EASTBIO Annual Symposium 2014
Registration is now open to EASTBIO students and supervisors for our Annual Research Symposium (University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building, 28-29 August 2014).
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Food Security Research Training Launch
The EASTBIO Research Training for the priority area of Food Security was launched with an Introductory Day held on 2 April at the University of Aberdeen. For details about what the FS Training 2014/15 will cover, please click here.
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Food Security Research Training launch
EASTBIO DTP PhD Projects for 2014
EASTBIO PhD Projects in Bioscience starting in Autumn 2014 are now advertised on our website -- to browse, please click here. More projects for doctoral research in the BBSRC priority areas (Bioenergy and Industrial Biotechnology, Basic Science Underpinning Health (Ageing), Food Security and World-Class Bioscience), based on one of the four EASTBIO partners, will soon be available online.
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2013 student representatives
EASTBIO Induction Day 2013
The EASTBIO DTP Induction Day was held on Friday 18 October 2013, 10am-6pm at the lovely West Park Conference Centre in Dundee.
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EASTBIO DTP Newsletter
EASTBIO DTP R/Bioconductor and Unix course
EASTBIO DTP offered a 2-day course on R/Bioconductor and Unix, held at the University of Edinburgh on 29-30 May 2013.
The course focused on the analysis of gene expression data from microarray and high-throughput sequencing platforms, using R, Bioconductor and Unix. Day 1 provided an introduction to data analysis approaches, principles and common pitfalls and an introduction to R, Bionductor and other resources for data analysis. Day 2 covered analysis of microarray gene expression data and of next-generation sequencing data (RNA-seq).
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EASTBIO DTP New Administrator
Dr Maria Filippakopoulou has joined EASTBIO DTP as Administrator, based at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
With a humanities background (comparative literature and translation), Maria has worked at centres of excellence of the University of Edinburgh such as the Applied Quantitative Methods Network, School of Law and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, as well as the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia.
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