2015 Posters

Classical Legend and Myth: Investigating the potential of exploring western myth and literature within a limited resources teaching environment in a developing world classroom

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Amy Louise Burns PDF 435Kb

Nitric oxide regulation of 5-HT neuronal firing in the dorsal raphe nucleus

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Sarah Byers PDF 272Kb

Non-semisimple representations of degenerate double affine Hecke algebras

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Sophie Chalmers PDF 3,422Kb

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.

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http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/research/

Ellis Charlesworth PDF 542Kb

Validation of Potential Downstream Targets of Pax9

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Boyang Chen PDF 1,303Kb

Biobutanol from Bacillus subtilis

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Lauren Yuk Ying Cheung PDF 820Kb

A new chromosome modification in cell division

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Rachel Clarke PDF 1,936Kb

Leper Hospitals of the medieval North East: A focus on St Leonard’s hospital of Tynemouth and other sites in the region.

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Benjamin Clegg PDF 668Kb

Why do rhesus macaques display abnormal behaviours in enriched housing environment?

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Jessica Colborn PDF 908Kb

Novel reporters for the translational recoding of the foot-and-mouth disease 2A peptide

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Lucy Colgan PDF 1,749Kb

Using 3D models of early human development to analyse gene expression data and define anatomical domains in the forebrain.

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Kimberley Colman PDF 2,342Kb

An interdisciplinary survey of Marsden Lime Kilns

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Jennifer Combe PDF 2,079Kb

Identification of conditional lethal oncogenes in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

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Louise Downing PDF 2,446Kb

A step towards predicting lithium response in patients with bipolar disorder

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Gabrielle Dunbar PDF 1,242Kb

Pierced bodies: 18th century runaway slave advertisements and the appearance of Africans carried in to slavery

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Sema Ekinoglu PDF 1,396Kb

Synthesis of 'Smart' Polymer Nanoparticles for the Inhibition of Biofilm Formation

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Andrew Evans PDF 3,328Kb

The Weimar Question: British views during the post-war planning on the reasons of the failure of German democracy

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Yuen Nam Fan PDF 410Kb

Modulation of the innate immune response by exosomes in colorectal cancer

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Samantha Firth PDF 1,354Kb

Investigating Differential Gene Expression in Cardiac Developmental Defects which lead to Adult Cardiomyopathy

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Amy Gancarczyk PDF 235Kb

Towards an Investigation of Phosphorous in the Brain of Patients with Bipolar Disorder

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Anna Garrard PDF 1,564Kb

Living Contraband: The Transition of Racial Attitudes After the American Civil War

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Lisa Gurung PDF 768Kb

How do Riociguat and Sildenafil affect pulmonary cells to reduce Pulmonary Hypertension?

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Chris Hamilton PDF 336Kb

Standing wave optical trap for the investigation of nanoscopic aerosol particles

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Rebecca Harris PDF 488Kb

Development of biomarkers to predict response to ultraviolet-B treatment in psoriasis

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Thomas Hollingworth PDF 507Kb

Optimization of the phosphorylated neurofilament marker SMI34 for identification of degenerative axonal loss in Alzheimer’s disease

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Solveig Hoppe PDF 734Kb

The effect of quality of sleep and mood on emotional processing and emotional memory in bipolar disorder and healthy controls

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Rachel Hughes PDF 3,808Kb

The Development of the Visual Cortex in Marmosets

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Pichaya In-Na PDF 714Kb

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

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Megan Ingham PDF 425Kb

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

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Aaron Jesuthasan PDF 430Kb

Fainting and weakness: novel approaches to solve common problems

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Eva Kajumova PDF 1,730Kb

Relative localisation between vehicles for vehicle-to-vehicle communication to improve safety on the road

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Bingbing Ke PDF 712Kb

Measurement of hydrodynamic coefficients for an ROV during launch and recovery

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Susana Keane PDF 913Kb

Validation of candidate disease-causing mutations in a novel primary immunodeficiency

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Paul Li Zhi Khoo PDF 412Kb

Diagnosis of dementia by measuring proteins in blood

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Maria King PDF 1,825Kb

NGOs capacity to deliver sustainable outcomes in relation to the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Water and Sanitation, within Peru.

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Mariam Kudehinbu PDF 532Kb

Change in dual task interference over three years in an incident cohort of Parkinson’s disease

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Andrej Ladcenko PDF 877Kb

Monitoring long term Vertical Land Movement at North Shields Tide Gauge

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Kamilah Lakhani PDF 1,694Kb

The Role of Oxidative Stress in Inhibitory Interneurons for Cortical Seizure Generation

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Ka Ying Lee PDF 1,754Kb

How do mitochondrial ribosomal proteins control apoptosis?

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Scarlett Lee PDF 702Kb

Finding a “fingerprint” of wholegrain food intake in plasma

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Whye Yi Audrey Leong PDF 1,128Kb

Fruit and vegetable consumption and body weight in young adults aged 17-21 in Singapore

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Luke Lewis-Borrell PDF 802Kb

The Role of Dual Hydrogen Bonding in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry

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Kaiqiang Li PDF 646Kb

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

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Heuzin Hwai Lim PDF 948Kb

An investigation and review of a genetic aberration found in Newcastle patients

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Pei Shan Lim PDF 411Kb

Enablers and barriers to delivering thrombolysis to patients with acute ischaemic stroke

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Xiu Jian Lim PDF 371Kb

The impact of wholegrain food intake on health outcomes

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Dianne Marquez Lopez PDF 586Kb

Biomarkers in Dementia

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Abigail Lowe PDF 524Kb

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

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Kan Yan Lui PDF 339Kb

UK household recycling behaviour: can it be increased through community based social marketing?

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Rebecca MacDermid PDF 2,766Kb

A Commemorative project: the Decade of Centenaries and The Irish Diaspora in Tyneside

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Sarah Main PDF 2,994Kb

The Identification of Emerging Psychoactive Substances

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Matthew Mankarious PDF 1,088Kb

A stereological examination of Temporal Lobe Volume in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

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Jonothon Jay Marshall PDF 1,593Kb

The role of thalamic lateral pulvinar nucleus in visual hallucinations in the Lewy body dementias

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Alex McDonnell PDF 373Kb

DNA methylation as a mediating mechanism in the development of neurotoxicity in response to multiple impacts on one carbon metabolism during methotrexate treatment.

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Flora McDougall PDF 2,908Kb

Investigating the ancient urban planning of modern Istanbul

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Amy Middleton PDF 1,116Kb

Maintenance of intra-islet oxygenation during isolation via novel oxygen microbubbles

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Rory Mullins PDF 776Kb

A potential role of epithelial mesenchymal transition in aspiration injury of the lung

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Ewelina Musial PDF 693Kb

Investigating the Level of mtDNA Carryover in Mitochondrial Replacement Embryos

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Hayley Neal PDF 1,074Kb

Understanding the Archaeological and Historical Landscape of Lutton, near Yeovil, Somerset

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Joe William Neame PDF 387Kb

Regulation of CDK1 and CDK2 by the "cyclin-like" protein Spy1

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Emily Needle PDF 1,212Kb

From Rags Through Race to Ragtime: The Jenkins Orphanage Band and American Audience Response to Jazz in Turn of the Century Charleston

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Oliver O'Daly PDF 280Kb

Self-Organising Amphiphillic Polyoxometalates

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Ruth Perkins PDF 334Kb

Personalised home-based physical activity intervention in older adults with Heart Failure

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Qiao Yun Ooi PDF 1,212Kb

Falling Detection and Projection Unit (FDP Unit) Project

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Nicola Payton PDF 1,248Kb

Nutrient (Selenium) modulation of gut epithelial inflammatory responses

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Jun Shang Poon PDF 858Kb

Neural stem cell transplantation to a rat model of perinatal stroke

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Timothy Porter PDF 484Kb

Creation of an opsin library for neurophysiology research

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Catherine Stothard PDF 513Kb

Investigation of the role GLYT1 and ATF4 in cell proliferation

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Interdimensional Travel: A student partner approach for design and evaluation of artistic drawing and modelling methods for skill development in reciprocal transitions in understanding between 2D surface anatomy and clinical images and 3D anatomical structures

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Priya Rai PDF 373Kb

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

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Bethany Rice PDF 924Kb

How does Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron degrade yeast mannan and can it utilise Candida mannan as a food source?

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Stephanie Louise Rosewarne PDF 510Kb

The validation of brief cognitive screening instruments and determination of the prevalence of dementia in Geriatric Medical Outpatients

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Joymon Sasikumar PDF 698Kb

The development of a WWW-based application ('app') with a searchable on-line database of candidate protein biomarkers of periodontitis

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Rosie Setford PDF 1,772Kb

Fallen university comrades: the men from the Northumberland Fusiliers on the Armstrong War Memorial

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Katie Smith PDF 3,095Kb

University Expedition 2015: The recent revival of Welsh culture in the Chubut valley, Patagonia

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Eleanor Spence PDF 427Kb

Competitive interactions between biological control agents

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Rakiya Suleiman PDF 619Kb

Acute effects of dietary nitrate and vitamin C supplementation on blood pressure and endothelial function in human subjects

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Elizabeth Tasker PDF 660Kb

Novel Insect Control Molecules for Development of Biopesticides

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Gerald Tan Jack Soon PDF 761Kb

Biomarkers of clinical outcomes in sarcoma

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Aninditya Salma Sopian PDF 3,822Kb

Information leaflet to better inform patients of mitochondrial disease and its clinical manifestations

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Sakeena Tan Si Yu PDF 578Kb

Designing a physiologically relevant method for assessing polyphenol content in seaweeds

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Kan Ting Tay PDF 651Kb

The effect of winch line stiffness on the motion response of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) during launch and recovery

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Leolie Telford-Cooke PDF 3,016Kb

How can we decrease neuronal death?

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Rachel Theobald PDF 371Kb

DNA methylation as a mediating mechanism in the development of neurotoxicity in response to methotrexate treatment

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Lordi Anne Tickell PDF 1,113Kb

The Role of Telomerase in the Progression of Cylindromas into Spiradenoma

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Olivia Tindle PDF 2,830Kb

How has the New Zealand shattered the Glass Ceiling: a study of women in Auckland

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Hannah Trinick PDF 990Kb

Histone Methylation Variability as a Determinant of Fibrosis Progression in Chronic Liver Diseases.

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Elliot Trofimowicz PDF 682Kb

The role of age related methylation as an underlying cause of the development of cancer

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Bebhinn Tully-Penon PDF 612Kb

Air-Stable Primary Phosphines: Safer Routes to Industrially-Significant Chiral Catalysts

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Ayaka Tsutsumi PDF 460Kb

Survey of current practice in management of perinatal stroke

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Samantha Wagner PDF 2,632Kb

Commemorative Artefacts Portraying 18th-19th Century American Slave Ships

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David Walker PDF 2,001Kb

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

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