2024/25 Thematic Programme

Introduction

Themes

EastBio student projects are designed around five key research themes:

1. Understanding the rules of life
2. Bioscience for sustainable agriculture and food – Crops and soil
3. Bioscience for sustainable agriculture and food – Terrestrial and aquatic animals (this encompasses Livestock, Production Biology, and Health and aquaculture)
4. Bioscience for renewable resources and clean growth
5. Bioscience for an integrated understanding of health

Meetings

Meetings among the members of a thematic group are a mandatory element of the training programme, which primarily aims at cohort-building throughout the first year.

These meetings are student-led and should take place at different partner institutions 4 times over the course of the year, ideally in alternate months – December, February, April, June.

The final thematic meeting may be planned to take place during the EastBio symposium (3-4th June), to reduce travel for attendees. This may be a joint meeting across groups if there is shared interest in a topic such as industry-collaboration, science communication or big data in life sciences.

Second-year students are expected to attend at least one of these sessions.

Clean Growth

Crops and Soil

Integrated Understanding of Health

Livestock and Aquaculture

Understanding the Rules of Life