2019 Students

SARAH ASHCROFT-JONES

Department of Experimental Psychology

Decision confidence as a function of multiple uncertainty judgments: An investigation of Bayesian inference in decision-making and learning

Supervisors: Nicholas Yeung

sara bandiera

Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics

Engineering and validating polarised organoids: Modelling complex long-range brain interactions by directional morphogen delivery

Supervisors: Zoltan Molnar, William James

Lampros Bisdounis

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Sleep and circadian neuroscience in psychiatric disorders DPhil title: Sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in bipolar disorder

Supervisors: Simon Kyle, Katharine Saunders, Colin Espie

ADAM BUSH

Department of Engineering Science

Enhancing immunotherapy using oxygen microbubbles

Supervisors: Eleanor Stride, Robin Cleveland

FEDERICO CASO

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Investigation of therapeutic applications of CRISPR technology for the treatment of the Alzheimer's Disease

Supervisors: Benjamin Davies

Charlie Cook

Department of Biochemistry

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Using AI to Drive Drug Discovery for Membrane Protein Targets

Supervisors: Philip Biggin

RHIANNON D'ARCY

Department of Population Health

Investigating the health and care needs of women with multiple medical conditions in pregnancy

Supervisors: Marian Knight, Lisa Hinton

ATANASIU DEMIAN

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Bayesian Modelling of Single-Cell Data in Developmental Hematopoiesis

Supervisors: Edward Morrissey, Marella De Bruijn

Hendrik Ehlers

Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre

Oxford Neuroscience

MSc Neuroscience

Supervisors: Michael Browning

Abigail Fiske

Department of Experimental Psychology

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Executive function and self-regulation from infancy: Mapping trajectories into early childhood and the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic

Supervisors: Gaia Scerif, Karla Holmboe

fiona hartley

Department of Oncology

Deciphering the regulation of non-coding RNAs in a hypoxic tumour microenvironment

Supervisors: Francesca Buffa, Adrian Harris

Maisha jabeen

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

The role of chronic bacterial airways infection in driving severe asthma

Supervisors: Timothy Hinks, Ian Pavord, Paul Klenerman

mark loebel

Department of Biochemistry

Molecular Basis for Cystine Transport via Cystinosin (CTNS)

Supervisors: Simon Newstead, Stephen Barry

JESSICA LORIMER

Department of Psychiatry

Ethics and Machine Learning: Adolescent Suicide Prediction on Social Media

Supervisors: Ilina Singh, Hannah Maslen

katie mellor

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

Improving the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of external pilot and feasibility studies

Supervisors: Sally Hopewell, Susan Dutton

William McGuinness

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

Targeting TFEB and TFE3 in iPS-derived Dopaminergic neurons to correct autophagic/lysosomal deficits in Parkinson's Disease

Supervisors: Richard Wade-Martins

MOSCHO MICHALOPOULOU

Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Diet, weight management and gestational diabetes

Supervisors: Susan Jebb, Dimitrios Koutoukidis

DAAN PAGET

Department of Pharmacology

The pathology of traumatic brain injury and the role of sub-populations of extracellular vesicles

Supervisors: Daniel Anthony

Keanu Paphiti

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

Development of in vitro 3D white adipose cell culture models for investigating white adipose cell biology and genetics of fat distribution

Supervisors: Roger Cox

MALITHA RATNAWEERA

Department of Oncology

A Sting in the Tail for Cancer

Supervisors: Peter McHugh, Adrian Harris

EMILE ROBERTS

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Mechanisms safe-guarding genome integrity during cell division

Supervisors: Ulrike Gruneberg

Jacob Robson-Tull

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Structural studies of ER-associated protein quality control mechanisms

Supervisors: Susan Lea, Pedro Carvalho

VERENA SARRAZIN

Department of Psychiatry

Cognitive neurostimulation as an antidepressant strategy?

Supervisors: Michael Browning, Jacinta O'Shea

JUDITH SAYERS

Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre

DPhil in Chromosome and Developmental Biology

Supervisors: Paul Riley, Xin Sun

Lorika Shkreli

Department of Psychiatry

Towards an integrated neuroscientific understanding of anxiety: Growth factors as underlying anxiety vulnerability markers

Supervisors: Andrea Reinecke

REBECCA TOOZE

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Identification of pathogenic small nucleotide variants in craniosynostosis patients

Supervisors: Andrew Wilkie, Stephen Twigg

BJÖRN VAHSEN

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Understanding the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Supervisors: Martin Turner, Elizabeth Gray

Karen Wendt

Department of Engineering Science

Industrial Collaborative (iCASE) Studentship

An Enhanced Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator for Advancing Clinical Neuroscience and Minimally-Invasive Brain Therapies

Supervisors: Timothy Denison, Jacinta O'Shea

Hannah Willis

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Combining brain stimulation and rehabilitation to improve visual function in hemianopia due to stroke

Supervisors: Kathryn Watkins, Holly Bridge