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Applications are now being accepted for 2010/11 entry to the MRes/PhD Modelling Biological Complexity.

Deadline for applications: Monday 7th December 2009
Interviews: w/c 11th January 2010

Later deadlines will be available. Studentships for Home/EU students are available covering tuition fees and paying a tax-free stipend of c. £17,000 annually (see FAQ section for further details).

CoMPLEX runs an integrated 4 year MRes/PhD “Modelling Biological Complexity”. The MRes is designed to give students a broad overview of the cutting edge research at the interface of the life and mathematical/physical sciences. Foundation courses provide essential background knowledge in mathematical, computational and physical techniques and a broad introduction to core biological concepts and systems. A range of interdisciplinary research-driven projects follow in which students gain experience of different research techniques and a range of areas of biological interest. Students progress after the first year MRes onto an interdisciplinary PhD which can be drawn from any of the research themes across the biological scales that contribute to biological complexity:

• Biomolecular Mechanisms
  (Imaging, optical and scanning probe approaches to nanoscale bioscience)
• Integration of Cellular Function
  (Cancer biology, immunology and computational approaches to genomic, metabolomic and proteomic data)
• Physiological and Neural Systems
  (Systems Biology of physiological systems, biophysics of vascular fluid mechanics, hearing and ion channels, neuroscience of vision and hearing)
• Evolution and Dynamics of Populations
  (Molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics and proteomics, regulation of gene networks, evolution and ecology of populations)
• Systems Biology
  (A combination of theory and experiment to study the mechanisms underlying complex biological processes)
  
• Special Initiative in Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Research
  (Systems biology and networks, advanced imaging & computational analysis, chemical biology)
  

Note, the MRes and PhD are integrated and cannot be taken as stand alone courses, except in exceptional circumstances.

For more details on the course, see our student section. 

Application Process

To apply you must fill in the official UCL graduate application form. This can be done on line, or can be downloaded.  It is important that you send a paper or electronic copy to the department in addition to submitting it centrally as requested.  The application procedure will only send us your form when complete (including references).  If you do not send us a copy, you may miss the deadline.

Send these to: 

complex.admin@ucl.ac.uk  (preferably)

or

Assistant Administrator
CoMPLEX
UCL 
Physics Building
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT

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