{"id":11,"date":"2022-01-13T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:20:41","slug":"research-themes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/research-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Biophysics<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

BSRC biophysicists study the fundamental molecular structures and interactions that underpin life. <\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

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Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Infection and immunity<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

BSRC infection biologists\u2019 study basic and applied aspects of viral, bacterial and parasite pathogens. Their research includes fundamental studies of pathogen replication and host interactions, antimicrobial resistance, therapeutic drug design and testing, and clinical and real-time diagnostics.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Molecular medicine<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

BSRC researchers working in molecular medicine use interdisciplinary methods to study the fundamental molecular and mechanistic processes that underpin health, disease and ageing. Their research includes studies of heart disease, Alzheimer\u2019s, age related macular degeneration and handedness.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Sea Mammal Research Unit<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

The Sea Mammal Research Unit is one of the foremost institutions carrying out research on marine mammals in the World. With over 60 staff and students, SMRU represents a formidable concentration of expertise and talent in the field of marine mammalogy and, more generally, in marine ecology and the development of telemetry tags.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

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Category <\/span>Scottish Oceans Institute<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Ecology, fisheries and resource management<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

Understanding, shaping and sustainably exploiting the resources of the marine environment. This involves understanding how organisms function and interact with other organisms and with their environment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Scottish Oceans Institute<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Developmental and evolutionary genomics<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

Understanding the molecular processes that underpin development, physiology and evolution. Research in the SOI includes work on teleost fish and how internal and external factors influence muscle growth and physiology, with direct applications to economically important farmed and wild-caught species.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Scottish Oceans Institute<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Consequences of Biological and Behavioural Diversity<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

The Centre for Biological Diversity addresses the consequences of biodiversity at the interface between ecology and evolution. The ecological consequences of biodiversity are considered in terms of processes such as pollination biology, niche construction, and invasion biology.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Centre for Biological Diversity<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Evolutionary Origins of Biological Diversity<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

The Centre for Biological Diversity has world-leading research programmes in the study of population diversification and speciation, which is the ultimate origin of biodiversity at the level of the species and above.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Centre for Biological Diversity<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Global change and planetary evolution<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

The processes and systems pertaining to the form, structure and change of the planet and its oceans. From the basalts outpouring at the mid ocean ridges to the dynamic interactions of climate at the land-ocean interface, Ocean and Earth Sciences embody a holistic view of the Earth System.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Scottish Oceans Institute<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Chemical Biology<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

Chemists working at the interface with biology or medicine in the BSRC study, synthesise and modify the small molecules that influence protein function. <\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Integrative science<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

BSRC researchers apply interdisciplinary approaches to understand the fundamentals of evolution, development, chromosome replication, the cell cycle and senescence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Measurement of Biological Diversity<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

St Andrews is a world-leader in the development and deployment of statistical techniques for estimating and measuring biodiversity, across populations and communities of a staggering array of organisms. We measure and seek to understand genetic diversity across different levels of populations, communities, and ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n

Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Centre for Biological Diversity<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Enzymology<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Imaging and Biophotonics<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Structural Biology<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Cell Biology<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\r\n \"Description\"\r\n

Human Diseases<\/a><\/h3>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Date <\/span><\/div>\r\n
Category <\/span>Biomedical Sciences Research Complex<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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