[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-2004":3,"awarded-stats-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship":1122},{"awarded":4,"total":1121},[5,16,22,29,36,42,49,55,61,67,74,80,85,91,96,102,106,111,116,122,128,134,139,145,150,156,162,167,174,181,188,195,202,208,214,220,226,232,238,244,249,255,261,267,272,279,285,291,297,303,310,316,322,328,333,340,345,350,355,360,366,372,378,384,390,396,402,408,413,419,424,429,434,440,446,451,457,463,469,474,479,484,490,496,501,507,512,518,524,530,535,540,545,551,556,562,568,573,577,583,588,594,600,605,610,616,621,626,631,637,642,646,652,658,664,669,675,680,684,690,696,701,706,711,715,721,727,733,739,745,749,753,759,763,769,775,781,787,793,798,804,810,816,822,828,831,837,843,849,853,859,863,868,872,879,884,888,894,898,904,909,914,919,924,929,934,939,945,951,956,962,967,971,975,979,985,989,995,1000,1004,1009,1013,1017,1023,1029,1036,1042,1048,1054,1060,1066,1071,1077,1082,1088,1093,1098,1103,1109,1115],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":15},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504640","Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship","Early-Stage Training in Advanced Life Science Research Across Europe (E-STAR)",null,"EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","DE",2004,"€2,474,970","At its five sites in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL, an International European Interest Organisation will offer structured and integrated training to early stage researchers leading to a doctoral degree within its International PhD Programme. 15 E-STAR fellows will be internationally recruited with consideration of gender equality. During 3 years, they will receive training that emphasizes interdisciplinary (biology, physics, chemistry, medic",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":21,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-506502","Environmental gas management research infrastructure","NORGES TEKNISK - NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET","NO","€900,000",{"id":23,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":24,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":27,"abstract":28},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501583","Molecular mechanisms of circadian gating interconnecting light and clock signaling in Arabidopsis","THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH","UK","€169,366","The periodic succession of days and nights is an eternally recurring environmental factor ever since life has appeared on the Earth. It is postulated that (i) organisms possessing the ability to adapt to the predictable changes of the environment have an evolutionary advantage and that (ii) this benefit has promoted the development of timekeeping mechanisms (endogenous clocks). The biological clocks that generate and maintain oscillations of many physiological and molecular processes with a peri",{"id":30,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":31,"piName":10,"institution":32,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":34,"abstract":35},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504195","European Doctorate on Information Technology","ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BOLOGNA","IT","€1,930,876","The EDITH consortium possesses unique training capabilities in all fields related to Information Technology (IT), starting from microelectronics manufacturing process (DUT, CEA-LETI, IMEC), to device modelling (UB-ARCES, INPG) and circuit and systems design (UB-ARCES, DUT, SCD-K.U.Leuven), and from signal processing, wireless, ad-hoc, and computer communication, and non-linear dynamics and complexity (ARCES, EPFL-I and C, SCD-K.U.Leuven) to high level applications (ARCES, EPFL-I and C). Exploiti",{"id":37,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":38,"piName":10,"institution":39,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":40,"abstract":41},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515591","Representations of finite groups of Lie type and associated algebras","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","€152,242","The proposed research is in the representation theory of finite groups and algebras and consists of two parts: one focusing on the finite groups of Lie type and their associated algebras, the other part involving the study of Steenrod algebras with the help of A-infinity algebras. In the context of finite groups of Lie type, we propose to show Cabanes-Rickard and apos;s conjecture on Alvis-Curtisduality, beginning with some specific cases. My thesis contains the original construction of a comple",{"id":43,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":44,"piName":10,"institution":45,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":47,"abstract":48},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514113","Differential structures in complex and almost complex geometry","UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1","FR","€250,844","The objectives of the proposal are;1) to study the global regularization of pluri-sub-harmonic functions on almost complex manifolds, in a way that generalizes Demailly's regularization theorems for complex manifolds,2) to improve the understanding of al most-analytic sets on almost complex and their singularities. It is likely that Siu's theorem on the analyticity of sublevel sets of closed positive currents can be extended to the almost complex case.3) to introduce pseudo-holornorphic sub-sche",{"id":50,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":51,"piName":10,"institution":52,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":53,"abstract":54},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501928","Pushing the boundaries of general equilibrium theory with asymmetric Information","UNIVERSITE DE PARIS I - SORBONNE - PANTHEON","€144,000","In general equilibrium models with time and uncertainty, even if markets are complete the competitive allocation of resources will nonetheless be inefficient in the presence of asymmetric information, especially when some traders have private information concerning future assets payoffs.This inefficiency can in some cases be quite severe, leading even to the vanishing of some financial markets, limiting the scope of risk and uncertainty protection that the individuals in a given society can guar",{"id":56,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":57,"piName":10,"institution":58,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":59,"abstract":60},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501417","Social Contexts of Adolescents' Pathways Into Crime (SCOPIC) Network Fellowship","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€161,428","The aim of the project is to analyse, partly in cross-national comparison, the delinquent behaviour or adolescents within community contexts employing quantitative multilevel techniques, and focusing particularly on the differential effects of social influences on boys and girls, and on adolescents from immigrant families. The research will be part of the \\'Cambridge Network for the Study of the Social Contexts of Pathways into Crime\\'(SCOPIC), a multi-sited, multi-disciplinary network investiga",{"id":62,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":63,"piName":10,"institution":64,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":65,"abstract":66},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504025","MULTIFUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES","KING'S COLLEGE LONDON","€1,773,936","Craniofacial development is a relatively neglected area of research, in part due to its complexity, and research is often fragmented preventing any real headway to be gained. Yet it is an important clinical problem affecting over 0.75 % of live births worldwide. Such craniofacial malformations, include facial and tooth disorders, cleft lip and palate, muscular and skeletal pathologies, deafness and blindness, and can be debilitating having not only physical but also social consequences. Birth de",{"id":68,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":69,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":72,"abstract":73},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-513781","Advanced teaching and research in environmental microbiology \u002F biotechnology","INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, PRAGUE","CZ","€208,346","The 6th Frame Programme of the EC opens a way for EU Member States andAssociated Candidate Countries to establish collaborative activities ina broad spectrum of science. The aim of the proposed Marie Curie Chair isto make a contribution to this goal by sha ring the chair holder'sexperience in Environmental Microbiology\u002FBiotechnology with scientists,students, NGOs and other interrested audience in the Czech Republic inorder to establish this important curriculum in a country which urgentlyneeds t",{"id":75,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":76,"piName":10,"institution":77,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":78,"abstract":79},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-506912","Comparison of the molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling tissue polarity in drosophila and zebrafish","MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. REPRESENTED BY THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS","€148,021","The aim of this project is to identify the common mechanisms in the generation of planar cell polarization (PCP) during the Drosophila wing development and during zebrafish gastrulation. Planar polarization of the Drosophila wing epithelium is reflected by the formation of a single actin-based hair at the distal tip of each cell. Components of the Wnt\u002FFz signalling pathway (PCP pathway) have been shown to control both the number and orientation of these hairs. Similarly, during vertebrate gastru",{"id":81,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":82,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":84,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500698","REGULATION OF APOPTOSIS OF BURKITT'S LYMPHOMA","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE","€89,293",{"id":86,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":87,"piName":10,"institution":88,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":89,"abstract":90},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500927","Nonlinear analysis and differential topology in infinite dimensional Banach spaces","UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE","€102,756","Until now, I have worked mainly on smoothness and geometrical properties of Banish spaces and their interplay with infinite-dimensional differential topology. For instance, I have shown inky thesis that every smooth sphere (note that we say the whole sphere and not the sphere minus a point) in any infinite-dimensional Banish space is diffeomorphic to a hyper plane, thus providing a full generalization of a celebrated result of Message’s. We have also established Avery strong approximate form of ",{"id":92,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":93,"piName":10,"institution":94,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":95,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-506069","Coal mine sites for targeted remediation research","UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE","€468,875",{"id":97,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":98,"piName":10,"institution":99,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":100,"abstract":101},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505148","PhD Programme in Business and Management","LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL","€652,349","There is currently a paucity of quality researchers embarking on academic careers in the EU. This proposal addresses this problem by supporting 6 early-stage Fellows for 36 months each on the Lisped programme, to train researchers who will go on to become leading scholars in the fields of business and management. LBS are a leading centre of research and teaching in business and management with leading faculty and research facilities. The LBS PhD programme is unique in Europe, both in the strengt",{"id":103,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":104,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":105,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505474","Access to research in very high magnetic fields","€2,278,000",{"id":107,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":108,"piName":10,"institution":58,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":109,"abstract":110},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504909","Cambridge Programme for International Research on Europe (CAPIRE): Proposal for an Early-Stage Research Training Project (EST) on the External Relations of the European Union.","€915,132","The proposed Cambridge Programme for International Research on Europe (CAPIRE) constitutes a structured program for advanced research training in Contemporary European Studies with a specific focus on the different aspects of the Em’s External Relations; commercial, legal, diplomatic and security-related policies, their formulation, execution and democratic accountability. The project will provide multidisciplinary research training for 12 Marie-Curie Fellows from diverse European backgrounds.Th",{"id":112,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":113,"piName":10,"institution":88,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":114,"abstract":115},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500026","From rigorous models to accurate energy density functionals","€150,237","The coordinator of this project (A. Savin) and co-workers proposed a method that mixes configuration interaction (CI) and density functional theory (DFT), by splitting the electron-electron interaction into a short-range part (to be treated with DFT) and a long-range part (to be treated with CI). Preliminary tests of this method, within a simple local approximation for the short-range functional, gave very encouraging results [see Pollet et al., J. Chem. Phys. 116, 1250(2002)]. The researcher in",{"id":117,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":118,"piName":10,"institution":119,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":121,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-506208","ALOMAR (Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research) eARI (enhanced Access to Research Infrastructures)","PARC CIENTIFIC DE BARCELONA","ES","€2,500,000",{"id":123,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":124,"piName":10,"institution":125,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":126,"abstract":127},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503675","European Doctorate in Sound and Vibration Studies","UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON","€2,875,343","This proposal for a Marie Curie Hosing Fellowships for Early Stage Research Training is concerned with the implementation of a European Doctorate in Sound and Vibration Studies (EDSVS). A network of eight European Universities active in the field of Sound and Vibration would offer doctoral training to students from Member and Associate States of the European Union and to students from third countries. The EDSVS network will also assist all other types of Early Stage Training carried out at the E",{"id":129,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":130,"piName":10,"institution":131,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":132,"abstract":133},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504248","Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary European Studies","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","€3,050,196","The Centre for European Studies (CES) at University College London is unique in offering graduate students the opportunity to investigate Europe in its entirety. The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary Master's degrees and Doctorates offered by the CES integrate the expertise of 150 academics at UCL with research interests in the fields of European history, politics, cultural studies, literature, art, film, and theory. It is the principal purpose of the Centre to coordinate these teaching re",{"id":135,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":136,"piName":10,"institution":88,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":137,"abstract":138},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504553","Strings'04'","€178,600","The main goal of String Theory is to supplant the current unified theory of fundamental interactions, the Standard Model, and to include it (as a low energy approximation) in a coherent and complete description of quantum gravity, much as quantum mechanics included classical physics as a limiting case. The area of string theory is certainly one of the most active fields of research in theoretical physics today precisely because it addresses such a fundamental question. String theory has had many",{"id":140,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":141,"piName":10,"institution":142,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":144},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504454","EUROPTOSIS","EUROPEAN CELL DEATH ORGANISATION","BE","The European Cell Death Organization (ECDO) was founded in 1994 and its members represent all major cell death research groups in Europe. The main aims of the ECDO are to share information on current developments in the cell death research field and to fac ilitate scientific links between participating laboratories. Therfore, ECDO applies for European financial support for the organization of a series of annual high-level scientific meetings, workshops and basic courses focussing on cell death r",{"id":146,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":147,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":149},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509544","2-generator discrete groups and hyperbolic orbifolds","€150,281","This project deals with the classification problem of 3-dimensional hyperbolic orbifolds or equivalently, the classification problem of discrete subgroups of PSL(2, C) which is isomorphic to the isometry group of the hyperbolic 3-dimensional space. We concentrate on 2-generator groups and orbifolds. The first part is dedicated to finding criteria (necessary and sufficient conditions) for discreteness of 2-generator subgroups of PSL(2,C) without invariant planes.The project is aimed to obtaining ",{"id":151,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":152,"piName":10,"institution":153,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":154,"abstract":155},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502216","Learningful Work - Increasing Employees' Learning Opportunities' at Work. An International Comparison.","UNIVERSITY KASSEL","€150,827","The research project studies the elements of meaningful work: work enabling an employee to learn and develop. The importance of continuous learning at work cannot be exaggerated in the complex world, where organizational success has to be built on employees' individual and collective competencies. Work in itself has to be learningful. To complement professional training and companies' training efforts, daily work has to offer opportunities for learning - for continuous individual and organizatio",{"id":157,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":158,"piName":10,"institution":159,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":160,"abstract":161},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500267","Noncommutative geometry in string theory","QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","€162,562","The project explores the emerging role of methods of non-commutative geometry in string theory and string field theory. The applicant has a background in physics especially string theory and by beating to the quantum groups and non-commutative geometry section at Queen Mary, University of London, will be able to acquire the necessary mathematical tools also.At the moment, there are several specific points of contact where string theorists have noted the presence of non-commutative geometries suc",{"id":163,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":164,"piName":10,"institution":165,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":40,"abstract":166},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501276","Currents - Kaehler Geometry and Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry","THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","The project is intended to deal with various questions of complex algebraic and analytic geometry, with a special emphasis on effective results and transcendental methods in algebraic geometry. Such methods afford deep insight into spectacular relations between complex analysis, algebraic geometry, topology, and PDE theory. There are two main tools to be employed in the project. On the one hand, LA2 methods, already used byHormander in the study of the Cauchy-Riemann operator, revealed deep link",{"id":168,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":169,"piName":10,"institution":170,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":172,"abstract":173},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9256","Schroedinger operators: from measure convergence to spectral convergence","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB (CUT.MI)","SE","€150,079","The proposed project is aimed at the study of Schroedinger operators, which are differential operators of second order, used for modelling the behaviour of a quantum particle interacting with various types of potentials.The objective is to approximate Schroedinger operators with one type of potentials by operators with another type of potentials, where the latter are solvable in the sense that their spectra are easy to calculate. It would yield an alternative method to compute the spectra in sit",{"id":175,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":176,"piName":10,"institution":177,"country":178,"year":13,"amount":179,"abstract":180},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505805","Geometry of pseudoriemannian spaces and its application in field theory","UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI","PL","€37,938","The success of no commutative geometry as an algebraic tool, which enables the geometrical unification of fundamental interactions with gravity and opens new possibilities in our understanding of the mathematical structure of the geometry of space-time and quantum field theory, is limited by its restriction to Euclidean signatures. The aim of the proposed project is the construction of the fundaments of the no commutative theory of pseudoriemannian no commutative spaces, based on the Euclidean f",{"id":182,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":183,"piName":10,"institution":184,"country":185,"year":13,"amount":186,"abstract":187},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501662","Central simple algebras and Galois cohomology","HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ALFRED RENYI INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS","HU","€72,599","Our field in mathematics is the Galois cohomology, a theory by Jean-Pierre Serre and John Tate, which is part of algebra, number theory, algebraic topology and algebraic geometry. The theory has recently known deep expansions with the proof by V. Voevodsky of the Milnor's conjecture (Fiels medal 2002). Our intention is to work one year on this topic with Dr Tamas Szamuely (Renyi Institute, Budapest) by going back to Merkurjev-Suslin's work of the 80's on Galois cohomology, which is the main star",{"id":189,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":190,"piName":10,"institution":191,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":194},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502098","Calabi-Yau manifolds and higher potential functions","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT (UTRECHT UNIVERSITY)","NL","€151,522","Calabi-Yau manifolds arise naturally in algebraic geometry as objects with certain special structures. In theoretical physics these geometric objects define super symmetric models of the universe via string theory. String theory in turn constructs a hierarchy of functions on the parameter space of Calabi-Yau manifolds, the so-called higher potential functions. In the context of algebraic geometry, the mathematical understanding of potential functions is far from complete. The aim of this project",{"id":196,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":200,"abstract":201},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500814","Non-equilibrium phase transition in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","DK","€183,304","Experiments with ultra relativistic heavy ion collisions are performed with the aim to study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter and the phase transition into a deco fined phase. The properties of the matter determine the collective dynamical evolution of the system produced in the collision. There are indications that due to rapid expansion of the system the possible deco fined phase can be super cooled and a rapid decomposition may occur. We will study this scenario and investigat",{"id":203,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":204,"piName":10,"institution":205,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":206,"abstract":207},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500308","String theory as the unifying theory of all fundamental particle interactions - a step forward in the comprehension of dualities relating different string theories","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€158,479","Type IIB string theory has a preservative symmetry corresponding to the reversal of the orientation of the fundamental string. Type I string theory is obtained from type IIB projecting out the states that are odd under this flip, and this operation is known as orient fold projection. The research objective is to clarify the duality that relates type he and I erotic SO (32) in ten dimensions. This duality is a strong-weak coupling duality, while tiepin possesses a non-preservative self-duality. S",{"id":209,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":210,"piName":10,"institution":211,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":212,"abstract":213},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8740","Effects of adverse early-life environment on the wiring and connectivity of neural circuits involved in the regulation of stress responses during critical periods of development","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","€149,843","An adverse early familial environment, especially disruption of the mother-infant relationship, during critical periods of development can permanently affect stress reactivity (i.e. hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity) and susceptibility to develop stress-related disorders. During the stress hyporesponsive period (SHRP) (postnatal days (PND) 4-14), rat neonates display low basal and stress-induced corticosterone (CORT) levels in response to mild stressors. A single, 24-hour materna",{"id":215,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":216,"piName":10,"institution":217,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":218,"abstract":219},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504992","Towards a European PhD in Advanced Drug Delivery","UNIVERSITAET DES SAARLANDES.","€1,701,715","The aim of this initiative is to provide structured research training for early stage researchers in the field of the Pharmaceutical Sciences, especially in the areas of Bio pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, which are often summarised by the more modern term Drug Delivery, and to contribute to the establishment of a European PhD degree in this area. As in particular the delivery of modern biopharmaceuticals requires investigation of novel pharmaceutical dosage forms, this degree shall",{"id":221,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":222,"piName":10,"institution":223,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":224,"abstract":225},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503638","IZA Summer School in Labour Economics","FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT ZUR ZUKUNFT DER ARBEIT .","€279,921","The Institute for the Study of Labour plans to organize in 2004-2007 a series of Summer Schools in Labour Economics, structured along the following lines and major aims: ? To provide world class advanced training for researchers in the early stage of their careers: The events will bring together world-class scientists conducting innovative work in their fields, to lecture and interact with about 36 students engaged in the preparation of their PhDs. The criteria for selection of students guarante",{"id":227,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":228,"piName":10,"institution":229,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":230,"abstract":231},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501150","The new basel capital accord: implications for the EU banking system","UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN","€137,784","Prudential regulations of banks are viewed as instruments to prohibit banks from investing in risky projects, and thus protect banking system from the problems discussed above. To this end, several mechanisms are used by the central banking authorities. Two popular instruments are minimum capital requirements and deposit rate ceilings.Higher capital implies higher losses for banks' shareholders in the event of default, and consequently less incentives for involvement in high risk activities. Rec",{"id":233,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":234,"piName":10,"institution":235,"country":236,"year":13,"amount":237,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505313","Ultra Low Temperature Installation","TEKNILLINEN KORKEAKOULU","FI","€942,000",{"id":239,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":240,"piName":10,"institution":241,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":242,"abstract":243},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10350","Simulation of Quantum Magnetism with Trapped Ions","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. REPRESENTED BY: MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FUR QUANTENOPTIK","€142,918","This project's main goal is the theoretical design of a quantum simulator of magnetism that makes use of current technology for the manipulation of trapped ions. The implementation of this idea would lead to the simulation of complex spin models that are not well understood, and also to the first observation of quantum phase transitions in a system of trapped ions. The project will pursue the following objectives: (1) Elaboration of methods and protocols that experimentalists working with trappe",{"id":245,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":246,"piName":10,"institution":247,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":206,"abstract":248},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502378","Analysis of the negative elements controlling Lunatic fringe cyclic expression in the presomitic mesodem","CANCER RESEARCH UK","Somitogenesis has been shown to involve a molecular oscillator called the \\segmentation clock\\, which acts in prismatic cells. This molecular clock controls the periodic expression of \\cyclic genes\\, which are, so far, all related to the Notch pathway. In the mouse, the cyclic genes include downstream targets of Notch such as those encoding the transcription factors, Hes1 and Hes7 (hairy homologues), and lunatic fringe (Long) that encode aglycosyl transferees, which modulates Notch activity. Rec",{"id":250,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":251,"piName":10,"institution":252,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":253,"abstract":254},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504474","The 20th General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of European Physical Society","UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE","€71,440","The Charles University in Prague will organise the 20th General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of European Physical Society (CMD 20) in collaboration with the Czech Physical Society and the Institute of Physics ASCR. The CMD20, which will be held in the Prague Congress Center on July 19-23, 2004 (see: cmd.karlov.mff.cuni.cz\u002FCMD\u002F), provides a forum for presentation of research work across the full range of condensed matter physics.The foreseen composition of the audience and the iden",{"id":256,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":257,"piName":10,"institution":258,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":259,"abstract":260},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509465","Generalised lipschitz classes, fourier series and moduli of smoothness","CENTRE DE RECERCA MATEMATICA","€129,644","This is a project in harmonic analysis and approximation theory.We present research actions in the following three topics, which are closely related to each other:1.Generalised Lipschitz class and Fourier series. 2.Moduli of smoothness of fractional orde r. 3.Relationship between Besov, Nikolsky, Besov-Nikolsky and Weyl-Nikolsky classes of functions. In the first topic, the objective consists in finding necessary and sufficient conditions on the Fourier coefficients of a function to belong to a ",{"id":262,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":263,"piName":10,"institution":264,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":265,"abstract":266},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504272","Forum Scientium Sensing Science Early Stage Research Training Centre","LINKOEPINGS UNIVERSITET","€927,403","The proposed 'Sensing Forum' at Link ping University, Sweden, is primarily built on two existing organizations. Forum Scientism that is a multidisciplinary graduate school within Life Science Technologies and Biomedicine with an emphasis on Sensing Science, and S-SENCE that is a Swedish Centre of Excellence in Bio- and Chemical Sensor Science and Technology. The research in the early stage-training programme is chosen to allow a multidisciplinary approach to scientific questions within the sensi",{"id":268,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":269,"piName":10,"institution":270,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":206,"abstract":271},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515366","Synthetic studies towards squalestatin","CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","The objectives of this research are to develop methodology for the synthesis of highly functionalised 2,8-dioxabicyclo|3.2.1]octanes and to apply this chemistry to the enantioselective total synthesis of the squalenesynthase inhibitor 6,7-dideoxysqualestat in 1.",{"id":273,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":274,"piName":10,"institution":275,"country":276,"year":13,"amount":277,"abstract":278},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503785","European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (14th Edition)","INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO","PT","€49,555","The ESCAPE series constitutes a major European yearly event in the area of compute raided process engineering (CAPE), where methods, algorithms, techniques and tools redeveloped and used to help the decision making process in the optimisation of the design and\u002For of operation of industrial processes, with, on average, over 200 participants perdition, from more than 50 countries. This series serve as a forum for bringing together European and International scientists, researchers, managers and en",{"id":280,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":281,"piName":10,"institution":282,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":283,"abstract":284},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504273","John Innes Centre International Student Bursaries for Early Stage Training","JOHN INNES CENTRE","€1,330,071","There will be three related training programmes (total 396 months, with training starting October 2004).(1) 3-Year PhD Programme (6 Fellowships, 216 months);(2) 4-Year PhD Programme (6 Fellowships, 144 months from EU, with an equivalent 2-year contribution from a second sponsor). The 4-year PhD programme involves three research rotations in the first year, followed by a 3-year research project as above;(3) Short-term Fellowships (3 Fellowships of 12 months duration, total 36 months). Short-Term ",{"id":286,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":287,"piName":10,"institution":288,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":289,"abstract":290},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501613","Spin-dependent transport in nanostructures","FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH","€114,679","Transport properties in atomic scale are attaining increasing amount of interest. The proposed project focuses on determination of transport properties of single molecules from density-functional first-principles calculations. The main emphasis is in the effect of magnetic leads and the spin dependence of the transport. The semi-infinite leads are treated with a novel embedded Green function approach based on the accurate linearized-augmented plane-wave method. Conductance can be calculated with",{"id":292,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":293,"piName":10,"institution":294,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":295,"abstract":296},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504318","Advanced Genetic Analysis in the Post-Genomic Era","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","€2,355,627","Biological and biomedical science has undergone a radical change over the last decade due to an explosion in the availability of genome sequence data. This has created the need to train a new generation in the latest genetic approaches for the post-genomic era. However, technical skills are increasingly being squeezed out of undergraduate training programmes. To address this, the AGAPE programme will deliver early postgraduate training that combines cutting-edge science, technology transfer, spe",{"id":298,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":299,"piName":10,"institution":300,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":301,"abstract":302},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501046","Combinatorics in Commutative Algebra","UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN","€63,000","By the pioneering work of Huckster and Richard Stanley it has become evident that there are strong interactions between Commutative Algebra and Combinatory. On one hand side the theory of monomial ideals, mitigated modules and tonic rings is studied with techniques from Combinatory (simplified complexes, sellable posits, integral palmtop theory) while on the other hand Hilbert functions, resolutions, Rees algebras and homological properties if ideals and their powers can often be studied using G",{"id":304,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":305,"piName":10,"institution":306,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":308,"abstract":309},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500687","Strongly coupled gauge theories from topological open strings and membranes","WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE","IL","€166,583","The research and training outlined in this proposal is aimed at extending our knowledge of strongly coupled gauge theories with lower amounts of supersymmetries and their relation to gravity, using methods from and inspired by String theory.In particular, we want to study non-perturbative aspects of N=1 super Yang-Mills theories, such as the structure of their moduli spaces ¿ working towards a full understanding of its global structure ¿ and efficient method of calculating of superpotentials. Al",{"id":311,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":312,"piName":10,"institution":313,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":314,"abstract":315},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502125","The 3D Galaxy","CNRS DÃ'©LÃ'©GATION MIDI-PYRÃ'©NÃ'©ES","€151,981","The main objective of the proposal is the investigation of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) and, especially, of its constituents. This study is motivated by the fact that the ISM is the site in which matter in the Galaxy collapses into stars and is then rejected at the end of their life therefore providing a unique source of information for tracing the complete evolution from dust to stars and from these to the final supernova phase. The project , in particular, aims at the 3D reconstructi",{"id":317,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":318,"piName":10,"institution":319,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":320,"abstract":321},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502129","Transition from slow-moving landslides into fast-moving debris-flows. Evaluation of the hazard.","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","€157,192","The project deals with the question: why and how some landslides transform into debris-flows, while most of them stabilize?. Though seldom, debris-flows are a major source of property damage at the European scale, especially in mountain areas. Today the management of debris-flows is quite easily achieved for watersheds where debris-flows result regularly from continuous erosive processes. In the converse case, when debris-flows originate from a landslide, the problematic around the protection al",{"id":323,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":324,"piName":10,"institution":325,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":326,"abstract":327},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504014","Chemical Biology Training at Imperial College","IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE","€1,326,287","The research project is aimed at addressing the damaging shortfall of physical scientists trained in the area of Chemical Biology. Training leading to the award of a PhD degree will be provided within the framework of the Biophysical and Biological Chemistry (BBC) section of the Chemistry department of Imperial College London. The research environment of the BBC section is multi-facetted and heavily collaborative, both nationally and internationally. The BBC section has been successful in launch",{"id":329,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":330,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":331,"abstract":332},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501846","ZEEMAN-DOPPLER-IMAGING OF T TAURI STARS","€150,804","Magnetic fields play a key role in early phases of stellar evolution. I shall use the advanced technique of Zeeman-Doppler Imaging to map the spatial distribution of magnetic fields on the surfaces of young pre-main sequence stars. This will allow me to ex plore directly the nature and structure of the stellar dynamo that drives this activity. The Doppler Imaging of accretion 'hotspots' will allow me to relate the accretion flows to the field geometry in these stars, and to determine if there is",{"id":334,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":335,"piName":10,"institution":336,"country":337,"year":13,"amount":338,"abstract":339},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501018","Flexible Time-Frequency Decompositions and Adaptive Treatment of Operator Equations by Frames","UNIVERSITAET WIEN","AT","€142,025","The goal of the proposed two year project is to develop a general Banish space theory of time-frequency localized, redundant and stable non-orthogonal expansions (briefly Banish frames) and to study adaptive numerical schemes for (certain) linear (pseudo-differential) operator equations using their matrix representations with respect to such well-localized frames. Whereas the construction of unconditional (rasp. Rises) bases is no problem in the wavelet or Gabon analysis case (due to the group s",{"id":341,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":342,"piName":10,"institution":343,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":344,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505226","Multi-scale modelling and characterisation for phase transformations in advanced materials","UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN","€3,761,494",{"id":346,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":347,"piName":10,"institution":348,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":349,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505818","RadioNet: Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe","THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER","€12,396,990",{"id":351,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":352,"piName":10,"institution":294,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":353,"abstract":354},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501326","Minimality conditions in model theory","€152,809","The main objective of this proposal is to continue tee study general model theoretic properties and examples of important classes of structures which are minimal with respect to a certain language, namely weakly o-minimal, C-minimal and P-minimal structures and o-minimal expansions of Boolean algebras. Each of these classes is constrained by certain tight conditions on definable sets in one variable. In the case of weak o-minimalist, especially for weakly o-minimal expansions of real closed fiel",{"id":356,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":357,"piName":10,"institution":306,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":358,"abstract":359},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500913","Differential geometry of quantum homogeneous spaces","€88,256","The research group of A. Joseph at the Weidman Institute is internationally recognized for its fundamental contributions to the theory of Lie algebras and quantum groups. The researcher I.Heckenberger is a member of a group in Leipzig. He has been working on the field of quantum groups with focus on no commutative differential geometry for ten years. In the framework of quantum groups one investigates deformations of universal enveloping algebras of semi simple Lie algebras and quintile coordina",{"id":361,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":362,"piName":10,"institution":363,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":364,"abstract":365},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-506053","Advancing the theory of photometric stereo for texture extraction","HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY","€161,995","The main goals of the project are to advance the theory of photometric stereo, to develop new practical algorithms for robust photometric stereo, and to broaden the limits of photometric stereo applicability and accuracy for the specific case of surface te xture recovery. Surface texture is modelled as a composition of surface geometry (a bump map) and first-order reflectance characteristics (a Lambertian albedo map). This is why photometric stereo is selected as the method of interest, since it",{"id":367,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":368,"piName":10,"institution":369,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":370,"abstract":371},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501940","Witten's conjecture in K-theory","UNIVERSITE DE NICE - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS","€142,866","In this proposal we present a project in Algebraic Geometry with connections to TheoreticalPhysics. The applicant, Alessandro Chiodo, is an Italian researcher completing (June 2003) his Ph.D.at DPMMS, University of Cambridge, UK. The host institution is the Laboratoire Dieudonné(University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis), the largest research group in complex algebraic geometry in France. The main objective is to contribute to a set of conjectures by Edward Witten relating moduli of curves with inte",{"id":373,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":374,"piName":10,"institution":375,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":376,"abstract":377},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501550","Nonabelian Torelli theorem for Kodaira surfaces","CENTRE DE RECERCA MATEMÀTICA","€129,076","This is a project about nonblank Hodge theory. Whereas usual Hodge theory concerns mainly the usualcohomology of algebraic varieties, nonblank Hodge theory concerns the co homology of variety withnonabelian coefficients. The research in the topic of nonblank Hodge theory is motivated by the possibility of obtaining applications similar to what has already been done with classical Hodge theory. One of these would beta obtain restrictions on the homogony types of smooth projective varieties. Other",{"id":379,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":380,"piName":10,"institution":381,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":382,"abstract":383},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500938","Samarium (II) lodide induced cyclisations leading to new steroid-like compounds","FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","€149,155","Samarium(II) iodide is an extremely versatile reagent in synthetic organic chemistry. Of particular interest are electron-transfer reactions to carbonyl compounds, which provide ketyls capable of undergoing inter- and intramolecular additions to unsaturated groups.Recently in the group of Prof. Reissig a novel intramolecular reaction involving aryl groups has been discovered, which afforded highly substituted hexahydronaphthalene derivatives with excellent diastereoselectivities. The research pr",{"id":385,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":386,"piName":10,"institution":387,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":388,"abstract":389},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11434","Dynamical Entropies in Assemblies of Neurons","ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA APPLICATA","€136,942","The final aim of the present project will be to gain some comprehension of how the brain stores and processes information. By considering the brain as a high dimensional non-linear system, we plan to apply information-theoretic and dynamical tools to characterize the response of single neurons as well as of neuronal assemblies to different classes of external (deterministic and stochastic) excitations. Data measured in experiments and generated by simulating networks of various sizes will be exa",{"id":391,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":392,"piName":10,"institution":393,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":394,"abstract":395},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500709","Quantum Invariants of Manifolds and Homotopy Quantum Field Theory","UNIVERSITE LOUIS PASTEUR","€207,786","This application proposes a period of mobility to place a researcher, currently making the transition to the research area of quantum topology, into a leading international research group in that field. The twin goals of the proposal are to provide the vehicle by which the applicant can complete his training in quantum topology, and to contribute new scientific results to the area. The scientific aim is to develop our understanding of quantum invariants of X-manifolds (that is, manifolds equippe",{"id":397,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":398,"piName":10,"institution":399,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":400,"abstract":401},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10502","Optimisation of Energy Integrated Pressure-Swing Distillation Processes for Separation of Homogeneous Azeotropic Mixtures","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN","€150,826","The separation of homogeneous azeotropic mixtures via pressure swing distillation is an important chemical engineering problem. The currently known studies deal mainly with the process feasibility, distillation- and energy- efficiency, and the control prop erties of different possible configurations. The considered configurations include continuous, semi-continuous and batch.The proposed project aims at the systematic analysis of these distillation configurations in order to achieve optimal econ",{"id":403,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":404,"piName":10,"institution":405,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":406,"abstract":407},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2706","Testing for post-copulatory female choice in a cephalopod","ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE","€160,180","Empirical studies and theoretical discussion in the field of sexual selection suggest that male-male competition and female choice have postcopulation equivalents in polyandrous systems. Postcopulatory processes may affect sexual selection by increasing heterogeneity of fertilisation success of males. Sperm competition, the postcopulatory equivalent of male-male competition, has broad empirical and theoretical support. Postcopulatory female choice however, has proven difficult to demonstrate and",{"id":409,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":410,"piName":10,"institution":306,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":411,"abstract":412},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502349","Non-Conformal and Non-Supersymmetric Generalizations of the Gauge\u002FGravity Correspondence and Holographic Renormalization Group","€164,315","The objective of this research project is the study of generalizations of the recently-discovered correspondence between gauge theories and gravitational theories (such as string theory). One aim will be to find phenomenologically useful generalizations of this correspondence and to use them to explore the non- perturbative features of theories similar to OCO, the theory of the strong nuclear interactions (such as confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, the existence of a mass gap, and so on). In",{"id":414,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":415,"piName":10,"institution":416,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":417,"abstract":418},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2624","Design and implementation of high data rate and robust multiple-antenna space-time modems for fourth generation broadband wireless communication systems","STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.","€154,801","A key point for 4G wireless systems will be to satisfy the raising need for high quality various broadband applications, as multimedia, high-speed Internet access, telephony and other. The challenge for physical layer designers is to develop higher data rate and reliable transmission systems, relying on a limited bandwidth and overcoming the severe impairments of wireless channels (multiple propagation paths, signal fading). Multiple antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver (namely mult",{"id":420,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":421,"piName":10,"institution":422,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":27,"abstract":423},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501300","Development and application of combined scanning electrochemical -confocal microscopy for investigating lateral diffusion process in model biomembranes","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY","Two of the most fundamental bioenergetics processes in living organisms are respiration and photosynthesis. The translocation of protons across cellular membranes is a key step in these processes, since this generates the charismatic gradient that drives energy-requiring processes, such as the synthesis of adenosine troposphere (ATP). Although it is postulated that lateral proton diffusion, along the cell membrane, is inefficient pathway for proton transport the extent and rate of this process r",{"id":425,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":426,"piName":10,"institution":427,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":27,"abstract":428},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-510004","Effects of early rearing environment on cortical and limbic activity in the rat: validation of an animal model of depression","THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","Depression is a devastating mental illness associated with extremely high social and economic costs, given that the lifetime prevalence of this debilitating disease can be as high as 15%. Characterized byseveral emotional and cognitive disturbances, this d isease can also be fatal as a significant proportion ofits sufferers commit suicide. Although treatments are available for depression, many of its sufferers do not respond adequately to currently available antidepressant drugs. Furthermore, th",{"id":430,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":431,"piName":10,"institution":432,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":114,"abstract":433},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501123","Mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei by means of the time-of-flight technique at SPEG","GRAND ACCELERATEUR NATIONAL D'IONS LOURDS","The measurement of the masses of very neutron-rich nuclei is of great interest because it reflects many of the aspects of nuclear structure and offers a unique test of those components of the nucleon-nucleon interaction that depend on isospin degree of freedom. In fact, novel theoretical predictions show that close to the neutron drip line magic numbers such as N=8,20,40 could disappear and new ones as N=6,16,34 arise. The present project proposes the detemination of the masses of a large number",{"id":435,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":436,"piName":10,"institution":437,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":438,"abstract":439},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504444","European COnferences and forum for Integrated coastal MAnagement and Geo-INformation rEsearch","GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL GROUP","€477,019","ECO-IMAGINE is a group of 8 events on the complementarity between Integrated Coastal Management(ICM) and Geo-information\u002FGIS as support tool.The initiative runs with an interdisciplinary approach in order to better integrate the different coastalaspects; a science based approach, as per the Johannesburg 2002 Summit, is ensured by a state of artemployment of GIS.Relevance is given to planning and management of coastal landscape as the meeting point between naturaland human features of the coast.3",{"id":441,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":442,"piName":10,"institution":443,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":444,"abstract":445},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504066","A doctoral training network in plant development research: from single molecule to whole plant","MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.","€1,779,111","Academic training of early stage researchers across Europe still shows little integration in the area ofPh.D. education. This lack of coherence is addressed by proposing a structured Ph.D. program thatofferes training modules in special subject areas as we ll as training in complimentary skills. The proposed program - 'A doctoral training network in Plant development research: from single moleculeto whole plant (ADOPT) - provides a new incentive in molecular plant sciences with a strong link tob",{"id":447,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":448,"piName":10,"institution":443,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":449,"abstract":450},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505022","Marie-Curie Training Site at the IMPRS in Astrophysics","€1,043,288","Founded in 2000 on an initiative from the Max-Planck Society, the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) in Astrophysics links six institutions in the Munich-Arching area with world-class research programmes in astronomy, astrophysics or astroparticle physics. This IMPRS provide a structured, coherent, interdisciplinary and fully international training programme, which spans 3 years and leads to a PhD from one of the two Munich universities. All lectures and group training sessions are",{"id":452,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":453,"piName":10,"institution":454,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":455,"abstract":456},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501143","Exploring the influence of intraseasonal oscillations on the climate variability in the Indo-Pacific sector during boreal summer","UNIVERSITY OF READING.","€92,281","The sub seasonal activity in the Indo-Pacific region is dominated by the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), which can be defined as a 30-50-day oscillation that moves eastward from at least the Indian Ocean to the Central Pacific Ocean. This intraseasonal oscillation organizes convection on a regional scale and, by modulation of the strength and position of the main tropical heat source, is thought to strongly influence large-scale climatic phenomena, such as the Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) and the",{"id":458,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":459,"piName":10,"institution":460,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":461,"abstract":462},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500740","Low-temperature behaviour of stochastic Ising models","EURANDOM","€143,039","We propose to investigate several aspects of the long-time behaviour of stochastic Ising models at low and zero temperature that are presently poorly understood, especially for disordered systems. The goal of the proposed research is to further our understanding of out-of-equilibrium dynamics, in particular, to elucidate various stochastic relaxation mechanisms. Stochastic Ising models at low temperature are studied very actively, but many questions remain open, especially for disordered systems",{"id":464,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":465,"piName":10,"institution":466,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":467,"abstract":468},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501205","Circumstellar envelopes of AGB and young post-AGB stars","INSTITUT DE RADIOASTRONOMIE MILLIMETRIQUE","€158,219","We will perform systematic high-quality observations of low-energy molecular lines with the IRAMinterferometer, in a wide sample of AGB and post-AGB objects. Our purpose is to study in depth thecircumstellar envelopes of these objects, their effects on the stellar evolution, with particular attention to the structure of the AGB envelopes and to the irruption of the post-AGB winds in them. We will in particular determine1) the radius of the CO envelope, which is a basic parameter to understandpho",{"id":470,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":471,"piName":10,"institution":270,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":472,"abstract":473},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501735","A theoretical investigation on the relation of lymphoma and germinal centres","€85,534","Germinal centre B-lymphocytes have been identified in malignant follicular lymphoma. It is therefore believed that a malignancy in germinal centre reactions may even induce the development of follicular lymphoma. The relevant mechanism in germinal centres is not known and open for speculation. However, characteristic morphologies of malignant germinal centres have been observed. The aim of this project is to contribute to this discussion from a theoretical point of view. Theories for the germina",{"id":475,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":476,"piName":10,"institution":58,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":477,"abstract":478},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503674","Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses, Framework 6 Series One","€453,500","The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is an international research institute of outstanding reputation, covering the broad spectrum of mathematical sciences. During the period 2004 to 2008 the Institue will hold a number of interdisciplinary programmes and it is intended that Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses will take place during these programmes. Those programmes approved to date for that period are Statistical Mechanics of Molecular and Cellular Biological Systems, ",{"id":480,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":481,"piName":10,"institution":294,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":482,"abstract":483},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504219","Policy, Economics and Appraisal in Transport","€1,337,498","The PEAT training site will provide a comprehensive research training environment covering the theoretical,methodological and contextual research issues within the field of Policy, Economics and Appraisal for thetransport network of today and tomorrow. Fellows will train toward PhD within a large group of academics andresearchers with a track record of international excellence in this field. The quality of research at ITS wasconfirmed by the highest rating (Grade 5*) in both the 1996 and 2001 Re",{"id":485,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":486,"piName":10,"institution":487,"country":236,"year":13,"amount":488,"abstract":489},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504453","EMS Summer schools in pure and applied mathematics","EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY","€469,795","The project consists in a series of eight Summer schools and Conferences in pure and applied mathematics, to be held in various European locations in 2004 and 2005. They will represent a total of 415 training weeks for 295 eligible researchers. They will f ocus both on the high level achievements of European mathematicians and on new potential applications of mathematics in science and technology. Two schools will be in analysis, three in statistics, two in geometry and one in computer graphics ",{"id":491,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":492,"piName":10,"institution":493,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":494,"abstract":495},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509520","Nociceptin\u002Forphanin FQ-NOP receptor signalling and mood regulation: behavioural, pharmacological and neurochemical studies","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FERRARA","€145,447","Depression is a devastating disease with high incidence and societal cost involving dysfunction of noradrenergic and serotonergic brain circuits. Current antidepressants are not ideal with less than half of the patients treated attaining complete remission using a single antidepressant whilst others exhibit partial, refractory or intolerant responses.There is a need for novel antidepressants and neuropeptides represent an interesting lead. Nociceptin\u002Forphanin FQ (N\u002FOFQ) and its receptor (NOP) co",{"id":497,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":498,"piName":10,"institution":443,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":499,"abstract":500},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502045","Studying Quantum Information on the Real Line","€72,026","The project's topic is in the field of quantum information with continuous variables. More precisely, its objectives are to find new experiments proposals and to better understand past quantum communications experiences. Using the formalism of covariance matrices and symplectic transformations, the applicant will generalize some quantum communications protocols and characterize the set of protocols which can be achieved using coherent states. He will characterize Bell inequalities with continuou",{"id":502,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":503,"piName":10,"institution":504,"country":178,"year":13,"amount":505,"abstract":506},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503736","Organisation of DIMAT 2004; 6th International Conference on Diffusion in Materials","INSTITUTE OF METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCES - POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES","€49,430","The 6th International Conference on Diffusion in Materials (DIMAT 2004) is the largest event-gathering specialist working in this field of material science. Researchers trapped in their narrow scientific domains have a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues investigating the different aspects of diffusion behaviour. Thus, the DIMAT Conference strongly promotes an interdisciplinary approach in materials science. Due to the rapid technological progress and taking into account the pri",{"id":508,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":509,"piName":10,"institution":443,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":510,"abstract":511},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504193","Neuroscience Early Stage Research Training","€2,501,621","Despite major advances in molecular, cellular and systems neurobiology, the greatest challenge of modern neuroscience has yet to be met: The development of causative therapies for psychiatric, neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. This goal of EU health policies is of prime socio- economic importance and can only be achieved on the basis of major research efforts into basic and applied neurobiology\u002Fneurophysiology. On the other hand Europe presently faces a lack of neuroscientists who ha",{"id":513,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":514,"piName":10,"institution":515,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":516,"abstract":517},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509503","The effect of social learning on the neuroendocrine basis for territorial aggression","UNIVERSITETET I OSLO","€197,223","Effects of hormones on behaviour have been recognized for over a century. The reciprocal is also true behaviour can have profound effects on hormone secretions. For example, in response to conspecific intruders, testosterone in territorial male birds can increase to maintain aggression over the course of a challenge.Thus, social cues are often powerful stimuli for the induction of neuroendocrine responses. Recognition of competitors can be altered by sexual imprinting birds reared by heterospeci",{"id":519,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":520,"piName":10,"institution":521,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":522,"abstract":523},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504243","Electrical Energy Conversion and Condition","UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","€1,558,846","The proposed EST Training Area is in the field of Electrical Energy Conversion and Conditioning Technology (ECCT). This power-electronic based systems technology is essential to modern society and is the basis of a multi-billion dollar global market. It is a central and often enabling technology for many applications including renewable energy systems, distributed generation, aerospace, electric vehicles and energy efficiency. Environmental factors and efficient use of energy and material resour",{"id":525,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":526,"piName":10,"institution":527,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":528,"abstract":529},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504009","Consortium of European Physics Schools","EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY","€603,100","Under the sponsorship of the European Physical Society, the Italian Physical Society, the German Physical Society and the Directorate of the Les Houches School have decided to start a European collaboration, in order to coordinate and to plan their respect ive courses in the framework of the regulations set up by the European Union. The main purpose is to present a programme of events in Europe which avoids duplications and can be most effective for providing research training and basic schoolin",{"id":531,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":532,"piName":10,"institution":294,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":533,"abstract":534},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504029","Mathematical Logic and Applications","€2,833,125","The proposal is for multi-participant Early Stage Research Training in Logic and Applications by three partners: the Universities of Leeds and Manchester; University Claude Bernard Lyon l and the Cole Normal Superior Lyon; and Ludwig Maximising Universitat Munched. Each partner has a large group producing high quality research in several branches of Logic, and together the partners cover most of the active fields of Logic and its links to Theoretical Computer Science, AI, and IT. There are alrea",{"id":536,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":537,"piName":10,"institution":348,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":538,"abstract":539},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504299","Doctoral Research Training at Manchester School of Accounting and Finance","€931,698","This project aims to provide research training in the broad areas of accounting and finance to early stage doctoral researchers. The Manchester School of Accounting and Finance seeks to continue and expand its research training for visiting students currently registered for a PhD degree in their home university and for young researchers wishing to pursue a PhD degree in the Manchester School. The former will receive research training in the School for a period of 6 months (although periods from ",{"id":541,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":542,"piName":10,"institution":543,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":544,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504228","Study the ordered interactions of different transcription factors that generate an infinite potential to regulate gene expression","CENTRE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHE EN BIOLOGIE ET MEDECINE","€2,349,247",{"id":546,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":547,"piName":10,"institution":548,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":549,"abstract":550},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504234","International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference 2004, Riga, Latvia","EUROPEAN POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVES ASSOCIATION","€60,000","The EPE-PEMC Conference is the result of collaboration between scientists from Member States and Candidate Countries. The organisation of the conference is set up to suit 3 objectives:- Give the participants state of the art knowledge in the field by inviting outstanding scientists from all parts of the world, mainly Europe, America and Asia to give keynote lectures.- Allow scientists from Central European countries to make the necessary contacts to develop their research activities and join the",{"id":552,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":553,"piName":10,"institution":554,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":555,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505121","Training And Research On Testing","GROUPE DES ECOLES DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS","€1,186,910",{"id":557,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":558,"piName":10,"institution":559,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":560,"abstract":561},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504129","Series of Events in Applied Infrastructure and Policy Training (INFRATRAIN)","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","€186,511","The Series of Events in Applied Infrastructure Research and Policy Training (INFRATRAIN) is designed to promote the training of junior researchers and future policy makers by senior academics and practitioners in the area of infrastructure development in the European Union. The Series of Events picks up urgent issues in European infrastructure policy, such as the need for long-term investment, fair and efficient prices, and the development of Trans-European Networks. INFRATRAIN will consist of f",{"id":563,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":564,"piName":10,"institution":565,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":566,"abstract":567},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504581","European Education in Haematology","EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF HAEMATOLOGY","€1,359,616","Aim : to develop a comprehensive approach to training in Hematology integrating new knowledge in genomics, immunology, genetics, pharmacology and human sciences. The explosion of new avenues of research in Hematology and the position of Europe at their for efront justify high level training at the pan-European level. The rapid, substantial geographic expansion of Europe calls for determined effort to ensure transfer of knowledge, to harmonize high quality procedures and to integrate in-coming co",{"id":569,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":570,"piName":10,"institution":571,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":572,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505493","European Visitors Programme at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques to Conduct Advanced Research in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and other theoretical sciences","INSTITUT DES HAUTES ETUDES SCIENTIFIQUES","€844,377",{"id":574,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":575,"piName":10,"institution":131,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":576,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504796","The Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe","€1,827,248",{"id":578,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":579,"piName":10,"institution":580,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":581,"abstract":582},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-13162","ECVP\u002FESVP Summer School in Veterinary Pathology","EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF VETERINARY PATHOLOGISTS","€402,519","Veterinary pathologists play key roles in health and welfare of man and animals. They contribute vital expertise to a wide range of fields, particularly food safety, monitoring of animal health and welfare, diagnosis of new emerging diseases, animal models for human diseases and development of new drugs for novel therapies of animal and human diseases. Their contribution is increasingly requested in wildlife conservation and epidemiological studies and in studies on wildlife as indicators of env",{"id":584,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":585,"piName":10,"institution":586,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":587},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504127","MeAsuRements by LasEr techNiquEs","THE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF LASER VELOCIMETRY AND NON INVASIVE DIAGNOSTICS","There are two main areas in which laser - based measurements techniques have proved to be extremely effective and have therefore found wide application: vibration measurements and flow velocity measurements. Laser- based measurement techniques for the eval uation and analysis of vibrations (Laser vibrometry, ESPI, Holographic interferometry, etc.) and Laser- based flow velocity measurement techniques (FIV, LDV, etc.) are highly employed in a variety of industrial fields (aerodynamics, car indust",{"id":589,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":590,"piName":10,"institution":591,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":592,"abstract":593},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500645","ASYMMETRIC FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, MONETARY POLICY AND FINANCIAL REGULATIONS : THE CASE OF CURRENCY AREAS","UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA","€134,180","The creation of the European Monetary Union has been an unprecedented grand monetary experiment and posed tremendous challenges for policy design. Twelve countries characterized by different economic structures created the largest currency area in the world. Among the numerous questions that this episode has raised the most important and urgent ones concern the possible asymmetric effects of monetary policy actions on welfare and economic activity of the currency union' s. A consensus exists tha",{"id":595,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":596,"piName":10,"institution":597,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":598,"abstract":599},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2884","MEDiCA - Medical Emergency Dispatch Centres Analysis","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO","€103,681","What happens when a citizen rings an emergency telephone number? Who takes the call? What information is needed to intervene efficaciously? How are the resources to deal with the emergency alerted? How are these resources distributed? Who organizes the work? What role is performed by technology in handling the emergency? Again: What types of problems do emergency organizations encounter? Can their performance be improved? How can the new technologies enhance the efficacy of their action?The aim ",{"id":601,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":602,"piName":10,"institution":94,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":603,"abstract":604},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509939","An investigation of host and donor DC modulation in GVHD throught the use of comparative in vitro (human) and in vivo (chimeric human\u002Fmurine) models","€209,123","Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) still remains the only cure for a variety of malignant, non-malignant haematological diseases and disorders of the immune system. The success of SCT is limitedby post transplant related complications; including li fe threatening infections, relapse of malignantdisease and most notably graft versus host disease (GVHD). It is estimated that between 25-60% sufferfrom GVHD in either its acute or chronic form. Research has implicated the antigen presenting c",{"id":606,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":607,"piName":10,"institution":443,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":608,"abstract":609},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501793","Quaternionic Shimura surfaces","€114,689","In my thesis, I worked on compact quaternionic Shimura surfaces. Ideveloped techniques which made it possible to study particular casesof these surfaces and place them into the Kodaira classification of algebraic surfaces. In this proposal, I describe how these investigations can be extended in several directions and broadened toinvolve other research areas, in particular modular forms. With the techniques which are now available, it should be possible tosolve some types of problems which have p",{"id":611,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":612,"piName":10,"institution":613,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":614,"abstract":615},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502440","Transition Metal Alkane sigma-Complexes","UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY","€159,613","The Applicant Peter Portius is a young prize-winning synthetic chemist from the Humboldt University in former East Germany whose work on azides is already having an international impact. At the end of his Fellowship the Applicant intends to establish a research group for designing new materials particularly by the photochemical decomposition of azide precursors.   This Fellowship will give him the photochemical training needed to realise his vision on returning to Germany. We will exploit a new ",{"id":617,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":618,"piName":10,"institution":619,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":614,"abstract":620},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11303","E2F3 - a potential clinical marker for prostate cancer","INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH: ROYAL CANCER HOSPITAL","Prostate cancer is now the leading cause of cancer related deaths in most European countries. However, knowledge of the underlying mechanisms is still scarce. The overall aim of this project is to identify new oncogenes involved in prostate cancer and assess their potential as clinical markers. The focus will be the E2F3 transcription factor that has an established role in cell cycle progression and has recently been proposed as a candidate oncogene for bladder cancer. Initial studies indicate t",{"id":622,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":623,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":624,"abstract":625},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501551","Measuring dark matter halos of galaxies with weak gravitational lensing using the VIRMOS-Descart survey","€151,414","We propose to study dark matter halos of galaxies with weak gravitational lensing using the VIRMOS- Descart survey. The results of these studies will provide a valuable test for current theories of galaxy- formation. These theories are able to make detailed predictions on the dark matter halos in which galaxies are embedded while observational studies still remain challenging. Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a very promising technique that has been developed within the last decade and that is currently",{"id":627,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":628,"piName":10,"institution":629,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":630,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504634","Engineering mechanics based on size-dependent materials properties","UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE (TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE)","€1,542,936",{"id":632,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":633,"piName":10,"institution":634,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":635,"abstract":636},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500594","The role of the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) in dendritic mRNA transport","ERASMUS MC, DEPT OF CLINICAL GENETICS","€157,759","Lack of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) causes fragile X syndrome, a common form of inherited mental retardation. FMRP is an RNA binding protein thought to be involved in translation efficiency and\u002For trafficking of certain mRNAs. A subset of mRNAs to which FMRP binds with high affinity has been identified. These FMRP-associated mRNAs contain an intermolecular G quartet structure. In neurons, dendrite mRNAs are involved in local synthesis of proteins in response to synaptic activity ",{"id":638,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":639,"piName":10,"institution":336,"country":337,"year":13,"amount":640,"abstract":641},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501873","Corporate Governance and Investment in Associated Candidate Countries: Theory, Empirical Evidence and the EU Proposals for Reform","€205,947","The reform of corporate governance has gradually become a priority on the EU financial policy agenda. This project focuses on key issues of corporate governance and investment in Associated Candidate Countries (ACC), a region that is still insufficiently studied. The project has two objectives: research and training. The purpose of the research is to investigate: (1) How corporate governance affects investment in ACC? (2) How companies finance their investment and growth in these countries? (3) ",{"id":643,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":644,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":114,"abstract":645},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8810","Biochemical characterization of Rab-FIP Proteins, a family of Rab effectors with cross-talk functions","Small GTP-binding proteins of the Rab family are versatile regulators of various aspects of cellular traffic, including biogenesis, transport and targeting of vesicles. They are believed to be central coordinators of the organization of membranes sub-domains, essential to define the identity of organelles.The main goal of this project is the biochemical characterization of multi-molecular complexes of Rab11 (involved in endosomal membrane traffic) with partners that include myosin V and effector",{"id":647,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":648,"piName":10,"institution":649,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":650,"abstract":651},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502430","A MET-TARGETED TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORAS A NEW ANTICANCER DRUG","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO","€204,213","Advances made in recent years in identifying tyrosine kinases as signalling molecules governing proliferation and invasiveness have revealed the importance of their genetic alterations in the road to cancer. In particular, a little more than half of the known receptors tyrosine kinases have been repeatedly found either mutated or overexpressed in human malignancies, including sporadic cases. This has opened a whole new field of research aimed at developing new therapeutics by targeting tyrosine ",{"id":653,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":654,"piName":10,"institution":655,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":656,"abstract":657},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2688","Thermodynamic, kinetic and modelling studies on the interactions of chitosan and metal ions","UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1","€162,502","This project is directed to the development of kinetic, thermodynamic and modelling studies on the interaction of chitosan and metal ions. Chitin will be obtained from different sources aiming to isolate alfa-chitin and beta-chitin. Highly deacetylated chitosans will be prepared by carrying out the deacetylation reactions of chitin.Depolymerized chitosan and chitoolisacharides will be prepared by the controlled depolymerization of the chitosan samples, to determine the dependence of their comple",{"id":659,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":660,"piName":10,"institution":661,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":662,"abstract":663},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504767","Design Methodologies and Advanced Designs for Communication and Multimedia Applications","INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELEKTRONICA CENTRUM VZW","€555,424","One of the missing issues at universities today is access to large application drivers and long term support\u002Fconsolidation of old research results. This information is available at companies but they are not prepared to give that information to academic groups. This is especially true for the system design area where many different issues have to be tackled simultaneously to provide a real solution for the industrial challenges in the coming years. The creation of new application opportunities i",{"id":665,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":666,"piName":10,"institution":58,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":667,"abstract":668},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509345","Novel ferromagnetic ring structures for device applications","€254,389","The research and development of Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) and magnetic logic devices is of keen interest to the computer industry. The development of computers with high density, fast access times, non-volatility and low power consumption will u ndoubtedly affect many different sectors of society including business and media, aeronautics and space technology, security and the defense industry. Computers have become an integral part of our everyday lives and we are becoming increasingl",{"id":670,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":671,"piName":10,"institution":672,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":673,"abstract":674},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500931","Deciphering the functional differences between Small Ubiquitin MOdifiers SUMO-1 and SUMO-2\u002F3 pathways in normal and stress conditions","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, REPRESENTED BY MAX-PLANCK-LNSTITUT FUR BIOCHEMIE","€148,588","Small Ubiquity-related Modifier (SUMO) is a member of a ubiquity-like protein family that regulates cellular functions of a variety of target proteins. Whereas yeast have a single SUMO, essential for life, mammals have three, SUMO-1, -2 and -3. Whether they are all required, have overlapping functions and can complement or replace each other is currently unknown. Moreover, while SUMO-1 has been extensively studied, little is known about its two close homologues SUMO-2 and SUMO-3. In particular, ",{"id":676,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":677,"piName":10,"institution":678,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":27,"abstract":679},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501240","Contribution of epigenetic mechanisms to the regulation of transcription during differentiation from the totipotent to the committed states","MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL","Differentiated somatic cells derive from the same totipotent cell, they contain the same set of genes, and yet they are extremely diverse in morphology and functions.How expression of cell-type-specific genes is controlled during the progression from the totipotent embryonic stem (ES) cells to the fully committed cells of the haematopoietic lineages has not yet been studied in detail at early stages of development. Especially little is known about the epigenetic mechanisms that are associated wi",{"id":681,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":682,"piName":10,"institution":325,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":614,"abstract":683},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501273","Synthesis of Novel Porphyrazines and seco-Porphyrazines for Medical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications","It is proposed to examine the synthesis or novel diporphyrazme systems derived from the crossed Instead macrocyclisation reactions of diaminomaleonitrile derivatives with biphenyl-2, 2,3,3-tetranitrile or tetracyanoethylene. The resulting porphyrazines are expected to show red-shifted UV-visspectra with the long wavelength Q bands above 700 nm. In addition, these porphyrazines should be precursor molecules for the preparation of the structurally related seco-porphyrazines. Thesemacrocycles will ",{"id":685,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":686,"piName":10,"institution":687,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":688,"abstract":689},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503976","Homogenization of radiosonde data using ERA-40 analysis feedback data","EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS","€82,131","Radisson observations since 1958 have been the backbone of the global meteorological observing system, providing three-dimensional information about the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature, humidity and wind. In order to be useful for detecting changes of the 3D-structure of the atmosphere, the measured data must be temporally homogeneous. This is generally not the case for long time series of station data due to changes of instrument, observing practise and location. It is proposed ",{"id":691,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":692,"piName":10,"institution":693,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":694,"abstract":695},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500923","Mathematical Methods toward the Modelling and Analysis of Tumour Dynamics","POLITECNICO DI TORINO","€135,808","The objectives of the proposal are the following. First, it is aimed to develop mathematical models to describe, by means of evolution equations of kinetic type, the development of tumours and the interaction\u002Fcompetition between tumour and the immune system. Second, we aim to investigate the qualitative analysis of the mathematical models derived. This includes the development of algorithms for the numerical simulation of the competition between tumour and immune cells. The modelling part of the",{"id":697,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":698,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":699,"abstract":700},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504604","EARA Early Stage Training in Astrophysics","€2,765,617","This EST proposal is presented by the European Association for Research in Astronomy (EARA) a consortium of five leading European research institutions in astronomy: the Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris (lap), the Institute of Astronomy (Loa) in Cambridge, the Sterrewacht Leaden, the Max-Planck Institute fur Astrophysics (MPA) in Arching and the Institutor de Astrophysical de Canarias (lack). EARA, which was founded twelve years ago, has been designated during the 5th Framework Program as a jo",{"id":702,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":703,"piName":10,"institution":704,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":259,"abstract":705},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501426","TOURISM, CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE: CHANGING IMAGES. SHIFTING MEANINGS?","UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA","Major events are arguably a principal ' image builder' of modern tourism. The CIUTAT project aims to analyse the effects of major cultural events' on the image of and urban space within their European host cities. As such, an analysis of the broad European context of the production and consumption of urban space for tourism and culture objectives on city image will be undertaken, necessitating an intersect oral, multidisciplinary research approach. The empirical objectives include an evaluation ",{"id":707,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":708,"piName":10,"institution":709,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":114,"abstract":710},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501178","Charm, a laboratory for QCD","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES","Accurate measurements of specific charm particle decays are needed to provide calibration for lattice-QCD calculations. These inputs are crucial to extract electro weak parameters as the CP violation phase and light (u, d, s) quark masses. These are among the objectives of the CLEO-c experiment, which starts taking data by mid-2003. Several of these measurements can be conducted at b-factories using the large, already registered, statistics of charm quark pairs produced in the continuum. The app",{"id":712,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":713,"piName":10,"institution":325,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":206,"abstract":714},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500657","Simple B-Lactams in the Synthesis of furopyridine Antibiotic: Total Synthesis of CJ-15,696 and Analogues","The emergence of bacterial resistance has significantly underscored the importance of the discovery of novel classes of antibiotics. The common occurrence of multiple-drug resistant microbes, particularly in hospital settings, is cause for serious clinical concerns. Additionally, the existence of large cohorts of immune compromised patients and the need to utilise anti-infective agents prophylactic ally in their lifetime therapy compound the problem. Finally, the potential activities of dysfunct",{"id":716,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":717,"piName":10,"institution":718,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":719,"abstract":720},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501086","The Right to Work: The Legal and Moral Construction of a Human Right","UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM","€105,151","The right to work is enshrined in the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights. It has also been incorporated into the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It can be further observed in several Constitutions of European Countries and worldwide. Various scholars have argued the need to promote the right to work as a human right, whether moral or legal, although there are striking differences between the proponents\\' views regarding the right\\'s substance. How",{"id":722,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":723,"piName":10,"institution":724,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":725,"abstract":726},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501754","A new approach to the modelling of biochemical networks","STICHTING VOOR FUNDAMENTEEL ONDERZOEK DER MATERIE","€141,338","Many important cellular processes are controlled by networks of biochemical reactions. The individual components of the network and their interactions are often well known. However, the functioning of these networks remains an important issue for research. Recent research has shown that, due to the very low concentrations of molecules involved, biochemical networks are highly stochastic. Particle-based approaches are needed in order to model the large fluctuations that are involved. Spatial diff",{"id":728,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":729,"piName":10,"institution":730,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":731,"abstract":732},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7599","New Approaches for the recognition of membrane Bilayers - Therapeutic applications","UNIVERSITé BORDEAUX 1","€159,353","The rapid emergence of bacterial infections resistant to antibiotic drugs has motivated interest in the development of new methods of treatment. In natural systems, antibiotic peptides are part of the first line immunological defence against bacterial infection. These peptides, often having an amphipathic helical structure are believed to exert their effect by the selective disruption of bacterial cell membranes. As this mode of action is not conducive to the development of resistance, they have",{"id":734,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":735,"piName":10,"institution":736,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":737,"abstract":738},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500510","Cuckoo-host interactions when multiple parasites target a single host: tactics and trade-offs in a co-evolutionary arms race","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€171,634","Interspecific brood parasitism occurs when parents relegate the care of their offspring to unrelated foster parents of another species. As a consequence, foster parents often fail to rear their own offspring. How can such pattern evolve? Hosts should quickly evolve mechanisms to prevent costly parasitism, yet brood parasitism persists in cuckoos and other birds, fishes, and insects. Theory suggests that parasite-host interactions evolve inane \\arms-race\\ - a cycle of adaptation and counter-adapt",{"id":740,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":741,"piName":10,"institution":742,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":743,"abstract":744},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8616","PROTACT: Dynamical aspects of protein activation in biological regulatory pathways","UTRECHT UNIVERSITY","€179,467","Regulation in cells and organisms is achieved by the interplay of proteins acting in concert to achieve a tight control over time and space. In the development of my research line, I focus on the molecular mechanisms of recognition and regulation that underlie biological processes, such as the arrest of bleeding and the innate immune defence against invading pathogens. The proteins involved are, typically, large multi-domain proteins that function in large complexes that collectively carry out e",{"id":746,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":747,"piName":10,"institution":405,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":472,"abstract":748},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501039","Metapopulation models of the intra-host dynamics of persistent infectious pathogens and the immune response.","This interdisciplinary research aims to combine pathogen and immune dynamics with met population theory. It will form an important link between the research on spatial population dynamics and the intra-host dynamics of infectious diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); polyomavirus type BK (BKV), hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV). The goal of this research project is to address the following questions:(A) Can different immune mechanisms contribute to level-level persistence of",{"id":750,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":751,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":752,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503322","Glycosciences Training at CERMAV","€1,142,762",{"id":754,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":755,"piName":10,"institution":756,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":757,"abstract":758},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501133","Supramolecular Interactions in Smart Materials","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - DÉLÉGATION BRETAGNE PAYS DE LA LOIRE","€113,670","The main objective of the proposed research is the definition of reliable supramolecular structure-properties relationships, with the aim to guide the design of materials with desired optical and electronic properties, from the molecular to the supramolecular level. Starting from the analysis of the properties of the solvated molecule, a comprehensive theoretical model will be developed to predict the properties of complex supramolecular systems, then guiding the synthetic strategy in a bottom-u",{"id":760,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":761,"piName":10,"institution":39,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":614,"abstract":762},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500521","Development of novel, selective inhibitors of HIF prolydroxylase","In all multi-cellular organisms, oxygen homeostasis represents a fundamental physiological challenge and requires the co-ordinated regulation of an array of genes. Under hypoxic conditions levels of hypoxia inducible factor, a transcription factor, rise and enable transcription of an array of genes involved in the hypoxic response. Under nomadic conditions, levels of HIF are suppressed by the action of oxygen dependent hydroxyls. This project will contribute to the biochemical knowledge and medi",{"id":764,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":765,"piName":10,"institution":766,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":767,"abstract":768},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505469","SPATIAL AND WORST-CASE ECONOMETRIC TECHNIQUES, WITH APPLICATION TO MANAGEMENT MODELLING","UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID","€40,000","This proposal is concerned with two research lines: spatial econometrics and worst-case estimation. Spatial Statistics is a set of techniques for the analysis of spatially located data.The main characteristic of spatial data is that the nearer observations tend to be more dependent. When these techniques are mainly concerned with economic problems, they are know as Spatial Econometrics. A large proportion of the Spatial Statistics work is appearing outside statistical journal (see e.g. Cresses, ",{"id":770,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":771,"piName":10,"institution":772,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":773,"abstract":774},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505240","The Role of Production Practise in Language Development","UNIVERSITY OF WALES BANGOR","€163,696","Perception and production studies of infants have failed to be integrated, largely due to the fragmentation of research by methodological differences. The proposed study is intended to introduce the applicant to the area of phonological development. It will train her in experimental procedures designed to explore infant speech perception as well as in the expertise needed to transcribe and analyse infants' babbling and first word production. By combining these approaches the study will constitut",{"id":776,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":777,"piName":10,"institution":778,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":779,"abstract":780},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504204","Magnetism and Magnetic Resonance of Molecules","CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE PER LA SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI MATERIALI","€18,938,645","In the era of Nan technology molecular magnetism is experiencing a large and increasing interest since the observation that molecules can behave like magnets, thus representing the ultimate step in the process of miniaturization of magnetic memories. Moreover magnetism is relevant to such diverse field as solid-state physics and biology and recently the impact of chemistry has dramatically increased with the development of molecular magnetism. To provide training in this field means learning tec",{"id":782,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":783,"piName":10,"institution":784,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":785,"abstract":786},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501057","Biochemical and molecular genetic characterization of novel protective antigens against group B Streptococcus","NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS SRL","€143,746","This application proposes a postdoctoral training period in genomic approaches to development of vaccines against bacterial pathogens. Until recently, vaccine research followed a series of bottom up steps beginning from identification of virulence factors through serological or genetic approaches. With the availability of complete genome sequence of bacterial pathogens, this process has been reversed.From the genome sequence, every protein produced by the bacteria can be identified. High through",{"id":788,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":789,"piName":10,"institution":790,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":791,"abstract":792},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503847","Quantum Physics Fundamental and Applied Research","UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE","€1,113,460","The training site Quantum Physics Fundamental and Applied Research offers the possibility to apply for PhD or shorter periods at the Laboratories Kastler-Brossel. Marie Curie Fellowships concerning several domains of great interest in modern quantum physics are proposed. The themes proposed to the fellows range from ultra cold atoms and Einstein-Einstein condensation to cavity quantum electrodynamics, study and manipulation of quantum fluctuations, metrology of simple systems, Colombian system d",{"id":794,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":795,"piName":10,"institution":796,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":382,"abstract":797},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514946","Novel molecular tools for the analysis of the cell membrane proteome and interactome","UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD","The vast amount of data originating from the different genome initiatives in the context of systems biology require more and more emphasis to be placed on the elucidation of the different levels of dynamic processes present in the living cell. Beyond the transcription level (transcriptome), systematic analysis of the proteins expressed by a cell at a certain time and under certain conditions (proteome) is of eminent importance, as they are the major players in biological processes. Despite the f",{"id":799,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":800,"piName":10,"institution":801,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":802,"abstract":803},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501330","CMRF35-like molecules: a novel receptor family involved in the control of myeloid cell function","UNIVERSITY OF OSLO","€260,060","Cells of the myeloid lineage are the major cellular component of the innate immune system. They orchestrate the adaptive immune response and play a major role in inflammatory pathologies and tumour progression. Given these facts, a more thorough understanding of the control of myeloid cell function is clearly warranted.Our proposal aims to address this problem directly, by investigating a newly identified family of myeloid receptors. This family is orthologous to a previously identified human re",{"id":805,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":806,"piName":10,"institution":807,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":808,"abstract":809},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-3023","Visualisation of the early steps of human hepatitis B virus infection: a colourful approach","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG","€159,332","The human Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. Despite the energetic introduction of a vaccine against HBV in the developed world, still worldwide one in twenty people is chronically infected. People living in poverty, particularly in developing countries, are particularly at risk due to lack of access to vaccines and donor organs. Carriers of the human hepatitis B virus are at high risk of developing liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and worldwide more than one million",{"id":811,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":812,"piName":10,"institution":813,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":814,"abstract":815},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502421","Phylogeography and reproductive modes of two cryptic invasive red algae","NATIONAAL HERBARIUM NEDERLAND","€149,276","The widespread and ubiquitous genus Ceramium has never previously been considered to have been involved in species invasions. However, recent unpublished data has highlighted the fact that this genus is divided into two biogeographical groups - North Atlantic\u002FMediterranean and Pacific\u002FSouthern Hemisphere. Only two species of Ceramium are found in both groups, namely Ceramium flaccidum and C. virgatum. This highlights the possibility that both of these species have been involved in reciprocal ant",{"id":817,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":818,"piName":10,"institution":819,"country":820,"year":13,"amount":821,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-3570","Functional analysis of RAS\u002FRAF\u002FMAPK signalling in Learning and Memory","BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTRE ALEXANDER FLEMING","EL","€80,000",{"id":823,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":824,"piName":10,"institution":825,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":826,"abstract":827},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501883","Modulation of osteoblast function by bioactive RGD-peptides arranged in nanotemplates","UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG","€160,466","The development of new methodologies in the field of material science and nanotechnology represents a useful tool to further explore and modify biomaterial design. Biocompatiblity is dependent on material-related factors, such as topography and surface chemistry, as well as cell adhesion and function. The focus of this multidisciplinary work is the creation of a system, which permits the study of bone cells adhesion and the regulation of their cellular activities. We propose to use novel chemica",{"id":829,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":830,"piName":10,"institution":119,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":821,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505663","Discovery of New Antibiotics Via new methods of Positive Selection",{"id":832,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":833,"piName":10,"institution":834,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":835,"abstract":836},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2928","Synthetic Bio-Nanoarchitectures For Enhanced Biosensing Approach","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB","€155,182","Nanostructured functional materials constitute one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding fields in scienceand technology, which include their use in such diverse areas as materials technology, biotechnology, energy and environmental technology, electronics, catalytic applications etc. From other side, the increasingly important role in biophysics and in life sciences is played by laser spectroscopy methods. The present project challenges one of the most exciting and phenomena rich sub-fields",{"id":838,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":839,"piName":10,"institution":840,"country":337,"year":13,"amount":841,"abstract":842},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-510027","Prevention and definition of autoimmunity through dipeptidyl-peptidase IV signaling","INSTITUT OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY OF THE AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES","€149,963","Type-1 diabetes remains one of the most devastating childhood disease of the day. Despite over acentury of research into the condition diagnosis still carries with it a sentence to lifelong daily insulininjection. Despite its prevalence, medicine has yet t o offer preventative therapy for the condition.Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DP IV) is a ubiquitous multifunctional membrane ectopeptidase withparticularly high expression levels on the endothelial lining of the vasculature and on the surface ofimm",{"id":844,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":845,"piName":10,"institution":846,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":847,"abstract":848},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500859","Adaptation of Caenorhabditis elegans technology to express and identify parasite target genes","MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE","€159,046","There are about 82 million cattle in the EU, most of which are exposed to infection with gastro-intestinal nematodes at grazing, with resultant, often substantial, impaired production efficiency. The most common and most pathogenic of these nematodes is Ostertagia ostertagi, which infects the abomasum of cattle.Control of O. ostertagi in Europe is based almost exclusively on the use of anthelmintic drugs. However, these drugs have several drawbacks such as the high costs, interference with natur",{"id":850,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":851,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":731,"abstract":852},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509423","Evaporative of a guided atomic beam: towards a continuous Bose-Einstein condensate source","Nanostructured functional materials constitute one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding fields in science and technology, which include their use in such diverse areas as materials technology, biotechnonology, energy and environmental technology, electronics, catalytic applications etc.From other side, the increasingly important role in biophysics and in life sciences is played by laser spectroscopie methods. The present project challenges one of the most exciting and phenomena rich sub-fie",{"id":854,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":855,"piName":10,"institution":856,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":857,"abstract":858},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509264","Post-translational regulation of AB13, a key mediator of ABA signaling","FLANDERS INTERUNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY","€258,545","Hormones are implicated in almost every aspect of plant growth. Selective proteindegradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway has emerged as a powerful regulatorymechanism in hormone signal transduction. A clear role for ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis o fthe AUX\u002FIAA transcriptional repressers is already demonstrated. Recent studies providedpreliminary evidence for the involvement of ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis in the signalingpathways of other classical plant hormones like cytokinins, gibb",{"id":860,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":861,"piName":10,"institution":724,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":725,"abstract":862},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502500","Higgs Search at hadron colliders","The highest priority of Particle Physics nowadays is to detect the Higgs boson. The discovery of the Higgs is one of the main justifications for constructing the Large Hadrons Collier (LHC) in Europe and for the upgrade of the Everton collier in the USA. Measurements at CERN's LEP collier and the Everton prefer a light Higgs mass. A light Higgs decays dominantly into bottom (b) quarks. Due to the overwhelming background from other processes, it is hard to extract a Higgs signal in bottom final s",{"id":864,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":865,"piName":10,"institution":866,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":785,"abstract":867},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501796","Proteomics approaches to identify new vaccine candidates against group B Streptococcus","CHIRON S.R.L.","During the last century, several approaches have been used for the development of vaccines, ranging from the immunization with live-attenuated bacteria up to the formulation of the safer sub-unit vaccines. These conventional approaches to vaccine development require cultivation of the pathogen and its dissection using biochemical, immunological and microbiological methods. Although successful in several cases, these methods have failed to provide solutions against many human pathogens. With the ",{"id":869,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":870,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":731,"abstract":871},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509969","High momentun particle production as a probe of quark gluon plasma in relativistic heavy ions collisions in PHENIX experiment","High transverse momentum (pT>2 GeV\u002Fc) hadrons provide an excellent probe of nuclear matter at high energy density created in relativistic heavy ion collisions as they are predicted to arise from quark and gluon fragmentation in initial parton-parton scattering.[1] In absence of medium effects, high pT hadron yield should scale with the number of inelastic nucléon-nucléon collisions [2]However theoretical studies have suggested that partons could lose a significant fraction of their energy in hig",{"id":873,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":874,"piName":10,"institution":875,"country":876,"year":13,"amount":877,"abstract":878},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501743","EXPERIMENTAL HADRONIC PHYSICS FROM ELEMENTARY TO NUCLEAR COLLISIONS","EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH","CH","€174,399","The proposed project carries out experimental research in the field of hadronic physics at the CERN SPS accelerator, using the NA49 detector. This research is centred on the sector of son interactions both in elementary hadronic and in nuclear collisions. As such it pertains to an area of Quantum Chromodynamics which does not allow for quantitative theoretical predictions using perturbation theory. Nevertheless the study of high-energy nuclear collision which is actively pursued both in Europe a",{"id":880,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":881,"piName":10,"institution":875,"country":876,"year":13,"amount":882,"abstract":883},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500030","Higgs boson physics in the Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model","€167,595","Our research project deals with the application of Quantum Field Theory to the phenomenology of High Energy particle Physics; more concretely, of the Higgs boson physics. The Higgs boson is the last building block of the Standard Model that is still waiting for experimental confirmation, and one has reasons to believe that there may be physics Beyond the Standard Model. Even if a neutral Higgs boson is discovered, a crucial question will remain still open: It is the Higgs particle of the Standar",{"id":885,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":886,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":887,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504227","Microbial action on immune survival","€1,758,090",{"id":889,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":890,"piName":10,"institution":891,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":892,"abstract":893},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505169","Organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment - interdisciplinary concepts for assessment and removal","RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN","€1,331,608","The research training project intends to focus the concerted effort of a multinational group of students with multidisciplinary backgrounds upon a topic growing concern, the presence of so called micro-pollutants in our aqueous environment. This topic is of global relevance, what makes it particularly suitable for an international scope. Quantifying the occurrence, analysing the distribution pathways, evaluating the various effects of micro-pollutants, and studying methods to prevent them from p",{"id":895,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":896,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":897,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505032","Physics and Applications of Atom Manipulation on Integrated Chips","€2,294,845",{"id":899,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":900,"piName":10,"institution":901,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":902,"abstract":903},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8236","Neutrino Oscillations and Phenomenology of Massive Neutrinos","SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI","€143,916","Neutrino physics is one of the most active and exciting fields in today's particle physics. Thanks to recent outstanding experimental results we have now evidence that neutrinos do oscillate, which implies that they have mass. As a consequence these particles provide the first solid evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model, our current theory for the fundamental components of matter and their interactions.This project deals with various aspects of neutrino physics from a theoretical point ",{"id":905,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":906,"piName":10,"institution":907,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":673,"abstract":908},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501323","Larvae In Situ Tracking: detection and identification of early-life-stages of marine organisms using in situ hybridisation with oligonucleotide probes","MAX PLANCK SOCIETY, REPRESENTED BY MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY","Most deep-sea hydrothermal vent species are either sessile or have limited mobility as adults. They thus must disperse predominantly at the larval stage through the water column. The mechanisms governing larval dispersal, however, are largely unknown, making this one of the most intriguing ecological processes left unsolved at vents. Larval forms themselves are unknown, their identification being particularly difficult because few descriptions of early developmental stages were published. Many m",{"id":910,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":911,"piName":10,"institution":912,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":913,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503369","THE QUEST FOR UNIFICATION : THEORY CONFRONTS EXPERIMENT","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE","€2,094,868",{"id":915,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":916,"piName":10,"institution":917,"country":307,"year":13,"amount":918,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-003035","The Blues of coral Reefs","BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY","€221,641",{"id":920,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":921,"piName":10,"institution":275,"country":276,"year":13,"amount":922,"abstract":923},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514138","Generation of neutrino mass textures from concrete realizations of and apos; and apos;Randall-Sundrum and apos; and apos; scenarios (based on the existence of an extra dimension and solving the gauge","€124,767","The recent renewed interest for physics of extra dimensions, providing new types of solutions to the gauge-hierarchy problem, has also lead to new approaches of the Standard Model fermion mass hierarchy problem. Hence, we plan to study, from a theoretical poi nt of view, constraints on fermion mass matrices, with special emphasis on interesting variations of the ''Randall-Sundrum'' model (based on a non-factorisable metric) which can solve both the gauge and fermion mass hierarchy problems. In t",{"id":925,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":926,"piName":10,"institution":927,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":331,"abstract":928},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501066","Molecular mechanism of protection by antibodies against the dengue virus and their engineering for therapy","INSTITUT PASTEUR","The applicant is a female, assimilated Polish scientist, who has worked in the fields of transgenic plants and edible vaccines. She wants to complete her training at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, in the fields of protein and antibody engineering. The combination of both competences will have an enormous potential in health.Dengue is a re-emerging disease, which is viral, vector-borne, poverty-linked and affects 100 million persons each year. No vaccine or specific treatment is available. The d",{"id":930,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":931,"piName":10,"institution":64,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":932,"abstract":933},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502357","Gamma delta cells and immunosurveillance","€167,665","Epithelia are potentially vulnerable to infection and environmentally induced mutation. Although there unwell-established ideas for how the immune system may protect epithelia, they fail to mention intraepithelialymphocytes (ells) that are one of the largest T cell compartments. Gamma delta cells contribute to a large part to these ells. The properties of gamma delta cells seem to place them midway the adaptive and innate immune response. The host laboratory has recently obtained evidence that g",{"id":935,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":936,"piName":10,"institution":325,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":937,"abstract":938},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509311","Analysis of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Action in Bone","€265,208","Thyroid hormone (T3) acts via thyroid hormone receptors alpha (TRa) and beta (TRb), and is essential for skeletal development and bone mineralisation. T3 excess is associated with an increased risk of osteoporotic fracture and is an important contributor to the morbid and financial burden of disease, although the role of T3 in bone formation and turnover is poorly characterised. The syndrome of resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is an autosomal dominant condition that results from dominant nega",{"id":940,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":941,"piName":10,"institution":942,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":943,"abstract":944},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514277","Phosphate sensing for activation of the protein kinase A pathway in yeast","FLANDERS INTERUNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY V.Z.W.","€142,887","A central problem in modern cell biology is to elucidate how the cell perceives signals from the surrounding environment and how the signals are transmitted to affect metabolic pathways and gene expression. Increasing evidence indicates that eukaryotic cells also have many specific sensing mechanisms for extra-cellular nutrients, but a major challenge is to distinguish between true signalling and effects due to metabolism. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the best model systems for e",{"id":946,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":947,"piName":10,"institution":948,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":949,"abstract":950},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500019","Mouse models to analyse the role of telomerase in cancer and aging","FUNDACION CENTRO NATIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS","€137,582","Chromosomal ends have protective structures named telomeres that distinguish them from broken chromosomes. Telomeres are composed of tandem G-rich DNA repeats bound to an array of proteins that are essential for telomere capping. The synthesis of telomeres by telomerase and their function are proposed to be biological determinants in the process of cancer and aging. Telomere dysfunction because of short telomeres or mutation of telomere-binding proteins can lead to chromosomal end-to-end fusions",{"id":952,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":953,"piName":10,"institution":954,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":955,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504003","European Retinal Research Training Network","EBERHARD KARLS-UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN","€3,679,135",{"id":957,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":958,"piName":10,"institution":959,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":960,"abstract":961},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500880","Synthesis of Eleutheside Analogues : Potential Microtubule-Stabilizing Anticancer Drugs","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO","€153,555","Cancer continues to be an important public health concern and socio-economic problem. Among the most promising newly established drugs, palliate (Taxi) and docetaxel (Texture) have the broadest ant tumour spectra in the clinic and are used increasingly for the treatment of ovarian cancer and metastasis breast cancer, with promise also for the treatment of lung, skin, and head and neck cancers. However, this beneficial effect still remains hampered by many drawbacks. The major cellular target for",{"id":963,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":964,"piName":10,"institution":965,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":847,"abstract":966},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502168","Heat shock protein 90 and the quantitative genetics of wing shape variation in Drosophila under temperature stress","THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER","Stress is an omnipresent factor in wild conditions, but has not been fully appreciated in evolutionary theory. One of the most consistent trends recorded in analyses of phenotypic response to stress is an increase in phenotypic variation. It has been suggested that the major cause for this phenomenon is disruption of homeostatic processes under stressful conditions, inducing an increase either in genetic variance, in the frequency of developmental random errors as measured by fluctuating asymmet",{"id":968,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":969,"piName":10,"institution":247,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":614,"abstract":970},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501016","Implication of vitamin D and Wnt signaling crosstalk in epidermal keratinocyte stem cell fate. Role in skin morphogenesis and in epidermal tumorigenesis","The major goal of the proposed project is to study the role of vitamin D and Want signalling in skin morphogenesisand homeostasis, and in the alteration of these processes during the development of neoclassic and alopecia. For that purpose we will develop different experiments with keratinocytes and transgenic mice. First we will describe the interplay between vitamin D or some of its non-hypercalcemic analogues and Wntsignaling in different keratinocytes types, isolated from human and mice epid",{"id":972,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":973,"piName":10,"institution":294,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":847,"abstract":974},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501958","Pan-African Fluid Flow Reconstruction in the Lufilian Arc (Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia): A study Using Quantitative Fluid Inclusion Analysis and Isotope Modelling","Several international research programs that were conducted during the past decade, have impeded interest towards Central African geology. Fluid flow constitutes an important aspect of this evolution since it is responsible for the mobility of chemical mass through the evolving sedimentary basins and for the formation of economic metal concentrations in these basins. Until the present day, however, this aspect has not seriously been investigated in the sedimentary sequences of the deformed Lufil",{"id":976,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":977,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":673,"abstract":978},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500025","Identification of proteins that confer mRNA identity to RNAs","Different classes of RNA are exported from the nucleus by distinct transport pathways, and the pathway employed is critical for the cytoplasmic fate of the RNA. It is not well understood how the nuclear export machinery of higher eukaryotes discriminates between the different RNAs, most critically, between messengerRNA (mRNA) and U-rich small nuclear RNAs (U snRNAs) that share similarity but use completely distinct export pathways. The project proposed here aims to identify proteins that restric",{"id":980,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":981,"piName":10,"institution":982,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":983,"abstract":984},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502102","Novel approach for dissection of jasmonate signaling in Arabidopsis","LEIDEN UNIVERSITY","€148,709","The lipid-derived stress signalling molecules known as the assonates (Jams) play important roles in plantdefense against microbial pathogens and herbivores, and in male fertility. Arabidopsis mutants defective in JAbiosynthesis or signal transudation are deficient in certain defence responses and are male sterile. Although anew mutants involved in JA signalling have been isolated, it is poorly understood how Jams activate plant defensemechanisms. Studies on torpedoed insole alkaloid (TIA) metabo",{"id":986,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":987,"piName":10,"institution":965,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":206,"abstract":988},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502052","Investigation on existence and nature of factors involved in buffering against genetic and environmental perturbations","The concept of developmental buffering, which can be subdivided into canalisation and developmental stability, is very important in studies on evolution and development alike. The development of an organism needs to be buffered against genetic and environmental perturbations, because the fitness of an organism is likely to depend on the ability to produce a functioning phenotype in a given environment. On the other hand, too much buffering may limit the possibility of responding adequately to ch",{"id":990,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":991,"piName":10,"institution":992,"country":236,"year":13,"amount":993,"abstract":994},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502224","Mutual Mate Choice in Arena-breeding Topi Antelopes","JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO","€164,267","Recently, it has been highlighted that most previous theoretical work on mating systems has been flawed, ignoring the profoundly simple fact that each offspring has a mother and a father (Kokako & Jenison, TREE in press). Now it has become clear that under certain conditions mutual mate choice, where both males and females choose, is to be expected. The arena-breeding (\\'leek\\') system of topic antelopes offers a unique opportunity for an empirical investigation of the topic. Extraordinarily cle",{"id":996,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":997,"piName":10,"institution":165,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":998,"abstract":999},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502215","NANO-SCALE ACCURACY ANALYSIS OF DIAMOND FILMS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES USING ULTRA LOW ENERGY SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY AND OTHER TECHNIQUES.","€168,799","Due to its remarkable properties, diamond has a huge potential as the basis of several new technologies. Its effective development will depend on the ability to tailor its chemistry and structure on tenant-scale. This project's objective is to form a basis for the measurement of doping and impurity profiles in diamond, accurate on the Nan scale, via ultra low energy SIMS (dualisms).The project will start with a basic study of ion beam-surface interactions for diamond. In parallel, reference mate",{"id":1001,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1002,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":998,"abstract":1003},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501021","Characterisation of the mechanism of anchoring of specific localized transcripts in Drosophila","mRNA localization by active transport is thought to be a universal mechanism to target proteins efficiently to their site of function. Localized RNAs are transported to their destination by molecular motors that move along the cytoskeletal filaments, followed by retention at their final destinations.Several molecular motors, adaptors and trans-acting factors involved in the movement itself have been identified, but the mechanism of anchoring remains poorly understood. In the proposed project, we",{"id":1005,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1006,"piName":10,"institution":83,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":1007,"abstract":1008},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502438","Mechanism of action and transcriptional regulation of the spleen tyrosine kinase Syk, a new candidate tumour suppressor gene in breast cancer","€158,786","The role of the cytoplasm tyrosine kinas Sky (spleen tyrosine lamas) was, until recently, uniquely studied in haematopoietic cells. In these cells, Sky is involved in coupling activated immunoreceptors to downstream signalling events that mediate diverse cellular responses including proliferation and differentiation. We focus on the Sky expression in epithelial cells and its role as a tumour suppressor hi breast cancer cells. Breast cancer remains the most common malignancy in women. Loss of Sky",{"id":1010,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1011,"piName":10,"institution":247,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":614,"abstract":1012},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501017","Role of Rho GTPases in epidermal keratinocyte stem cell fate. Implication in skin morphogenesis and in the development of skin cancers.","The goal of the proposed project is to study the role of Rohr Teases in skin epidermis morph genesis andcarcinogenesis. The project consists of four main objectives. One goal is to determine the expression pattern of different Rohr proteins via immunohystochemistry within the different cell lineages of the intermolecular epidermis (IFE), hair follicles and sebaceous glands of normal skin sections and to compare it with their expression patterning different skin carcinomas. A second objective is ",{"id":1014,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1015,"piName":10,"institution":58,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":353,"abstract":1016},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7152","Use of chemical shifts data in the characterization of non native and partially folded states in proteins","Non-native conformations of proteins have recently attracted considerable attention in molecular and cell biology. Bionformatics studies of complete genomes suggested that a fairly large fraction of the proteins encoded by the DNA of different organisms ma y contain unstructured regions in the cell. Partially folded states of proteins have also been associated with misfolding diseases, such as Alzheimer's, type II diabetes and the transmissible encephalophaties.In this research plan I propose to",{"id":1018,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1019,"piName":10,"institution":1020,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":1021,"abstract":1022},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11109","Development and application of efficient explicitly correlated coupled cluster methods","UNIVERSITAT KARLSRUHE (TH)","€150,260","Quantum chemists seek to develop reliable computational methods which deliverchemical accuracy (4 kJ\u002Fmol). The predominant limitation in many of the state of the art methods is that a huge 1-particle basis set is required to achieve this accuracy. Recently , new explicitly correlated methods have been developed which include the inter-electron distance explicitly in the basis functions, and are capable of delivering chemical accuracy using the relatively small standard basis sets available. Howe",{"id":1024,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1025,"piName":10,"institution":1026,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":1027,"abstract":1028},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502339","Role of caveosome-medicated endocytosis during MMP-2 activation","UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT. HEART LUNG CENTER UTRECHT","€150,977","The turnover and remodelling of extra cellular matrix (ECM) is an important feature after vascular injury in noontime formation and remodelling of the injured vessels. Collagen is the major ECM protein and can only be degraded by the matrix metalloproteases (Mumps). Broad spectrum MMP-inhibitors can prevent arterial shrinkage and noontime formation but suffer from severe side effects after prolonged administration in humans. To find a specific target(s) for intervention, we have to understand ho",{"id":1030,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1031,"piName":10,"institution":1032,"country":1033,"year":13,"amount":1034,"abstract":1035},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509993","The function of the BMP antagonist gremlin in Xenopus eye development","NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND","IE","€163,846","We propose to study the role of Gremlin, a Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) antagonist, in the development of the eye, in Xenopus laevìs, a well-established model system for studying vertebrate embryogenesis. BMP signalling pathways are known to regulate cell proliferation, differentiation and programmed cell death. It is known that the temporal and spatial patterns of BMPs and their antagonists in the developing vertebrate control the patterning of tissues and organogenesis. Previous work in ou",{"id":1037,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1038,"piName":10,"institution":1039,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":1040,"abstract":1041},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502902","Synaptic modulation during olfactory perception in Drosophila melanogaster","CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS","€26,804","All organisms are able to extract very specific features from the environment. Several sensory modality systems have been analysed in the search for receptor molecules or cellular properties that could account for the remarkable perception specificity that they exhibit. In the case of olfaction, intense and multidisciplinary efforts have been made to isolate odorant receptors and signalling cascades, as well to understand the basis of the representation of the neural map in the brain. In this pr",{"id":1043,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1044,"piName":10,"institution":1045,"country":192,"year":13,"amount":1046,"abstract":1047},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8873","Analysing the role of complement in antigen trafficking using intravital microscopy","VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK ONDERWIJS, WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG, WAARVAN UITGAAT VU MEDISCH CENTRUM (VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE)","€260,624","The immune system is continuously faced with the dilemma of distinguishing between self and non-self antigens. The complement system, a set of more than 20 serum proteins and receptors, is one of the critical components of the immune system involved in making this choice. Upon activation of the complement system in the peripheral tissues by a foreign antigen, complement components are covalently attached to the antigen. Complement receptors on dendritic cells (DCs) and follicular dendritic cells",{"id":1049,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1050,"piName":10,"institution":1051,"country":276,"year":13,"amount":1052,"abstract":1053},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501849","Cellular interactions in peripheral immune regulation","FUNDACAO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN","€139,948","The immune response is a potent defensive reaction within the organism that can lead to deleterious self-damaging effects in absence of control mechanisms. The modulation of the immune response is exerted at many different levels including T cell-mediated immuno-regulation. Regulatory T cells (TR cells) have recently been identified which have the capacity to control the activity of effectors T cells. Operationally, TR cells are defined by the ability to suppress the expansion of pathogenic naiv",{"id":1055,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1056,"piName":10,"institution":1057,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":1058,"abstract":1059},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501678","Crystal-chemistry and reaction paths of kaolinite-smectite mixed-layer clays","THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM","€80,657","Mixed-layer clay minerals occur abundantly in soils and sediments, controlling their properties from mechanical stability to nutrient content. Recent discoveries in the field of mixed-layer clays, made by members of the host research group and the research group where I work, have opened new ways to study these minerals and revealed novel aspects. My project combines these two approaches in a detailed study of the mixed-layer mineral kaolinite-smectite. The main objectives of the project are 1) ",{"id":1061,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1062,"piName":10,"institution":1063,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":1064,"abstract":1065},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501963","Roles of IL-7 in the regulation of T cell homeostasis","KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET","€167,055","Interleukin-7 promotes survival and proliferation of lymphocytes both during thyrnic maturation and also in the case of mature peripheral cells. In HTV-infected individuals and in clinical settings, which result in T cell depletion an increase of serum, IL-7 concentration was found. Increased production of IL-7 in response to T cell loss is considered as a homeostatic response mechanism aiming at the restoration of peripheral T cell number. In our previous studies we found a decreased level of I",{"id":1067,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1068,"piName":10,"institution":1069,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":998,"abstract":1070},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501453","Regulation of protein kinase B-mediated insulin signalling by atypical PKCs: implications for insulin resistance","UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE","Insulin resistance (e.g. during Type II diabetes) is a condition of major medical and economic importance globally. The mechanisms by which insulin resistance develops at the cellular level are understood poorly, but defects in intracellular signalling are thought to play a key role. Recent work in the host lab have shown that the hormonal activation of glucose transport in skeletal muscle cells is impaired significantly by creamed, a sphingolipid-derived molecule, that has been implicated in th",{"id":1072,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1073,"piName":10,"institution":1074,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":1075,"abstract":1076},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501247","A bioinformatic investigation of the mutation process using genomic data","UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX","€161,314","Mutation is the ultimate source of all genetic variation, including the variation that is responsible for genetic disease. It is therefore important to understand the process by which mutation occurs.The principal aim of the proposed work is to gain a better understanding of the process of mutation in the genome of several species including our own. In particular, it will be investigated whether there is variation in mutation rate on a fine-scale such that adjacent bases can have different rates",{"id":1078,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1079,"piName":10,"institution":1080,"country":171,"year":13,"amount":767,"abstract":1081},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505245","Identification of genes associated with chronic inflammation.","LUNDS UNIVERSITET","Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are chronic inflammatory diseases, which are caused by genetic and environmental factors. Susceptible genes have been hard to find in man because of complex genetics of the diseases and the human population. Fortunately, good animal models are available. Pristine induced arthritis and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in rats are such models. These models have been used to investigate the linkage of genome regions to disease",{"id":1083,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1084,"piName":10,"institution":1085,"country":1033,"year":13,"amount":1086,"abstract":1087},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505101","Micro Fluidic Total Analysis System Design","UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK","€46,825,800","A key research area in the biotechnology sector is focussed on micro-scale fluid mechanics, whereby a small biological sample is processed and manipulated through a series of micro scale channels and manifolds: the so-called Lab-on-a-chip, or micro Total analysis system. The Stocks Research Institute at the University of Limerick proposes an EST Host Fellowship. The objective is to provide training on micro-Fluid Total Analysis System Design (m-Flutes). With a background in thermal and fluids re",{"id":1089,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1090,"piName":10,"institution":954,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":1091,"abstract":1092},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502451","Development of a clinical diagnostic tool for cochlear lesions based on otoacoustic emissions","€157,064","At least 85% of the estimated 160-million hearing-impaired people of Europe suffer from malfunction of the cochlea. Malfunction remains largely untreatable because function is not fully understood. Initiatives are required to develop more powerful, clinical tools to diagnose cochlear malfunction. However, this demands a better understanding of function. It is known that the basis of cochlear function is mechanical and that, in the healthy cochlea, mechanical processes send vibrations back tithe ",{"id":1094,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1095,"piName":10,"institution":1096,"country":120,"year":13,"amount":949,"abstract":1097},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500155","Heterogeneous charge-transfer studied by ab initio quantum chemical methods: Application to processes at electrodes and scanning tunnelling images","UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA","Electron transfer (ET) is no doubt the essential ingredient of all electrochemical processes and of the related technological applications, fuel cells among them. ET is also at the heart of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). Nowadays STM provides one of the few instruments permitting one to handle matter at the nanoscopic scale. Recently, the group at the host institution has shown that it is possible to approach ET at an electrode from a pure ab initio viewpoint and with explicit inclusion o",{"id":1099,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1100,"piName":10,"institution":1101,"country":178,"year":13,"amount":1102,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-503923","Studies of cellular response to targeted single ions using nanotechnology","INSTYTUT FIZYKI JADROWEJ IM. HENRIKA NIEWODNICZANSKIEGO - POLSKA AKADEMIA NAUK","€2,745,560",{"id":1104,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1105,"piName":10,"institution":1106,"country":1033,"year":13,"amount":1107,"abstract":1108},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501230","Localization and interactions of DNA damage response and cell cycle checkpoint proteins in yeast and chicken cells using fluorescente microscopy","NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY","€220,381","Cancer is a major killer in the western world, second only to heart disease as a cause of mortality. Despite its impact cancer is a poorly understood disease. Fundamental research into both the causes and mechanisms of cancer are required if the outlook for cancer patients is to be improved. Cancer is caused by an accumulation of mutations, a process referred to as tumour progression.This accumulation is required since there are multiple control mechanisms to prevent cells becoming cancerous. Ma",{"id":1110,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1111,"piName":10,"institution":1112,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":1113,"abstract":1114},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501473","A comparative study of the internal, external and non EU border regions in the context of the EU enlargment","QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST","€109,887","The problems and potential for change in Europe\\\\\\'s borders and borderlands are pivotal to, and goocindicators of, the obstacles and possibilities of European union enlargement and integration. The socio-economic characteristics of a borderland are determined by the political, economic a social characteristics of the neighbouring countries sharing the same border. It represents a d I resonant medium, which both connects and separates the different countries. It is often a conflict-rich environm",{"id":1116,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1117,"piName":10,"institution":1118,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":1119,"abstract":1120},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10188","Single-Molecule Resonant Tunnelling in Small Transition Metal Complexes - Towards Molecular Electronics","TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK","€178,433","Molecular electronics is expected to become a key technology in the 21st century with extensive current research. Owing to its future importance, molecular electronics is included in one of the seven FP6 priority areas, viz Nanotechnologies and Nanoscience . Our project will contribute to both the theoretical understanding of functional molecular electronic devices, and to their development and application. 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