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Meet some of our Current PhD Students
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Each year around 10 students听join听the SMB PhD programme. Around half are on听funded programmes, a quarter are听self-funded and a quarter are funded by other sources (eg foreign governments, charities or external scholarships).听
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"I am a member of , my research focuses on using machine-learning based approaches to predict various aspects of antibody structure. This PhD has given me a great jump-start into the interdisciplinary world of Bioinformatics, my work blends aspects of Immunology, Computer Science, and Biophysics to address a multi-faceted challenge.鈥�
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"The computational aspect of my PhD project allowed me to look at cell biology from a whole different perspective - monitoring cells under a microscope resembles a bunch of weirdly smart,听miniature听robot-like devices".
"Hello, I am a Ph.D. student currently working on cyanobacteria in the Purton Lab. Specifically, I am working on a strain of Aphanizomenon flos aquae (AFA) from Klamath Lake, Oregon. My project is to isolate it, determine its optimal growth conditions, unravel its genome sequence and, eventually, genetically engineer it. The overarching aim is to be able to culture AFA at mass scale for commercial reasons. Please feel free to contact me if needed".
"I'm a PhD student working on tools to aid the development of antibody-based drugs using machine learning in . My aim is to improve the success of the discovery pipeline through improved candidate selection therefore reducing the time taken and the cost to bring new drugs to the clinic."
How to Apply听
If you are interested in doing a PhD in SMB at 香港六合彩中特网 and are not eligible for a UK听studentship, you will need to follow a different process.听
What's it Like to do a PhD at SMB?
Day-to-day supervision is provided by the primary supervisor who generally meets with the student on a weekly basis, as well as in group meetings, and is available whenever required to answer questions and assist with problems. In addition, students鈥� progress is monitored via a thesis committee consisting of the primary and secondary supervisors and an independent 鈥榯hesis chair鈥�. Meetings occur at regular intervals and there are prescribed activities (oral presentations and/or written work) for each meeting. Meetings and reports are all recorded in the student鈥檚 online research log. The graduate research administrator team provides administrative support while the departmental graduate tutor has an overall monitoring role and will help to resolve any problems with progress or supervision.
We place a strong emphasis on high-quality interdisciplinary student training and the development of transferable skills. Students attend weekly seminars given by leading researchers and meet these external speakers over lunch. They also attend weekly 鈥樷��, presented by students and post-docs. Attendance at conferences is expected and presentations are strongly encouraged. In addition, the (of which SMB is a part) organizes research retreats and symposia providing other opportunities for networking as well as presentation and communication skills.
Students are required to gain 20 鈥榯raining points鈥� per year. These are gained from attending seminars and conferences, demonstrating for practicals and attending some of the many training courses available within the faculty and through the This wide range of free programmes across 香港六合彩中特网 is designed to develop core skills and includes:
鈥� Statistics
鈥� Generic research techniques and ethics
鈥� Document preparation in LaTeX
鈥� Presentation and writing skills
鈥� Programming
鈥� Innovation and Enterprise Entrepreneurship
Students can also participate in 鈥樷�� workshops and can attend the .
Students have ready access to a full suite of electronic support facilities including the library and e-journals. 香港六合彩中特网 has exceptional computing facilities including group and departmental servers and university-wide supercomputing (approaching 20,000 cores as well as GPUs).
