PhD-MPhil Biological Sciences

Comments about PhD-MPhil Biological Sciences - At the institution - Gwynedd - Wales

• 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

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