D E P A R T M E N T O F B I O L O G Y

FINAL YEAR RESEARCH PROJECT

2015-16

Biology

Biochemistry

Biotechnology and microbiology

Ecology

Genetics

Molecular Cell Biology

CONTENTS Page

Important dates 1Selecting your project 2Original projects 2Allocation of projects 3Information for year away students 4Working on your project 5Failure to complete a project 6Safety guidelines 7Project supervision 9Lab book 10Research work and writing up 11List of staff offering projects 12 Checklist: Making your project choice 13

DEGREE COURSES & SPECIALIST DEGREE CO-ORDINATORS

SINGLE SUBJECT DEGREEBiology (BIO) – Dr Richard Waites

SPECIALIST DEGREESBiotechnology and microbiology (BTM)Ecology (ECO)Genetics (GEN)Molecular Cell Biology (MCB)

COMBINED COURSE DEGREEBiochemistry (BCH)

IMPORTANT DATES

Project information sessions:Biology and specialist degree students – Monday 27 April at 09.00 in B002Biochemistry students – Monday 27 April at 16.00 in B0006 – to include talks from YSBL staff

Project presentations:The Centre for Immunology and infection (CII) will hold two information sessions to showcase their projects. (These will also be available on VLE: CII Projects.) Students interested in their projects should attend:

Monday 27 April: 17:00-18:00 in B/B/103Wednesday 29 April: 12:00-13:00 in B/M/052

09.00 am on Monday week 4 of summer term (4 May 2015)Deadline for submitting your project choice online

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Week 8, Summer term 2015Projects allocated

Monday Week 1, Autumn term 2015Project work begins (up to 14 days work in the summer vacation is allowed).

Friday Week 10, Spring term 2016End of experimental work.

Week 1, Summer term 2016Submission of project report.

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SELECTING YOUR PROJECT

When you decide on your project, you normally decide the topic of the project and the person who will act as your project director. Your project director must be an academic member of staff, or a postdoctoral fellow or other supervisor acting in consultation with an academic member of staff. The project director's job is to advise on and supervise your work, and to ensure that you are carrying out your work safely.

It is important to reach a good decision over the choice of your project, so do not rush it. The ideas for your project may originate from an idea of your own, from something listed online, or something between the two.

Think of an idea or area of study you would like to pursue, and read through the titles to find the ones that interest you. Only the titles are shown; fuller descriptions are on the web, follow the links from the project page:

http://www.york.ac.uk/biology/intranet/currentundergraduatestudents/common-pages/projects/

All projects are considered suitable for Biology degree students (except those for Biochemists only), but you should be sure that your selection of modules in the second year has not omitted any essential background. If you are a specialist degree student, you should check that the projects that interest you are suitable for your degree course and personal background. The suitability of each project for specialist degree students is indicated after its title, but some flexibility may be possible here. Consult the project director and confirm with the appropriate Degree Co-ordinator if necessary.

If you are a Biochemistry student, select a project marked BCH (this will include projects being offered by Chemistry members of staff).

Projects are listed by Director’s surname and by research focus area.

You should visit possible project directors to discuss projects with them. Do not leave it until the last few days before trying to contact possible directors. Some directors will arrange to be available at particular times to meet students; see the timetable for full details. Some directors require that you meet them to discuss the project before selecting that project; see online for details. Some projects have special requirements (eg Home Office training course) so check these carefully.

Students currently on placement at a European University or in Industry, incoming Erasmus students and those returning from Leave of Absence: if you are unable to see potential project directors in person, please contact them by phone or e-mail.

If you have a proposal for an ORIGINAL PROJECT, clearly distinct from the titles online, you must complete a form (available online) and consult the Chair of the Board of Studies (Dr Richard Waites) before discussing with a potential project director. You may wish to discuss your proposals with your supervisor but you should not approach a potential project director at this stage.

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You must submit seven project choices, indicating your order of preference. No more than two proposals may be with the same director. By submitting two proposals for the same director, you could decrease your chances if those projects are over-subscribed.

There is no need to rush your decision. Projects are not allocated on a first-come first-served basis, and no project director is allowed to promise any advertised project before all the choices are submitted.

You must make your choices online – see the link from the Project pages. The deadline for making your choices is 09.00 am on Monday week 4 of the summer term (4 May 2015).

ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS

The Undergraduate Office aims to assign as many students as possible to their first, second or third choice of project in the first round. If this is not possible, fourth to seventh choices may be allocated. Allocations will be published at the beginning of week 8.

INFORMATION FOR YEAR AWAY STUDENTS ONLY:

FINAL YEAR PROJECTS AND YEAR AWAY PROJECTS

The following are guidelines that should be adhered to should a year away student consider suggesting a final year project in an area related to that worked on during their placement:

1. In all cases you must, in the first instance, discuss plans for a project in an area related to your placement work with the Chair of the Board of Studies. You will need to demonstrate how the project differs from that undertaken during your placement.

2. You will need to identify, and be accepted by, a project director within the Biology Department who has some expertise in your proposed project area. In some cases your industrial supervisor may agree to act as a co-director, but cannot direct the project alone. The external supervisor will play no part in the examination of the project.

3. It is a normally held principle that work should not count towards more than one assessment. Therefore, on no account should data obtained as part of your placement work be used in your final year project. You will be asked to sign a declaration that this is the case (see under 5 below).

4. Should your project work entail collecting data prior to your return to York, you must discuss your data collection schedule with your internal project director. If this entails more than two weeks work, the project will count as an ‘early start’ (see p6 for the implications of this). All data must be collected within the normally allowed project period.

5. To inform the examiners, you must include a signed acknowledgement at the front of your project report that there has been no data transfer between your placement work and the final year project. This statement will not contribute to the word limit of your report.

6. You must accept that if examiners detect an overlap in data or report text between your year-away placement and final-year project you might lose marks.

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WORKING ON YOUR PROJECTWorking on your project involves a number of issues that need serious consideration. You will need to budget your time with care, and, of course, be aware of the time which is available for project work. Your independent style of working will require extra consideration of safety. Limited financial resources will necessitate financial budgeting. Behind these practical considerations there are the questions of how to tackle an independent research project, and what role your director should play in your work.

There is no single best way of working on a project; your approach must depend on the nature of your project, and will draw also on the particular experience, opinions and expertise of your project director. Clear planning is essential; it is recommended that you start your project by writing a summary of your preliminary goals and plan for the first experiments (about one side of A4). Your strategy and tactics should also develop as your experiments start to yield results. This is why it is important to consult regularly with your project director.

Your relationship with your project director is an important element in your project, since they are there to provide you with support and guidance. Where necessary, your project director should assist you in providing or obtaining equipment or materials, or in making arrangements for use of facilities or for fieldwork, and is expected, when appropriate, to demonstrate the use of equipment or methods, or to help in the understanding of advanced or difficult concepts or techniques. It is important that you ask for the advice that you need; some projects will require more help and advice than others. Your project director will have to declare, at the end of your project, how much advice was given to you. Do not let this put you off consulting - no-one will be impressed if you make mistakes because you did not seek sensible advice when you needed it. You must consult your project director regularly during the course of the project about progress and plans for future work. Your project director should be prepared to meet with you in order to provide advice and support on project work once a week on average. More advice and support than this may be appropriate, especially in the first few weeks of project work, or where specialist methods or difficult concepts are involved. Departmental guidelines for project directors are given in this booklet, for information.

The teaching laboratory staff provide another vital source of information.

Normal project work is done during the autumn and spring terms only . However, where a project requires fieldwork or materials available only during the summer months, it may be started in the summer vacation. You should consult your project director about this. All project students may work up to 14 days in the long vacation, in addition to general background and preparatory reading.

Normal laboratory project work should be done between 8.30am and 5.30pm on weekdays only. Project students who need to maintain living organisms or whose experiments take longer than the working day may be given special permission to work outside normal hours, when a porter is on duty, so long as their work is not considered dangerous. You will be given details of the code of practice for such work before you start your project. To work in the laboratories outside normal hours, you will need a form signed by your project director (forms are available from teaching labs).

It is important to budget your time wisely. Your project will occupy a great deal of your time (and interest) during the course of your final year and it is important to maintain a sensible balance between project work and study associated with your final year modules.

It is sensible to aim at an average of around two clear days work per week on your project.

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Laboratory space (if your project requires it) will be assigned to you in the project laboratories adjoining the first and second year teaching laboratories or in your project director’s laboratory, but when necessary, you may be required to use equipment in the Technology Facility and this will be negotiated with your director at the time.

Safety must always be an important consideration. In comparison with previous years you may be working more independently and may be using more expensive and potentially more dangerous equipment and materials. It is vital, therefore, that before starting with new equipment or materials, you must read the manufacturer's handbook on equipment, check the hazards of materials, and receive instructions in their use from your project director or an appropriate technician or postgraduate research worker. Throughout the project you must be particularly aware of standards of safety. This applies, of course, to yourself, and to the equipment and materials you are using, but in addition it is important not to forget your responsibility for others working beside you, who may not be aware of the hazards of your equipment or materials. Safety guidelines are spelt out in more detail in this booklet and on the web; be sure to read and be familiar with these. If you use your own car as part of your project work, you should be sure that your policy covers you for 'business use'; if in doubt, check with the Teaching Laboratories.

If your project involves work with live vertebrates, Home Office rules and procedures apply; see guidelines in this booklet or web safety pages for details.

Financial budgeting is a necessary part of your project. Project work can be very expensive. It is, therefore, an important aspect of your training that you learn to plan your work not only with an eye to the scientific feasibility, but also to the financial feasibility of the experiments you contemplate.

You would be wise to plan your work with the finishing date clearly in mind. You must finish practical work by 5.30pm on Friday Week 10 of the spring term of your final year. Any extension requires the permission of the mitigating circumstance committee (Chair, Dr Louise Jones), and will only be allowed for compelling reasons.

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SAFETY GUIDELINES FOR PROJECTS

Current safety legislation places the responsibility for safety upon all involved in a project. Therefore, the student and the project director are jointly responsible for the safety of your project. If, after consulting your project director, you still have any concerns about safety issues, you should consult the Biology Safety Adviser, Dr David Nelson. You must, in conjunction with your project director, carry out a risk assessment of the work being planned. The risk assessment must identify all possible hazards associated with work and record a set of procedures that will be adopted to reduce the risks to an acceptable level. The student and the supervisor must sign the risk assessment and submit a copy to the Teaching Laboratories. Work cannot begin until this form has been submitted.

The following safety rules delineate more closely the responsibilities of all involved in project work:

1. Project directors, in accepting you for a particular project, shall become jointly responsible with you for the safe conduct of the project. The project director will ensure that:

written safety protocols for the planned work are given to you where appropriate

proper safety instruction is given to you for all new tasks which involve new or unfamiliar hazards

appropriate safety equipment is provided for you

the facilities available in the teaching laboratories, or elsewhere if work is to be conducted outside the teaching laboratories, are satisfactory for the safe conduct of the work

you are instructed, precisely, how to dispose of any hazardous waste.

you adopt and comply with safety procedures.

2. Project directors shall discuss with you the necessary safety precautions before work begins. Project directors should ask you to provide a short (maximum A4) list of precautions you think are necessary; this document forms a useful basis for discussion.

3. Project directors will be expected to ascertain, at intervals, whether work is being conducted safely.

4. Should a technician in charge of project students note any unsafe or potentially dangerous practices, they will insist that the work ceases immediately. The project director will be informed and work can only commence again after the project director has remedied the situation. The technician shall consult the Biology Safety Adviser if doubt exists about the safety of any work.

A project student who is working in an unsafe manner a second time will receive a written censure from the Chair of Biology Board of Studies. This note will state clearly that a third unsafe act will result in experimental work on the project being terminated immediately. For exceptional cases of stupidity, the ban on experimental work will be immediate.

5. Accident reports: All accidents in the laboratory must be notified to the Projects Technician, the Biology Safety Adviser (Dr David Nelson) and your project director, and an Accident Report form completed.

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6. Electrical apparatus: All AC mains powered apparatus will have a label on it giving the safety check date and expiry date. Do not use if such a label is not evident.

7. Radio-isotopes: Before starting work involving radio-isotopes you must complete a form (download from the web) after discussing your work with your project director. Full safety training must be given to you by your project director.

8. Live vertebrates: To qualify for a Home Office Licence, you will be required to attend the "Home Office Personal Licensees Training Course”, a two-day course taking place in mid-June, consisting of lectures, discussions, videos and practicals based on a comprehensive booklet, and ends with a multi-choice test on which you must achieve 70%. All those working with live vertebrates must inform the Biology Safety Adviser in writing. All such persons should have undergone a course of anti-tetanus injections which are still valid. If you have not done so, or are uncertain, please arrange a visit to the Medical Centre immediately. Anyone who intends to work on live vertebrates without having undergone such a course MUST inform the Biology Safety Adviser of this intention.

9. Field work: In addition to the normal safety rules issued to all project students, all students carrying out fieldwork must obtain the special safety instructions from the Teaching Lab before beginning their project (available on the web). They must then discuss with their project director all aspects of project safety before commencing work. In addition, each time fieldwork is undertaken the student must obtain the appropriate medical and emergency kits from Teaching Labs, and give them back on their return.

10. Working out of hours: You may only do laboratory work on your projects during normal working hours (ie 8.30am-5.30pm weekdays). Working at other times requires special permission - a form for such permission can be obtained from Teaching Labs. You may only complete limited necessary work outside normal hours and you may not work outside normal hours simply because you prefer to or you want to catch up!

Project students are encouraged to use the Biology Safety web-pages http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/web/safety/index.htm for information on specific safety issues. The pages contain general codes of good practice for certain types of activity.

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GUIDELINES FOR PROJECT SUPERVISION

The following are the guidelines for project supervision agreed by the Board of Studies.

1. If so requested by their project student, a project director should be prepared to meet with the student in order to provide advice and support on project work about once a week. It is recommended that the student either telephones the project director or contacts them by e-mail in order to make an appointment.

2. More advice and support than this may be appropriate, especially in the first few weeks of project work, or where specialist methods or difficult concepts are involved.

3. Where necessary, project directors are expected to assist in providing or obtaining equipment or materials, or in making arrangements for use of facilities or for fieldwork, and they are expected, when appropriate, to demonstrate the use of equipment or methods, or to help in the understanding of advanced or difficult concepts or techniques.

4. Normally both project director and project student should ensure that they meet to discuss the progress of a project approximately once every two weeks during term time.

5. It is a Board of Studies requirement that your project should entail the collection and analysis of quantitative data, or require computer programming or both, and that this should form a significant part of your work and written report. If you think your project is unlikely to meet this requirement you should discuss it with your Project Director at the earliest opportunity.

6. If attempts by a project director to make contact with their project students are repeatedly ignored, the project director will record the fact, but will not persist. The project director will, however, inform the Chair of the Board of Studies and the student’s supervisor.

7. A project director should give detailed advice to each of their project students on the general form, arrangements of contents, presentation of data and style of writing appropriate to a particular project write-up.

8. A project director should encourage the student to produce draft sections in good time, eg before the end of Week 7 of the Spring Term. The student should not assume that the director will be available during the Easter vacation.

9. Detailed comment or editing may be given for teaching purposes on drafts of small parts of the project write-up. Here, ‘small parts’ is taken to mean one double-spaced, typed page from each of four sections of the draft report (i.e. a maximum of four pages across the whole report). If the report contains more than four sections, the student should indicate which four they would like the detailed feedback on. Only general comments should be made on the remainder of the report. Project Directors should not re-write significant amounts of the manuscript nor make detailed comments on the final draft of the project report. Draft project reports should be commented on by the Project Director ONLY – if the project is co-directed, it should be agreed which Director will take on this role. Students should not ask other members of staff or PhD students to comment on their reports.

If any project student believes that they are not being treated in accordance with the above guidelines, or that they are not receiving the support or advice to which they are entitled, they should raise this point, in the first instance, with their supervisor (or if this is not appropriate, Dr Richard Waites (Chair, Biology Board of Studies). Project directors may

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have reasons for their view on how much assistance is appropriate, or simply may not realise that a student feels unfairly treated; accordingly, complaints or queries will be resolved with tact and discretion.

YOUR LAB BOOK

No matter what type of project you undertake (laboratory or field-based, or analysis of information gathering from the literature, databases or computer simulations) you are required to keep notes of the detailed design of the study, the methods actually used, the results obtained and your immediate reaction to them. The place for all this is your lab book. You must make an entry in this every day that you do research, and should ideally write in it while you are actually doing the work, or at any rate later the same day. Every entry must be dated, and the book should be filled in chronological order, like a diary, though you might want to have a separate section for recipes, methods, etc. that you refer to repeatedly.

The book must have bound pages, not loose-leaf, so that nothing gets lost. If your work generates printouts (e.g. statistical analyses), plots, photographs, maps etc, then stick them into the book on the appropriate page. If you think you might need output that is not in electronic form for your report then keep clean duplicates of the hard copies. Items that cannot be stuck in the book must be kept in an appropriate file, clearly labelled and dated, and referred to in the lab book. Your lab book does not have to be neat, but it does have to be legible and comprehensible. Help yourself by drawing up outline tables for the data you are planning to collect, so that when you get to the field, bench or computer you can just fill in the boxes.

The main purpose of your lab book is to enable you to know exactly what you did and when you did it, and what the result was, so that you can plan your work and can present an accurate account of it. You are writing it for yourself. However, you will be required to hand it in with your project report, in case the project assessors need to look at it. Your lab book will not be marked, but the project report is fairly brief and the assessors may sometimes feel they need more information in order to mark the report fairly, especially if your presentation is not quite perfect ("Surely there is something missing in this protocol?" "Show me the raw data - I can't work out what this analysis means!" "Surely this standard error is an order of magnitude too low?").

Your lab book will be returned to you after the degree results are posted unless your project director wishes to retain it.

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RESEARCH WORK AND WRITING UP

Below is some very general advice on how to approach your project work. However, as no prescription can match the needs of every project, you should consult with your project director on how this advice applies to your particular project.

PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH

The broad strategy of your research work will vary considerably depending on your own preferences, on the recommendations of your project director, and above all on the nature and logic of the research project that you have selected. Nevertheless, some general advice is possible.

Having been allocated a project, it is vital to define the question or questions that the project will attempt to answer. If you have difficulty in defining the question(s) clearly you should discuss the matter with your project director.

It may well be that, after carrying out some initial experiments, the direction of the project may change. If this happens you will need to re-define the question.

It is very unlikely that your project will succeed in finding satisfactory answers if you do not have clear questions in mind from the outset.

Before beginning actual experiments or observations you should try to construct a written plan of your research, certainly of the first phases. Discuss ideas with your project director first, then draw up a draft plan and give it to your project director for comment.

READING THE LITERATURE

It is essential that you read the most important scientific papers and other literature concerning your project before proceeding too far with your research.

Most students will read around possible research topics a little before selecting their project. However, in general, it is not worth going into any depth at this stage because you may well become too committed to a topic that you may not then be allocated. When selecting a project, background reading should be directed to deciding firstly whether you are strongly motivated by the particular topic, and, secondly, to making sure that there is a problem to be studied, and that the work to be done during the first stages of the investigation can be clearly defined.

Once your project topic has been determined you should, as soon as convenient, study the key references relating to the subject, and carry out a literature survey to locate other relevant papers. You should already be familiar with using the Web of Science system in the library. Copies of papers not in the library can be obtained through inter-library loans, or by going in person to the British Library (at Boston Spa, near Tadcaster), or from one of the major science libraries in London or elsewhere. Check first that your project director does not already have a copy of a paper you want.

When surveying the relevant literature, do not make the common mistake of confining yourself only to the precise topic that you are to study. Investigate a wide range of comparable mechanisms, situations or species. (For example, if your project is on maternal behaviour in gerbils, do not read papers only on maternal behaviour in gerbils - look at papers on maternal behaviour in a wide range of other species, and on other aspects of the behaviour and physiology of gerbils and related species.)

When reading up on their topic during the early stages of a project, many students are apt to scan through papers in a rather aimless way, as if just casting around for some good ideas, or expecting to absorb a detailed understanding of the subject without much directed effort. Avoid this. Instead, you should write down a list of questions concerning the theory and method of your topic, and then try to find and write down answers to them.

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Make brief notes on all the relevant papers or articles you find or read, taking special care to record the authors, date, title and journal, clearly and accurately, so that you can incorporate any reference in your project write-up without having to mount a major search to find it again.

List of staff offering projects 2015-2016

Biology – max 4 projects unless stated otherwise (phones 01904 32….)Prof Ian Bancroft (max 2 projects) ian.bancroft@york.ac.uk phone 8778Dr Daniela Barilla daniela.barilla@york.ac.uk phone 8715Dr Christoph Baumann christohp.baumann@york.ac.uk phone 8828Dr Colin Beale colin.beale@york.ac.uk phone 8615Dr Gonzalo Blanco gonzalo.blanco@york.ac.uk phone 8593Dr Will Brackenbury (max 1 project) william.brackenbury@york.ac.uk phone 8284Prof Michael Brockhurst (max 1 project) Michael.brockhurst@york.ac.uk phone 8576Prof Neil Bruce, CNAP (max 3 projects) neil.bruce@york.ac.uk phone 8777Dr Leo Caves leo.caves@york.ac.uk phone 5335Dr Sangeeta Chawla sangeeta.chawla@york.ac.uk phone 8575Dr Setarah Chong setarah.chom@york.ac.uk phone 8534Dr Dawn Coverley (max 3 projects) dawn.coverley@york.ac.uk phone 8664Dr Kanchon Dasmahapatra kanchon.dasmahapatra@york.ac.uk phone 8635 Prof Seth Davis (max3 projects) seth.davis@york.ac.uk phone8915Dr Pierre Dechant (max 2 projects) pd583@york.ac.uk phone 5370Dr Chris Elliott chris.elliott@york.ac.uk phone 8654Dr Gareth Evans gareth.evans@york.ac.uk phone 8571Dr Paul Genever paul.genever@york.ac.uk phone 8649Prof Ian Graham (max 2 projects) ian.graham@york.ac.uk phone 8750Dr Allison Green (max 3 projects) allison.green@york.ac.uk phone 8916Prof Sue Hartley (max 1 project) sue.hartley@york.ac.uk phone 8640Dr Mike Haydon (max 2 projects) mike.haydon@york.ac.uk phone 8803Prof Jane Hill jane.hill@york.ac.uk phone 8654Dr Ian Hitchcock (max 1 project) ian.hitchcock@york.ac.uk phone 8914Dr Angela Hodge angela.hodge@york.ac.uk phone 8562Dr Pen Holland (max 2 projects) eph505@york.ac.uk phone 8734Dr Harv Isaacs harry.isaacs@york.ac.uk phone 8696Dr Louise Jones louise.jones@york.ac.uk phone 8695Prof Paul Kaye (max 2 projects) paul.kaye@york.ac.uk phone 8840Dr Marika Kullberg (max 3 projects) marika.kullberg@york.ac.uk phone 8850Dr Dimitris Lagos (max 2 projects) dimitris.lagos@york.ac.uk phone 8930Prof Mark Leake (max 1 project) mark.leake@york.ac.uk phone 8566Dr Frans Maathuis frans.maathuis@york.ac.uk phone 8652Prof Norman Maitland (max 2 projects) n.j.maitland@york.ac.uk phone 8700Dr Fabiola Martin (max 1 project) fabiola.martin@york.ac.uk phone 8907Dr Peter Mayhew peter.mayhew@york.ac.uk phone 8644Prof Peter McGlynn peter.mcglynn@york.ac.uk phone 8688Prof Simon McQueen Mason (max 2 projects) simon.mcqueenmason@york.ac.uk phone 8775Dr Michael Plevin michael.plevin@york.ac.uk phone 8682Prof Jennifer Potts (max 2 projects) jennifer.potts@york.ac.uk phone 8679Dr Betsy Pownall betsy.pownall@york.ac.uk phone 8692Dr Paul Pryor (max 3 projects) paul.pryor@york.ac.uk phone 8563Ms Emma Rand emma.rand@york.ac.uk phone 8737Dr Kelly Redeker kelly.redeker@york.ac.uk phone 8560Dr Elva Robinson (max 1 project) elva.robinson@york.ac.uk phone 5338Dr Antal Rot (max 1 project) antal.rot@york.ac.uk phone 8927Dr Michael Schultze michael.schultze@york.ac.uk phone 8690Dr Nathalie Signoret (max 3 projects) nathalie.signoret@york.ac.uk phone 8928Prof Maggie Smith maggie.smith@york.ac.uk phone 8686Dr Katie Smith (Max 2 projects) Katie.smith@york.ac.uk phone 8552Prof Jenny Southgate (max 2 projects) jennifer.southgate@york.ac.uk phone 8705Dr Sean Sweeney sean.sweeney@york.ac.uk phone 8537Prof Chris Thomas chris.thomas@york.ac.uk phone 8646Dr Daniel Ungar dani.ungar@york.ac.uk phone 8656Dr Marjan van der Woude (max 1 project) marjan.vanderwoude@york.ac.uk phone 8841Dr Richard Waites richard.waites@york.ac.uk phone 8684Dr Jamie Wood (max 2 projects) jamie.wood@york.ac.uk phone 5370Prof Peter Young peter.young@york.ac.uk phone 8630

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Chemistry – max 1 project unless stated otherwise

Dr Fred Antson fred.antson@york.ac.uk phone 8255Dr Marek Brzozowski marek.brzozowski@york.ac.uk phone 8265Dr Paul Clarke paul.clarke@york.ac.uk phone 2614Prof Gideon Davies gideon.davies@york.ac.uk phone 8260Dr Anne Duhme-Klair anne.duhme-klair@york.ac.uk phone 2587Dr Ian Fairlamb ian.fairlamb@york.ac.uk phone 4091Dr Martin Fascione martin.fascione@york.ac.uk phone 8822Dr Gideon Grogan gideon.grogan@york.ac.uk phone 8256Prof Rod Hubbard rod.hubbard@york.ac.uk phone 8267Prof Peter O’Brien peter.obrien@york.ac.uk phone 2535Dr Alison Parkin Alison.parkin@york.ac.uk phone 2561Dr Anne Routledge anne.routledge@york.ac.uk phone 4540Dr Seishi Shimizu seishi.shimizu@york.ac.uk phone 8281Prof Tony Wilkinson tony.wilkinson@york.ac.uk phone 8261Prof Keith Wilson (max 2 projects) keith.wilson@york.ac.uk phone 8262

CHECKLIST: MAKING YOUR PROJECT CHOICE

1. If you are planning a project is based on your own original concept, fill in an “original project” form and arrange to discuss with the Chair of the Board of Studies as soon as possible, before the end of week 2.

2. Decide on SEVEN projects, no more than two with the same director; you may discuss your choices with potential project directors, some make it a requirement that you contact them.

3. Check that your choices are appropriate for your degree.

4. Fill in your choice online when the link becomes available.

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/itsupport/cfm/projects/

The deadline is 09.00 am on Monday week 4 of term 6 (4 May 2015).

Don’t miss the deadline. Late submissions cannot be accepted as this holds up the allocation process for everybody else.

5. Watch your email in week 8 for details about project allocation.

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