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CoSyst
Collaborative Scheme for Systematics Research
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The BBSRC Collaborative Scheme for Systematics Research (Co-Syst) is designed to provide short-term funding for new collaborative research in systematics. The initiative is intended to support preliminary collaborative research that will form the basis of novel responsive mode proposals to either BBSRC or NERC.
Details of the scheme, which will provide funding of £2k to £20k for collaborative projects with a substantial systematic/phylogenetic/taxonomic component are here. The scheme is available only to UK-based applicants.
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Guidelines for applying for CoSyst funding
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CoSyst Round 3 Panel Membership:
- Dr Julie Hawkins (Chair): Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading.
- Dr Liam Dolan: Cell and Developmental Biology Department, John Innes Centre.
- Dr Sandy Knapp: Department of Botany, Natural History Museum.
- Dr Tim Littlewood: Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum.
- Dr Seb Shimeld: Evolution and Development research group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
- Dr Mark van der Giezen: Centre for Eukaryotic Evolutionary Microbiology, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter.
- Dr Tom Richards (Observer): Centre for Eukaryotic Evolutionary Microbiology, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter. Tom is observing the panel for the third round of CoSyst in his capacity as Systematics Research Fund chair for the Linnean Society and Systematics Association.
CoSyst - Online Application Form
Applications for the third round closed on 15 March 2009. The applications have been assessed, please see the results section below.
Results
Third round: November 2008 - March 2009
The third round of CoSyst awards were made in April. A total of £94,969 was allocated.
The applications funded are as follows:
- £5,390 Genoveva Esteban, Queen Mary University of London, and John Day, Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa. Ecology and systematics of an undescribed phototrophic symbiosis: Loxodes rostrum.
- £14,939 Matthew Hegarty, Aberystwyth University, and Simon Hiscock, University of Bristol. Complexity reduction to identify genomic composition of two Senecio allopolyploids.
- £10,000 Tim Langdon, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Michael Fay, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Transposable element profiles and phylogenetic conflicts in the Aveneae.
- £12,450 Lukas Ruber, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, and Martin Genner, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Novel genomic tools to test for ecological speciation in cichlids.
- £10,100 S(Prasad)Sreenivasaprasad, University of Warwick (Warwick HRI), and Paul F. Cannon, CABI Europe UK Centre. The fungal population-species interface: molecular phylogenetic models to infer speciation.
- £16,500 Maximilian Telford, UCL, and Richard Copley, Oxford University. Xenoturbella Whole Genome Sequencing for Deuterostome Systematics.
- £10,930 Mark Wilkinson, The Natural History Museum, and Chris Shaw, Queen's University Belfast. Systematics and Evolution of the Caecilian Cutaneous Secretome.
- £6,110 Suzanne Williams, Natural History Museum, and Katrin Linse, British Antarctic Survey. Origins of shallow and deep-water tropical diversity.
- £8,550 Simon Whelan, University of Manchester, and Matthew Spencer, University of Liverpool, Mapping selective events during endosymbiosis and plastid evolution onto phylogenetic trees.
The CoSyst panel regret that it is not possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants, and that feedback is not available to any applicants. In this regard we are following BBSRC recommendations, but are also limited by the resource available for the administration of the scheme.
Second round: October 2007 - January 2008
The second round of CoSyst awards were made in March. A total of £74,445 was allocated.
The applications funded are as follows:
- £11,661 to Jan Strugnell, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, and Phillip Watts, University of Liverpool, Gene flow, adaptation and speciation in Antarctic octopus: consequences of climate change.
- £5,690 to James Cotton,, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tobias Hill, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, A Novel Computational Approach to Bacterial Phylogenomics.
- £12,424 to Philip Wigge, Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, and David Roberts, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Orchid-TEMPEST (Temperature Perception and Signal Transduction).
- £9,555 to Bryony Williams, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, and Gareth Griffith, Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Molecular evolution of Rozella allomycis: A primordial parasitic fungal lineage?
- £6,657 to Ralf Stanewsky, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, and Simon Coppard, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, The circadian clock regulates sea urchin lunar spawning rhythms to avoid hybridization.
- £3,468 to Noel Ellis, John Innes Centre, and Toby Pennington, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, The Molecular Basis of Tendril Diversity in Legumes.
- £5,130 to Martin Bidartondo, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Jeff Duckett, Queen Mary, University of London, Evolutionary ecology of liverwort-fungal symbioses: molecular, experimental and functional analyses.
- £10,200 to Simon Creer, School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Sara Goodacre, School of Biology, Institute of Genetics, Nottingham University, Advancing mitogenomics via ultrasequencing: A case study in the diverse Araneae order.
- £9,460 to Richard Bateman, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Genetic and structural basis of co-evolution of bee orchids and their pollinators.
The CoSyst panel regret that it is not possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants, and that feedback is not available to any applicants. In this regard we are following BBSRC recommendations, but are also limited by the resource available for the administration of the scheme.
First round: October 2006 - January 2007
The first round of CoSyst awards were made in February. A total of £84 993 was allocated, the £75 000 from BBSRC being supplemented in this year only by a generous once-off contribution from the Linnean Society.
The applications funded are as follows:
- Dr Vincent Savolainen (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew), Genomic tools for studying the origin of species £9,480
- Dr Thomas Richards (University of Exeter, School of Biosciences), Molecular diversity of microbial eukaryotes using a large-scale parallel tag sequencing strategy £19,608
- Dr Paula Rudall (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Hydatellaceae: a key to reassessing morphological evolution in angiosperms £10,450
- Dr Catherine Kidner (University of Edinburgh/Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh), Comparative epigenomics of non-model organisms £13,730
- Dr Mark van der Giezen (Queen Mary, University of London), Breviata and the 7th eukaryotic supergroup £8,150
- Dr Donald Quicke (Division of Biology, Imperial College London), Barcoding of hostplant genes from larval guts: a proof-of-concept study £9,375
- Dr Julie Hawkins, The University of Reading, The tortoise and the ant: dispersal biology and speciation in biodiversity hotspots £14,200
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