2015 Participants

Elliott Jordan Eden Atkins

  • BSc (Hons) Biology (Ecology and Enviromental Biology)
  • Does a lack of starch impact on a plant’s ability to tell the time?

Abbigale Bennett, Stephen Cox, Sophie Battinson, Timothy Kempf, Daniel Leicester & Helen O’Riordan

  • BSc (Hons) Physical Geography
  • University Expedition 2015: The interaction between ice loss and hydrology on the Russell Glacier, West Greenland

Abigail Lowe

  • MBBS
  • Evaluation of care processes and clinical outcomes in pregnancy complicated by diabetes

Rebecca MacDermid

  • BA (Hons) Politics & History
  • A Commemorative project: the Decade of Centenaries and The Irish Diaspora in Tyneside

Katie Bethan Smith

  • BA Combined Honours (History with Spanish)
  • University Expedition 2015: The recent revival of Welsh culture in the Chubut valley, Patagonia

Junaid Ahmed

  • MComp (Hons) Computer Science (Game Engineering)
  • Utilizing Novel Interface Techniques on Sony Commodity Hardware for Games for Health.

Omotayo Ajibolade

  • Bsc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • Assessing Er activity in hormonal therapy drug resistant cells

Zainab Akhter

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Genetics
  • Does inflammation induce DNA damage in neurons?

Louise Catherine Amor-Seabrooke

  • BSc (Hons) Biology
  • Critique of tools used to monitor spatial movements of squirrels.

Holly Appleby

  • BSc (Hons) Biology (Cell & Molecular Biology)
  • Identification of Biopesticide Targets in Insects using RNA Interference

Camilla Ascanelli

  • BSc Hons Pharmacology
  • Understanding Microtubule Dependent Signalling in the generation of Cellular Asymmetries

Yasmin Aneesa Awan

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • Airway submucosal gland cell culture: developing better cell models that represent the in vivo situation.

Jessica Barnes

  • MEng (Hons) Electrical & Electronic Engineering with Industrial Project
  • Day-long continuous measurement of forearm muscle activity and hand movement

Drew Baxter

  • MMath (Hons) Mathematics
  • Instabilities of the Magnetic Field in a Neutron Star

James Beattie

  • BEng (Hons) Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  • Quantum mechanical analysis of changing surface elements on silicon carbide at extreme temperatures

Shahad Laeith Bensaoud

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Investigation of cystic kidney disease genes using whole exome sequencing and analysis

Lily Beaven

  • BA (Hons) Combined Honours History with Chinese
  • Women in India: The Other Half. A study of women’s organisations: from colonial to contemporary, the struggle continues.

Victoria Blackham

  • Bsc (Hons) Zoology
  • Can honey bees taste minerals?

Matthew Bowker

  • MBBS
  • Examination of patterns of stroke assessment by paramedics according to geography, time and day.

Ethan Bos

  • MChem (Hons) in Chemistry
  • Photonic Antennae based on Porous Materials

Alice Bradbury

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • Characterisation of the interaction between CDK2/cyclin E and CINP and its role in regulating replication initiation complex formation

Olivia Elaine Bucknall

  • BA (Hons) Classical Studies and English
  • Classical Legend and Myth: Investigating the potential of exploring western myth and literature within a limited resources teaching environment in a developing world classroom

Amy Louise Burns

  • MSci Biomedical Sciences
  • Nitric oxide regulation of 5-HT neuronal firing in the dorsal raphe nucleus

Sarah Byers

  • MMath (Hons) Mathematics
  • Non-semisimple representations of degenerate double affine Hecke algebras

Sophie Chalmers

  • BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Sciences
  • An evaluation of the Sure Steps to Talking (SSTT) Questionnaire and follow-up support for children identified at risk of developing speech and language difficulties.

Ellis Charlesworth

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Validation of Potential Downstream Targets of Pax9

Boyang Chen

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Biobutanol from Bacillus subtilis

Rachel Patricia Clarke

  • BA (Hons) Archaeology
  • Leper Hospitals of the medieval North East: A focus on St Leonard’s hospital of Tynemouth and other sites in the region.

Lauren Yuk Ying Cheung

  • BSc (Hons) Biology (Cell & Molecular Biology)
  • A new chromosome modification in cell division

Benjamin Clegg

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology
  • Why do rhesus macaques display abnormal behaviours in enriched housing environment?

Jessica Colborn

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Novel reporters for the translational recoding of the foot-and-mouth disease 2A peptide

Lucy Colgan

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • Using 3D models of early human development to analyse gene expression data and define anatomical domains in the forebrain.

Kimberley Colman

  • BA (Hons) Archaeology
  • An interdisciplinary survey of Marsden Lime Kilns

Jennifer Combe

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Genetics
  • Identification of conditional lethal oncogenes in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Louise Downing

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology
  • A step towards predicting lithium response in patients with bipolar disorder

Gabrielle Dunbar

  • BA (Hons) History and Archaeology
  • Pierced bodies: 18th century runaway slave advertisements and the appearance of Africans carried in to slavery

Sema Ekinoglu

  • MChem (Hons) in Chemistry
  • Synthesis of 'Smart' Polymer Nanoparticles for the Inhibition of Biofilm Formation

Andrew James Evans

  • The Weimar Question: British views during the post-war planning on the reasons of the failure of German democracy
  • BA (Hons) Politics & History

Yuen Nam Fan

  • MSci Biomedical Sciences
  • Modulation of the innate immune response by exosomes in colorectal cancer

Samantha Firth

  • Bsc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • Investigating Differential Gene Expression in Cardiac Developmental Defects which lead to Adult Cardiomyopathy

Amy Gancarczyk

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology
  • Towards an Investigation of Phosphorous in the Brain of Patients with Bipolar Disorder

Anna Garrard

  • BA (Hons) History & Archaeology
  • Living Contraband: The Transition of Racial Attitudes After the American Civil War

Lisa Gurung

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • How do Riociguat and Sildenafil affect pulmonary cells to reduce Pulmonary Hypertension?

Chris Hamilton

  • MPhys Physics at Merton College, Oxford
  • Standing wave optical trap for the investigation of nanoscopic aerosol particles

Rebecca Harris

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • Development of biomarkers to predict response to ultraviolet-B treatment in psoriasis.

Thomas James Hollingworth

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Optimization of the phosphorylated neurofilament marker SMI34 for identification of degenerative axonal loss in Alzheimer’s disease

Solveig Hoppe

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • The effect of quality of sleep and mood on emotional processing and emotional memory in bipolar disorder and healthy controls

Rachel Hughes

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • The Development of the Visual Cortex in Marmosets

Pihaya In-Na

  • BEng Hons Chemical Engineering
  • Investigation of Heterogeneous Solid-Catalysed Transesterification from vegetable oil for biodiesel production in an Oscillatory Baffled Reactor (OBR)

Megan Ingham

  • BSc Hons Pharmacology
  • The use of specific-molecule inhibitors in the treatment of t(8;21) positive acute myeloid leukaemia

Aaron Jesuthasan

  • MBBS
  • Fainting and weakness: novel approaches to solve common problems

Eva Kajumova

  • MEng (Hons) Digital Electronics with Industrial Project
  • Relative localisation between vehicles for vehicle-to-vehicle communication to improve safety on the road

BingBing Ke

  • BEng Marine Technology (Hons) Naval Architecture
  • Measurement of hydrodynamic coefficients for an ROV during launch and recovery

Susana Keane

  • MSci Biomedical Sciences
  • Validation of candidate disease-causing mutations in a novel primary immunodeficiency

Paul Li Zhi Khoo

  • MBBS (NUMED Malaysia)
  • Diagnosis of dementia by measuring proteins in blood

Maria King

  • MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering
  • NGOs capacity to deliver sustainable outcomes in relation to the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Water and Sanitation, within Peru.

Mariam Kudehinbu

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Change in dual task interference over three years in an incident cohort of Parkinson’s disease

Andrej Ladcenko

  • BSc (Hons) Surveying & Mapping Science
  • Monitoring long term Vertical Land Movement at North Shields Tide Gauge

Kamilah Lakhani

  • BSc Hons Biomedical Sciences
  • The Role of Oxidative Stress in Inhibitory Interneurons for Cortical Seizure Generation

Scarlet Lee

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition (NU Singapore)
  • Finding a “fingerprint” of wholegrain food intake in plasma

Ka Ying Lee

  • Bsc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • How do mitochondrial ribosomal proteins control apoptosis?

Whye Yi Audrey Leong

  • Fruit and vegetable consumption and body weight in young adults aged 17-21 in Singapore.
  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition (NU Singapore)

Luke Lewis-Borrell

  • MChem with Hons in Medicinal Chemistry
  • The Role of Dual Hydrogen Bonding in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry

Kaiqiang Li

  • Bsc Biomedical Sciences
  • The roles of Ric1, a protein involved in Golgi transport, and Ost4, an ER membrane protein, in telomere defective strains

Heuzin Hwai Lim

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • An investigation and review of a genetic aberration found in Newcastle patients

Xiu Jian Lim

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition (NU Singapore)
  • The impact of wholegrain food intake on health outcomes

Pei Shan Lim

  • MBBS (NUMED Malaysia)
  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition

Ka Yan Lui

  • BA (Hons) Marketing and Management
  • UK household recycling behaviour: can it be increased through community based social marketing?

Dianne Marquez Lopez

  • BSc Hons Biomedical Sciences
  • Biomarkers in Dementia

Sarah Elizabeth Main

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • The Identification of Emerging Psychoactive Substances

Matthew Mankarious

  • BSc Hons Physiological Sciences
  • A stereological examination of Temporal Lobe Volume in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Jonothon Jay Marshall

  • BSc Hons Physiological Sciences
  • The role of the thalamic lateral pulvinar nucleus in visual hallucinations in the Lewy body dementias

Flora Jane Steele McDougall

  • BA (Hons) Ancient History & Archaeology
  • Investigating the ancient urban planning of modern Istanbul

Alex McDonnell

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • DNA methylation as a mediating mechanism in the development of neurotoxicity in response to multiple impacts on one carbon metabolism during methotrexate treatment.

Amy Middleton

  • BSc Hons Physiological Sciences
  • Maintenance of intra-islet oxygenation during isolation via novel oxygen microbubbles.

Rory Mullins

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • A potential role of epithelial mesenchymal transition in aspiration injury of the lung

Ewelina Musial

  • MSci Biomedical Sciences
  • Investigating the Level of mtDNA Carryover in Mitochondrial Replacement Embryos

Hayley Neal

  • BA (Hons) Archaeology
  • Understanding the Archaeological and Historical Landscape of Lufton, near Yeovil, Somerset.

Joe William Neame

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • Regulation of CDK1 and CDK2 by the “cyclin-like” protein Spy1

Emily Needle

  • BA (Hons) History
  • From Rags Through Race to Ragtime: The Jenkins Orphanage Band and American Audience Response to Jazz in Turn of the Century Charleston.

Oliver O’Daly

  • MChem (Hons) Chemistry with Study Abroad
  • Self-Organising Amphiphilic Polyoxometalates

Qiao Yun Ooi

  • BEng (Hons) Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  • Falling Detection and Protection Unit (FDP Unit) Project

Nicola Payton

  • BSc Hons Biomedical Sciences
  • Nutrient (Selenium) modulation of gut epithelial inflammatory responses

Ruth Perkins

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Personalised home-based physical activity intervention in older adults with Heart Failure

Jun Shang Poon

  • MBBS (NUMED Malaysia)
  • Neural stem cell transplantation to a rat model of perinatal stroke.

Timothy Porter

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Genetics
  • Creation of an opsin library for neurophysiology research

Megan Powell

  • BSc Hons Pharmacology
  • The use of specific-molecule inhibitors in the treatment of t(8;21) positive acute myeloid leukaemia

Sharmaine Quake Yen Ling

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Validating the potential downstream targets of Pax9

Priya Rai

  • MBBS
  • Investigating the association between mitochondrial DNA copy number and clinical disease severity in patients with the m.3243A>G mutation

Bethany Rice

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • How does Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron degrade yeast mannan and can it utilise Candida mannan as a food source?

Stephanie Louise Rosewarne

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • The validation of brief cognitive screening instruments and determination of the prevalence of dementia in Geriatric Medical Outpatients

Joymon Sasikumar

  • Bachelor of Dental Surgery
  • The development of a WWW-based application (‘app’) with a searchable on-line database of candidate protein biomarkers of periodontitis

Rosie Setford

  • BA (Hons) History & Archaeology
  • Fallen university comrades: the men from the Northumberland Fusiliers on the Armstrong War Memorial

Gerald Tan Jack Soon

  • MBBS (NUMED Malaysia)
  • Biomarkers of clinical outcomes in sarcoma.

Eleanor Spence

  • BSc (Hons) Zoology
  • Competitive interactions between biological control agents.

Catherine Stothard

  • BSc Hons Physiological Sciences
  • Investigation of the role GLYT1 and ATF4 in cell proliferation.

Rakiya Galadima Suleiman

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Acute effects of dietary nitrate and vitamin C supplementation on blood pressure and endothelial function in human subjects

Elizabeth Tasker

  • BSc (Hons) Biology (Cell & Molecular Biology)
  • Novel Insect Control Molecules for Development of Biopesticides

Kan Jing Tay

  • BEng Marine Technology (Hons) Naval Architecture
  • The effect of winch line stiffness on the motion response of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) during launch and recovery

Leolie Lucy Telford-Cooke

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • How can we decrease neuronal death?

Rachel Theobald

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical sciences
  • DNA methylation as a mediating mechanism in the development of neurotoxicity in response to methotrexate treatment

Lordi Anne Tickell

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • The Role of Telomerase in the Progression of Cylindromas into Spiradenoma

Olivia Tindle

  • BA (Hons) Geography
  • How has the New Zealand shattered the Glass Ceiling: a study of women in Auckland

Hannah Trinick

  • Msci Biomedical Sciences
  • Histone Methylation Variability as a Determinant of Fibrosis Progression in Chronic Liver Diseases.

Elliot Trofimowicz

  • Bsc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • The role of age related methylation as an underlying cause of the development of cancer

Ayaka Tsutsumi

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • Survey of current practice in management of perinatal stroke.

Bebhinn Tully-Pennon

  • MChem (Hons) in Medicinal Chemistry
  • Air-Stable Primary Phosphines: Safer Routes to Industrially-Significant Chiral Catalysts

Samantha Wagner

  • BA (Hons) Archaeology
  • Commemorative Artefacts Portraying 18th-19th Century American Slave Ships

David Walker

  • PHD Civil Engineering
  • Vulnerability of shallow groundwater and surface water resources used for irrigation in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa to climate variability and change

Bethany Weston

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Genetics
  • Structure and function of microsporidian transport proteins

Christopher Whittaker

  • BA (Hons) History & Archaeology
  • A landscape investigation of the multi-period hilltop site at Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire.

Douglas Wightman

  • BSc (Hons) Biology (Cell & Molecular Biology)
  • Identification of Biopesticide Targets in Insects using RNA Interference

Charlotte Wood

  • BA (Hons) History
  • Beyond the Harem: Challenging perceptions of women in the medieval Islamic world

Sakeena Tan Si Yu

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition (NU Singapore)
  • Designing a physiologically relevant method for assessing polyphenol content in seaweeds

Zhi Jiun Yap

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • The use of 3D printed polycaprolactone (PCL) scaffolds for prostate tissue reconstruction

Gewei Zhu

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Investigating the LPS binding sites on Colicin N

Joanne Wai Yee Yap

  • BSc (Hons) Food Marketing and Nutrition
  • Food waste hierarchy: Analysis of a food waste solution for food businesses