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Genomic research to improve cleaner fish performance, welfare and efficiency at delousing salmon
Aquaculture contributes more than £1.8bn to the UK economy every year and supports over 8,800 livelihoods - many in remote communities. Farmed Scottish salmon is the most...
Hidden costs of environmental pollutants: functional impacts on host-pathogen interactions
When predicting biological responses to global pollutants one of the greatest challenges is the potential of non-additive interactions between abiotic and biotic stressors. This is...
Manipulation of the ruminant gastrointestinal tract microbiomes for reduced environmental impact of nitrogen excretion from dairy cows
Nitrogen use (NUE) in ruminants is low, typically 25-30%, with the remaining nitrogen being excreted in urine, and some in the faeces (Huws et al., 2018; Foskolos and Moorby.,2018;...
Biomarker Development in Cancer- Bridging the Translational Gap
Every cancer is different and standard treatments such as chemotherapy work better for some patients compared to others. The ability to match the right patient to the right treatme...
STABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT TUNNELLING USING AI
The demand for fast commuting between densely populated cities has increased over the last 30-years. The need of such infrastructures has risen along with the technological advance...
Mixed Victoriana: Mixed-Race Identity in Victorian Literature, 1850-1914
This project examines how the idea of mixed-race identity found fictional form across a range of literary genres from the mid to late-Victorian era. By reading this fiction in conj...
Computational modelling of culture-specific social facial signals with transference to digital agents
Strategic priority area-Psychology Keywords-social perception, psychophysics, apologyFacial expressions are a powerful tool for social communication because they can transmit myria...
Crafting a Healthier Internet: People, Things and our Digital Society
The aim for this project is to explore how we can define and foster a healthy relationship between people, the internet and things using the ethos and practices of craft, informed...
Circadian regulation of adipose tissue; the role of the myeloid system
Importance: Maintenance of energy balance and metabolic health is emerging as a major challenge of our time. The consequences of obesity include cardiovascular and metabolic diseas...
Novel strain development for the mycoprotein fungus Fusarium venenatum
There is ever growing demand for meat replacement protein sources on environmental and health grounds. The fungus Fusarium venenatum is used in the production of mycoprotein, a hig...
The Ethics of Environmental AI: Modelling Public Perceptions
AI systems will play a large role in enabling an environmentally sustainable future. The need to process vast datasets in real time has led to proposals that such systems must beco...
Understanding risks and optimising anaerobic digestion to minimise pathogen and antimicrobial resistance genes entering the environment.
Anaerobic digestion (AD) utilises organic materials to produce energy via biogas while also producing nutrient-rich digestate ideal for land application as fertiliser. However, the...
Victims and Agents: Harm, Gender and Drug use
Literature concerned with drug use and gender depict drug using women as either victims or rebellious agents, through an artificial separation of victimisation and agency, such ins...
Field Notes: theatricality, technology and folk music in composition
This research places British and Irish folk music in relationship with contemporary music theatre, so responding to the need for projects in music theatre to 'devote more thor...
Phase transitions underlying viral replication: roles of biomolecular condensates in virus assembly
There is an urgent need for new drugs to combat viruses that threaten human, animal and plant health. Most existing antivirals inhibit virus attachment/entry or target key enzymes,...
Hippocampal-Hypothalamic Network Mechanisms of Maladaptive Contextual Eating
Understanding how the brain supports everyday behaviour is a central goal of neuroscience, with potential far-reaching consequences for designing biologically relevant intervention...
Remediating narrative discourse impairments in veterans with TBI: Initial treatment development
Cognitive-communication disorders are pervasive following TBI, disrupting communication at the level of discourse (meaningful language beyond sentence level) and social interaction...
Senior Research Career Scientist
Dr. Ronald J. Triolo is Senior Research Career Scientist with the Rehabilitation R&D Service, and a Tenured Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve Uni...
Sleep-SMART for Veterans with MCI and Insomnia: A Pilot Study
Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an important public health concern for aging Veterans due to the increased risk for progression to dementia and increased mortality....
Role of sirtuin 6 in melanoma development and progression
Melanoma incidences are increasing rapidly with 100,350 cases predicted in 2020 in the US. Further, melanoma is a significant problem in Veterans, and it is among the five most fre...