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My work has been generously funded from a variety of sources including EPSRC, BBSRC, the EU, the University of Nottingham Bridging the Gap Initiative and the School of Computer Science.

Grants where I am the Principal Investigator

1. Title:Towards a Universal Biological-Cell Operating System (AUdACiOuS) - EP/J004111/1
   Funding Body:  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
   Amount Awarded: £1,026,408
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Awarded: 1-09-2011
   Start Date: 01-1-2012
   End Date: 31-12-2016
   Notes: This is a prestigious EPSRC Leadership Fellowship. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
2. Title:ROADBLOCK: Towards Programmable Defensive Bacterial Coatings & Skins (EP/I031642/1)
   Funding Body:  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
   Amount Awarded: £1,657,718 (£ 791,388 for Nottingham, £ 261,096 for Warwick, £ 605,234 for Sheffield)
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: Prof. M. Camara-Garcia, Dr. S. Heeb, Prof. P. Martin
   Awarded: 1-10-2011
   Start Date: 01-2-2012
   End Date: 31-7-2015
   Notes: A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
3. Title:CADMAD - Paving the Way for Future Emerging DNA-based Technologies: Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing of DNA libraries
   Funding Body:  European Commission FP7 FET-Open STREP
   Amount Awarded: ~ £600,000 for Nottingham
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor (for Nottingham)
   Co-Investigators: Dr. S. Heeb, Dr. J. Bacardit and Prof. M. Camara
   Awarded: 01-03-2011
   Start Date: 01-06-2011
   End Date: 31-05-2014
   Notes: the project website can be found here .
4. Title:Evolutionary Optimisation of Self Assembling Nano-Designs (ExIStENcE, EP/H010432/1)
   Funding Body:  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
   Amount Awarded: £950,600
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: Prof. P. Moriarty, Prof. P. Beton and Prof. N. Champness
   Awarded: 14-07-2009
   Start Date: 01-11-2009
   End Date: 31-08-2012
   Notes: A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
5. Title:Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Plant Science Summer School (ESF-2482)
   Funding Body:  European Science Foundation
   Amount Awarded: €60435
   Principal Investigator: Dr. N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: Dr. J. Bacardit and Prof. M. Bennett
   Awarded: 18-3-2009
   Start Date: 18-3-2009
   End Date: 31-9-2009
6. Title:(Semi)Formal Artifial Life Through P-Systems and Learning Classifier Systems: An Investigation into InfoBiotics (EP/E017215/1)
   Funding Body:  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
   Amount Awarded: £515565
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: Dr. M. Camara Garcia, Prof. P. Williams
   Awarded: 26-1-2007
   Start Date: 01-09-2007
   End Date: 10-01-2011
   Notes: A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
7. Title:IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Evolvable CHELLware (EP/D021847/1)
   Website:ChellNet
   Funding Body:  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
   Amount Awarded: £77,658
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: Professor RJ Whitby, Professor JBC Whitaker, Dr BG Davis, Dr L Cronin, Dr SLM Schroeder
   Recognized Researcher: Dr. S. Gustafson,
   Awarded: 1/April/2005
   Start Date: 1 October 2005
   End Date:30 Setiembre 2008
   Notes: This project is part of the large ChellNet Initiative A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
8. Title: Robust Prediction with Explanatory Power for Protein Structure and Related Prediction Problems (GR/T07534/01)
   Website:Robust Prediction
   Funding Body:  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
   Amount Awarded: £209,589
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and J.D.Hirst
   Awarded: September 2004.
   Start Date: 1st Feb 2005 (duration 3 years)
   Notes: This is a joint project between the School of Computer Science and IT and the School of Chemistry here at Nottingham. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
9. Title: SynBioNT: A Synthetic Biology Network for Modelling and Programming Cell-Chell Interactions (BB/F01855X/1)
   Website: SynBioNT
   Funding Body:  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council with co-funding from EPSRC and ESRC
   Amount Awarded: £74587
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: C. Alexander
   Core Membership: M. Camara, W. Chan, N. Cohen, L. Cronin, B. Davis, A. Jaramillo, P. Martin, C. Ouzounis, S. Tsoka, A. Valencia, S. Gaisser, Eminate and EvoCell
   Awarded: March 2008.
   Start Date: 1st May 2008 (duration 3 years)
   Notes: For details please visit SynBioNT: A Synthetic Biology Network for Modelling and Programming Cell-Chell Interactions here at Nottingham. A brief summary can be found in BBSRC's Research Portfolio.
10. Title: Automated Grid-Aware, three-tier, Protocol for Protein Structure Comparison (BB/C511764/1)
    Website:ProCKSi
    Funding Body:  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    Amount Awarded: £63614
    Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
    Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke, J.D.Hirst, J. Garibaldi, H. Ashman, T. Brailsford
    Awarded: September 2004.
    Start Date: 1st Feb 2005 (duration 1.5 years)
    Notes: This is a joint project between the School of Computer Science and IT and the School of Chemistry here at Nottingham. External collaborators are Prof. G. Lancia and Dr. D.A. Pelta. A brief summary can be found in BBSRC's Research Portfolio.

Grants where I am Co-Investigator

1. EP/H000968/1Towards More Effective Computational Search
2. EP/J014133/1Potential Energy Surfaces of Various Accuracy for Bio-molecular Simulations
3. EP/J014265/1Adaptive Collective Variables: Automatic Identification and Application of Multiresolution Modelling
4. EP/G042462/1 The CHELL: A Bottom-Up approach to in vitro and in silico Minimal Life-like Constructs
5. BB/D0196131 Centre for Plant Integrative Biology
6. EP/D061571/1 Next Generation Decision Support: Automating the Heuristic Design Process
7. EP/D023777/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Directed Assembly of Functional Patterns (Brianchell)
8. EP/D022304/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Realising the Concept of the Artificial chemical cell with Vesicles
9. EP/D023327/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Realising the Concept of the Artificial chemical cell with Vesicles
10. EP/C523385/1 An investigation of the role of Genetic Programming in a Hyper-Heuristic Framework
11. EP/D023645/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Directed Assembly of Functional Patterns (Brianchell)
12. EP/D022347/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Realising the Concept of the Artificial chemical cell with Vesicles
13. EP/D023378/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Evolvable CHELLware
14. EP/D023904/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Directed Assembly of Functional Patterns (Brianchell)
15. EP/D023807/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: The 'WellChell': A Public-domain Proto-platform for revolutionary discovery of Complex Chemical Systes
16. EP/D023343/1 IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: CHELLnet: Unifying Investigation in Artificial Cellularity and Complexity
17. GR/S70197/01 PLATFORM: Towards More General Optimisation/Search Systems
18. GR/S64530/01 DNA Mapping by Combinatorial Optimisation - A Visiting Fellowship

European Union Projects

1. Title: Computational Intelligence for Biopattern Analysis in Support of e-healthcare (BIOPATTERN)

Funding Body:  EU 6th Framework Network of Excellence
Amount Awarded (to whole consortium): approx. 6.4M euro
Amount Awarded (to Nottingham): approx 330K euro
Network Co-ordinator (University of Plymouth): E.C.Ifeachor
Lead Researcher at Nottingham: J.M.Garibaldi
Other Named Research Staff at Nottingham: E.K.Burke, N.Krasnogor, J.Hirst, I.Symonds and J.Lowe
Contract Awarded: January 2004
Contract Number: IST e-health 508803
Notes: This is a network of excellence that involves 31 organisations across the EU. It is concerned with exploring emerging research issues and co-ordinating EU research efforts in the area of cancer and brain disease. Our contribution will investigate and develop an optimisation engine to underpin decision support systems for investigating the role of protein folding in the early detection/progression of Alzheimer's disease.
2. Title: BIOPTRAIN - Research Training Network for Bioinformatics Optimisation
   Funding Body:  EU 6th Framework Marie Curie Early-Stage Training
   Indicative Amount Awarded (to whole consortium): approx. 2M euro
   Indicative Amount Awarded (to Nottingham): approx 800K euro
   Network Co-ordinator (University of Nottingham): J.M.Garibaldi
   Lead Researcher at Nottingham: J.M.Garibaldi
   Other Named Research Staff at Nottingham: E.K.Burke, N.Krasnogor and J.Hirst.
   Other institutions in the Network: Poznan University of Technology (Poland), KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Firenze (Italy) and University of Boras (Sweden).
   Reference Number: Proposal:007597
   Notes: This is a research training network that supports 12 PhD studentships across the EU to address a wide variety of research issues in bioinformatics optimisation.