Doctoral Training Programme

The training programme will supplement other activities offered by the Doctoral College and schools and departments.

Aims

• To equip students, who have undergraduate training in different subject disciplines, with a practical knowledge of the techniques used in structural and chemical biology.
• To connect practical aspects of structural and chemical biology to theory, and thereby creating coherence to further the student’s understanding and aptitude to research at the interface of traditional academic disciplines.
• To enable students to understand the place of their individual projects in the wider research context.
• To enable students to gain greater independence as doctoral candidates and, thereby, being prepared for the next stage of their career.
• To create a cohort of first-year PhD students, and increase the sense of community in the Institute.

Journal clubs

Journal clubs will take place on Friday mornings (10.00am, Common room) at the dates interleaved between the main session listed below. These will tie in with the subject material taught in the previous week. The journal club is open to all PhD students (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th years) in the Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, Chemistry, Respiratory Sciences and MCB.

Research in Progress seminars

Every Friday 12.30pm members of the department will give short presentations on their ongoing research.

Schedule for first-year training