Molecular Medicine - Medical Microbiology

Overview

As a research student in the Molecular Medicine - Medical Microbiology programme at the University of Essex , you’ll work at the heart of our internationally acknowledged and well-connected research community. We offer world-class supervision and training opportunities, and encourage you to engage with other researchers, professionals, practitioners and research users, where possible for example using the generous funding from Proficio to attend conferences and training courses.

Specialist facilities

Our School provides a comprehensive range of facilities for research in medical microbiology which include:

• fully automated laboratories with robotic liquid handling systems and equipment for microbial cell culture, molecular biology and gene editing

• advanced bioimaging suite to visualise and process images of biological processes in real time

• next-generation sequence analysis facilities

A dedicated study room allows all our postgraduate research students to have access to a desk and a computer outside of the research laboratories. This provides a focal point for our postgraduates, facilitating reading and writing as well as good communication and a sense of community.

Your future

Many of our postgraduates continue their scientific research by taking up postdoctoral positions in the UK and overseas. Others have embarked on careers in biomedical laboratories and in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, both in research and development.