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 (not currently available)
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 (not currently available)
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 (not currently available)
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 (not currently available)
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 (not currently available)
How tissues achieve their correct size, shape and complex three dimensional architecture.
Prof Troy Margrie | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL (not currently available)
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 (not currently available)
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
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Prof Franck Pichaud | Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL (not currently available)
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 (not currently available)
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.