3rd Year Research Projects Dr Axel G Rossberg (3rd year projects Module Organiser)

Projects for 3rd Year Students Biomed Biochem Biology; Zoology; Genetics and MedGen Neuroscience Pharmacology & Therapeutics Not Chemistry Not Psychology

Final Year Research Projects Two options - which option is right for you? Project Skills in the Life Sciences (30 credit) Dr Brendan Curran (Experimental) Research Project (30 credit) Dr Axel G Rossberg

BIO603:Project Skills in the Life Sciences (30 credit) Communicating science – the key roles that writing and speaking play in scientific progress (20% of total credit) …with Dr Brendan Curran Presenting science and scientific data (20% of total credit) …with Prof Lucinda Hall and Dr Richard Grose. Science journalism (‘New Scientist’ articles) (20% of total credit) …marked by your Dissertation mentor Dissertation a formal review of information and professional report writing (40% of total credit) … marked and with advice from your Dissertation mentor

Project Skills in the Life Sciences (30 credit) A recent QMUL graduate who chose Project Skills in Life Sciences went on to study MSc in Science Communication at Imperial College and has since won a prize for her work at the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) Science Journalism Awards.  

BIO600/BMD600/50/70 (Experimental) Research Project (30 credits) 25 full days of research (could be 2 days a week for first term; 5-6 weeks in the summer or a few hours every day) 15 min talk at Project Symposium with Q&A (Semester B Week 7) Project Report 10,000 words (Semester B Week 12)

Transferable Skills Written presentation skills Process of Research Manipulation and interpretation of data Oral presentation skills Computing

100 % Course Work no exam

Which Option is right for you? Project Skills in the Life Sciences (30 credit) BIO603 Open to all students. (Experimental) Research Project (30 credit) BIO600 BMD600 BMD650 BMD670 To ensure that all students receive a positive experience and get appropriate levels of supervision, it is necessary for us to manage the numbers of students undertaking lab-based projects. If you are not ranked in the top 160-200 students (based on your 1st year overall mark) it is unlikely that we will be able to offer you an experimental research project.

Which Option is right for you? I plan NOT to work as a researcher, but, e.g., in Science Journalism, Manager, Finance, Law, Marketing, Sales. I want a career in science but am not a good communicator. I plan to do a PhD. I want a career as a research scientist. Experimental Research Project Project Skills in the Life Sciences

Which Option is right for you? I don’t want to be a laboratory scientist I want to be a scientist and am a good communicator Project Skills in the life Sciences BIO603 (Experimental) Research Project BIO600/BMD600 BMD650/670

What if my grades mean I can’t take an experimental research project What if my grades mean I can’t take an experimental research project? But you want to do a PhD You need to do an M.Sc. / M.Res. to get onto most PhD programs, so no door will be closed to you.

Final year Research Projects - an Important Choice:   Your first taste of research. You discover if you want to do research in future. You will learn valuable skills and techniques. 30 credits in 3rd year 25% of your final year mark

How do you make your project supervisor choice?   1) Do you have an appropriate background? 2) What skills do you want to learn? 3) What subject area are you interested in? 4) Does the supervisors’ projects sound interesting? 5) Do you want to work in the summer or term time? 6) Do you want to be guided by the lecturer or mostly by postdocs/PhD students? 7) Which campus will work for you?

Allocation of student to project supervisor Academics want to choose who does a project in their lab BUT so do students

Transparent Fair Workable With staff and student input  Use optimization algorithm

What to do next? Wait for email from us (mid Feb). Make your selection on QMplus by Week 11

BIO603 Project Skills in the Life Sciences What to do next? Dissertation-Mentor allocation for Project skills made in September. Can look at a list of project titles

BIO600/BMD600/50/70 (Experimental) Research Project What to do next? BIO600/BMD600/50/70 (Experimental) Research Project If you want to do a research project, then: Look at the list of projects available for each academic Over 125 different academics over 3 or more campuses‘ -SOME projects are program specific BMD670, BMD650 b) Meet with Project Supervisors c) Choose up to 9 academic supervisors on QMplus, that you would like to do a research project with d) Fill out the form on QMplus and make your selection of supervisors by Week 11 e) Allocation of students to supervisors after the exams.

Experimental research projects Which techniques do you want to use Which degree program Summer or term-time Large or small research team

Which Campus? Mile End –SBCS (Fogg/JP) Blizzard Institute Barts Cancer Institute (BCI) Charterhouse Sq (WHRI)

Now come and join us for your research project You have seen the award winning Blizard Institute Now come and join us for your research project   We are looking for motivated students to join our brilliant research teams (Please look for Blizard Institute and/or Whitechapel in table with project titles) We do lots of research on basic science related to human diseases. It is recommended that you look up supervisors & the research they are involved in prior to contacting them. This information is available via the Blizard or Dentistry websites http://www.blizard.qmul.ac.uk/staff.html http://www.dentistry.qmul.ac.uk/staff/index.html We hope to welcome you soon in the Blizard Institute! Blizard Institute www.blizard.qmul.ac.uk

BSc projects at Barts Cancer Institute Who are we? Top 5 in the UK for Cancer Research 6 centres / 53 academics www.bci.qmul.ac.uk What do we do? Target identification and validation in cancer Clinical trials exploring new therapies Novel molecular approaches for diagnosis and therapy Classification and treatment of human cancers www.bci.qmul.ac.uk/research Contact us Visit our website E-mail staff – make your email personal Arrange a visit www.bci.qmul.ac.uk/staff/bci-group-leaders

I wish you every success with your project – whichever one you choose I wish you every success with your project – whichever one you choose. Questions? Project Skills in the Life Sciences (Experimental) Research Project