No further applications are being accepted for this course.

List of project options for 2008-9

1. Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Cellular Interactions Relevant to Biofilm Formation
2. Control of Cell Adhesion by Control of Polymer Swelling in Stumulus Responsive Materials
3. Mass Spectrometry in the Biomolecular Sciences
4. How Do Enzymes Pull Apart Proteins?
5. Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions with Small Molecule Probes
6. Fat and Ultrasound
7. NMR-Based Profiling of Oxidative Stress Markers of Ovarian Follicular Fluid and Plasma
8. Modelling of Alpha-Helical Coiled-Coils: Can the Two Limbs Slide?
9. Coarse-Grained Theory of Protein Dynamics
10. Enzymes Involved in DNA Replication and Repair
11. New Drugs for 'Superbugs'
12. Nanoscale Patterning of Membrane Proteins and Enzymes
13. A Novel Technique to Examine the Structure of Engineered Tissues
14. Site-Specific Photo-Crosslinking as a Tool in Systems Biology
15. Polymers Responsive to Biological Stimuli
16. Substrate Recognition and Function of Alkyltransferase-Like Protein Atl1
17. Application of Computer-Aided Drug Design to Combat Bacterial Resistance
18. Precision Magnetometry
19. Real-Time Molecular Mapping of Bacterial Surfaces with High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy
20. Electron and Proton Transfer
21. Directed Evolution of Enzymes for Synthetic Organic Chemistry
22. Chemical Genetics of Membrane Proteins
23. Molecular Nano-Technology and Nano-Engineering
24. Spectroscopic Analysis at THz Frequencies of Acoustically-Positioned Biomolecules
25. NMR-Based Metabonomics: A Novel Approach to Studying Complex Disease in Children and Young Adults
26. Biophotonics and Dental Materials: Photo-Activation Processes in Skeletal Minerals for the Treatment of Dental Cavities
27. Biomimetic Self-Assembled Helical Porous Channels
28. Bacterial Polyesters - Processing and Deformation Mechanism of Environmentally Friendly Plastics
29. Synthesis and Study of High Loading Site Specific Drug Delivery Systems
30. Construction of Phosphoinositols and Glycoconjugates as Molecular Probes
31. Influence on Cell Behaviour of Protein Adsorption to Surfaces
32. Application of Stable Analogues of Phosphohistidine to the Study of Cell Signalling Pathways
33. Analysis of Three-Dimensional Structure of DNA or Protein Ligand Interactions
34. Bone and Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Mechanical Stimulation and Scaffold Design
35. Rapid Discovery of Intelligent Molecular Probes for Chemical Intervention of bBological Systems
36. Structure and Function in the AAA+ Protein Super-Family
37. Biomimetic Membranes: from Protein Immobilization to Gene and Drug Delivery
38. Biological Prediction, Machine Learning and Molecular Networks
39. Identification of Arginine Methylation of Nuclear Protein Complexes using Mass Spectrometry
40. Dynamic Heterogeneity in the Heart
41. Development of a Convenient Mechanical Conditioning Device for Tendon or Ligament Tissue Engineering
42. NMR Studies of Articular Cartilage
43. DNA-Protein Interactions at the Single Molecule Level Observed with Atomic Force Microscopy
44. Oligonucleotide-Based Inactivators of MGMT - Design and Delivery
45. Synthesis and Molecular Biology to Regulate Nonsense-Mediated Decay
46. Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFR) as Anti-Cancer Drug Targets. From Bench to Bedside
47. Treating the Untreatable : Harnessing Chemistry, Fluorescence and Zebrafish to Battle Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
48. Single Molecule Investigation of Viral RNA Condensation and Packaging
49. Unravelling the Molecular Structure of the Bacterial Cell Wall
50. Biophysical Model of Arrhythmias in the Infarcted Human Heart
51. The Biophysics of Cell Membranes
52. Molecular Mechanism of an ADP-Dependent Phosphorylation Event

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