Selection of Theses Submitted 2020-2021听
The majority of research projects undertaken by our postgraduate students have a strong multi-disciplinary component. However, research activities within the department can broadly be grouped into the following research areas:
- Bioinformatics
- Molecular cell biology and metabolism
- Molecular microbiology
- Structural biology and molecular biophysics
Here are some of the theses submitted by SMB PhD Doctoral Students in 2020 and 2021:
Download the听Biosciences Graduate Student Handbook 2021-22
What's it Like to do a PhD at SMB?
Day-to-day supervision is provided by the primary supervisor who generally meets with the student on a weekly basis, as well as in group meetings, and is available whenever required to answer questions and assist with problems. In addition, students鈥 progress is monitored via a thesis committee consisting of the primary and secondary supervisors and an independent 鈥榯hesis chair鈥. Meetings occur at regular intervals and there are prescribed activities (oral presentations and/or written work) for each meeting. Meetings and reports are all recorded in the student鈥檚 online research log. The graduate research administrator team provides administrative support while the departmental graduate tutor has an overall monitoring role and will help to resolve any problems with progress or supervision.
We place a strong emphasis on high-quality interdisciplinary student training and the development of transferable skills. Students attend weekly seminars given by leading researchers and meet these external speakers over lunch. They also attend weekly 鈥樷, presented by students and post-docs. Attendance at conferences is expected and presentations are strongly encouraged. In addition, the (of which SMB is a part) organizes research retreats and symposia providing other opportunities for networking as well as presentation and communication skills.
Students are required to gain 20 鈥榯raining points鈥 per year. These are gained from attending seminars and conferences, demonstrating for practicals and attending some of the many training courses available within the faculty and through the This wide range of free programmes across 香港六合彩 is designed to develop core skills and includes:
鈥 Statistics
鈥 Generic research techniques and ethics
鈥 Document preparation in LaTeX
鈥 Presentation and writing skills
鈥 Programming
鈥 Innovation and Enterprise Entrepreneurship
鈥 Public Engagement
Students can also participate in 鈥樷 workshops and can attend the .
Students have ready access to a full suite of electronic support facilities including the library and e-journals. 香港六合彩 has exceptional computing facilities including group and departmental servers and university-wide supercomputing (approaching 20,000 cores as well as GPUs).