Postgraduate Training
New: MSc in Cell and Molecular Systems Biology
A new Masters programme aimed at biology and physical sciences graduates
A BBSRC-funded Masters programme: Studentships are available offering paid tuition fees and a full student stipend, currently £13,290 for the 1 year Masters.
Understan
ding the complexity of living
organisms requires new tools and approaches to explain how their cells
and tissues work together and are regulated.
To meet this challenge, biologists in industry and academia are increasingly working in interdisciplinary teams with physicists, computing scientists and mathematicians, in the new field of systems biology. Together, they are using model building to pose new hypotheses about how cells integrate and control many different gene products to produce well-organised tissues.
The MSc in Cell & Molecular Systems Biology will teach you how our current understanding of cell and molecular biology is being enhanced through the development of predictive computer models of living systems. This newly launched MSc programme is funded by the Biotechnological and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the major science funding body in the UK, and we can offer full stipends to students who meet the eligibility criteria.
The MSc in Cell & Molecular Systems Biology
is aimed at students with either a biology or physical sciences
background. It will produce graduates who can use biological modelling
as part of their everyday scientific approach to analysing and understanding biological systems. Successful
graduates will be able to contribute to interdisciplinary research
teams, which are the future of scientific research. For further details, please visit the Graduate School web site or contact Prof Ian Stansfield.
Students in this Aberdeen Masters programme will be studying at a University with a highly successful record in systems biology research funding (currently £8m).
PhD opportunities
We have a number of PhD opportunities available for application, both in the College of Life Sciences and Medicine, listed here, and within the College of Physical Sciences, listed here. A number of these projects involve systems biology approaches.
If you have a 2i or 1st class degree in a science subject, or an equivalent qualification, and are interested in applying for a research studentship, please follow the application processes detailed on the Graduate School web sites.
Alternatively, if you do not find a studentship of interest and still wish to pursue postgraduate research studies please make direct contact with one of the staff listed here, or with the Graduate Schools in the College of Physical Sciences or in the College of Life Sciences and Medicine for help in finding a supervisor and funding in your area of interest.