Introduction
EASTBIO student projects are designed around five key research themes:
- Understanding the rules of life
- Bioscience for sustainable agriculture and food – Crops and soil
- Bioscience for sustainable agriculture and food – Terrestrial and aquatic animals (this encompasses Livestock, Production Biology, and Health and aquaculture)
- Bioscience for renewable resources and clean growth
- Bioscience for an integrated understanding of health
Meetings among the members of a thematic group are a mandatory element of the training programme, which primarily aims at cohort-building throughout the first year. These meetings are student-led and should take place at different partner institutions 4 times over the course of the year, ideally in alternate months – December, February, April, June. The final thematic meeting may be planned to take place following the EASTBIO symposium (5th June), to reduce travel for attendees. This may be a joint meeting across groups if there is shared interest in a topic such as industry-collaboration, science communication or big data in life sciences.
Second-year students are expected to attend at least one of these sessions.
2023/24 Thematic Programme
Clean Growth
- Session 1 - Circular Economy, Friday 15th December, Edinburgh
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Crops and Soil
- Session 1 - Translational Science, Friday 15th December, JHI, Invergowrie/Dundee.
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Integrated Understanding of Health
- Session 1 - Sex Differences in Medical Research, Friday 8th December, Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen. Please contact rce1@st-andrews.ac.uk to register.
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Livestock and Aquaculture
- Session 1 - Impact and Policy, Wednesday 6th December, 50 George Square, Edinburgh.
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Understanding the Rules of Life
- Session 1 - Model Organisms to Model Decisions. Monday 11th December, Swann Building, Edinburgh.
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