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42 grant, fellowship and training grant records. Total value of £10,232,215

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ASSESSMENT OF BIODIVERSITY IN PLEISTOCENE BRITAIN THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SMALL-SCALE MICROSAMPLING OF VERTEBRATE FOSSIL REMAINS

Fellowship Award

Fellow:: Dr M Buckley, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 9 Aug 2010 - 8 Aug 2013
Value:: £296,537

NERC Reference:: NE/H015132/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Postdoctoral Fellow (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Postdoctoral Fellowship

Agricultural origins in Southwest Asia: the pace of transition

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor TA Brown, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor RG Allaby, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor M Jones, University of Cambridge, Archaeology
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2010
Value:: £479,539

NERC Reference:: NE/E015948/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Aluminium detoxification and the role of silicon in a multicellular organism.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr K White, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr K Matthews, The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor CR McCrohan, The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Lead Split Award

Period of Award:: 1 Nov 2003 - 31 Oct 2006
Value:: £250,190

NERC Reference:: NER/A/S/2002/00820
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Archaeogenomics of European wheat: a proof of concept study

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor TA Brown, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 May 2011 - 31 Jan 2012
Value:: £48,105

NERC Reference:: NE/I016929/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Small Grants (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Small Grants

Assessing contributions to fitness of individual genes via genome-wide competition analysis.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor SG Oliver, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor DB Kell, University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology
Co-Investigator:: Professor GW Griffith, Aberystwyth University, IBERS
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Lead Split Award

Period of Award:: 1 Sep 2002 - 31 Aug 2005
Value:: £382,130

NERC Reference:: NER/T/S/2001/00343
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Directed Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Environmental Genomics

Biodiversity and the provision of multiple ecosystem services in current and future lowland multifunctional landscapes

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor RD Bardgett, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Split Award

Period of Award:: 4 Feb 2013 - 30 Apr 2017
Value:: £400,775

NERC Reference:: NE/J014729/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: BESS

Biogeography, population genetics and rapid centromere evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Fellowship Award

Fellow:: Dr D Bensasson, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Sep 2006 - 31 Dec 2011
Value:: £272,930

NERC Reference:: NE/D008824/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Postdoctoral Fellow (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Postdoctoral Fellowship

Biological controls on soil respiration and its climatic response across a large tropical elevation gradient

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor RD Bardgett, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Feb 2013 - 30 Nov 2013
Value:: £11,181

NERC Reference:: NE/G018367/2
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Biomolecular archaeology of ancient tuberculosis in Britain and Europe

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor C Roberts, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor TA Brown, The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Split Award

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2007 - 31 Jul 2011
Value:: £328,702

NERC Reference:: NE/E015697/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

COMPLIANT INTERACTIONS AND LIMB MECHANICS DURING ARBOREAL LOCOMOTION IN TROPICAL FOREST ENVIRONMENTS

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor R Ennos, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor WI Sellers, The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Split Award

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2008 - 31 Mar 2012
Value:: £103,927

NERC Reference:: NE/F003730/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Developing a trait-based framework for predicting soil microbial community response to extreme events

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr F T de Vries, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr CG Knight, The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Lead Split Award

Period of Award:: 1 Apr 2018 - 31 Mar 2021
Value:: £433,783

NERC Reference:: NE/P01206X/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Doctoral Training Grant (DTG) to provide funding for 3 PhD studentship(s)

Training Grant Award

Lead Supervisor:: Dr A Lawless, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Supervisor:: Professor CR McCrohan, The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2009 - 30 Sep 2013
Value:: £210,411

NERC Reference:: NE/H525170/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: DTG - Responsive
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Responsive PhD

Doctoral Training Grant (DTG) to provide funding for 3 PhD studentships

Training Grant Award

Lead Supervisor:: Dr A Lawless, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Supervisor:: Professor CR McCrohan, The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2010 - 30 Sep 2014
Value:: £213,435

NERC Reference:: NE/I528134/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: DTG - Responsive
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Responsive PhD

Doctoral Training Grant (DTG) to provide funding for 4 PhD studentships.

Training Grant Award

Lead Supervisor:: Dr A Lawless, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Supervisor:: Professor CR McCrohan, The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2009 - 31 Mar 2011
Value:: £95,431

NERC Reference:: NE/H526478/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: DTG - Responsive
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Responsive PhD

Doctoral Training Grant (DTG) to provide funding for 6 PhD studentships.

Training Grant Award

Lead Supervisor:: Dr A Lawless, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Supervisor:: Professor CR McCrohan, The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2008 - 30 Sep 2012
Value:: £410,363

NERC Reference:: NE/G523720/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: DTG - Responsive
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Responsive PhD

Ecological consequences of genetic variation: does genetic variation in a keystone parasitic plant species drive community response to infection?

Fellowship Award

Fellow:: Dr J Rowntree, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 May 2012 - 30 Jun 2014
Value:: £198,793

NERC Reference:: NE/H016821/3
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Postdoctoral Fellow (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Postdoctoral Fellowship

Ecosystem service provision from coupled plant and microbial functional diversity in managed grasslands (VITAL)

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor RD Bardgett, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Feb 2013 - 30 Sep 2013
Value:: £14,726

NERC Reference:: NE/G002258/2
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: ERA Net BiodivERsA

Environmental fitness of Burkholderia cepacia complex: feasibility of testing with the genomic approach of signature-tagged transponson mutagenesis

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor RJ Balment, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr G Cramb, University of St Andrews, Sch of Medicine
Co-Investigator:: Dr N Hazon, University of St Andrews, Biology
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Feb 2002 - 30 Jun 2007
Value:: £979,422

NERC Reference:: NER/T/S/2001/00282
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Directed Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Environmental Genomics

Genetic and environmental contributions of parents to offspring life-history, behaviour and morphology.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor A Moore, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2001 - 30 Sep 2004
Value:: £220,426

NERC Reference:: NER/A/S/2000/01325
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Genetic architecture and constraint in social evolution

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor C Thompson, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr DE Rozen, Leiden University, Institute of Biology
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Lead Split Award

Period of Award:: 1 Jan 2011 - 30 Sep 2014
Value:: £446,357

NERC Reference:: NE/H020322/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Genetics of parent-offspring communication: a reaction norm approach using inbred lines of Nicrophorus vespilloides

Fellowship Award

Fellow:: Dr PT Smiseth, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2005 - 31 Mar 2008
Value:: £182,427

NERC Reference:: NE/C002024/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Postdoctoral Fellowship

Genome-wide approaches to fitness and speciation in yeast.

Fellowship Award

Fellow:: Professor D Delneri, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Sep 2004 - 31 Aug 2009
Value:: £289,887

NERC Reference:: NE/B500190/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Advanced Fellow
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Advanced Fellow

Genomic response to selection for flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr P Kover, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2008
Value:: £252,594

NERC Reference:: NE/C004604/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Global transcriptional effects of UV-B and insect plant stressors on interactions between Arabidopsis and rhizosphere bacteria.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor R Preziosi, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr MA Kertesz, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr CM Bray, The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr PG Gallois, The University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 12 May 2003 - 11 Nov 2006
Value:: £457,888

NERC Reference:: NER/T/S/2002/00188
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Directed Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Environmental Genomics

High memory computer hardware for metagenomic analysis

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor RD Bardgett, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr CG Knight, The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Nov 2013 - 31 Mar 2014
Value:: £98,736

NERC Reference:: NE/L012960/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Directed (RP) - NR1
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Big Data

Hominoid energetics: could load carriage have driven the early adoption of bipedal locomotion in human evolution?

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor WI Sellers, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor A Chamberlain, The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr R Payne, Royal Veterinary College, Comparative Biomedical Sciences CBS
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Lead Split Award

Period of Award:: 6 Mar 2006 - 5 Sep 2009
Value:: £181,663

NERC Reference:: NE/C520447/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Markerless Motion Capture for Primate Locomotion Studies

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor WI Sellers, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 3 Sep 2012 - 2 Sep 2013
Value:: £36,354

NERC Reference:: NE/J012556/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Small Grants (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Small Grants

Molecular plant-microbe communication and rhizosphere sulfur cycling.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr M Kertesz, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 May 2004 - 30 Sep 2007
Value:: £263,690

NERC Reference:: NER/A/S/2003/00504
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Novel methodology for distinguishing between ancient and contaminating DNA in human archaeological remains

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor TA Brown, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Apr 2008 - 30 Sep 2008
Value:: £55,291

NERC Reference:: NE/F010109/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Small Grants (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Small Grants

Resilience and regime shifts in peatland microbial communities: implications for soil functioning

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor RD Bardgett, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr F T de Vries, University of Amsterdam, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics
Co-Investigator:: Professor NJ Ostle, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 May 2017 - 28 Jun 2019
Value:: £251,906

NERC Reference:: NE/P013708/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Directed (RP) - NR1
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Soil Security

Signals of genetic quality in a genetically heritable social environment.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor JB Wolf, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Dr NJ Royle, University of Exeter, Ecology and Conservation
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Jun 2005 - 30 Nov 2008
Value:: £270,188

NERC Reference:: NE/C510659/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Single or multiple trajectories for the spread of maize cultivation into South America?

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor TA Brown, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Mar 2008 - 28 Feb 2011
Value:: £340,134

NERC Reference:: NE/F003250/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Social environment and indirect genetic effects on life history and behavioural traits in mammals

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr R Hager, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Dec 2010 - 31 Mar 2013
Value:: £79,677

NERC Reference:: NE/I001395/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: New Investigators (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: New Investigators

Sperm number, packaging, and motility - sexual manipulation or sexual co-operation?

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr P Moore, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor A Moore, University of Exeter, Biosciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 30 Sep 2002 - 29 Sep 2005
Value:: £230,141

NERC Reference:: NER/A/S/2001/00982
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Testing the impact of host demography on transposable element dynamics in Drosophila

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr C Bergman, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 5 Jan 2009 - 4 Apr 2010
Value:: £60,804

NERC Reference:: NE/G000158/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: New Investigators (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: New Investigators

The Maintenance of Genetic Variation by Antagonistic Sexual Selection.

Fellowship Award

Fellow:: Professor J Hunt, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Feb 2005 - 30 Sep 2005
Value:: £160,395

NERC Reference:: NE/B501398/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Postdoctoral Fellowship

The domestication of Europe.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor TA Brown, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor G Jones, University of Sheffield, Archaeology
Co-Investigator:: Dr J Reeves, NIAB, Directorate
Co-Investigator:: Professor M Jones, University of Cambridge, Archaeology
Co-Investigator:: Professor MP Charles, University of Oxford, School of Archaeology
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Lead Split Award

Period of Award:: 1 Jul 2004 - 29 Feb 2008
Value:: £178,671

NERC Reference:: NER/O/S/2003/00644
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Consortiums Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Consortiums

The genetic basis of maternal behaviour and parent-offspring conflict resolution in mice

Fellowship Award

Fellow:: Dr R Hager, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2008 - 30 Sep 2011
Value:: £302,682

NERC Reference:: NE/F013418/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Postdoctoral Fellow (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Postdoctoral Fellowship

The impact of death on the Tree of Life: assessing the relationship between taphonomy and phylogeny

Fellowship Award

Fellow:: Dr RS Sansom, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2012 - 31 Jan 2015
Value:: £165,660

NERC Reference:: NE/I020253/2
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Postdoctoral Fellow (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Postdoctoral Fellowship

The role of plant root exudates in controlling rhizobacterial transcriptomic responses to plant nutrient stress

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr M Kertesz, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 13 Jun 2006 - 12 Sep 2009
Value:: £330,863

NERC Reference:: NE/D002710/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

Using Fossil Proteomics for Resolving Phylogenetics of Extinct Mammalian Orders in Ancient Biodiversity Hotspots

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Dr M Buckley, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Period of Award:: 19 Nov 2012 - 18 Nov 2013
Value:: £78,859

NERC Reference:: NE/K000799/1
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: New Investigators (FEC)
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: New Investigators

Utilisation of ancient DNA from charred seeds in studies of the phylogenetics and population genetics of cultivated plants.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:: Professor G Jones, The University of Manchester, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor TA Brown, The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor MP Charles, University of Oxford, School of Archaeology
Grant held at:: The University of Manchester, Life Sciences

Split Award

Period of Award:: 1 Oct 2003 - 30 Sep 2006
Value:: £166,547

NERC Reference:: NER/A/S/2002/00999
Grant Stage:: Completed
Scheme:: Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:: Closed
Programme:: Standard Grant

42 grant, fellowship and training grant records. Total value of £10,232,215

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