2022
Arvis Tam – The effects of vincristine cancer therapy on prepubertal testicular tissue
Cara Robb – A pilot study to examine ovarian hormones in women with long COVID across the menstrual cycle
Hahn Duyen Tran – Identification of potential follicle-stimulating hormone receptor antagonists
Julia Hanning Li – TGF-β1 stimulates embryo attachment in an in vitro model system
Nathan John Parks – Investigating the role of DPP4 adhesive and enzymatic functions at implantation using an invitro model
Phoebe Anderson – Does anti-Mullerian hormone protect granulosa cells from chemotherapy-induced damage?
Zoe Jones – Effects of Glucocorticoid Exposure Before Birth on Adipose Tissue Structure in Adult Sheep
2021
Nusaiba Masnurah – The Role of MMP-10 in Spiral Artery Remodelling
Lisa Abraham – The effect of doxorubicin on ex vivo fetal mouse ovaries
Louise Page – Investigation of associations between maternal BMI and fetal adrenal development.
2020
Please note that the vacation scholarship was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic.
2019
Eva Shelmerdine – Tight junction decoupling from actomyosin in receptive endometrial epithelium is regulated by protein O-GlcNAcylation
Georgia O’Sullivan – Assessment of cryopreserved ovarian tissue at a morphological, molecular and endocrinological level
Katherine Morling – Actin-Based Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation
Neil Taylor – Validation of protein sequestration by CGG RNA aggregates in Fragile X-associated premature ovarian insufficiency
Marie Biolkova – Is the scientific peer review process free from gender bias?
2018
Anna Brodie – Assessing development and antrum formation of bovine pre-antral ovarian follicles in long-term culture
Laura Copley – The impact of endometritis on luteal function in the cow
Ella Jameson – Regulation of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) expression: correlation with vitamin D and oestrogen receptors
Robert Kay – Study of the Impact of Selective Progesterone Receptor Modulators upon Apoptosis in the Human Endometrium
Magdalena Matkovic – The effect of Benzo[a]pyrene on germ cell proliferation in the developing ovary
Sophia Mohammed – How does chlamydia affect fertility?
Imogen Nichols – Dissecting the function of nuclear actin in mammalian oocytes
Gabrielle Oxley – Prolonging prometaphase in meiosis I mouse oocytes to prevent aneuploidy
Niall Slater – Mapping steroid metabolomics within the tertiary human ovarian follicle
Mabel Vos – The interplay between repressive epigenetic marks and development in mouse preimplantation embryo culture.
Aniruddha Voruganti – To study the expression of PLC isoforms in WT vs PLCζ KO mouse ovarian tissue using Western Blots.
2017
Sofia Akhtar – Defining the impact of paternal diet on offspring testicular epigenetic status
Eman Butt – The role of placental endocrine IGF2 in regulating placental morphogenesis and fetal growth
Chandler Bray – Does a cell death protein regulate cell fusion in a placental cell line?
Joan Embola – The regulation of stanniocalcin-1 in human pregnancy
Isabella Inzani – Role of thyroid hormones in adrenal development and steroidogenesis in the ovine fetus
Jessica McLachlan – The effect of the ovulation induction drugs, clomiphene citrate and letrozole, on placental differentiation
2016
Adam Andreani – Understanding the molecular mechanisms by which the placenta adapts to support fetal growth during pregnancy
Alexander Brown – Investigation of sperm mitochondrial membrane potential and reactive oxygen species production in SLC-selected stallion sperm samples
James Healy – Validation of a Kiss1r antibody using Kiss1r knockout mice
Áine Kavanagh – The role of DMRT1 in human testis development
Haya Khan – An investigation into the effect of IL-33 on nitric oxide production by placental endothelial cells
Irene Lambrou – Regulation of cohesin in non-growing oocytes
Hui Wei (Amanda) Leow – A study to examine the effect of Selective Progesterone Receptor Modulators (SPRMs) on the endometrial fibrinolytic system in women with heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB).
Robert Turnbull – Investigating the Requirements for Egg Activation in Drosophila
Laura Warwick – Intracellular Oxygen Profiling of Bovine Oocytes and Embryos using the MM2 Probe
2015
Eloise Lynch – Cyclical DNA methyltransferase expression across multiple timescales in the uterus of the Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus)
Annemieke Nicholls – Disease takes its Toll on reproduction: Toll-like receptors and the bovine corpus luteum
Miguel Madrigal Hernandez – Thyroid gland structure and key gene expression is not altered by prenatal exposure to excess androgens via maternal application
Su Wei Tay – Histomorphological classification of equine follicles in healthy, atretic and granulosa cell tumour samples
Philippa Gould – The role of maternal low protein diet on neural stem cells and neurogenesis in the offspring brain
Siobhan Rice – Descriptive Study of the Effects of Phosphoramide Mustard on the Testis
Lily Hua – The expression of 11βHSD1 in the human myometrium
2014
Claire Peet – An E4PB4 knockout model to assess the distribution of uterine natural killer cell subsets in mouse pregnancy
Robert Thompson – The effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals on bovine luteal function
Prodromos Chatzikyriakou – Identifying the mechanisms regulating oocyte maturation in the ovary: A multidisciplinary study
Rebecca Cole – CG9879 in the Drosophila Testis
Magda Marečková – Can progesterone supplementation in early pregnancy affect normal male fetal development?
Sophie Nash – How does chemotherapy treatment affect fertility in pre-pubertal males?
2013
Victoria Carliell – Listeria monocytogenes
James Hall – Regulation of Cohesin during Oogenesis
Hui Lim – The effect of IFN-γ on Chlamydia trachomatis growth in human Fallopian tube epithelial cells
2012
Alycia Kowalski – Regulation of trophoblast differentiation by TGFβ signalling pathways
Hannah Morgan – Investigation of the role of decidual macrophages in spiral artery transformation in early human pregnancy
Holly Swash – Zebrafish
Kayleigh Stewart – Investigating the stage-specific expression of Dazl and Boule during fetal ovarian germ cell development
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