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      • Workshops
      • Sandpits
      • Pump priming
      • Student Summer Bursaries 2023
      • PoLNET PDRA Call 2023
    • Early Career Researchers
    • Events >
      • Upcoming >
        • Non-equilibrium explorations on the physics of life : remembering the biological physics of Tom McLeish
        • Winter School: challenges and opportunities in Physics of Life
      • Past >
        • NOTICE - Novel Optical Technology in Cardiac Electrophysiology
        • Physics of Life 2023
        • Motility in Microbes, Molecules and Matter 2
        • Tissue dynamics
        • Physics of Life: ECR bootcamp
        • Cutting-edge methods for bacterial pathogen interactions with host cells
        • Physics of Life Summer School 2022
        • Motility in Microbes, Molecules and Matter
        • Periodic patterns
        • Physics of Life ECR workshop
        • Physics of Life/iPoLS seminar
        • Biophysics and evolution
        • Launch
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    • Steering Group
    • Physics of Medicine Events >
      • Upcoming >
        • Tackling drug resistance in cancer
        • Translational Ageing
      • Past Events >
        • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
        • Physics of Viruses
        • Antimicrobial Resistance
        • Metastasis Workshop
        • Neurodegenerative disease
        • Physics of Brains
  • POLNET 2
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    • Student Summer Bursaries
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      • PoLNET2 Past Events >
        • Sandpits
        • Past summer schools >
          • Summer School: Physics of Life Summer School: From Cells to Tissues and Organisms
          • Summer School: New approaches to Biomolecular function, structure and dynamics
        • Physics of Life Town Meetings >
          • Town Meeting 2019
          • Town Meeting 2018
          • Town Meeting 2017
        • Past Workshops >
          • QMGR V
          • Non-equilibrium Cold Plasmas in Biology and Medicine
          • The Fundamentals of Late Stage Cancer
          • The Physics of Evolution
          • Nanostructures at Soft Interfaces: Technology and Biophysics
          • Physics of Biological Oscillators
          • The Future of Optical Techniques in Biology
          • Tom McLeish's Durham farewell symposium
          • Multiscale mechanics in Biology
          • Epigenetics
          • Physics of Animal Health
          • Interdisciplinary Challenges in Non-Equilibrium Physics
          • Cancer Workshop
          • QMGR
          • Symmetry
          • Nanofluidics
          • Quantum Biology
          • Antimicrobial Resistance
          • Filaments and Cellular Responses
          • Biocomputation
          • Workshop Reports
  • PoLNET 1
    • PoLNET 1 Team
    • PoLNET1 Past Events >
      • Launch meeting 2013
      • Plenary Event 1: The Living Cell
      • Plenary Event 2: Synthetic Biology
      • Plenary Event 3: Multicellularity
      • Focussed Workshops >
        • 1: The Physics of Bacterial Infection
        • 2: Forces in Biology
        • 3: Life in Extreme Environments
        • 4: The Physics of Cancer
        • 5: Information Flow in Biological Systems
        • 6: Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis
        • 7: Compartmentalisation & Confinement
        • 8: Physics of Bacterial Biofilms
        • 9: Cancer Sandpit
      • Summer/Winter schools >
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      • Final Summit
    • Roadmap for Biological Physics
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2019 Physics of Life Student Summer Bursary Project Awards

The Physics of Life network 2 supported 11 summer student bursaries to undergraduates interested in pursuing multidisciplinary research projects combining physics and biology. The aim of this bursary scheme was to give motivated undergraduates the opportunity to gain experience in writing a research proposal, and with training, carry out independent research alongside established academics. Experience gained from these projects can provide invaluable skills, useful for student personal development and future employability. The research generated from these summer bursary projects have played an important role in catalysing/pump-priming research in the form of publication and larger possible PoL research grants for academics working across Physics and Biology.

Supported bursaries

Computational Design of Nanopores for the Elucidation of Protein Unfolding Pathways, University of Southampton
Student: Daniel Williams-Brown Supervisor: Syma Khalid

Development of a simple physical model for the cell-division time of Escherichia coli, University of Surrey       
Student: Oliver Camilleri Supervisor: Richard Sear

Optical fingerprints of Amyloid Oligomers: A Determination of Alzheimer- Related Oligomer Stoichiometry using Single-Molecule Photobleaching, University of York          
Student: Patrick Hunter  Supervisor: Steven Quinn

Mechanical Properties of the Pancreatic Tumor Extracellular Matrix, University of Oxford
Student: Renat  Karimov Supervisor: Sonia Antoranz Contera

Investigating the Structural and Dynamic Impact of Drug Binding to Blood Serum Proteins, University of York
Student: Olivia Dalby Supervisor: Neil Hunt

Investigating the flexibility of protein regions containing post-translationally modified cysteines using structural rigidity theory, University of Sheffield
Student: Sarah Chapman Supervisor: Nicholas Fowler

Long-lived spin coherences and quantum metastability for the Cryptochrome Magnetosensor, University of Exeter
Student: Angus Crookes Supervisor: Daniel Kattnig

Probing the Sequence-Dependence of Allosteric Interactions through DNA, University of Glasgow
Student: Katalin Orosz Supervisor: Steven Magennis

Investigation of the antimicrobial activity of amyloid-β peptides, Kings College London
Student: Raquel LÃpez-RÃos de Castro Supervisors: Chris Lorenz and Martin Ulmschneider  
            
Activity driven restructuring of micro-environments, Loughborough University
Student: Steven Norfolk Supervisor: Tyler Shendruk          

Condensation of intrinsically disordered proteins into clusters, University of York
Student: Arsenii Zats Supervisors: Tom McLeish FRS, Michael Plevin and Charley Schaefer             

Funded by:                                                                                                 Managed bY:

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