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Our Microbiology and Infection MSc provides you with sound theoretical and hands-on laboratory experience in cutting-edge microbiology. The course is set within the context of the Institute of Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham, the largest grouping of microbiologists in the UK.
This MSc programme is built on the combined expertise in microbiology and infection that has been assembled through the establishment of the Institute of Microbiology and Infection at Birmingham.
It draws on the internationally recognized expertise of members of both the College of Life and Environmental Sciences and College of Medical and Dental Sciences to provide a course that will be attractive to aspiring biomedical scientists and clinical microbiologists worldwide.
Students graduating from this course can look forward to gaining a thorough grounding in this important area, with job opportunities throughout the public and private sector, as well as in research settings.
This course will provide graduates in the Biosciences with a sound theoretical background and hands-on laboratory experience in leading-edge microbiology. Students will gain specialist knowledge and insight in key aspects of bacterial infection.
The course will enable students to develop basic abilities and skills on which to build professional capability in a healthcare or related microbiology or biomedical research setting.
Minimum lower second class (2.ii) Honours degree (or equivalent overseas degree) in a suitable Biosciences or biomedical subject, such as; Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biosciences, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary medicine or Biomedical sciences.
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Characterization of a cell‐wall hydrolase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Implementation of the CRISPR‐Cas9 to tag genes in yeast
Promoter organization in bacteria
Sepsis and other clinical outcomes in burn trauma: applying metabolism to understand sepsis and clinical outcomes
How does metabolism differ in different human samples (biofluids and tissues)?
Enzyme‐responsive nanomaterials to deliver antimicrobial peptides
A multidisciplinary approach to studying the behavior of bacterial communities in artificial cellular environments
Turning gene regulation inside out: prevalence of promoters within genes in bacterial chromosomes
Interaction of the partitioning proteins KorB and IncC with DNA and other protein partners
Transcription rate variability and gene regulatory network dynamics
Probing the structure and function of the Bam complex, the Gram negative bacterial outer membrane protein folding machinery
Retrograde lipid transport in E. coli
Using novel methods to purify a membrane protein complex
Towards a structure for the neurodegeneration protein Cln3
Individual‐based modelling of biofilms
Transfer of antibiotic resistance carrying plasmids in spatially structured multispecies communities
High throughput determination of substrate affinity in a microfluidic device
Gene regulation in bacteria
Understanding the pH sensing mechanism of E. coli
Understanding the link between genotype and phenotype in laboratory‐evolved strains of stress‐resistant bacteria
Understanding and manipulating mupirocin and thiomarinol biosynthesis to create novel biologically active molecules
Dissecting plasmid host range determinants
Regulation of antibiotic production in marine bacteria
Phenotypic characterisation of exopolyphosphatase‐deficient mutants in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Elucidating the role of ppxs genes in phosphate metabolism
Isolation of interacting proteins of the MmpL3 transporter from Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the Yeast Two‐Hybrid (Y2H) system
Structural bioinformatics for the reengineering of the mupirocin and thiomarinol antibiotic biosynthesis pathways
Sequence and structural comparison of ketosynthase domains from trans‐AT polyketide synthase systems
The behaviour of lab‐evolved stress resistant strains of bacteria under fermentation conditions
Cloning and expression of the lectinolysin gene from Streptococcus mitis
English requirements
IELTS - 6.5
TOEFL - 88
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