Research / Projects
This page details the current and past funded research projects for
which I am an investigator. You can find out about my current and recent UKRI-funded projects from my Gateway to Research profiles:
Newcastle,
Durham.
Current projects
Completed projects
- ACHILLES: Assessment, Costing and enHancement of long lIfe, Long Linear assEtS: this is an EPSRC-funded programme grant. See the GtR entry for further details.
- Streaming data modelling for real-time monitoring and forecasting: this is a Turing-funded project.
- EPSRC CDT in Cloud computing for big data: I was co-Director of this doctoral training centre at Newcastle.
- Flood-PREPARED: Predicting Rainfall Events by Physical Analytics of REaltime Data: this is a NERC funded project. See the GtR entry for further details.
- EBI Metagenomics Portal - Towards a better understanding of community metabolism: this is a BBSRC funded BBR grant, led by the EBI. The Newcastle component of this project is closely aligned with NUFEB.
- During the Spring and Summer of 2020, I worked as a volunteer on Turing's DECOVID project.
- NUFEB: Newcastle University Frontiers in Engineering Biology - A new frontier in design: the simulation of open engineered
biological systems. This is an EPSRC funded Frontier Engineering award. Also see the grant details on GtR.
- DERC: Digital Economy Research Centre: this is an EPSRC funded Next Stage Digital Economy award. Also see the grant details on GtR.
- Functional dissection of the genetic interaction network that
affects growth of cells with telomere defects: implications for health
and disease: This is an MRC
funded project to map the network of genetic interactions between
genes known to be be important for telomere integrity.
- Social media analysis for social geography: this is an ESRC funded project associated with Newcastle's SiDE project. My involvement is to develop statistical modelling strategies for understanding the social structure within social media data. Grant info.
- The telomere cap in budding yeast: This is a Wellcome Trust funded project to develop high throughput
robotic screening methods and data analysis pipelines for uncovering
genetic interactions relevant to telomere integrity.
- Quantitative Fitness Analysis to understand the
Schizosaccharomyces pombe telomere cap: This is a Cancer
Research UK funded project to adapt the high throughput robotic
genetic methods we have pioneered in budding yeast to work with
fission yeast.
- Heterogeneity: Integrative modelling of stochasticity,
noise, heterogeneity and measurement error in the study of model
biological systems (1/9/08-31/8/11). This was my BBSRC Research Development
Fellowship (grant number BB/F023545/1), which involved a
combination of statistical modelling and experimental lab work. Additional information regarding
this Fellowship is available from GtR.
- ONDEX: from data to knowledge / the ONDEX system for
integrating Life Sciences data sources. This project was funded by the
BBSRC SABR initiative. Further details from GtR.
- CISBAN: the Centre
for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition. This was a BBSRC funded centre for Integrative
Systems Biology. The centre continues to exist as a Newcastle
University Research Centre. I led the CISBAN working group on biomathematical
and statistical modelling within the in
silico programme.
- CaliBayes:
integration of post-genomic data resources through Bayesian
calibration of biological simulators. This was funded by BBSRC's
Bioinformatics and e-Science programme. Although direct funding is now finished, the project
continued as a key technological component of CISBAN.
- ComparaGRID:
enabling technologies for comparative genomics. This project was funded
by the BBSRC Bioinformatics and e-Science programme.
- NEReSC: the
North-East Regional e-Science Centre. This was a EPSRC-funded project. I was involved
in a grant extending the life of the originally funded centre.
- BASIS: Biology of
Ageing e-Science Integration and Simulation system. This
BBSRC Bioinformatics and e-Science grant was designated a UK GRID
Pilot Project. Although direct funding is now finished, the project
continues as a key technological component of CISBAN.
- GeneNets:
Bayesian inference for stochastic kinetic genetic regulatory
networks. This project was funded by the BBSRC Bioinformatics
initiative, and marked the start of my research in this area.
- Parallel
Bayesian computation: this was an equipment grant from the Royal Society which allowed me to purchase an 8-CPU linux
Beowulf cluster for experimenting with parallel algorithms for
Bayesian computation.
