Group B: Developmental Signalling and Biology

Projects B1 to B7

The following projects are available for the LRI Summer Studentship Programme 2010. Use the links below to read more about each project (in PDF format), the group leader and the research in that group.

• B1: Functional role and interaction partners of the Phosphoinositide 3-kinase p110β
  Postdoc supervisor - Ralph Fritsch
  Group leader - Julian Downward (Signal Transduction)



• B2: Novel genes required for microtubule dependent mRNA transport during Drosophila oogenesis
  Postdoc supervisor - Rippei Hayashi
  Group leader - David Ish-Horowicz (Developmental Genetics Laboratory)



• B3: Identification of novel regulators of tissue growth and epithelial polarity in Drosophila
  Postdoc supervisor - Eliana Lucas
  Group leader - Barry Thompson (Epithelial Biology)



• B4: Live imaging of Drosophila tissue growth
  Postdoc supervisor - Yanlan Mao
  Group leader - Nic Tapon (Apoptosis and Proliferation Control)



• B5: Characterisation of a candidate gene involved in control of tissue growth
  Postdoc supervisor - Neil Pearson
  Group leader - Barry Thompson (Epithelial Biology)



• B6: Experimental and computational study of the TGFβ signalling pathway
  Postdoc supervisor - Pedro Vizan
  Group leader - Caroline Hill (Developmental Signalling)



• B7: Identification and Characterisation of new modulators of the Hippo Pathway
  Postdoc supervisor - Michael Wehr
  Group leader - Nic Tapon (Apoptosis and Proliferation Control)

The Group B project descriptions are also available to download as a single PDF file (179KB).