Group A: Molecular and Cell Biology

Projects A1 to A7

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.

• A1: Replication of DNA-protein crosslinks
  Postdoc supervisor - Quentin Gueranger
  Group leader - Peter Karran (Mammalian DNA Repair)



• A2: Characterisation of Nod1, a new component of the cell size regulation machinery
  Postdoc supervisor - Isabelle Jourdain
  Group leader - Takashi Toda (Cell Regulation)



• A3: How do telomeres influence centromeres in meiosis?
  Postdoc supervisor - Michael Klutstein
  Group leader - Julie Cooper (Telomere Biology)



• A4: Rab7, a novel player in cancer?
  Postdoc supervisor - Olga Martins de Brito
  Group leader - Giampietro Schiavo (Molecular Neuropathobiology)



• A5: Investigating the mechanisms involved in promoting genetic instability and treatment failure in cancer
  Postdoc supervisor - Sarah McClelland
  Group leader - Charles Swanton (Translational Cancer Therapeutics)



• A6: The effect of the histone demethylase kdm2b on the ink4/arf locus
  Postdoc supervisor - Helen Pemberton
  Group leader - Gordon Peters (Molecular Oncology)



• A7: The role of WIPI proteins in Autophagy
  Postdoc supervisor - Hannah Polson
  Group leader - Sharon Tooze (Secretory Pathways)

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