4 Year PhD Programme in Cell Biology

Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh

Background and Aim of Programme

The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology contains outstanding research groups working in many aspects of cell biology. Teaching staff on the programme include several key scientists from outside the Centre with particular expertise in structural biology, chemical biology, systems biology and translational research.

The aim of this programme is to train students in cutting-edge cell biology - the study of cellular structure and function from the level of molecules to that of organisms. Cell biology is multidisciplinary, with the latest techniques in imaging, genetic analysis, proteomics, systems biology and chemical biology being used to study cellular functions. It is a dynamic and exciting discipline that will increasingly underpin research in many different fields of biology.

	©Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology. "Trapped Transcription" (wire and glass) by Sarah Keer-Keer. This work was inspired by EM images of "Miller" chromatin spreads that reveal nascent pre-rRNA transcripts emanating from the central rDNA strand.