Advanced Bioscience Training

The following courses – related to core bioscience and technology skills, including courses related to mathematics/ data analysis and multidisciplinary approaches to biological systems - belong to the student-selected development programme.

These options build on the skills developed in Year 1 through the EastBio foundation masterclasses and are open to all first-, second- and third-year EastBio students.

Please note that these courses confer training points (10 points each) only to second-year students. 

Although we have made every effort to update details of available options, it is the responsibility of an individual student to seek out further details from the local provider based within our EastBio partner institutions.

Courses include, but are not limited to:

I – Core Bioscience Skills

Microscopy and Imaging

• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee
  • For details, please contact Paul Appleton

Genetic Engineering and Genome Analysis

• University of Aberdeen
• University of Edinburgh

Bioinformatics

• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee
  • For details, please contact Jim Procter, Geoff Barton, Suzanne Duce
• University of Edinburgh

Proteomics and Protein Purification

• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee 
  • For details, please contact Dougie Lamont
• University of Edinburgh

Protein Crystallography

University of St Andrews

Mass Spectrometry

• University of Aberdeen
• University of Edinburgh
  • For details, please contact Dr Natalie Homer

Flow Cytometry

• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee
  • For details, please contact Rosie Clarke
• University of Edinburgh

II – Mathematics and data analysis

University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

University of Edinburgh

University of Dundee

University of Stirling

University of St Andrews

III – Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding biological systems

The EastBio partners offer a large number of postgraduate taught MSc courses open to all EastBio students, addressing directly the development of multidisciplinary areas of research. These include MSc course modules in:

•    Synthetic Biology

•    Medicinal Chemistry

•    Drug Discovery

•    Chemical Biology

•    Physical Techniques in Chemistry

•    Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship

•    Aquaculture