Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics that are of particular relevance:
- Using Population Genetics to Address Metabolic Health Disparities in East London's Diverse Ethnic Populations
Moneeza Kalhan Siddiqui, Segun Fatumo, Matteo Fumagalli and Sarah Finer
£74,125 Barts and the London Charity
24-02-2025 - 23-02-2026 - Exploring the cooperativity of the POU-SOX stemness regulators during early animal evolution
Alexandre De Mendoza Soler
£3,000 Royal Society
01-02-2025 - 01-02-2026 - Synthetic clinical data for underrepresented populations: a UK-France alliance
Matteo Fumagalli, Moneeza Kalhan Siddiqui and Venet Osmani
£9,500 DSIT Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
01-01-2025 - 31-03-2025 - Efficient computational technologies to resolve the Timetree of Life: from ancient DNA to species-rich phylogenies
Mario dos Reis
£460,301 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
29-11-2024 - 28-11-2027 - The evolution of developmental system drift in axial specification in Spiralia
Chema Martin Duran
£648,579 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-08-2024 - 31-07-2027 - Molecular and Cellular Evolution of Sensory Organs - GRANT TRANSFER
Roman Arguello
£59,906 Swiss National Science Foundation
01-07-2024 - 30-06-2025 - Assessing the potential of DNA methylation for intergenerational inheritance in a sea anemone - Alex de Mendoza
Alexandre De Mendoza Soler
£42,696 Royal Society
01-03-2024 - 31-08-2025 - Heads or tails? The evolution of trunk growth heterochronies in animal larvae
Chema Martin Duran
£325,064 Leverhulme Trust
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026 - NSFDEB-NERC: Machine learning tools to discover balancing selection in genomes from spatial and temporal autocorrelations
Matteo Fumagalli
£121,751 NERC Natural Environment Research Council
01-12-2023 - 30-11-2026 - Predicting risk to non-native trees species from potential threats in the UK
Richard Nichols
£13,521 DEFRA Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
01-10-2023 - 31-03-2025 - BBKA - Lido iCase studentship
Yannick Wurm
£6,000 BBKA British Beekeepers Association
01-09-2023 - 31-08-2027 - Integrating cellular space and time: inteplays between subcellular organisation and lifespan-GRANT TRANSFER
Charalampos (Babis) Rallis
£269,451 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-09-2023 - 14-04-2026 - Discovering missing links in neuropeptide evolution and function
Maurice Elphick and Arianna Fornili
£576,040 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-06-2023 - 31-05-2026 - BBSRC-NSF/BIO - Host immune suppression as a key adaptation enabling bacterial symbioses
Lee Henry
£432,267 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
24-08-2022 - 23-08-2025 - Future Leadership Fellowship: Testing how developmental pathways can predict evolutionary adaptation to climate change-GRANT TRANSFER
Vicencio Oostra
£1,404,707 MRC Medical Research Council
31-05-2022 - 31-12-2026 - The Role of Nutrition as an Epigenetic Modulator of Phenotypic Plasticity during Honeybee Development
Paul J. Hurd
£672,317 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-05-2022 - 30-04-2026 - Deciphering the evolution of cytosine DNA methylation across eukaryotes through experimental and epi - ERC StG 2020 Alex de Mendoza
Alexandre De Mendoza Soler
£1,213,073 EU Commission - Horizon 2020
01-09-2021 - 31-08-2026 - Transcriptomic diagnostics for identifying interactive effects of pesticides, food deficiency, and heat stress on bee health
Yannick Wurm
£548,472 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
06-04-2021 - 05-05-2025 - Survey and BIOinformatic review of fluid-tissue proteomics: novel biomarkers for ALS
Andrea Malaspina and Conrad Bessant
£188,946 Barts and the London Charity
01-09-2020 - 31-08-2025 - Linking livestock genetic diversity with three thousands years of agricultural crises and resilience
Laurent Frantz
£731,804 EU Commission - Horizon 2020
01-04-2020 - 31-03-2025