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Projects	Groups	Status
Circuit mapping in the piriform cortex using optogenetics	The Bekkers Group - Olfaction	Current
Characterising 3D image structure	The Maddess Group - Diagnostics for Eye Diseases	Potential
Multifocal pupillographic objective perimetry	The Maddess Group - Diagnostics for Eye Diseases	Current
Higher order image statistics and image texture	The Maddess Group - Diagnostics for Eye Diseases	Current
The spatial frequency doubling illusion	The Maddess Group - Diagnostics for Eye Diseases	Current
The role of oxidative stress in the progression of retinal degenerations	The Valter Group - Retinal Cell Damage and Repair	Current
Optimising the dose of 670nm light therapy for treatment of retinal degenerations	The Valter Group - Retinal Cell Damage and Repair	Current
670nm Red Light as a treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity (Phase 1 Clinical Trial)	The Valter Group - Retinal Cell Damage and Repair	Current
The use of miRNA as potential therapeutic targets in diseases causing retinal degenerations	The Valter Group - Retinal Cell Damage and Repair	Current
Role of miRNA in retinal degeneration	The Valter Group - Retinal Cell Damage and Repair	Current
Integration of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics underlies the molecular disparity in age-related macular degeneration mice eye	The Natoli Group - Clear Vision Research Lab The Wen Group - Computational Biology of RNAs and Functional Genomics	Current
Discovery of novel cis-regulatory RNA structures using deep neural network	The Wen Group - Computational Biology of RNAs and Functional Genomics	Current
Role of deeply conserved RNA structures as novel regulators of pathogenesis-associated pathways	The Wen Group - Computational Biology of RNAs and Functional Genomics	Current
RNA-binding proteins rewire transcriptomes during immune cell differentiation	The Wen Group - Computational Biology of RNAs and Functional Genomics	Current
Predicting cell-type specific combinatorial binding of neuronal transcription factor network by deep learning	The Wen Group - Computational Biology of RNAs and Functional Genomics	Current
Characterisation of the role of H2A.B spermatogenesis during heat stress	The Soboleva Group - Germ Cell and Cancer Epigenetics	Potential
Investigation of a role of H2A.B3 in piRNA biology	The Soboleva Group - Germ Cell and Cancer Epigenetics	Potential
A novel mechanism of epigenetic information transfer between different cell types	The Soboleva Group - Germ Cell and Cancer Epigenetics	Potential
Investigating a role of C/T antigens in spermatogenesis and cancer	The Soboleva Group - Germ Cell and Cancer Epigenetics	Potential
How is H2A.B involved in Hodgkin lymphoma carcinogenesis?	The Soboleva Group - Germ Cell and Cancer Epigenetics	Potential
Predictive models of RNA biochemical modifications and their role in RNA processing	The Eyras Group - Computational RNA Biology	Current
Novel algorithms to study transcriptome variation with long-read sequencing	The Eyras Group - Computational RNA Biology	Current
Rapid translation-based stress responses to environmental changes.	The Shirokikh Group - Protein Biosynthesis and Homeostatic Control	Current
Translational control in cancer.	The Shirokikh Group - Protein Biosynthesis and Homeostatic Control	Current
Innovative methods to detect rapid translational control.	The Shirokikh Group - Protein Biosynthesis and Homeostatic Control	Current