2017 Participants

Simon Hirst

  • BA (Hons)Music
  • Interactive Music in the Student Forum

Holly Chubb, Emily Cave and Team

  • Bsc (Hons) Geography
  • Understanding the geomorphological processes of a glaciated region, Svalbard.

Timothy Rodaway

  • BSc (Hons) Geographic Information Science
  • A case study of visualising environmental monitoring data: Northumberland Street Regeneration

Max Henderson, Alexander Liddington and Yannick Thompson

  • BSc Hons (Biology/Zoology)
  • Investigating ecological responses to changing environments, Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica

Eleanor Johnston

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • Assessment of the pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative age-related diseases. Comparison of quantification methodolgies

Rabbiaatul Addawiyah bt Imawana

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Exploring the Potential of Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers in Circulating Tumour Cells in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Laura Atkinson

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • Evaluation of Extended Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESBL) and Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in the local domestic wastewater of Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Gaby Barran

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Understanding the role of cross-reactive T cells in transplantation

Connor Bourne

  • Mchem (Hons) Chemistry
  • Towards earth abundant replacements for precious metal catalysts

Megan Brown

  • BSc (Hons) Zoology
  • Investigating individual learning and the role of strategic error on decision making during hermit crab contests

Thomas Bryant

  • BSc (Hons) Zoology
  • The neural basis of addiction in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

Peter Brookes Chambers

  • MPhysics
  • Characterisation of aerosol through particle position detection in optical tweezers

Yuen Tung Chan

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Determining the effect of DNA-PK inhibition on ATR activation by, and sensitisation of, gemcitabine in ovarian cancer

Min Yee Winnie Chow

  • BSc Biomedical Sciences (2+ 1 NUMed)
  • Screening & Identifying Oxalate Degrading Bacteria From Legume Root Nodules

Samantha Cooke

  • BA (Hons) Linguistics
  • Relativizer variation amongst BAME London adolescents

Emma Corbin

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • Role of Hypoxia Inducible Factors in Liver Fibrosis

Kallpana Ghandi Dhas

  • MBBS
  • Evaluating haptico-visual observation and drawing (HVO&D) as an educational approach

Kate-Louise Ferguson

  • BSc (Hons) Biology
  • Plant Plumbing: How Do Leaves Design Their Vein Networks?

Foo Qun Zhen Cherylyn

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition
  • Effects of Seaweed on the Digestibility of Carbohydrates

Maria Frazer

  • BSc Biology
  • Is there evidence of senescence (aging) in reef-building corals?

Stuart Fulton

  • BSc Biology
  • Is there evidence of senescence (aging) in reef-building corals?

Connor Gilkes-Imeson

  • MSci Biomedical Sciences
  • DNA repair status and drug sensitivity of a novel patient derived cell line

Olivia Gittins

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • Cellular responses to DNA and STING agonists

Monisha Joy Gomez

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition
  • Investigating the Presence of Pathogenic Bacteria in Conventional and Hydroponic Iceberg Lettuce in Singapore

Eleanor Harrison

  • BA (Hons) Archaeology
  • The Lost Art of the Picts: A Survey of Pictish Symbol Stones in Eastern Scotland

Luke Guillam

  • BA (Hons) Ancient History and Archaeology
  • Social Organisation in the Mirabello Bay in the Late Minoan IB Period

James Hammerton

  • Mchem (Hons) Chemistry with Study Abroad
  • Rapid visual detection of colorectal causing BAT15 mutations

Thomas Harper

  • BSc (Hons) Ecology and Environmental Biology
  • Is binocular vision involved in trajectory control in the Praying Mantis strike?

Joely Hawke

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Investigating the physiological factors affecting development in early life

Grace Heavey

  • BA (Hons) Geography
  • Inspirational Women in Geography’s past: the Hidden Half of the Tyneside Geographical Society

Raif Hebishi

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Is there a protomap of the subdivisions of the thalamus in early human fetal development?

Sydney Henderson

  • BSc (Hons) Marine Biology
  • Thermal acclimation dynamics and heat hardening in fiddler crabs (genus Uca)

Natania Hew

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition
  • How does consumption of dietary antioxidants affect plasma antioxidant capacity in the body?

Joel Holland

  • BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Implant biocompatibility: Creating an automated system to determine the optical degradation of genetically enhanced bionic pacemakers for epilepsy

Siobhan Ingram

  • BSc (Hons) Biology
  • How you can get food poisoning from oysters without eating one – Modelling the epidemiology of Norovirus.

Wasim Iqbal

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition
  • A new approach for authenticating whole grain products

Jenita Jona James

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Analysis of the effect of upper limb functional taping on hand function in children with hemiplegia

Kundan Jeswani

  • BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering
  • Mechanical Characterisation of Hydrogels for Medical Applications

Christian Johnston-Richards

  • BSc (Hons) Physics
  • Manipulation Of Fibre Optic Cables for use in the Telecoms Industry

Francesca Jones

  • MSci Biomedical Genetics
  • Does depletion of condensin complexes contribute to loss of oocyte chromosome architecture during female ageing?

Ksenia Kharlamova

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Genetics
  • Role of autophagy in DNA damage response during senescence

Thomas Kidder

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • Investigating the mechanism of mucin degradation by the gut microbiota.

Nathan Kindred

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • High throughput screening of yeast telomere mutants

Sylvia Wei Wei Kong

  • MBBS
  • Perceived barriers faced by trainers in delivering Essential Newborn Care (ENC) Training to the health workers in Nepal

Katy Lamb

  • BA Combined Honours
  • "Cradle of the Confederacy, Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement": Race, Social Memory, and Landscapes of Commemoration in Montgomery, Alabama.

Irma Lepeseva

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Genetics
  • The Effects of Specific Mitochondrial Inhibitors on Respiration and ROS production

Sheng Zheng Lim

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • The role of synaptonemal complex proteins in cancer

Mo Liu

  • Mchem (Hons) Chemistry
  • Synthesis of Bis (borane diisopropylphosphino) Methyl Calcium, a Phosphine-stablised Novelty Carbanion System

Carissa Lloyd

  • Bsc (Hons) Chemistry
  • Synthesis of Fluorescent Phosphonium Salts as Imaging Agents of Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Zhiyu Loh

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Individual Differences in Chromatic Discrimination Ability

Naveen Eugene Louis

  • BSc Biomedical Sciences (2+ 1 NUMed)
  • Screening & Identification of Oxalate Degrading Bacteria From Environmental samples

Catalin Luncanu

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • The role of protein kinases in the regulation of Rif1 during DNA damage and spindle damage in eukaryotic cells

Hannah Marmaro

  • BA (Hons) English Literature and History
  • Case Study of the West Side Shakespeare Club

Alvaro Eduardo Vemba Marques

  • BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Brushless DC motor drive

Florence Martin

  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
  • Fetal effects of serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) use in human pregnancy

Sarah McBride

  • BSc (Hons) in Speech & Language Sciences
  • Speech-timing measures of short-term memory in aphasia

Romany Mclure

  • BSc (Hons) Biology
  • Bacterial degradation of complex carbohydrates by the human gut microbiota

Toby Middlebrook

  • BSc (Hons) Physics
  • Biophotonics – Exploring photonic devices for use in optogenetic stimulation of neural tissue.

Kokila Morgandass

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition
  • Body image dissatisfaction and eating attitudes among men of various ethnic background living in Singapore.

Nagarathanam Shobha

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Does -synuclein increase cell damage and inflammation in neurons and microglia?

Nimisha Narayan

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition (NUIS)
  • Influence of Packaging material on the shelf life of hydroponically produced Chinese chard

Amy Neild

  • BSc (Hons) Physics
  • Degradation in new photovoltaic technologies: how do devices fail?

Salem Nizami

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • Investigating the phosphorylation of Rif1 in DNA Damage Responses to defective telomeres in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.

Jack Oxtoby, James Linighan & Arminel Lovell

  • MPhil Geography as a Science
  • Annapurna South Glacier Scientific Expedition

Joseph Parsons

  • BSc(Hons Biochemistry)
  • Differential regulation of NF-κB activation and function through RelA Ser42 and 45 phosphorylation

Kathryn Patterson

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • IKBKE- A Potential Therapeutic Target in Prostate Cancer?

Matthew Pindar

  • BSc (Hons) Biology
  • Can the Age and Success of a Woodland be Attributed to its Soil?

Glenna Yu Ya Poh

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition
  • Potential benefit of seaweeds in management of Type II diabetes mellitus

Sarah Poyntz

  • BSc (Hons) Physiological Sciences
  • Feeling Sound

Vicente Puyat

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology
  • ASTEROID (Accurate STEReotest On a mobile Device): The Effects of Motion in Depth on Stereoacuity

William Redfearn

  • BSc (Hons) Biology
  • The taste response to common pesticides in honey bees

Francesca Ridley

  • BSc (Hons) Zoology
  • Analysis of the conservation status of species subject to international trade controls

Edwin Lionel Anarcaya Roca

  • MEng Automation and Control
  • Controlling a ball’s position on a plate

Joesph Scott

  • BEng (Hons) Electronics & Computer Engineering
  • Pangraph – a software library for manipulating graphs in standard file formats

Kwang Li Sin

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition (NUIS)
  • Development of novel food product prototypes using okara / moromi waste by-product from the Singapore soy sauce industry

Emma Karoliina Smith

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology
  • Is stress related to attentional biases towards threat?

Georgia Smith

  • Mchem (Hons) Chemistry
  • Synthesis of Fluorescent Phosphonium Salts as Imaging Agents of Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Holly Stewart

  • BSc Hons Pharmacology
  • Assessment of the pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative age-related diseases, comparison of quantification methodologies

Oliver Stewart

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
  • Therapeutic targeting of androgen receptor variants in prostate cancer

Jennifer Szypillo

  • BA (Hons) Fine Art
  • How can methods of on-site printmaking be developed to provide new ways of visualising landscape in order to capture its sensory and atmospheric qualities

Helen Timmins

  • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
  • Synthesizing novel protein Speedy and investigating its role in controlling cell division; building a foundation for future cancer research

Richard Turnbull

  • Mchem (Hons) Chemistry
  • Lanthanide Catalysts on Silicon Surfaces

Uma Veerappan

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • Assessment in disease progression in muscle using quantative magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy in a natural history study of dysferlinopathy

Dotty Walker

  • BA (Hons) History
  • Violent crime in York, 1832 to 1862

Laura Walker

  • Msci Biochemistry
  • A study of the interactions between proteins involved in chromosome segregation in Bacillus subtilis using the yeast-two-hybrid system

Frederick Webb

  • BA (Hons) Ancient History & Archaeology
  • Mithraism in Roman Britain

Anna Kang Chee Wong

  • BSc Biomedical Sciences (2+ 1 NUMed)
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Domestic Wastewater: Screening of Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESBL)-Producing and Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).

Raihan Bin Yacob

  • BSc (Hons) Food & Human Nutrition
  • Food Choices and Adequacy among Elderly Singaporeans

Li Yuen Megan Yeoh

  • MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
  • p38 Mitogen Activated Kinases (p38MAPK) Activation and Skeletal Muscle Function

Ali Younessi

  • Haptic vision
  • BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering