PhD-MPhil Biological Sciences

Institution Bangor University
Method At the institution
Location Gwynedd
Type Masters
Course fee By request

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PhD-MPhil Biological Sciences

Entry requirements Entry An upper second class honours degree is required
Academic title PhD/MPhil Biological Sciences
Course description The research work of the school covers the full spectrum of the biosciences, from environmental and ecological to cellular and molecular, including medically-related molecular research. The areas of research are:

Animal Physiology and Behaviour:

    * Crustacean neuroendocrinology, growth, reproduction
    * Environmental physiology of aquatic organisms
    * Fish behaviour
    * Integrative behavioural physiology/energetics
    * Marine mammals/conservation genetics

Cellular and Molecular:

    * Cancer research
    * Cell Biology
    * DNA damage checkpoints
    * DNA repair
    * Endothelial development
    * Entomology
    * Eukaryote chromosome dynamics/repair
    * Eukaryotic cell control cycle
    * Forensic acarology
    * Human neural differentiation and cancer
    * Intracellular host-symbiont interactions
    * Mechanisms of mammalian signal transduction
    * Metabolic regulation
    * Metal-microbe interactions
    * Microbiology of extreme environments
    * Molecular medical/veterinary entomology
    * Molecular parasitology
    * Neurodegenerative genetics
    * Neuroscience
    * Reproductive parasites and pathogens of invertebrates
    * Vector biology

Ecology and Evolution:

    * Ancient DNA and long-term environmental change
    * Behavioural ecology
    * Biofilms
    * Biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems
    * Conservation Genetics
    * Ecology of clonal animals
    * Ecophysiology of aquatic organisms
    * Effects of climate change
    * Environmental biotechnology
    * Evolution of venomous snakes and venom
    * Evolutionary and population genetics
    * Evolutionary ecology and phylogeography
    * Fisheries Genetics
    * Geographic variation in lizards, snakes and amphibians
    * Molecular and evolutionary ecology
    * Molecular ecology and adaptation
    * Plant ecology
    * Wetland biogeochemistry
    * Wetland ecology

Plant Systems and Technology:

    * Carbon partitioning
    * Physiology and genetics of abiotic stress resistance
    * Physiology of plant growth, cell wall proteins and genes
    * Plant genomics and metabolomics
    * Plant molecular biology
    * Plant physiology and carbon partitioning
    * Plant water relations
    * Plant-rhizosphere interactions
    * Single-cell transcriptomics and metabolomics
    * The biophysics of growth