BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
The BBSRC and the French National Research Agency (ANR) have funded ten projects worth £6.5 million to boost European collaboration in systems biology. Each project has at least one UK and one French partner institution.
- Award winners (institution): Robert Sablowski (John Innes Centre) and James Bangham (University of East Anglia)
Value: £668,404.75 (JIC) and £293,792.56 (UEA)
Modelling growth and gene regulation in floral organs
- Award winner: David Fell
Institution: Oxford Brookes University
Value: £250,187.89
Multi-level modelling of mitochondrial energy metabolism
- Award winners (institution): Peter Bramley (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Graham Seymour (University of Nottingham)
Value: £296,310.91 (RHUL) and £129,588.90 (Nottingham)
A systems-biology approach to the elucidation of metabolic networks underlying health-based quality traits in tomato fruit
- Award winner: Robin Callard
Institution: University College London
Value: £443,801.22
Applied statistical and mathematical modelling of peripheral T-Lymphocyte homeostasis
- Award winners (institution): Robin Silver (University College London) and Volker Steuber (University of Hertfordshire)
Value: £653,848.15 (UCL) and £164,378.63 (Herts)
An integrative study of neural coding in the vestibular cerebellum: from cellular physiology to models of network behaviour
- Award winner: Andrew Millar
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £336,034.76
Minimal models of the circadian clock in a novel biological system
- Award winner: Daniel Haydon
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £280,741.85
A systems-biology approach to integrating pathogen evolution and epidemiology
- Award winner: Michael Barrett
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £458,223.52
Metabolomic systems-biology analysis of differentiation in trypanosomes
- Award winner: Thomas Nowotny
Institution: University of Sussex
Value: £466,867.26
Olfactory coding in the insect pheromone pathway: models and experiments
- Award winner: Angela Douglas
Institution: University of York
Value: £403,532.06
Systems-level analysis of animal metabolism by multicompartmental graph and constraints-based modelling
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
The STFC has announced its latest round of grants under the PIPSS scheme, which aims to encourage knowledge transfer between academia, industry and other research organisations.
- Award winner: Neil Geddes
Institution: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Value: £198,791.11
Industrial research to integrate gLite (Grid software) into a platform for the commercial trading of computer resources
- Award winner: Philip Mauskopf
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £268,108.25
Passive detector systems for far-infrared fourier transform spectroscopy and terahertz imaging
- Award winner: Andy Parker
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £117,5.47
Application for a PIPSS fellowship at the Cambridge Centre for Scientific Computing
- Award winner: Bob Bentley
Institution: University College London
Value: £87,948.85
Commercialisation of a tissue-equivalent proportional counter radiation monitor
- Award winner: George Fraser
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £87,037.85
Spectral ID: exploiting optical-reflectance spectrometry.
