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This semester, Film and Visual Culture (FVC) Honours students were given the chance to study an interdisciplinary course taught by Dr Silvia Casini. Cinema and Science: Beyond Science Fiction invited students to consider the relationship between science and cinema through nine weekly themes and four guest speakers. Themes ranged from…
The ability of medical scanners to produce images of our bodies in exquisite detail provides a powerful tool for the diagnosis and management of a wide variety of diseases. While we may marvel at the images, we rarely consider the evidence that is required before these scanners can be used…
Welcome to PEGblogs - a series of blog posts about postgraduate teaching, work placements and educational research in the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition!
Welcome to this, the first post in our new blog mini-series, PEGblogs, launched in November 2020 via our School Blog page. We will be…
Working from home has meant that there are new challenges for research, but also some now opportunities. For example, I was invited to give a “Little Lecture” as an online live presentation, which was an enjoyable experience to virtually meet people interested in nutrition research within the School of Medicine,…
Nine Things Genomes Can Tell Us About Candida Auris
Fungal diseases cause more than 1.5 million deaths every year, which exceeds the global mortality for malaria. A limited number of available antifungal drugs is the mainstay of antifungal therapy. For many years, scientists have cautioned that overuse of antibiotics reduces…
Each year a number of Medical Sciences undergraduate students go on placement for a year between their third and fourth year. The placement can be in a commercial company (industry) or an academic environment. The placement year allows the students to further develop their skills and knowledge in an applied…
Summer placements for undergraduate students studying medical sciences at the University of Aberdeen have been successfully running this summer, despite the restrictions of COVID-19.
Students have been working remotely within research teams in the School, studying a wide range of topics. These include regulation of the ACE2 gene in COVID-19,…
Hi everyone, my name is Abie and I am a 3rd-year Physiology student. I am currently doing a summer research project and I’ve just come on here to tell you a little bit about my project. Despite COVID-19, I am fortunate enough to be able to work on my research…
Heya. My name is Malin Håkansson and I am a third-year neuroscience with psychology student from Sweden. I am currently a summer research student in the Aberdeen Spinal Injury Research Team.
Spinal cord injuries cause drastic lifelong changes for individuals which can greatly impact their quality of life and currently…
For four weeks now, I have been working on a remote project supervised by Prof Iain McEwan. I am using different databases to explore the regulation of the human ACE2 gene, which codes for a protein implicated in COVID-19. My hope is to discover regulatory sequences of ACE2, as well…
