Program description
Biological Sciences
The research work by the School covers the full spectrum of the biosciences.
The first six months of your PhD or MPhil will be spent refining your project proposal and conducting a thorough Literature review, which will contribute to your final thesis. You will also present your proposal to the rest of the cohort and supervisory staff. Feedback obtained will enable you to improve your final project.
You will also be expected to take advantage of the training program provided by the College of Natural Sciences Graduate School and the University Doctoral School in both subject-specific and generic postgraduate-level skills.
Research Areas
Animal Physiology and Behaviour with specialisations in:
- Crustacean neuroendocrinology, growth, reproduction
- Environmental physiology of aquatic organisms
- Fish Behaviour
- Integrative behavioural physiology/energetics
- Marine mammals/conservation genetics
Cellular and Molecular with specialisations in:
- 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 interaction
- Microbiology of extreme environments
- Molecular medical/veterinary entomology
- Molecular parasitology
- Neurodegenerative genetics
- Neuroscience
- Reproductive parasites and pathogens of invertebrates
- Vector biology
Ecology and Evolution with specialisations in:
- 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
- Wetlands for Pollution Control
Plant Systems and Technology with specialisations in:
- 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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Admission requirements
An upper second class honours degree is required
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Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Tuition fees
Qualification
Upon successful completion of the program, students will earn a PhD.
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Bangor University
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Bangor University has achieved a Gold Award, the highest rating possible, in the national Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). The TEF assessment took into account teaching quality, learning environment and student outcomes and learning gain. We were judged to deliver consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for our students and our teaching is of the highest quality found in the UK.
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We offer hundreds of courses across the arts and the sciences. We pride ourselves on the quality of our teaching and our courses and lecturers have been rated in the top 10 in the country.
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Study at a world-class university, which is recognised for the quality of teaching and research. Bangor University is in the top 40 in the UK for research according to the Research Excellence Framework 2014.
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We offer a variety of options to gain valuable employability skills, which includes supporting you in work placements and internships that you may wish to undertake.
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We guarantee accommodation for first year students who apply by the deadline and select us as their Firm Choice. Our accommodation was rated as the best in the UK at the What Uni Student Choice Awards 2018.
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