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Imaging neural gain control in the human visual system (HVGC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"Gain control is a canonical neural computation that is found across the brain. Almost all models of neuronal gain propose that the activity of each neuron is normalized by the combined activity of its neighbouring neurons – a so-called ‘gain pool’. Information in the visual pathways undergoes several such normalization stages beginning in the retina and continuing through visual cortex. Gain cont ...
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Fate and effects of Pharmaceuticals in Soil-Plants System (PHARMASOILS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Mar 3, 2016,

"Large amounts of pharmaceutical compounds, from a wide spectrum of therapeutic classes, are used and prescribed in human and veterinary medicine worldwide. Following use, pharmaceuticals may be metabolised and will then be excreted in the urine and faeces. The resulting manure, slurry and sewage sludge will then typically be applied as a fertiliser to agricultural land. A wide range of pharmaceut ...
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Development of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes for the Chemical Manufacturing Industries (P4FIFTY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The objective of the P4FIFTY project is to deliver a trans-European network of industrially oriented white biotechnologists fully trained in the application of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) for application in the chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. This willinvolve academic groups investigating P450 diversity exploration from the wild type enzymes and their genes, genome ...
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Stromal Cell- Immune Cell Interactions in Health and Disease (STROMA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

STROMA is an Initial Training Network promoting the study of stromal cell – immune system interactions during stroma development and function in health and disease. In STROMA we have bought together world leading experts from academia and industry in Europe to address the key scientific questions in this emerging field. STROMA will promote the training of three Experienced Researchers (ER) and s ...
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Investigating Speech Processing in Realistic Environments (INSPIRE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

In everyday life, people listen to speech under a wide range of conditions that are “non-optimal” relative to the controlled conditions in laboratory experiments. Classical research methods can only deal with the effects of individual “adverse” conditions. This has contributed to the fragmentation of speech communication research in numerous sub-disciplines that have little interaction. While each ...
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A European Initial Training Network on the History, Archaeology, and New Genetics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (EUROTAST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The principal aim of this ITN is to examine the history of the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies from a variety of different angles. The idea is to hire thirteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and two Experienced Researchers (ERs) across Europe and a wide range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, sociology, heritage studies and genetics, to investigate various aspects of the s ...
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Self-aligned high-resolution organic ferroelectric transistor based complementary memory (Soft-COM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The Soft-COM project proposes to realize a self-aligned fabrication of non-volatile, reprogrammable organic complementary memory cell (CMC) compressing both p- and n- channel organic ferroelectric thin film transistor (FTFT).Non-volatile memory applications based on organic materials have recently been of great interest due to their potential integration into products ranging from low-cost identif ...
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Needs and requirements for independent living for older people (NARILOP)

Start date: Oct 15, 2012, End date: Oct 14, 2014,

"The NARILOP project will develop effective methodologies to elicit the needs and preferences of older adults for technologies to help them live independently. Currently methodologies developed for use with young people are used without regard to their appropriateness for older people and there is evidence that they are indeed not appropriate for use with this group. Developing new technologies fo ...
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Optimizing Research tools for Cetaceans in Archaeology (ORCA)

Start date: Sep 10, 2012, End date: Sep 9, 2014,

"Whale hunting has been practiced by a variety of cultures worldwide for millennia, and played a key economic and sociological role. Today, whales are one of the most threatened groups of mammals, almost exclusively due to recent industrial hunting practices. Archaeological investigations into the history of whaling are vital for understanding the long-term exploitation of these important marine m ...
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Signatures in Anthropological SOILs: Developments for the identification of activities associated with daily life (AnthroSOIL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

If the human uses of soils are profoundly different, can these use histories be deduced from their chemical traces? Using the potential of organic biomarkers, AnthroSOIL will assess spatial organisation of prehistoric dwellings in order to recognise daily life activities through soil organic matter analysis. At the interface of archaeology and chemistry, the project aims to develop a new methodolo ...
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Xylanases as models for understanding enzymatic catalysis (XYLANASES)

Start date: Aug 20, 2012, End date: Aug 19, 2014,

"Enzymes are essential for catalysis of the biochemical reactions that are characteristic of all living cells. Detailed explorations of these transformations have afforded a wealth of insight into the mechanisms of enzyme catalysis, heralding a range of enzyme applications. In spite of these advancements, further mechanistic studies on the fundamentals of enzymatic catalysis are still essential if ...
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Mechanistic Effect Models for the Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemicals (CREAM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

There is widespread concern about how production and use of chemicals affect the environment. Yet food production and benefits of chemical products are vital for the functioning of European societies. In order to ensure sustainable use, EU regulations require extensive risk assessment before a chemical is approved for use. Current risk assessments focus on risk at the level of individual organisms ...
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Unlocking Historical and Molecular Archives (PALIMPSEST)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"Europe’s rich historical record has been plundered for information about climate and weather in the past. From instrumental data, to correspondence and even paintings, climate historians have tried to link direct human record with molecular records from trees, lakes, caves and oceans. My fellowship seeks to explore a new avenue, the rich collections of parchment held in archives across Europe.Th ...
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Bayesian Biometrics For Forensics (BBfor2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

With various forms of biometric technologies becoming available, there is a growing need for scientists who are able to assess the merits of these technologies when applied to forensics. The Marie Curie ITN `Bayesian Biometrics for Forensics,' or BBfor2, will provide a training infrastructure that will educate Early Stage Researchers in the core biometric technologies of speaker, face and fingerpr ...
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COASTAL RESOURCES AND SOUTH AMERICAN HUNTER-GATHERERS: BIOCHEMICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM BRAZILIAN SAMBAQUIS (COREBRAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"In the last decade there has been an explosion of interest into the role played by coastal ecosystems in the lives of hunter-gatherers. Studies have highlighted the importance of ecological, physical and climatic conditions of coastal areas on the biological evolution, dispersion, survival and social development of earliest humans. This new research direction offered more nuanced investigations: ...
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Prostate Research Organizations-Network of Early Stage Training (PRO-NEST)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"New and recent developments have revolutionized the prostate cancer research and clinical arenas, requiring the next generation scientists to have comprehensive knowledge and expertise in basic, clinical and applied research. PRO-NEST offers young researchers a European integrated, multi-disciplinary training programme to become an independent and all-round scientist and team leader in (prostate) ...
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Marine Amino Acid Racemisation Investigation of the Mediterranean (mAARiTIME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

mAARiTIME is a highly interdisciplinary project, which brings together the fields of Archaeology, Biology, Chemistry, Geochronology and Quaternary Sciences. Through protein geochronology (amino acid racemisation dating, AAR), it seeks to answer two specific but vital questions: when did early humans become “modern”, and is “modern” behaviour unique to our own species?Behavioural modernity has for ...
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From CERamic RESidues to the economic and social context of early pottery use in North Eastern North America (CERES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"It is not known why people started to produce pottery. Once associated with the advent of agriculture and village life, ceramic vessels are now known to have been produced well before any evidence for food production in many parts of the world. This project will identify patterns of early pottery uses in North Eastern North America, one region where pre-agricultural pottery has emerged as a probl ...
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Magnetic Energy Conversion in Fine Nanoparticle Systems (MENCOFINAS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"Magnetic energy conversion using nanoparticles is fundamental to many rapidly developing areas such as environment-friendly nanotechnologies or in biomedicine. Examples include the use of magnetic nanoparticles (MPs) in devices for magnetocaloric refrigeration or for heating in the hyperthermia treatment of cancer. Investing in these areas is imperative if the European Research Area and the Europ ...
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A EUROPEAN BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING NETWORK FOR THE SUPPORT OF CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING (BIOTRAINS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The objective of BIOTRAINS is to deliver a trans-European network of industrially oriented white biotechnologists fully trained in the application of biocatalysis to sustainable chemical manufacturing. Their skills will be developed through a joint research programme at leading national CoE’s (Centre of Excellence) with research projects identified by internationally leading Principal Investigator ...
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Femtosecond opto-magnetism and novel approaches to ultrafast magnetismat the nanoscale (FANTOMAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"The aim of this proposal is to create a training network in the newly-emerging multidisciplinary field of “nano-opto-magnetism”, a new scientific area with novel technological opportunities at the junction of coherent nonlinear optics, nanoscience and magnetism. The impact on society of this newly emerging field is potentially very high, therefore it is decisive that now young researchers are tra ...
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Climate Change and BIRDs in the African SAVannah (SAVBIRD)

Start date: Sep 15, 2009, End date: Sep 14, 2012,

"Climate change is arguably the greatest threat to biodiversity today. Understanding the mechanisms that underlie climate impacts is crucial if biodiversity goals are toe be met as the global climate changes. To date, climate impact research has focussed on northern areas, yet tropical ecosystems hold most biodiversity. For the first time, this project will have the overriding objective of identif ...
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Textile and Hair proteomics: Reexamination of European wool from Archaeological Deposits (THREADS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Economists, historians, archaeologists and conservators have been fascinated by the wool trade and the development of the woollen textile industry during the medieval period, as documented by the large literature on the topic. The importance of the wool trade is reflected in the fact that wool producers and textile centres were located in different areas of Europe, and that wool influenced not onl ...
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Enhancing Literacy Development in European Languages (ELDEL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The scientific aims of the ELDEL project are: 1) to produce a model elucidating the relationships among psychological (psycholinguistic, cognitive) and environmental (orthographic, linguistic, educational/instructional, cultural) factors determining the development of literacy skills in European languages, and 2) to uncover the key components of an effective, culture-appropriate intervention prog ...
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Inequalities on Function Spaces and Properties of Integral Operators with Applications (IFIOP)

Start date: Aug 16, 2010, End date: Aug 15, 2012,

"Our investigation is in the area of functional analysis and concerns boundedness and compactness properties of mappings between function spaces, estimates and asymptotic behaviour of characteristic numbers of integral operators and also embeddings between function spaces. The expected results may be useful for solutions of a number of actual problems in neighbouring mathematical areas such as the ...
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Mathematical Virology: A classification of virus architecture and the structural transitions important for maturation and infection (MATVIR)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"This project in Mathematical Biology addresses two important questions concerning the structure and life cycle of viruses: -) The classification of the possible three-dimensional shapes of the capsid proteins compatible with icosahedral symmetry (the most common symmetry of viral capsids) by means of group theory and tiling theory; -) The modeling and prediction of the structural transitions of t ...
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Plasticity in the Shoot Branching Regulatory Network (Branching Plasticity)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Plants can modulate their developmental program depending on environmental conditions, such as nutrient availability and levels and quality of light. A single plant genotype is able to give rise to a wide range of phenotypes. Despite the relevant ecological and evolutionary consequences of this plasticity, very little is known about its molecular basis. A good example of developmental plasticity i ...
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Sustainable ecosystem services and livelihoods through aquaculture development (ECOLIVA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"The inter-disciplinary project “Sustainable ECOsystem services and LIVelihoods through Aquaculture development” (ECOLIVA) aims to examine the links between ecosystem services, sustainable livelihoods and production of aquatic commodities, using the case of shrimp farming in Thai mangrove ecosystems. This project, implemented as an Intra-European Fellowship hosted by York University, UK, will enab ...
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Versatile and Environmentally Friendly New Reaction Methodologies for Synthetic Organic Chemistry with Application to Natural Product Synthesis (CASCADES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

...uction in cost, energy and waste. The proposed outgoing phase project would further the development of a new enantioselective organocatalytic method, within the pioneering research group of Prof. David MacMillan at Princeton. The MacMillan group have consistently been at the forefront of organocatalysis research, and thus far have pioneered over 30 catalytic asymmetric transformations of immense p ...
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Climate Change and Areas with High Species Diversity at Global Scale (ClimBioHotspots)

Start date: Oct 16, 2008, End date: Oct 15, 2010,

The aim of this project is to estimate possible climate-induced changes to species richness in three categories, total, endemic and threatened richness. Possible impacts will be assessed: a) at a global scale; b) for centres of endemism for vascular plants, birds, mammals, amphibian and reptiles; c) in CI global biodiversity hotspots; and d) for the Global 200 ecoregions. In just the same way tha ...
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The impact of nitrogen on the fate of recently assimilated carbon in forest soils (NITFOR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"Global climate change is strongly linked to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In particular, CO2 contributes almost 45-60% to the observed anthropogenic global warming yet has the potential to be captured by trees and stored either in woody biomass or in soils over long time periods. While the above-ground carbon cycle is well constrained, there remain great uncertainties in ...
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"Characterisation and cloning of ADVOLUTA, a putative novel element in auxin signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana." (ADVOLUTA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

"Auxins are an important group of phytohormones, that regulate various aspects of embryonic and postembryonic development. Transduction of the auxin stimulus depends on selective protein degradation: it involves the activity of the TIR1 family receptors, that act in the SCF complex to target the family of Aux/IAA transcription factors for degradation. Although the core module of auxin signalling h ...
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