School of Biological Sciences
Interested in our undergraduate courses? Choose Liverpool First! See our admissions website and brochure. Pictures of Graduation 2009!
New funded research studentship opportunities for 2010. Applications also welcomed from self-funded candidates for PhD study by research across all areas of the School.New: Bioinformatics at the University of Liverpool;
MSc /MRes Post-Genomic Science
Interdisciplinary research highlights (pdf)
New MSc and MRes opportunities for 2010
Come and work with us: independent fellowship funding for postdoctoral scientists (pdf) from the UK and abroad
Daresbury Molecular Biophysics group moves to Liverpool
New Liverpool Institutes for Biocomplexity and Nanoscale Science and Technology
New C. elegans, Cell Imaging, KIDSTEM (renal stem cell), Glycobiology, Stem Cell and Structural Biology sites
School Newsletter (latest issue: June 2009)
Our 75 academic staff cover a full range of biological subjects, and our research was highly rated in the most recent national review (RAE). We were 14th out of 51 departments in the rankings for Biological Sciences in the UK (Research Fortnight) in terms of research ‘power’, the quantity of top-quality research going on in a Department, combining the numbers of staff submitted with each of their research profiles. 85 Percent of the research in the School is judged to have an international impact.
A recent MRC press release highlights research carried out by the Molecular Biophysics Group in the School in collaboration with the MRC Prion Unit at University College London. Their work, to be published in PNAS, reveals the atomic structure of a complex formed between prion protein (PrP) and an antibody that has been identified as having the best ability to bind to PrP in the brain, a result that could be a key to treating prion diseases like variant CJD. Details: