Postgraduate Course: Infectious Diseases (BIME11045)
Course Outline
| School | School of Biomedical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 80 |
| Home subject area | Biomedical Sciences |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Infectious diseases remain a major threat to individual and community health. They also impact upon food security and safety, and compromise animal health, welfare and production. Edinburgh Infectious Diseases (EID) fosters interdisciplinary research that brings together medical and veterinary scientists with the latest technologies to investigate all aspects of infectious disease pathogenesis and control. EID has expertise in epidemiology (including mathematical modelling), virology, microbiology, parasitology and arthropod vector biology. Support across classical disciplines is provided by biochemists, molecular biologists, geneticists, pathologists and bioinformaticians employing the latest methodologies of genomics, functional genomics and proteomics. EID¿s research programmes include pathogens of national and international importance including: influenza; herpes viruses; HIV E coli 0157 and other enteric infections, Staphylococcus aureus, hospital acquired infections; tropical diseases including malaria, river blindness and lymphatic filariasis; schistsomiasis and sleeping sickness. Investigations of diseases of wild animals as well as domesticated species (foot-and-mouth disease; ovine paratuberculosis) are included in the research portfolio.
ERI offers a stimulating environment for postgraduate training (in modern, well equipped laboratories) that can include periods of study in collaborating laboratories in Europe through the EU's ERASMUS programme (available only when Infectious Disease is selected as a double option).
There are no formal taught elements to this course but students will be expected to attend lectures and seminars as directed by their supervisor for the purpose of gaining new theoretical knowledge and technical expertise required of the research project. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The aim of this course is to act as an elective research theme for the MSc/Diploma by Research in the Biomedical Sciences Programme.
It will provide students the opportunity to acquire research experience and associated generic/transferable skills in preparation a for 3 year PhD training in biomedical sciences;
Successful study will earn an MSc by Research en route to the PhD. |
Assessment Information
| One 20 week maxi project write-up (maximum 15,000 words) = 100% |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof David Taylor
Tel: (0131 6)50 6289
Email: David.W.Taylor@ed.ac.uk |
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