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Postgraduate
SCQF Level 11 (73 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
PGBI11084
SS1
Animal Genetic Improvement
Semester 2
10
PGBI11029
Applicable Mathematics for MSc Drug Discovery and Translational Biology
Not delivered this year
10
PGBI11094
SS1
Applications of Synthetic Biology
Semester 2
10
PGBI11118
SS1
Automation and Industry
Semester 1
10
PGBI11100
SS1
Biochemistry A
Semester 1
10
PGBI11101
SS1
Biochemistry B
Semester 2
10
PGBI11127
SS1
Biodesign for Sustainability
Semester 2
10
ECLG11004
SS1
Biodiversity Under Pressure
Semester 1
20
PGBI11044
SS1
Biodiversity of Angiosperms
Full Year
20
PGBI11057
SS1
Bioinformatics Algorithms
Semester 2
10
PGBI11095
SS1
Bioinformatics Programming and System Management
Semester 1
20
PGBI11129
SS1
Biological Databases
Semester 1
10
PGBI11130
SS1
Biological Structure and Drug Function
Semester 2
20
PGBI11107
SS1
Biophysical Chemistry for MSc Biochemistry
Semester 1
10
PGBI11049
SS1
Commercial Aspects of Drug Discovery
Semester 2
10
PGBI11115
SS1
Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics
Semester 2
10
PGBI11043
SS1
Conservation and Sustainability
Semester 2
10
ECLG11001
SS1
Dissertation (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
PGBI11135
SS1
Dissertation (Quantitative Genetics)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
PGBI11055
SS1
Dissertation Project in Systems and Synthetic Biology
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
ECLG11005
SS1
Eco-evolutionary Responses to Anthropogenic Change
Semester 2
20
BITE11003
SS1
Economics & Innovation in the Biotechnology Industry
Semester 1
20
PLSC11005
SS1
Evolution & Biodiversity of Cryptogams
Full Year
20
PLSC11002
SS1
Evolution of Plants
Block 1 (Sem 1)
10
PGBI11087
SV1
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics
Block 4 (Sem 2)
10
PGBI11040
SS1
Functional Genomic Technologies
Semester 2
10
PGBI11083
SS1
Genetics of Human Complex Traits
Semester 2
10
PGBI11090
SS1
Industry and Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology
Semester 2
10
PGBI11051
SS1
Information Processing in Biological Cells
Semester 1
10
PGBI11066
Intelligent Agriculture
Not delivered this year
10
PGBI11137
SS1
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Semester 2
10
PGBI11123
SV1
Introduction to Python Programming for Data Science
Semester 2
10
PGBI11086
SV1
Linkage and Association in Genome Analysis
Semester 2
20
PGBI11034
SS1
MSc Dissertation (Bioinformatics)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
PGBI11133
SS1
MSc Dissertation (Data Science for Biology)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
PGBI11102
SS1
MSc Project and Dissertation (Biochemistry)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
PGBI11096
SS1
MSc Project and Dissertation (Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
BITE11004
SS1
Metagenomics
Semester 2
10
PGBI11131
SS1
Modelling and Measuring Drug/Protein Interactions
Semester 1
20
BILG11004
SS1
Next Generation Genomics
Semester 2
10
PLSC11003
SS1
Phylogenetics and Population Genetics
Blocks 1-3 (Sem 1-2)
20
PLSC11004
SS1
Plant Genome Diversity
Block 3 (Sem 2)
10
PGBI11012
SS1
Plant Geography
Semester 2
10
PGBI11124
SS1
Population Genetics
Block 1 (Sem 1)
20
PGBI11126
SS1
Population Genomic Analysis
Block 3 (Sem 2)
10
BICH11009
SS1
Practical Skills in Biochemistry A
Semester 1
20
PGBI11089
SS1
Practical Systems Biology
Semester 2
20
PGBI11103
SS1
Principles of Industrial Biotechnology
Semester 1
10
ECLG11003
SS1
Professional Skills for Ecology and Evolution
Semester 1
20
BICH11005
SS1
Project Proposal and Literature Review for MSc Drug Discovery and Translational Biology
Semester 2
10
PGBI11020
SS1
Project and Dissertation (Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
PGBI11132
SS1
Protein Production for Therapeutic Discovery
Full Year
20
BICH11010
Protein Production for Therapeutic Discovery (Biochemistry)
Not delivered this year
10
BICH11008
SV1
Python Programming for the Life Sciences
Semester 2
10
PGBI11038
SS1
Quantitating drug binding
Semester 1
10
PGBI11085
SV1
Quantitative Genetic Models
Block 3 (Sem 2)
10
PGBI11125
SS1
Quantitative Genetics
Block 2 (Sem 1)
20
PGBI11104
SS1
Research Project Proposal (Biochemistry)
Semester 2
10
PGBI11105
SS1
Research Project Proposal (Biotechnology)
Semester 2
10
ECLG11002
SS1
Research Project Proposal (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity)
Semester 2
10
PGBI11136
SS1
Research Project Proposal (Quantitative Genetics)
Semester 2
10
PGBI11027
SS1
Research Project in MSc Drug Discovery and Translational Biology
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
PGBI11065
SS1
Research Project or Industrial Placement (MSc Biotechnology)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
60
PGBI11114
SS1
Research Proposal (Bioinformatics)
Semester 2
10
PGBI11134
SS1
Research Proposal (Data Science for Biology)
Semester 2
20
PGBI11003
SV1
Statistics and Data Analysis
Semester 1
20
PGBI11120
Statistics for Computational Biologists
Not delivered this year
20
PLSC11006
SS1
Taxonomy & Plant Collections
Block 2 (Sem 1)
10
PGBI11116
SS1
The Origins of Synthetic Biology
Semester 1
10
PGBI11128
SS1
Tools for Synthetic Biology
Semester 1
20
PLSC11008
SS1
Tropical Plant Identification Course
Semester 2
10
PGBI11122
SS1
Using R for Data Science
Semester 1
10
PGBI11108
SS1
Vaccines and Molecular Therapies
Semester 2
10
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