DrEmma Ransome
Associate Professor
Department of Life Sciences - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Associate ProfessorDepartment of Life Sciences - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Buckhurst Road, Munro Building, Silwood Park Campus, SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Research Grants & Collaborations
I have been awarded >£6.2M of grant funding as a Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator or Research Co-Investigator. In 2018, I co-wrote a NERC grant (£2.03M) "A Novel Framework for Predicting Emerging Chemical Stressor Impacts in Complex Ecosystems" as a Research Co-Investigator (PI: Woodward). Since starting as a Lecturer at Imperial College in January 2020, grant funding includes £130K to investigate ways to enhance seagrass restoration (PI), £270K to understand the impact of anthropogenic change on cryptic coral reef communities, (PI and Co-PI), £626K as a Co-Investigator on two grants investigating "SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage Treatment Works: Environmental Impact, Infectivity and Prevalence Modelling" (e.g. PI: Savolainen, NERC), £515K as a Co-Investigator investigating "SARS-CoV interactions with air pollution" (PI: Chung, EPSRC), £137K as a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator investigating novel molecular methods for detecting viral pathogens (Innovate UK and ACE Home Office funding), £2.45M to investigate the use of microbial communities in controlling Take-all disease (PI: Waring; Uren Foundation), and £41K to develop an island health index app for the Maldives (Imperial College Strategic Research Fund; Co-Investigator). In addition to the grants above, I have received funding from the Basis Foundation, the Grantham Institute, NBAF, EU ASSEMBLE and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Tom Smith (2020). Project: "Investigating the feasibility of seagrass as a carbon offsetting tool".
Dr Chris Adams (2020). Project: "Local and global stressors combine to produce ‘ecological surprises’ for aquatic microbes."
Dr Scott Jones (2022). Project: "UNTAP: RNA sensors for wastewater detection".
Dr Margaux Steyaert (2023-2024). Project: "Future Reef: Elucidating the impact of anthropogenic change on cryptic reef communities".
Dr Balig Panossian (2024-2027). Project: "The Microbial Green Revolution".
PhD Students
Ms Margaux Steyaert (2018-2022; with Dr C Head, ZSL & Prof M Bonsall, University of Oxford; NERC SSCP funded). Project: "Understanding cryptic benthic coral reef diversity in the Chagos Archipelago".
Mr Jake Williams (2020-2024; with Dr N Pettorelli, ZSL & Dr C Meyer, Smithsonian NMNH; NERC QMEE funded). Project: "Not just corals and fishes: distribution modelling and management of dark diversity on coral reefs."
Ms Rosie Dowell (2020-2024; with Dr C Yesson & Dr C Head, ZSL; NERC SSCP funded, CASE support: NatureMetrics). Project: "Developing Environmental DNA techniques as a marine biodiversity montioring tool in the Indian Ocean".
Ms Amelia Newman (2024-2028; with Dr C Yesson, ZSL & Mike Sweet, University of Derby; NERC SSCP DTP funded, CASE support: Ocean Conservation Trust). Project: "Enhancing seagrass restoration with microbial communities".
Mr Luke Herring (2024-2028; with Dr M Dumas, ICL, Dr C Bowler, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris & Dr S Carvalho, KAUST; Leverhulme Centre for the Holobiont funded). Project: "Determining the drivers and consequences of shifts in the coral reef cryptobiome".
I have been awarded >£6.2M of grant funding as a Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator or Research Co-Investigator. In 2018, I co-wrote a NERC grant (£2.03M) "A Novel Framework for Predicting Emerging Chemical Stressor Impacts in Complex Ecosystems" as a Research Co-Investigator (PI: Woodward). Since starting as a Lecturer at Imperial College in January 2020, grant funding includes £130K to investigate ways to enhance seagrass restoration (PI), £270K to understand the impact of anthropogenic change on cryptic coral reef communities, (PI and Co-PI), £626K as a Co-Investigator on two grants investigating "SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage Treatment Works: Environmental Impact, Infectivity and Prevalence Modelling" (e.g. PI: Savolainen, NERC), £515K as a Co-Investigator investigating "SARS-CoV interactions with air pollution" (PI: Chung, EPSRC), £137K as a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator investigating novel molecular methods for detecting viral pathogens (Innovate UK and ACE Home Office funding), £2.45M to investigate the use of microbial communities in controlling Take-all disease (PI: Waring; Uren Foundation), and £41K to develop an island health index app for the Maldives (Imperial College Strategic Research Fund; Co-Investigator). In addition to the grants above, I have received funding from the Basis Foundation, the Grantham Institute, NBAF, EU ASSEMBLE and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Tom Smith (2020). Project: "Investigating the feasibility of seagrass as a carbon offsetting tool".
Dr Chris Adams (2020). Project: "Local and global stressors combine to produce ‘ecological surprises’ for aquatic microbes."
Dr Scott Jones (2022). Project: "UNTAP: RNA sensors for wastewater detection".
Dr Margaux Steyaert (2023-2024). Project: "Future Reef: Elucidating the impact of anthropogenic change on cryptic reef communities".
Dr Balig Panossian (2024-2027). Project: "The Microbial Green Revolution".
PhD Students
Ms Margaux Steyaert (2018-2022; with Dr C Head, ZSL & Prof M Bonsall, University of Oxford; NERC SSCP funded). Project: "Understanding cryptic benthic coral reef diversity in the Chagos Archipelago".
Mr Jake Williams (2020-2024; with Dr N Pettorelli, ZSL & Dr C Meyer, Smithsonian NMNH; NERC QMEE funded). Project: "Not just corals and fishes: distribution modelling and management of dark diversity on coral reefs."
Ms Rosie Dowell (2020-2024; with Dr C Yesson & Dr C Head, ZSL; NERC SSCP funded, CASE support: NatureMetrics). Project: "Developing Environmental DNA techniques as a marine biodiversity montioring tool in the Indian Ocean".
Ms Amelia Newman (2024-2028; with Dr C Yesson, ZSL & Mike Sweet, University of Derby; NERC SSCP DTP funded, CASE support: Ocean Conservation Trust). Project: "Enhancing seagrass restoration with microbial communities".
Mr Luke Herring (2024-2028; with Dr M Dumas, ICL, Dr C Bowler, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris & Dr S Carvalho, KAUST; Leverhulme Centre for the Holobiont funded). Project: "Determining the drivers and consequences of shifts in the coral reef cryptobiome".