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Cerebral representation of object-location memory (Spatial memory)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: May 30, 2016,

The uptake and recall of arbitrary associations between objects and their spatial location is a core feature of spatial memory. This form of learning is fundamental to survival across the phylogenetic spectrum. Nevertheless, the hemispheric organization of this function has yet to be understood. Whilst object-location memory is one component of spatial memory most consistently lateralized to the r ...
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"The Concept of ""World"" (Sattva-bhAjana-loka) in Indian Early YogAcAra Buddhism: An Intellectual History" (YogaLokaCntxt)

Start date: Feb 20, 2011, End date: Nov 22, 2015,

Current scholarship on the philosophy of early Indian YogAcAra Buddhism (4th-5th centuries CE) has come under criticism for its de-contextualized understanding of the school's worldview. My research addresses this shortcoming through an intellectual history of the Yogacara's philosophical, cosmological and literary understanding of 'sattva-bhAjana-loka' (the sentient and insentient 'external world ...
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Suction feeding hydrodynamics and biomechanics in larval fishes (SFHaBiLF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Larval fishes must encounter food soon after hatching to survive. Newly hatched fish subsist on limited supply of yolk and thus must encounter and successfully capture food before depleting their energy resources. In general, larval fishes differ from adults in their interaction with the physical environment. Larval fishes hatch at a small enough size to experience the water as a mainly viscous me ...
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System level modelling of metastasis from signalling to cell motility (Metastasis Sys Mod)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 7, 2014,

The most intriguing phenomenon in cancer research is the ability of tumour cells to spontaneously migrate away from the primary tumour and metastasize. Metastases are strongly related to poor prognosis and reduced patient survival. Therefore, studying motility properties of cancer cells may benefit the development of therapeutic methods, and can hopefully contribute to improved survival.Cancer cel ...
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Network analysis of bacterial multi-cellular patterning (Bacterial Patterns)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Defining the mechanisms by which cells cooperate to form complex structures and a common function is a fundamental problem in both developmental biology and socio-biology. Cooperative interactions among bacteria are a relatively simple, yet medically important, model system where this problem can be explored in its full generality. Specifically, bacterial growth on surfaces is often accompanied by ...
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Studies in Symplectic Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics (SSGHD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"I propose to pursue several independent studies in symplecticgeometry and Hamiltonian dynamics. My research objectives aretwofold. First, to solve some of the open research questionsdescribed in the proposal, which I consider to be pivotal in the field.Some of these questions have already been studied intensively, andprogress toward solving them would be of considerable significance.Second, the p ...
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Rendering environmental pathogens sensitive to antibiotics prior to infection (Restoring sensitivit)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Antibiotic resistance of pathogens is an accelerating problem and there is an urgent need for new antimicrobial agents. Pharmaceutical companies face numerous obstacles in developing new antibiotics, and therefore a method that will re-sensitize pathogens to well-established antibiotics harbors key advantages. We propose a system that restores antibiotic efficiency by reversing resistance of pat ...
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Identification and Characterization of Host and Phage Proteins Interacting with the CRISPR System (CRISPRsystem)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

The CRISPR system was recently identified as a bacterial defense mechanism against phages and plasmids. The CRISPR system is composed of DNA arrays containing short sequences identical to those present in phages and plasmids. These short DNAs are transcribed and processed by CRISPR associated proteins that also guide other CRISPR proteins to target the invading DNA. Only a few of the CRISPR compon ...
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