specific requests, I chose to request a topic relevant to cancer Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Josh Jenkinson[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Emily Clayton

Supervisor and project title: Professor Roger Pickup: Identification and characterisation of unknown bacteria from mobile phone screens using substrate utilisation analysis Why I chose this topic: I have always had a keen interest in the areas of microbiology and cell biology, so I knew I was going to list these topics as my first options Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Emily Clayton[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Chantal D

Supervisor: Dr Leonie Unterholzner Project title: “How does the DNA sensing adaptor STING cause the activation of the transcription factors IRF3 and NF-κB in the presence of viral DNA?” (Immunology) Dissertation format… As a study abroad student, I started my dissertation research in my third year when I was back in Lancaster. I spent time Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Chantal D[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Maya Bennison

My Dissertation Experience Supervisor and project title: Dr Clive Price / Professor Paul Bates: An investigation in to the roles of Transcription Factor 7 like 2 and Phospholipase C Delta 1 in colorectal cancer Why I chose this topic I have been interested in cancer and genetics since before I even started university, so I Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Maya Bennison[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Hannah Rudd

Supervisor and project title: Professor Ian Dodd – Do root hairs affect the physiological response of barley (Hordeum vulgare ) in drying soil? Why I chose this topic… To be quite honest, I didn’t. Unfortunately, for my research project, we were required to rank four topics in order of what we’d most like to do. Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Hannah Rudd[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Maria Kontopyrgou

My Dissertation Experience Supervisor and project title: Dr. Dayi Zhang: Phosphorus forms determining growth and phosphatase activity of Microcystis aeruginosa. My project as its name suggests examined the effect of 59 different phosphorus types on the growth of Microcystis aeruginosa and the expression of a critical protein alkaline phosphatase. What I investigated… Microcystis aeruginosa is Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Maria Kontopyrgou[…]

My Dissertation Experience – Jed Winstanley

My Dissertation Experience Supervisor(s) and project title(s): Karen Wright – The endocannabinoid system as a therapeutic target in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Cell Biology) Prof Christian Holscher – The pathophysiology of depression and current therapeutic approaches (Neurobiology) Why I chose these topics… I’ll start with a brief overview of both my projects because my dissertation set-up Read more about My Dissertation Experience – Jed Winstanley[…]