Current Student Profiles

Find out about our current students

Biology of Ageing

  • Abhyuday Deshpande (Discovering the phosphorylation state of truncated Rif1 protein in budding yeast cell cycle and DNA damage)
  • Dean Hallam (The role of telomeres and telomerase activity in ageing cultivating of human limbal stem cells)
  • Laura Wiley (Exploring the Role of Biomarkers of Ageing in Modulating Physical, Cognitive and Sensory Outcomes of Frailty)
  • James Wordsworth (Examination of the Mechanisms Underlying the Bystander Effect Caused by Senescent Cells )
  • Mariana Rocha (Sarcopenia and age-related disorders)
  • Sofia Lisanti (Changes in DNA Methylation in mammals with senescence, ageing and calorie restriction)

Clinical, Nutritional and Interventional Studies

  • Emma Fletcher (Improving Tolerability and Concordance with Antiplatelet Therapy in Older People)
  • Heather Moore (Exercise, Cognition, and Brain Vitality)
  • Brendan Payne (Does nucleoside analogue anti-retroviral therapy cause acceleration of age-associated somatic mitochondrial DNA mutation?)
  • Caroline Shaw (Dietary patterns: Responses to lifestyle interventions in the peri-retirement window)
  • Hadiel Alsufiani (The effect of ageing on methylation of promoter regions of some zinc transporters genes and their relationship to zinc status in Saudi people)
  • Katherine Jones (Exercise training for adults with neuromuscular weakness and limited physical activity: optimising the benefits)
  • Paul Innerd (The development and validation of a new system to measure physical activity and sleep)
  • Iain Matthews (Adenosine  to Determine the need for Pacing Therapy (ADEPT-ILR))
  • Fiona Malcomson (Anti-neoplastic effects of non-digestible carbohydrates on Wnt signalling in the bowel: a human dietary intervention study)

Dementia, Neurodegenerative Disorders and Stroke

  • Laura Barrett (Epigenetic biomarkers in the prediction and prognosis of post-stroke dementia)
  • Matthew Burke (Mechanisms of Degeneration and Regeneration in Post Stroke Dementia)
  • Vincent Foster (Neurovascular Integrity and Function During Normal Ageing)
  • Elizabeth Gemmell (Neuronal changes in post-stroke and ageing related dementia)
  • Shane McParland (Quantitative evaluation of alpha synuclein pathology)
  • Lauren Walker (Clinico-pathological correlations in mixed Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia)
  • Diego Manni (Accumulation and aggregation of p62 as a target for diagnostics and intervention in age-related neurodegenerative diseases)
  • Rachel A Lawson (Cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease and its effect on patients and their carers)
  • Paul Donaghy (Imaging in Dementia with Lewy bodies)
  • Sarah Marrinan (Gastroparesis symptoms in Parkinson’s disease: correlation with motor and non-motor symptoms and exploration of a novel drug to improve gastric emptying)
  • Alison Yarnall (Predicting cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease using neurophysiology and biochemical parameters as biomarkers)
  • Nicholas Murphy (Where and when and how do visual hallucinations occur? An electrophysiological study examining visual processing in Lewy body dementia)
  • Kirsty McAleese (Cerebral white matter lesions and their role in multimorbidity of the ageing human brain; Assessment by quantitative analysis)
  • Sam Stuart (Visual function during gait in Parkinson’s disease: impact of motor and cognitive phenotype and response to visual cues)

Mitochondrial Disorders

  • Matthew Bates (Cardiac manifestations of mitochondrial disease: prevalence and pathogenetic mechanisms)
  • Helen Bogle (Fight Alpers’)
  • Emma Reynolds (The Role of UCHL1 in Neurodegeneration and Mitochondrial Dysfunction)
  • Martin Meagher (Mitochondrial DNA damage and repair)
  • Kyle Thompson (Mitochondrial Gene Expression in Health and Disease)
  • Casey Wilson (Investigation of Molecular Pathologies in Human Mitochondrial mRNA Maturation)
  • Jane Newman (Cardiac and functional adaptations to aerobic exercise in mitochondrial disease)
  • Qi Zhang (Mitochondrial DNA mutations and pluripotency)
  • Alexia Chrysostomou (Synaptic pathology in patients with mitochondrial disease)

Modelling the ageing process

  • Richard Tomsett (Missing Links: How Neural Developmental Factors Influence Network Topology and Behaviour)
  • Evelyn Barron (Characterisation and Measurement of the Healthy Ageing Phenotype)

Information on some of our previous students and what they are doing now can be found in the alumni profiles.