Postgraduate Administrator: Mrs Linda Hammond
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 4397
Email: pgafnes@southampton.ac.uk
Website: www.southampton.ac.uk/biosci/postgraduate
We provide an excellent environment for postgraduate study and personal development, with first-class research facilities.
Alongside our major research themes we offer an integrated series of training modules, designed to develop scientific expertise and professional, personal and communication skills. We pride ourselves on the consistent success of our postgraduate research students, and have an excellent record for thesis submission.
Since October 2010, Biological Sciences has been based in a new purpose-built complex on the Highfield Campus, incorporating the Institute for Life Sciences.
Key facts
RAE rating: 2.45
Academic staff: 40
Postgraduate research students: 70
Location: Highfield Campus
Internal links: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; Chemistry; Faculty of Health Sciences; Faculty of Medicine; Psychology
External links: ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd; Bayer AG; BBSRC; Celltech; Central Science Laboratory; Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Centre for Environmental Sciences; Eurogentec; Forensic Science Service; Institut Pasteur, Lille; Institute of Arable Crops Research; Marwell Zoo; Natural History Museum; Syngenta; Vitacress Salads Ltd
Resources: Biological NMR; X-ray crystallography; fluorescence spectroscopy; mass spectrometry; proteomics; laser confocal microscopy; transgenic facilities; genomic facilities (micro-array, real-time PCR, sequencer); glasshouse and controlled environment rooms and cabinets for plant growth
Centres: Centre for Proteomic Research; Southampton Neurosciences Group
Find out more at www.southampton.ac.uk/biosci/postgraduate.
Research areas
Molecular Biosciences
Our current research areas are: biomembranes; control of gene expression; developmental biology; microbiology; molecular evolution and bioinformatics; molecular structure and function; plant cell and molecular science; signalling.
Ecology and the Environment
Our current research areas are: behaviour and ecophysiology; biodiversity; chemical ecology; evolutionary biology; pathogens, parasites, evolution of immunity; plant responses to stress; population growth and persistence; responses to environmental change; sustainable environmental management.
Neurosciences
Our current research areas are: developmental neurobiology; integrative analysis of neural/synaptic function; neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation; synaptic function and plasticity.
Student Profile - Leigh Felton
After attaining a PhD specialising in the effects of inflammation of the brain Leigh was offered a position at GlaxoSmithKline’s research centre
in Stevenage, where he is now a principal scientist. There he combines work in the laboratory with drug development projects and collaborates
with academics at other UK universities.
“I gained a range of supervisory and managerial skills at Southampton and I’m convinced that played a major part in landing the job at GSK.”
