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Intra-patient evolution of HIV (HIVEVO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"HIV is one of the most rapidly evolving organisms known. Understanding its evolutionary dynamics is essential for successful drug treatment or vaccine design. At the same time, this rapid evolution makes HIV an ideal model system to study fundamental problems in evolutionary dynamics: In HIV, one can directly observe evolution over genetic distances that correspond to millions of years of evolut ...
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Zebrafish Regulomics for Human Health (ZF-HEALTH)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

In recent years, the zebrafish has emerged as a new vertebrate model organism for biomedical research which offers a unique combination of traits: a short generation time, small size and efficient breeding procedures make it the best choice among vertebrates for forward genetic screening and small-molecule screens, including toxicology, while the transparent embryo and larva offers unique opportun ...
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Towards new Brain-Machine Interfaces: state-dependent information coding (SI-CODE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Brain Machine Interfaces (BMIs) are devices mediating communication between a brain and the external world, and hold the potential for a) restoring motor or sensory functions to people who lost them due to illness or injury, and b) understanding neural information processing through controlled interactions between neurons and external devices. However, the success of BMIs is hampered by the proble ...
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Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems (myCopter)

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

Considering the prevailing congestion problems with ground-based transportation and the anticipated growth of traffic in the coming decades, a major challenge is to find solutions that combine the best of ground-based and air-based transportation. The optimal solution would consist in creating a personal air transport system (PATS) that can overcome the problems associated with all of our current ...
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The innovative use of virtual and mixed reality to increase human comfort by changing the perception of self and space (VR-HYPERSPACE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"VR-HYPERSPACE addresses the concerns expressed in ACARE’s Vision 2020 publication of changing demographics and increased urbanization resulting in society in 2050 and beyond needing more long-range transport for business and social-related mobility. What is required is a radical approach to conventional thinking with regards to the internal and external dimensions of the cabin, and revolutionary ...
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Polycomb and Trithorax Group Proteins: Master Regulators of Adipose Tissue Function? (ATACC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2014,

"Obesity and lipoatrophy are characterised by excess and paucity respectively of white adipose tissue. Both associated with insulin resistance, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, their prevalence will exceed 1 billion people by 2030. The convergence in metabolic phenotype of these two disparate disorders highlights how a precisely controlled, metabolically active adipose tissue is essential for ...
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The Hand Embodied (THE)

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

Description Advancing the state of the art in artificial system architectures for the "hand" as a cognitive organ The scientific goals of The Hand Embodied concern the reciprocal linkages between the physical hand and its high-level control functions, and about the way that the embodiment enables ...
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Functional and structural analysis of the mammalian nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway (NMDpaths)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2014,

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an important quality control pathway conserved throughout all eukaryotes: mRNAs which contain premature stop codons (PTC) are detected and committed to accelerated decay to protect the cell from deleterious effects of truncated proteins. NMD also controls abundance of many wild-type genes that contain features recognized by the NMD machinery. Due to the import ...
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Machine learning for quantitative modelling of structured phenotypes (MLPHENOM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Understanding phenotypic variation, and more particularly identifying the causal genetic or environmental regulators, is a major aim in biological investigations. The goal of this proposal is to develop and apply machine learning techniques to model key aspects of structure that occur in modern, high-dimensional phenotype datasets. First, the temporal structure of phenotypes that are recorded ove ...
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Stratospheric ozone: Halogen Impacts in a Varying Atmosphere (Shiva)

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

SHIVA aims to reduce uncertainties in present and future stratospheric halogen loading and ozone depletion resulting from climate feedbacks between emissions and transport of ozone depleting substances (ODS). Of particular relevance will be studies of short and very short-lived substances (VSLS) with climate-sensitive natural emissions. We will perform field studies of ODS production, emission and ...
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Emotional interaction grounded in realistic context (TANGO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Many everyday actions take place in a social and affective context and presuppose that the agents share this context. But current motion synthesis techniques, e.g. in computer graphics, mainly focus on physical factors. The role of other factors, and specifically psychological variables, is not yet well understood. The goal of the TANGO project is to take these familiar ideas about affective commu ...
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Aquired Environmental Epigenetics Advances: from Arabidopsis to maize (AENEAS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

This proposal, entitled “Acquired Environmental Epigenetics Advances: from Arabidopsis to maize” (acronym: AENEAS), aims to assess the impact of environmental conditions on epigenetic states in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and then transfer knowledge to maize (Zea mays): an important European crop. Advances in understanding the detailed mechanisms of epialleles formation in response to env ...
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Generalising Robot Manipulation Task (GeRT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Description Teaching the use of functional object classes through learning by doing In order to work naturally in human environments such as offices and homes, robots of the future will need to be much more flexible and robust in the face of novelty than those of today. GeRT will develop new metho ...
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Promotion of plasticity as a treatment for neurodegenerative conditions (PLASTICISE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"Neurodegenerative diseases all cause damage to the circuitry of the nervous system, with loss of connections, axons and neurons. The loss can be gradual, as in Alzheimer’s disease, rapid as in stroke, or intermediate as in the delayed neuronal loss after stroke. Following damage, the nervous system is able partially to compensate through the formation of alternative connections and pathways, a pr ...
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Simulation of Upset Recovery in Aviation (SUPRA)

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

"The aim of this research project is to investigate the usefulness of advanced flight simulator concepts for teaching pilots to detect and recover from flight upsets. The term “flight upset” indicates a situation when an aircraft in flight unintentionally exceeds the parameters normally experienced in line operations or training. Loss of control due to unsuccessful upset recovery is considered an ...
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Synthetic Pathways to bio-inspired information processing (BION)

Start date: Apr 15, 2008, End date: Oct 14, 2011,

We shall use data from neuroanatomy and neurophysiology as a guide for the fabrication of deterministic and complex self-assembled networks of polymeric non linear elements with adaptive properties. The main objective is the realization of a new technology for the production of functional molecular assemblies, which can perform advanced tasks involving learning and decision making, and which can b ...
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Machine Learning Methods for Complex Outputs and Their Application to Natural Language Processing and Computational Biology (JointStructuredPred)

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

In this project, we are interested in developing machine learning methods for complex inference problems that occur frequently in real world applications. Such problems are ubiquitous in many fields, ranging from natural language processing to bioinformatics, from computer vision to information retrieval. Examples include automatic translation of documents across languages, motion tracking of i ...
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Analysis of Arabidopsis hybrid incompatibilities (Arabidopsis hybrids)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

While the discovery of hybrid vigor was one of the most important breakthroughs in modern agriculture, failure of many wide crosses limits the beneficial traits that can be introduced into crops. My goal is to understand the molecular and biochemical basis of hybrid incompatibility within, and also between, species. My first focus will be to characterize a particularly interesting incompatibility ...
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