Course Catalogue - Postgraduate

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Postgraduate

SCQF Level 11 (87 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
PGBI11084	SS1	Animal Genetic Improvement	Semester 2	10
PGBI11029	SV1	Applicable Mathematics for MSc Drug Discovery and Translational Biology	Semester 1	10
PGBI11094	SS1	Applications of Synthetic Biology	Semester 2	10
PGBI11100	SV1	Biochemistry A	Semester 1	10
PGBI11101	SV1	Biochemistry B	Semester 2	10
PGBI11112	SV1	Biodesign	Semester 2	10
PGBI11044	SS1	Biodiversity of Angiosperms	Full Year	20
PGBI11047	SS1	Biodiversity of Cryptogams and Fungi	Semester 2	10
PGBI11006	SV1	Bioinformatics	Semester 2	10
PGBI11057	SV1	Bioinformatics Algorithms	Semester 2	10
PGBI11095	SV1	Bioinformatics Programming and System Management	Semester 1	20
PGBI11033		Bioinformatics Research Proposal	Not delivered this year	20
PGBI11107	SV1	Biophysical Chemistry for MSc Biochemistry	Semester 1	10
PGBI11041		Biophysical Chemistry for MSc Drug Discovery & Translational Biology	Not delivered this year	10
PGBI11068	SS1	Chemistry for Drug Discovery	Semester 2	10
PGBI11049	SV1	Commercial Aspects of Drug Discovery	Semester 2	10
PGBI11076	SS1	Commercial Aspects of Drug Discovery	Semester 2	10
PGBI11115	SS1	Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics	Semester 2	10
PGBI11043	SV1	Conservation and Sustainability	Semester 1	10
BILG11005	SS1	Detailed Characterisation of Drug or Ligand Interactions Using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)	Semester 2	10
PGBI11011	SV1	Dissertation (Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis)	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	60
PGBI11055	SV1	Dissertation Project in Systems and Synthetic Biology	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	60
PGBI11088	SS1	Drug Discovery (MSc Level)	Semester 2	10
PGBI11067	SS1	Druggable Systems	Semester 2	10
PGBI11059	SV1	Economics and Innovation in the Biotechnology Industry	Semester 1	10
PGBI11097	SS1	Environmental Gene-Mining and Metagenomics	Semester 2	10
PGBI11045	SV1	Evolution of Angiosperms	Semester 1	10
PGBI11048	SS1	Evolution of Cryptogams and Fungi	Full Year	20
PGBI11087	SV1	Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics	Block 4 (Sem 2)	10
PGBI11040	SS1	Functional Genomic Technologies	Semester 2	10
PGBI11002	SV1	Genetic Interpretation	Semester 1	10
PGBI11083	SS1	Genetics of Human Complex Traits	Semester 2	10
PGBI11077	SS1	High Throughput Drug Discovery	Semester 1	10
PGBI11079	SS1	In Silico Drug Discovery	Semester 2	10
PGBI11090	SS1	Industry and Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology	Semester 2	10
PGBI11051	SS1	Information Processing in Biological Cells	Semester 1	10
PGBI11066	SV1	Intelligent Agriculture	Semester 1	10
PGBI11072	SS1	Introduction to Modelling Biological Systems	Semester 2	10
PGBI11039	SS1	Introduction to scientific programming for MSc in Drug Discovery & Translational Biology	Semester 1	10
BICH11007	SS1	Introduction to web site and database design for drug discovery	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
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
PGBI11071	SS1	Measuring Drug Binding	Semester 1	10
PGBI11080	SS1	Modelling Metabolic Pathways	Semester 2	10
PGBI11082	SV1	Molecular Evolution	Block 4 (Sem 2)	10
PGBI11078	SS1	Molecular Modelling	Semester 1	10
PGBI11023	SV1	Molecular Modelling and Database Mining	Semester 1	10
PGBI11035	SS1	Molecular Phylogenetics	Block 3 (Sem 2)	10
BILG11004	SS1	Next Generation Genomics	Semester 2	10
PGBI11012	SV1	Plant Geography	Semester 2	10
PGBI11001	SV1	Population and Quantitative Genetics	Semester 1	20
PGBI11098	SS1	Practical Skills in Biochemistry A	Semester 1	10
PGBI11099	SS1	Practical Skills in Biochemistry B	Semester 2	10
PGBI11089	SS1	Practical Systems Biology	Semester 1	20
PGBI11026	SV1	Preparative Methods for Structural Biology	Semester 1	10
PGBI11113	SV1	Preparative Methods for Structural Biology Laboratory Experience	Semester 2	10
PGBI11103	SS1	Principles of Industrial Biotechnology	Semester 1	10
PGBI11074	SS1	Professional Skills in Drug Discovery	Semester 1	10
PGBI11110	SS1	Programming for the Life Sciences	Semester 2	10
BICH11005	SV1	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)	60
PGBI11111	SS1	Protein Molecular Modelling Practical Skills	Semester 2	10
PGBI11021	SS1	Protein Structure Determination	Semester 2	10
PGBI11038	SS1	Quantitating drug binding	Semester 1	10
PGBI11085	SV1	Quantitative Genetic Models	Block 3 (Sem 2)	10
PGBI11109	SS1	Research Grant Proposal for MSc Drug Discovery & Protein Biotechnology	Semester 2	10
PGBI11104	SS1	Research Project Proposal (Biochemistry)	Semester 2	10
PGBI11105	SS1	Research Project Proposal (Biotechnology)	Semester 2	10
PGBI11106	SS1	Research Project Proposal (QGGA)	Semester 2	10
PGBI11093	SS1	Research Project for Drug Discovery & Protein Biotechnology	Full Year	60
PGBI11027	SV1	Research Project in MSc Drug Discovery and Translational Biology	Flexible	60
PGBI11075	SS1	Research Project in Next Generation Drug Discovery	Full Year	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
PGBI11061		Research and Development: The Laboratory Foundation Part 1	Not delivered this year	20
PGBI11062		Research and Development: The Laboratory Foundation Part 2	Not delivered this year	20
PGBI11003	SV1	Statistics and Data Analysis	Semester 1	20
PGBI11070	SS1	Structure Determination of Drug Targets	Semester 2	10
PGBI11081	SS1	Systems Approach to Modelling Cell Signal Transduction	Semester 2	10
PGBI11042	SS1	Taxonomy and Plant Collections	Semester 2	20
PGBI11116	SV1	The Origins of Synthetic Biology	Semester 1	10
PGBI11092	SS1	Tools for Synthetic Biology	Semester 1	10
PGBI11046	SS1	Tropical Biodiversity Field Course	Block 3 (Sem 2)	10
PGBI11063		Vaccine Development and Clinical Testing	Not delivered this year	10
PGBI11108	SS1	Vaccines and Molecular Therapies	Semester 2	10