MPhil Biosciences

Newcastle University

MPhil Biosciences

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Course Duration 12 month
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Post-Graduate
  • Education Required Graduate
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 3.3
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Application Charges

Application Fee Tution Fee
Free GBP 24,000

Application Date

Application Start Date Application Closing Date
2022-12-07
2023-01-10

Program Description

We offer MPhil, PhD and MD supervision in our main research areas. Our research also incorporates chemistry, biophysics and eukaryotic-microbial model.You'll join a vibrant research community of about 100 postgraduate research students. You'll work in one of our established research groups. This will be alongside postdoctoral researchers, senior students and staff. We will encourage you to present your work in the Institute and at scientific meetings.Our staff successfully attracts postgraduate funding from diverse sources. These include:
  • UK Research Councils, including a BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership
  • Industrial CASE awards
  • charities
  • UK and international government initiatives
  

Research themes

Our research has four themes, each linked to a research group

Bacterial Cell Biology group

The Bacterial Cell Biology Group focuses on the fundamental aspects of:
  • cell biology
  • biochemistry
  • pathogenicity of eubacteria.
Together with colleagues from Computing Sciences, they form the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology (CBCB). The CBCB is the world’s largest research centre. They focus on the molecular and cellular biology of bacterial cells and bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. They use a range of biochemical, genetic and microscopic approaches. With this, researchers reveal fundamental cell mechanisms. These include:
  • bacterial cell wall biosynthesis
  • cell division including plasmid and chromosome segregation
  • cellular response to phage infection
  • genetic competence
  • the action of toxin–antitoxin genes and mRNA cleaving enzymes
  • secretion chaperones involved in the regulation of flagellar assembly
  • microbial protein secretion
  • responses to environmental stress
  • gene expression and regulatory networks
  • determination and control of cell shape

Epithelial Biology group

The Epithelial Biology Group focuses on universal organising principles. This includes the processes governing the specialised roles of epithelial cells in:
  • epithelial transport
  • nutrition
  • microbial-interactions
  • health and disease

Proteins: Structure, Function and Evolution group

The Proteins: Structure, Function and Evolution Group has the common goal of seeking to understand the nature of protein:protein and protein:ligand. This includes structure/function relationships at the molecular level. In particular, members focus on:
  • macromolecular X-ray crystallography
  • structures of proteins crucial to bacterial cell division
  • metals in cells
  • protein-carbohydrate interactions in macromolecular and cellular recognition
  • molecular and cellular evolution of eukaryotic cells. This includes their genomes and organellesmembrane protein structure:function relationships
  • archaeal DNA polymerases

Sensing, Signalling and Expression group

The Sensing, Signalling and Expression Group works with how DNA replicates and expresses. They explore how this expression alters by sensing change. This can be in the environment or within the eukaryotic cell. Research in this area explains the molecular signalling pathways. They regulate membrane, cytoplasmic and nuclear events in eukaryotic cells. This is including signalling specific to:
  • cellular ageing
  • cell division and differentiation
  • cell cycle control
  • calcium homeostasis
  • environmental sensing
  • infection and immunity
  • organelle function
Current research interests, projects and publications are available from our staff profiles.Find out more about postgraduate research study in the Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences.