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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 |  
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |  
| Course type | Dissertation | Availability | Not available to visiting students |  
| SCQF Credits | 60 | ECTS Credits | 30 |  
 
| Summary | Conduct a supervised, independent research project in the area of Systems and Synthetic Biology. 
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| Course description | 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). |  
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |  | Co-requisites |  |  
| Prohibited Combinations |  | Other requirements | None |  
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1) | Quota:  None |  | Course Start | Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond |  Timetable | Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | Total Hours:
600
(
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
588 ) |  
| Assessment (Further Info) | Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 % |  
 
| Additional Information (Assessment) | Research Project 100% |  
| Feedback | Not entered |  
| No Exam Information |  
Learning Outcomes 
| Research skills, experiment planning and design, practical experimentation, data analysis, data recording, data interpretation |  
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | Not entered |  
| Keywords | ProjectSSB |  
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Prof Peter Swain Tel: (0131 6)50 5451
 Email: peter.swain@ed.ac.uk
 | Course secretary | Miss Gillian MacDonald Tel:
 Email: G.Macdonald@ed.ac.uk
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