The BBSRC has allocated the EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership 9 funded Research Experience Placements (REP) this summer for projects in Healthy Ageing, Food Security, Biotech & Bioenergy and World-class Underpinning Bioscience. The aim of these placements is to give talented undergraduates professional experience in a research environment, particularly useful for anyone considering a career in academic or industrial research. Each REP provides £200 per week stipend for a research project of up to 10 weeks.

The University of Aberdeen has advertised three additional EastBio DTP projects for one fully-funded PhD studentship to be awarded by EastBio DTP:

• Exploring and Exploiting the Biosynthesis of Myriocin, a Potent Fungal Metabolite
• Building Biologically-based Micon-scale Structures out of Lignin
• Newly Generated HMGB1-Inhibitors as a Novel Neuroprotective Treatment

Please check regularly the website for updates on available opportunities.
 

The EASTBIO Research Training for the Bioenergy & Industrial Biotechnology priority area was launched with a meeting on 13 January 2013 and its online sessions started on Friday 7 March 2014. You can find out more details in the course schedule.

Email us your feedback or questions at enquiries@eastscotbiodtp.ac.uk.
 

Wednesday 17th October saw the 35 new BBSRC-funded EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership students and their supervisors gather in Dundee for our first annual Induction Day.

Our first cohort of EASTBIO students will be starting in their home institutions over the next few weeks. We are looking forward to meeting them at our EASTBIO Induction Day on Wednesday 17th October 2012 in Dundee.