MRes Molecular Plant Sciences

Programme information was correct at 23 July 2013.

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Programme

Qualifications and durations

Full-time MRes 1 year

Overview

MRes degree programmes are designed for graduates who are contemplating a research career and who may go on to study for a PhD or to a position in industry involving interaction with research scientists.

If these do not apply, you might consider an MSc programme.

The programmes provide a unique mix of taught components, extended laboratory projects, literature reviews and preparation of a grant proposal based on a research dissertation. They give students an insight into a range of state-of-the-art research activities and techniques, and provide generic, transferable skills training needed for all early stage researchers. The programmes also address the scientific, ethical and commercial context within which the research takes place.

All of the MRes programmes can be studied as the first year of our Integrated or New Route PhD programme.

This programme provides opportunities to study molecular problems from epigenetics through to food crops. Molecular Plant Scientists attempt to understand the biology of plants at the molecular level. We study, in particular, mechanisms of microbial pathogenicity and host plant defense in temperate and tropical species, cell and molecular biology of pollen-stigma recognition and signaling in flowering plants, plant hormone and G protein signaling pathways, genomics and gene networks, and molecular biology of stress responses in the important tropical crop cassava.

Available units include: