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Fundamentals of Life Projects
Temperature-Dependent Alternative Splicing of Circadian Genes: A Cross-Kingdom Study of Molecular Adaptation to Climate Change
Understanding the molecular mechanisms driving tissue dysfunction and inflammation in ageing
CD93 in metabolic disease and mental illness
Of microbes and metals: Discovery and characterization of de novo metal resistance peptides in bacteria
Mapping Value and Motivational Salience in Addiction with Multimodal Brain Imaging
The structural and molecular basis of substrate specificity of the thioesterases APT1 and APT2
Mitochondrial defects as a mechanism of cerebral small vessel disease
Mitochondrial metal uptake in Toxoplasma gondii and its role in metabolism
Seeing the big picture: the function of top-down signals in the visual system
Investigating the link between dopamine and the neurocomputational mechanisms of auditory verbal hallucinations
Advanced Spectroscopy and Machine Learning for Classifying Complex Phenotypes
From Force to Fate: LINCing Cellular Junctions and Cytokeleton to Nuclear Mechanotransduction
Improvement of the resilience of Brassica crops to the changing climate through UV-B priming
Ageing, stress, and specialisation: mechanism and function of gut tissue regionalisation in Drosophila
Neural Mechanisms of ‘Brain Fog’ in a Neuroinflammatory Model of Depression
Mapping the spatial distribution of adhesion GPCR latrophilin-3 (ADGRL3) in the dopamine system
Investigating epigenetic mechanisms of stem cell-mediated intestinal repair in health and disease
Molecular degraders for respiratory virus infection
Developing bio-inspired computational model of Theory of Mind by quantifying human social behaviours with VR
Fundamental Mechanisms of Reproduction: Viviparity in an Evolutionary Context
Neural underpinnings of 3D cognitive mapping
Understanding speech comprehension by grounding cortical responses in subcortical processing
