Potential supervisors

Please note not all members of the programme offer projects each year.

Dr Sophie Acton | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Immune cell communication.

Dr Athena Akrami | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Learning, inference and memory.

Dr Paula Alexandre | Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UCL

Mechanisms of neurogenesis at the origin of developmental brain defects.

Dr Marc Amoyel | Division of Biosciences, UCL

How stem cells choose their fate to maintain tissue homeostasis.

Dr Kirill Aristovich | Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, UCL

Functional imaging and neuromodulation in brain and peripheral nerves.

Prof Simon Arridge | Computer Science, UCL

Tomography in medical imaging.

Prof Jonathan Ashmore | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Cellular mechanisms of hearing.

Prof Angus Bain | Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCL

Ultrafast lasers, biomolecular photophysics, spectroscopy and imaging.

Dr Jamie Baker | Department of Chemistry, UCL

Interdisciplinary research working at the boundary between organic synthesis, biology and medicine.

Dr Arantza Barrios | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Genes and circuits for innate and learned behaviours.

Dr Caswell Barry | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Neural circuit basis of memory.

Dr Nicholas Bell | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Biophysics of genome structure and repair.

Dr Isaac Bianco |Division of Biosciences, UCL

How neural circuits control behaviour.

Michael Booth | Department of Chemistry, UCL

Control of neuronal cells with light-activated synthetic cells.

Tiago Branco| Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Circuit and cellular mechanisms for learning to navigate to shelter during escape.

Prof Frances Brodsky | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Clathrin biochemistry, cell biology, and physiology.

Prof Francesca Caccuci | Division of Biosciences, UCL

The neuronal basis of spatial cognition, learning and memory.

Dr Vincenzo Calvanese | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology

Stem cell self-renewal in haematopoiesis.

Prof Matteo Carandini | Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL

How the visual cortex integrates and process sensory information received by the eyes, and integrates it with information from the rest of the brain.

Prof Guillaume Charras | London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL

The mechanical properties of cells.

Prof Jonathan Chubb | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology/Division of Biosciences, UCL

Noisy transcription and cell diversity.

Prof Beverly Clark | Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL

Neuronal integration and axonal signalling.

Dr Philip Coen | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Causally testing audiovisual circuitry with a novel transcranial optogenetic strategy.

Prof Barbara Conradt | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Mechanisms of cell fate determination.

Prof Francesca Cordeiro | Institute of Opthalmology, UCL

Glaucoma and retinal neurodegenerative disease.

Prof Rob de Bruin| Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Cell cycle regulated transcription and genome integrity.

Dr Elena Dreosti | Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL

Development of social behaviour.

Dr Chunyu Ann Duan | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Neural circuit mechanism of social decision-making.

Prof Michael Duchen | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Calcium signaling, mitochondria and free radicals in cell physiology and pathophysiology.

Prof Ariberto Fassati | Division of Infection and Immunity, UCL

Nuclear trafficking.

Dr Vilaiwan Fernandes |Division of Biosciences, UCL

Developmental neurobiology.

Prof Patrizia Ferretti | UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

Stem cell plasticity and differentiation potential.

Prof Helen Fielding | Department of Chemistry, UCL

Spectroscopy and dynamics of excited state of molecules.

Dr Matthew Gold | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Second messenger signalling in neurons.

Prof Alex Gourine | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Cardiovascular and respiratory neurophysiology.

Dr Lewis Griffin | Department of Computer Science, UCL

Psychophysical and mathematical research in visual perception.

Prof Kenneth Harris | Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL

How cerebral cortex neurons form a functional information processing system.

Prof Michael Hausser | Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL

Computations in neural circuits.

Prof Sonja Hofer | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

How different contextual signals are integrated with feed-forward visual information.

Prof David Holder| Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, UCL

Developing new methods to image function in the brain and peripheral nervous system.

Dr Soyon Hong | UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL

Microglia-synapse biology in brain homeostasis and pathology.

Dr Kenzo Ivanovitch| UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

Elucidating the mechanisms that underlie heart morphogenesis.

Prof Phillip Jones | Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL

Optical tweezers.

Prof Tara Keck | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Mechanisms of neuroplasticity.

Prof Nicoletta Kessaris | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Neuronal development during embryogenesis and in the adult brain.

Dr Graeme King | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Understanding the fundamental mechanisms of gene regulation and genome maintenance using cutting-edge single-molecule approaches.

Prof Josef Kittler | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Intracellular transport and membrane trafficking of channels, transporters and organelles in regulating neuronal function.

Dr Janos Kriston-Vizi | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Biological image processing and statistical analysis.

Prof Dimitri Kullmann | Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL

Investigating the fundamental mechanisms of synaptic transmission, the computational properties of small neuronal circuits, and alterations in neuronal and circuit excitability in epilepsy and other neurological disorders.

Prof Alison Lloyd | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Cell biogenesis and tissue regeneration.

Prof Sandy MacRobert | Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, UCL

Multidisciplinary research on photodynamic therapy.

Dr Yanlan Mao | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

How tissues achieve their correct size, shape and complex three dimensional architecture.

Prof Troy Margrie | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Determining how individual neurons and small neuronal circuits contribute to the processes underlying sensation.

Prof Karl Matter | Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL

Cell adhesion and signalling.

Prof Roberto Mayor | Division of Biosciences, UCL

To elucidate the mechanism that underlies the development of the neural crest.

Dr Andrew Macaskill | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Neural circuitry of emotional behaviours.

Prof Thomas Mrsic-Flogel | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Principles of connectivity and computation in local networks in visual cortex.

Prof John O'Keefe | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Spatial behaviour and spatial memory.

Prof Simona Parrinello| Cancer Institute, UCL

Neurogenesis and brain cancer.

Dr Anne Pesenacker | Division of Infection and Immunity, UCL

TBC

Prof Franck Pichaud | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Epithelial morphogenesis and cell polarity.

Prof Antonella Riccio | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Epigenetic mechanisms during brain development.

Prof Dmitri Rusakov | Institute of Neurology, UCL

Cell biological mechanisms underlying neuronal excitability and synaptic plasticity.

Prof Adolfo Saiardi | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Regulation of cell signalling by inositol pyrophosphates.

Dr Aman Saleem | UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience

How the brain processes visual information for naturalistic behaviours including navigation.

Prof Patricia Salinas | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Wnt signalling.

Giampietro Schiavo | UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL

Axonal homeostatic control in neurodegeneration.

Prof David Selviah | Institute of Communications and Connected Systems, UCL

Optical devices, interconnects, algorithms and systems.

Prof R. Angus Silver | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Circuit function.

Dr Sabrina Simoncelli | Department of Chemistry, UCL

Development of nano-scale fluorescent imaging technologies to study T cell immunology.

Prof Trevor Smart | Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL

The molecular and network properties of GABA receptors.

Prof Jane Sowden | Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UCL

Eye development and repair.

Prof Christopher Stefan | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Lipids in cell signalling and membrane traffic.

Dr Marcus Stephenson-Jones | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Principal components of goal-directed behaviour.

Dr Jennifer Sun | Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL

How neuroplasticity in the visual systems is regulated through interaction in the local environment as well as crosstalk between different brain regions.

Prof Nicolas Szita | Department of Biochemical Engineering, UCL

Microfluidics.

Prof Alethea Tabor | Department of Chemistry, UCL

Synthetic organic chemistry.

Prof Geraint Thomas| Division of Biosciences, UCL

Application of cutting-edge imaging and detection methods for cell signalling molecules to study cells and tissues functioning collectively in health and disease.

Prof Stefan Trapp | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Autonomic neuroscience and metabolic disease.

Dr Paola Vergani | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Cystic fibrosis.

Prof Giorgio Volpe | Department of Chemistry, UCL

Biophysics Optics, Physics.

Prof Kirill Volynski | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Calcium regulation of neurotransmitter release and synaptic plasticity in health and disease.

Prof Stephen Wilson | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Development and function of brain asymmetry.

Dr Mie Wong | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Robustness of collective cell behaviours.

Prof Jinghao Xue | The Alan Turing Institute, UCL

Statistical machine learning.

Prof Yoshiyuki Yamamoto | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of morphological novelties during evolution.

Dr Anslem Zdebik | Division of Biosciences, UCL

Ion transport in the kidney and other systems.