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2025

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Ketevan Alania

Project Title: Non-invasive Deep Brain Stimulation to Modulate Brain Activity and Related Function

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Natalie Ness

Project Title: Investigation of the Role of Astrocytes in Encoding Circadian Function

Supervisor: Dr Marco Brancaccio

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Marco Ferrari

Project Title: Investigating the Interplay between Circadian Clocks and mTOR Signalling in Microglia and its Disruption in Neurodegeneration

Supervisor: Dr Marco Brancaccio

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Eléonore Schneegans

Project Title: Multi-Omics Analyses for Human Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Supervisor: Dr. Nurun Fancy, Dr Johanna Jackson, Professor Paul Matthews

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Kevin Ziegler

Project Title: Exploration of Enhancer Landscapes in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Patients with the Aim to Reveal Signalling Pathways Associated with the Disease Pathogenesis

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott

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2024

Patrycja Dzialecka

Project Title: Mechanistic Investigation of Temporal Interference Brain Stimulation and Its Translational Application

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Kitty Murphy

Project Title: Cell Type-Specific Evolutionary and Epigenetic Signatures: Leveraging Human and Non-human Primate Data to Gain Insight into Brain Disorder Risk in Humans

Supervisors: Dr Nathan Skene, Professor Steve Gentleman, Dr Sarah Marzi

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Brian Schilder

Project Title: Predicting the Epigenomic and Clinical Phenotypic Effects of Genomic Mutations through Deep Learning

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

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Xiaoqi Zhu

Project Title: Electrophysiological Investigation of Temporal Interference Brain Stimulation

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Janis Transfeld

Project Title: The Role of Genetic Risk Variants in Regulatory Elements in Parkinson’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott, Professor Steve Gentleman, Dr Sarah Marzi

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2023

Joe Airey

Project Title: Investigating Homeostatic Plasticity in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Samuel Barnes

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Salman Fawad

Project Title: Bioinformatics Problems for Single-Cell Genomics

Supervisor: Dr. Nathan Skene, Professor Paul Matthews

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Leire Melgosa Ecenarro

Project Title: Functional and Molecular Signatures of Synaptic Vulnerability in Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Samuel Barnes, Dr Johanna Jackson

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David Miao

Project Title: Does the Brain Clear Toxins More Efficiently during Sleep?

Supervisors: Professor William Wisden, Professor Nicholas Franks

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Riad Yagoubi

Project Title: Elucidation of metabolism alteration

Supervisor: Professor Zoltan Takats, Professor Paul Matthews

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Roxy Zhang

Project Title: Genetic Identification of Cell Types Underlying Brain Disorders Using Single Nucleus ATAC-Seq Data

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

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2022

Charlotte Luff

Project Title: Neurophysiological Investigation of Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Dani Pulgar Prieto

Project Title: Immunoproteasomes as therapeutic targets in neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases

Supervisor: Dr Yu Ye

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Jiabin Tang

Project Title: Characterisation of Glial and Neuronal Pathology Associated with Amyloid-β Oligomers in Alzheimer’s Disease Models
Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews, Professor Steve Gentleman

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2021

Xiaowen Zhang

Project Title: Spatially Resolved Transcriptome Profiling in Post-mortem Human Brains of Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews

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    • Nicholas Chan
    • Vicky Chau
    • Jia Qi Chong
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    • Thomas Deegan
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    • Isidora Gocmanac
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    • A conversation with Dr Yu Ye by Maria Tsalenchuk
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