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Research Awards - May 2005

(6 June 2005)

Professor R J Cramp
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture
The British Academy, £4,500

Professor C A Roberts
First Paleopathology Association South American Meeting - Conference Grant, Brazil
The Royal Society, £1,150

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Dr N Hole
Investigation of the role of Zap3 in normal and neoplastic haematopoiesis
Leukaemia Research Fund, £127,199

Dr S A Przyborski
Mitochondrial DNA mutations and neuronal development
Collaboration Agreement with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne/The Wellcome Trust, £4,000

Dr M Schroeder
Allosteric regulation of the RPD3 histone deacetylase complex (HDAC) by the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor Hac1p
The Royal Society, £15,000

Professor A R Walmsley
Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of drug-responsive transcriptional repressors
The Wellcome Trust, £134,151
(Co-investigator: Dr M I Borges-Walmsley, Biological & Biomedical Sciences)

Chemistry Professor R D Chambers 17th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry - Conference Grant, China The Royal Society, £1,100

Professor J A K Howard
State-of-the-art diffraction facility for new extremes of combined sample environments
EPSRC, £1,272,819
(co-investigator: Dr A E Goeta, Chemistry)

Professor J A K Howard
Age concern: Crystallographic software for the future
EPSRC, £943,421
(co-investigators: Dr H Puschmann, Chemistry; Dr L Bourhis, Chemistry)

Professor T B Marder
PACIFICHEM 2005 The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies - Conference Grant, Hawaii
The Royal Society, £1,300

Dr J W Steed
XX Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography - Conference Grant, Italy
The Royal Society, £1,200

Computer Science

Dr S Szeider
Parameterized algorithms for automated reasoning, constraint satisfaction and related areas - Awards to Newly Appointed Lecturers in Science, Engineering and Mathematics 2005
The Nuffield Foundation, £5,000

Earth Sciences

Dr B R Turner
Predictive siliciclastic diagenesis in a sequence stratigraphic framework - International outgoing short visit - Dr Alaa Mohamed Salem/Egypt
The Royal Society, £1,300

Dr B R Turner
Predictive siliciclastic diagenesis in a sequence stratigraphic framework - international incoming short visit - Dr Alaa Mohamed Salem/Egypt
The Royal Society, £3,982

English Studies

Dr C Saunders
Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval Romance - 2005 Research Fellowship
The Leverhulme Trust , £20,468

Professor J R Watson
MHRA Research Associateship
Modern Humanities Research Association, £15,000

History

Dr C D Liddy
The Land of the Prince Bishops: The Palatinate of Durham, 1345-1437 - Research Leave Scheme
Arts and Humanities Research Board, £10,510

Music Professor J C Dibble
Brass Concerts
RVW Trust, £1,000

Professor J C Dibble
Musicon Season
The Hinrichsen Foundation, £1,395

Dr M Kanno
Early Music Concerts
Early Music Network, £2,000

Dr M Kanno
Electro-Acoustic Festival
BBC, £2,380

Dr A Nercessian
Rebetika and the recording industry in Greece, 1920-1940
The British Academy, £1,720

Physics

Dr J R Allington-Smith
Astrophotonics: the application of Photonic Technology to Astronomical Instrumentation
PPARC, £22,534.47
(Co-investigator: Professor R M Sharples, Physics)

Professor J M Chamberlain
Artificial materials for terahertz frequency applications
EPSRC, £366,724
(Co-investigators: Dr D Wood, Engineering; Dr S Brand, Physics; Professor R Abram, Physics; Professor M Petty, Engineering)

Mr S M Croom
PPARC Fellowship
PPARC, £225,156.50

Dr A Dedes
Physics beyond the standard model, supersymmetry phenomenology - Awards to Newly Appointed Lecturers in Science, Engineering and Mathematics 2005
The Nuffield Foundation £3,000

Dr C Done
Understanding black hole accretion in the era of ASTRO-E2 – Senior Research Fellowship
PPARC, £114,000

Dr G D Love
Programmable references for interferometric testing and verification in ELT mirror segment manufacture
PPARC, £11,848.75 Professor W J Stirling
A Beginner’s Guide to the Universe
PPARC, £92,684.93
(Co-investigators: Professor C S Frenk, Physics; Professor N Glover, Physics; Professor M R Pennington, Physics; Professor I R Smail, Physics)