Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Project Title:  Seed-Weed: Optimisation of seaweed seeding processes for integration into automated robotic pipelines.

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Mike Allen
Second Supervisor:  Rob Ellis

Informal enquiries contact email:  m.allen5@exeter.ac.uk  
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Project Title:  Analysing actin dynamics in cytoneme emergence in vivo

Lead Supervisor:  Prof Steffen Scholpp
Second Supervisor:  Prof Anne Ridley, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Informal enquiries contact email:  s.scholpp@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title:  Understanding how interaction between organelles at membrane contact sites controls lipid flux in both animals and plants.

Lead Supervisor:  Joe Costello
Second Supervisor:  Mike Deeks

Informal enquiries contact email:  j.costello@exeter.ac.uk 
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Project Title:  Exploring neuroendocrine regulation of larval settlement and metamorphosis in the European abalone, Haliotis tuberculata - potential applications for aquaculture.

Lead Supervisor:  Elizabeth Williams
Second Supervisor:  Tetsu Kudoh

Informal enquiries contact email:  e.williams2@exeter.ac.uk             
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Project Title:  Understanding how marine copepods respond to multi-stressor environments

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Daniel Mayor
Second Supervisor:  Dr Kathryn Cook

Informal enquiries contact email:  d.j.mayor@exeter.ac.uk 
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Project Title:  Revealing the molecular mechanisms and functions of the "peroxisome-mitochondria connection" in human health and disease

Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Michael Schrader
Second Supervisor:  Dr Ruth Carmichael

Informal enquiries contact email:  m.schrader@exeter.ac.uk            
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Project Title:  Biophysics of the basement membrane in a mechanical-feedback model of organ growth control

Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Stefan Harmansa
Second Supervisor:  Prof. James Wakefield

Informal enquiries contact email:  s.harmansa@exeter.ac.uk            
   
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Project Title:  Mechanisms of adaptive evolution in Mediterranean mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) following mitigation to the Atlantic oceans

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Robert Ellis
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  r.p.ellis@exeter.ac.uk

         
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Project Title:  Pangenome analysis of oysters (Bivalvia: Ostreidae)

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Robert Ellis
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  r.p.ellis@exeter.ac.uk

Project Title:  Investigating the risk factors of developing neuropathic pain using AI, data mining and mixed methods

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Jan Vollert
Second Supervisor:  Dr Sam Hughes

Informal enquiries contact email:  j.vollert@exeter.ac.uk   
  
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Project Title:  Alternative splicing in the human cortex: relevance to neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disease

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Jonathan Mill
Second Supervisor:  Rosie Bamford

Informal enquiries contact email:  j.mill@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Improving Deep Networks with Neuroscience

Lead Supervisor:  Joel Tabak
Second Supervisor:  Marc Goodfellow

Informal enquiries contact email:  j.tabak@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Identification of genetic variants causal of rare disorders using long read sequencing

Lead Supervisor:  Mattia Frontini
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  m.frontini@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Healthcare implications following a diagnosis of inherited cancer predisposition

Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Harry Green
Second Supervisor:  Dr. Leigh Jackson

Informal enquiries contact email:  h.d.green@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Using analysis of DNA sequencing to understand the genetic causes of monogenic diabetes and hyperinsulinism

Lead Supervisor:  Tom Laver
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  twl207@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Investigation of RAS-independent functions of the tumours suppressor NF1

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Benjamin Housden
Second Supervisor:  Professor Steven West

Informal enquiries contact email:  b.housden@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Identifying Drug Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases using 3D Human Stem Cell Models of the Brain and CRISPR Genetic Screens

Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Akshay Bhinge
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  a.bhinge@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Whole genome sequencing in >1,000,000 individuals to identify the genes that cause Type 2 diabetes

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Michael Weedon
Second Supervisor:  Gareth Hawkes

Informal enquiries contact email:  M.N.Weedon@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title:  Aging and Environmental Exposures: A Cross-Ethnic Study of Genomic Biomarkers and Health Outcomes

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Eilis Hannon
Second Supervisor:  Professor Jonathan Mill

Informal enquiries contact email:  e.j.hannon@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Metabolic Psychiatry: Big data and genetic approaches to understand the complex relationship between metabolic health and severe mental illness

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Jess Tyrrell
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  j.tyrrell@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Genetic Understanding and Clinical Recognition of Lipodystrophy

Lead Supervisor:  Prof Kash Patel
Second Supervisor:  Dr Gareth Hawkes and Prof Mike Weedon and Prof Bev Shields

Informal enquiries contact email:  k.a.patel@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Investigating the contribution of epigenomic regulation to the aetiology of monogenic disorders of insulin secretion

Lead Supervisor:  Prof Sarah Flanagan
Second Supervisor:  Dr Emma Dempster

Informal enquiries contact email:  S.Flanagan@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Using genetics, transcriptomics, and 1.5 million individuals from population-based biobanks to better understand the biology of sleep and links to mental health

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Andrew Wood
Second Supervisor:  NA

Informal enquiries contact email:  a.r.wood@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Whole Genomes Analysis of Musculoskeletal Conditions using Big Data

Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Harry Green
Second Supervisor:  Mike Weedon

Informal enquiries contact email:  h.d.green@exeter.ac.uk

Project Title:  Health and wellbeing of the nursing workforce in the UK: administrative data linkage using Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register data

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Richard Kyle
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  r.kyle@exeter.ac.uk          

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Project Title:  Prevalence and patterns of unpaid caring

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Richard Kyle
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  r.kyle@exeter.ac.uk          

Project Title:  Identifying drug-vaccine interactions in electronic health record data using machine learning

Lead Supervisor:  Professor William Henley
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  w.e.henley@exeter.ac.uk              
Department:  Health and Community Sciences (UEMS)

Project Title:  Communication and social behaviour in the fiddler crab Afruca tangeri

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Tim Fawcett
Second Supervisor:  Dr Safi Darden

Informal enquiries contact email:  t.w.fawcett@exeter.ac.uk             

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Project Title:  The role of social identity is the development of mental health among school children who are bullied

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Adam Rutland
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  a.rutland@exeter.ac.uk  

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Project Title:  Social and moral development of children and adolescents: What promotes the emergence of pro-sociality?

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Adam Rutland
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  a.rutland@exeter.ac.uk  

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Project Title:  Parent-child social interaction: It's role in the development of inclusivity in childhood

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Adam Rutland
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  a.rutland@exeter.ac.uk  

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Project Title:  Menstruation as a vital sign: how do heavy and painful menstrual periods affect mental health across the life course?

Lead Supervisor:  Gemma Sharp
Second Supervisor:  Jess Tyrrell

Informal enquiries contact email:  G.c.sharp@exeter.ac.uk 

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Project Title:  Boost learning and improve face recognition through brain stimulation techniques

Lead Supervisor:  Ciro Civile
Second Supervisor:  Fraser Milton

Informal enquiries contact email:  c.civile@exeter.ac.uk      

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Project Title:  Delineating the active psychological mechanisms that causally reduce repetitive negative thinking (worry, rumination) -an experimental and clinical approach

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Edward Watkins
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  e.r.watkins@exeter.ac.uk              

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Project Title:  Social determinants of mental health and wellbeing: The role of social identities and the feeling of being understood by others

Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Andrew Livingstone
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  A.Livingstone@exeter.ac.uk        

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Project Title:  Investigating neurodevelopmental complexity using epigenetics

Lead Supervisor:  Doretta Caramaschi
Second Supervisor:  Anna Adlam

Informal enquiries contact email:  d.caramaschi@exeter.ac.uk        

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Project Title:  Social network dynamics and their adaptive function in animals

Lead Supervisor:  Lauren Brent
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  l.j.n.brent@exeter.ac.uk

 Project Title:  Fall prediction in older people based on wearable technologies including IMUs and ego cameras

Lead Supervisor:  Associate Professor Genevieve Williams
Second Supervisor:  Professor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova

Informal enquiries contact email:  g.k.r.williams@exeter.ac.uk         

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Project Title:  Health and wellbeing of athletes within England Athletics' Youth Talent Programme

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Alan Barker
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  a.r.barker@exeter.ac.uk 

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Project Title:  The Differential Impact of Low-Volume High-Intensity Interval Training (LV-HIIT) on Mental Health and the Prevention of Psychological Disorders in Adolescents: A Long-term Comparative Experimental Study

Lead Supervisor:  Helen Dodd
Second Supervisor:  Lisa Price

Informal enquiries contact email:  h.dodd@exeter.ac.uk      

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Project Title:  Biomechanics and Motor Control Related to Sports Injury - with focus on Chronic Ankle Instability

Lead Supervisor:  Associate Professor Genevieve Williams
Second Supervisor:  Professor Joanna Bowtel

Informal enquiries contact email:  g.k.r.williams@exeter.ac.uk         

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Project Title:  Investigating the efficacy of dietary nitrate supplementation in enhancing musculoskeletal health and mitigating falls risk in older adults

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Matthew Black
Second Supervisor:  a.m.jones@exeter.ac.uk

Informal enquiries contact email:  m.i.black@exeter.ac.uk 

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Project Title:  Predicting falls in the elderly from body-worn sensor data

Lead Supervisor:  Associate Professor Genevieve Williams
Second Supervisor:  Professor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova

Informal enquiries contact email:  g.k.r.williams@exeter.ac.uk         

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Project Title:  Hip-Op and you don't stop - Patient-informed activity monitoring outcome measures for total hip replacement.

Lead Supervisor:  Associate Professor Genevieve Williams
Second Supervisor:  Associate Professor Timothy Holsgrove

Informal enquiries contact email:  g.k.r.williams@exeter.ac.uk         

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Project Title:  Neuromuscular biomechanics of human foot and ankle function in exercise and sports

Lead Supervisor:  Prof Dominic Farris
Second Supervisor:  TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  d.farris@exeter.ac.uk      

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Project Title:  Applying model-driven data fusion methods to medical sciences: applications in neurological disorders

Lead Supervisor:  Prof William Young
Second Supervisor:  Dr Piotr Slowinski

Informal enquiries contact email:  w.young@exeter.ac.uk    

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Project Title:  Movement behaviours and dietary behavioural intervetion on body composition in overweight and obese children and adolescents. A mixed quantitative and qualitative pilot intervetion study.

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Dimitris Vlachopoulos
Second Supervisor:  Dr Raquel Revuelta Iniesta

Informal enquiries contact email:  D.Vlachopoulos@exeter.ac.uk   

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Project Title:  Exercise to improve health outcomes in childhood cancer survivors: a randomised controlled trial

Lead Supervisor:  Professor Alan Barker
Second Supervisor:  Dr Raquel Revuelta Iniesta

Informal enquiries contact email:  a.r.barker@exeter.ac.uk 

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Project Title:  Assessing the physical, psychological and environmental impacts of a plant-based diet intervention in university settings

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Luciana Torquati
Second Supervisor:  Prof. Natalia Lawrence

Informal enquiries contact email:  l.torquati@exeter.ac.uk 

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Project Title:  RADIANCE: Unravelling the interplay between dietary patterns and ageing in adult survivors of childhood cancer: UK Biobank data

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Raquel Revuelta Iniesta
Second Supervisor:  Dr Dimitris Vlachopoulos

Informal enquiries contact email:  r.revuelta-iniesta@exeter.ac.uk 

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Project Title:  Using mathematical models to explain the relationship between cognition, autonomic dysfunction and motor symptoms in Parkinson's

Lead Supervisor:  William Young
Second Supervisor:  Dr Piotr Slowinski

Informal enquiries contact email:  w.young@exeter.ac.uk    

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Project Title:  Movement behaviours to build resilience and improve mental health outcomes in children and adolescents. A mixed quantitative and qualitative pilot intervetion study.

Lead Supervisor:  Dr Dimitris Vlachopoulos
Second Supervisor:  Prof. Alan Barker

Informal enquiries contact email:  D.Vlachopoulos@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title:  Investigating evolution and transmission of antimicrobial resistance across environmental, animal and human microbiomes in the UK and China 

Lead Supervisor:  William Gaze
Second Supervisor:  Angus buckling

Informal enquiries contact email:  w.h.gaze@exeter.ac.uk