During a visit to the University of Edinburgh on Friday 3rd of October, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced £125M of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funding over five years to support the training and development of PhD students in Bioscience.
The funding will train students in world-class bioscience to boost the economy by building on UK strengths in agriculture, food, industrial biotechnology, bioenergy and health.
A £7.5 million investment from BBSRC into EASTBIO DTP will be matched by £7 million funding committed by the EASTBIO partner Universities.
During the visit, Dr Cable visited the labs at the Roslin Institute and discussed bioscience research with BBSRC-funded students and supervisors from the School of Biological Sciences and the Roslin Institute. Dr Cable also met with the EASTBIO Management Group and discussed training of bioscience students.
A warm welcome to our 2014 cohort of PhD students
The EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership welcomed its new intake of PhD students and their supervisors at the Induction Day , held in Dundee (West Park Conference Centre) on Tuesday 21 October 2014. Tell us what you thought by filling in the short, anonymous questionnaire here.
See the Induction schedule here. Presentation slides soon to be uploaded to our website.
For further questions, please email EASTBIO.
The 2014 EASTBIO Symposium was held in Dundee on the 28th and 29th of August with robust participation by our students and supervisors.
Leave your (anonymous) feedback here.
Congratulations to our two winners for best student presentation:
- first-year student Sybille Ursula Mittmann for her poster presentation on "The control of meiosis and recombination in barley"
- second-year student Magali Sivakumaran on "Out with the old, in with the new: Novelty judgements as a translational tool to assess healthy ageing", done in PechaKucha format
Thanks to our Organising Committee and host institution colleagues for their hard work in the last few months and to our EASTBIO supervisors for attending the Symposium and for their engagement with the students' work.
Our redesigned website was launched in early July 2014. It has a new layout and enhanced interactivity enabling communication across the partnership.
EASTBIO students and supervisors have access to restricted pages, as well as some editing rights. For information on how to get access, post comments, etc., please click here (for EASTBIO students and supervisors ONLY).
We are happy to announce that the EASTBIO Induction Day 2014 will be held on Tuesday 21st of October and kindly hosted by the University of Dundee.
More information and details about the programme will be posted here soon.
Would you like to study for a PhD at one of the UK's most prestigious universities, located on the beautiful east coast of Scotland? Would you like to be part of a collaborative network of bioscience students and supervisors working together on cutting edge research of global importance? Would you like to experience enhanced development opportunities in new technologies and techniques, public engagement and industrial impact?
Prospective students for the 2013 cohort of BBSRC-funded EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership studentships can now see all potential projects listed on our Available Projects page. EASTBIO will offer a minimum of 34 fully-funded studentships to start in autumn 2013. Our application deadline is 18th January 2013.
Around 50% of our studentships focus on areas of current strategic importance to UK Bioscience. Please learn more about these areas, and our projects by clicking on headings below:
- Bioenergy and Industrial Biotechnology
- Food Security
- Basic Biosciences Underpinning Health (Ageing)
The remaining 50% of studentships will be awarded in:
Our Summer 2014 Newsletter is now available. To view, click on the image below:
Booking is now open for two bioinformatics short courses in Edinburgh this June.
R/Bioconductor and Unix * 10th-12th June * 10:00-17:00 *
Course Leader: Dr Simon Tomlinson
Booking Link: http://goo.gl/7PkNPc
This course focuses on the analysis of gene expression data from microarray and high-throughput sequencing platforms, using R, Bioconductor and Unix: data analysis approaches, principles and common pitfalls; an introduction to R, Bioconductor and other resources for data analysis; analysis of microarray gene expression data and of next-generation sequencing data (RNA-seq). Day 3 is an optional session for attendees to drop in and work through problems with support from Simon.
Introduction to Python * 23rd-27th June * 09:00-17:00*
Course Leader: Dr Martin Jones
Booking Link: http://goo.gl/0tRrBZ
Launched on 31 January 2013, the EASTBIO Basic Bioscience underpinning Health (Ageing) priority area begun its 12 weeks-long online Research Training on 28 February 2014.
For the course schedule, click here. For the course outline, click here.
Email us your feedback at enquiries@eastscotbiodtp.ac.uk.
The programme for the EASTBIO Annual Symposium is viewable here. For the summaries of the talks scheduled, click here.
If you are an EASTBIO student, sign up here.
If you are an EASTBIO supervisor, sign up here.
Final deadline for signing up is Wednesday 21 August at 17:00.
Practical information about the Symposium can be found here.
Our warmest thanks to Anuj, Becky, Magali, Matt and Vrushali (cohort 2012 student representatives) for their brilliant ideas and the considerable time they've put into organising the symposium.
The theme for our Annual Research Symposium (University of Dundee, 28-29 August 2014) is Bioscience Research for the Future. Register via this link.
Confirmed speakers include Regius Professor of Life Sciences Mike Ferguson (University of Dundee) and Professor Keith Lindsey (University of Durham). The 2013 cohort will present posters and the 2012 cohort students will give a short talk about their research. There will also be a chance for students to workshop their plans for the PIPS. The symposium dinner and ceilidh will be held on Thursday 28th August. All students and supervisors are encouraged to attend.
The programme will be advertised here shortly.
Information for our students, below:
Poster session (first year students only)
Presentations (second year students only)
Our Spring 2014 Newsletter is now available. Click here to view.
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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he Symposium, addressed by Regius Professor of Life Sciences Mike Ferguson (University of Dundee), will feature presentations by our second-year students and poster presentations by first-year students, as well as talks by invited speakers for each of the four priority areas. The afternoon of the 29th features a workshop on the EASTBIO PIPS, with informal talks by students who have already done their placements.
Professor Mike Ferguson
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.
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 will cover, please click here.
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.
For more information and specific queries about the projects or how to apply, email enquiries@eastscotbiodtp.ac.uk.
Available Projects
Please take a look at our EASTBIO PhD projects starting in autumn 2014. You can read through them all, search by keyword above or research theme/university below.
• Aberdeen (21)
• Dundee (18)
• Edinburgh (73)
• St Andrews (9)
• Basic Bioscience Underpinning Health (29)
• Bioenergy and Industrial Biotechnology (15)
• Food Security (27)
• Other World-Class Bioscience (50)
Welcome to our new student representatives. Find out more about them here!
The EASTBIO DTP Induction Day was held on Friday 18 October 2013, 10am-6pm at the lovely West Park Conference Centre in Dundee. The one-day event, attended by the new cohort of EASTBIO PhD students and the majority of their supervisors, provided an overall introduction to PhD requirements, key timelines, student representation, training requirements and development, as well as PIPS and eLearning within the EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership.
The slides from the Induction presentations can be found at the Student Resources; email the EASTBIO Administrator for the login details.
For any queries, write to us to enquiries@eastscotbiodtp.ac.uk.
Our Autumn 2013 Newsletter is now available. Click here to download.
