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 Postgraduate Course: Dissertation Project in Systems and Synthetic Biology (PGBI11055)
Course Outline
	
		| School | School of Biological Sciences | College | College of Science and Engineering |  
		| Course type | Standard | Availability | Available to all students |  
		| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | Credits | 60 |  
		| Home subject area | Postgraduate | Other subject area | Biology |  
		| Course website | None | Taught in Gaelic? | No |  
		| Course description | Conduct a supervised, independent research project in the area of Systems and Synthetic Biology. 
 Students will have the option of choosing a host laboratory for a research dissertation project, or participating in a joint 'SynBio' lab project. (For example, by contributing to the Build-a-Genome project through our collabortion with JHU).
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Entry Requirements
    
		| Pre-requisites |  | Co-requisites |  |  
		| Prohibited Combinations |  | Other requirements | None |  
		| Additional Costs | None |  
Information for Visiting Students 
    
		| Pre-requisites | None |  
		| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |  
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11  Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond, Available to all students (SV1) | WebCT enabled:  Yes | Quota:  None |  
		| Location | Activity | Description | Weeks | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |  | No Classes have been defined for this Course |  | First Class | First class information not currently available |  
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
    
		| Research skills, experiment planning and design, practical experimentation, data analysis, data recording, data interpretation |  
Assessment Information 
    
        | Research Project 100% |  
Special Arrangements 
    
		| None |  
Additional Information 
    
		| Academic description | Not entered |  
		| Syllabus | Not entered |  
		| Transferable skills | Not entered |  
		| Reading list | Not entered |  
		| Study Abroad | Not entered |  
		| Study Pattern | Not entered |  
		| Keywords | Not entered |  
Contacts 
	
		| Course organiser | Dr Lea Harrington Tel:
 Email: l.harrington@ed.ac.uk
 | Course secretary | Miss Vicky Mactaggart Tel: (0131 6)51 7052
 Email: Vicky.Mactaggart@ed.ac.uk
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 31 January 2011 8:05 am
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