Research in a Nutshell: College of Science & Engineering
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College of Science & Engineering – BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The Earnshaw lab studies how chromosomes are packaged from nuclear chromatin and segregated accurately when cells divide, thereby avoiding aneuploidy and cancer.
College of Science & Engineering – PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
We are looking for dormant black holes in the centres of galaxies that temporarily flare back into life when a star passes close by and gets shredded.
College of Science & Engineering – PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
The research emphasis is on the use of model systems studied using a combination of experiment and simulation to give insight into complex phenomena. Examples highlight research in physics at the interface with life sciences and in collaboration with industry.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
Knowledge sharing in large scale, open environments is a challenge for automated reasoning and systems engineering.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
Using automated planning techniques to schedule changes in the configuration of the infrastructure for cloud services.
College of Science & Engineering – PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
Using kitchen ingredients, Job explains what soft materials are and how they can be used as promising scaffolds for novel electrodes in next-generation batteries.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
The theory underlying programming languages can be applied to solve practical problems in Computer Science relating to software correctness and security.
College of Science & Engineering – GEOSCIENCES
We use analysis of annually-banded coral skeletons to reconstruct changes in tropical climate over the past few thousand years. These data help us test climate models used for future prediction.
College of Science & Engineering – MATHEMATICS
Optimization under uncertainty arises in many real life contexts such as power systems operations. The structure resulting from modeling these problems can be exploited.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
We study autonomous learning and decision making under uncertainty by long-lived agents interacting with a changing world, typically involving strategic objectives and incomplete information.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
Austin Tate’s research uses intelligent agents and planning technology to support distributed collaboration, especially in areas such as emergency response.
College of Science & Engineering – INFORMATICS
Machine learning is concerned with understanding structure in data. Here I focus on one application, interpreting data from a neonatal intensive care unit.
College of Science & Engineering – ENGINEERING
We have developed digital modulation techniques that enable off-the-shelf LED light bulbs to transmit data wirelessly faster than a typical WLAN access point.
College of Science & Engineering – GEOSCIENCES
Most salt marsh plants live at elevations between high tide and mean tide, drowning when the marsh gets too low. I model this process and how it can be avoided.
College of Science & Engineering – GEOSCIENCE
My research focuses on everyday multiculture to examine experiences of living with difference in former mill towns in England and challenge representations of these town as segregated places.
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine – CENTRE OF INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
I study regulation of form and function at neuromuscular junctions, in health and in models of disease, using techniques of confocal microscopy and electrophysiology.
College of Science & Engineering – BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Every mammalian cell carries about 30 000 individual genes, but only some of these genes are active in specialized cell types. Stancheva lab studies the molecular mechanisms that generate stable patterns of gene expression in mammalian cells and what goes wrong with gene regulation when the cells become cancerous.
College of Science & Engineering – BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
David Gray investigates the interactions of T and B lymphocytes that are important for the generation of immunological memory.
