Animal Biology Degrees at Glasgow
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Animal Biology Degrees at Glasgow
Dr Stewart White
Talk will begin at 15.30
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What should you be looking for in a degree course?
• A subject that interests you
• An up-to-date course, taught by experts
• A course that gives you flexibility
• A course that offers opportunities to extend yourself and broaden your horizons
• A course that teaches you valuable skills that increase your job prospects
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Three degrees in the Animal Biology group:
1. Zoology (Hons) - 4 Years
2. Marine and Freshwater Biology (Hons) - 4 Years
3. Animal Biology - 3 Years
Also Zoology and Marine & Freshwater Biology can be done as MSci degree - an additional work placement year
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Animal Biology degrees encompass:
• Evolution and animal diversity –understanding the nature and origins of the diversity of animal life
• Ecology - how animals interact with their environment
• Development - how animals develop from egg to adult
• Physiology - how animals function in different environments
• Animal behaviour and life histories– what animals do and why
• Genes, inheritance and molecular processes
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Animal biologists study animals at different
biological levels: molecular, cellular, organ, whole organism, population, species, ecosystem
Integrative approach
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Integrative approach
How do Elephant seals manage to dive to a depth of 1550 m and stay underwater for over 100 min?
Need to look at their physiological adaptations
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Integrative approach
How does a storm petrel, weighing just 25g (same as a mouse), live to be over 33 years old?
And why does a queen ant live to be 28 when the workers only live a few months?
Molecular mechanisms to protect against ageing
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Who would be teaching you?Prof. Colin Adams – Effects of introduced fish on
aquatic communities
Dr Simon Babayan – Host-parasite interactions in wild animals
Dr David Bailey – Ways to improve success of marine conservation areas
Dr Davide Dominoni – Effects of urban environments on wildlife
Dr Roman Biek – Dynamics of rabies epidemics in wild mammals
Prof. Sarah Cleaveland – Transmission of diseases by African carnivores
Dr Kathryn Elmer – Evolution and adaptive radiation in fish, salamanders and lizards
Prof. Heather Ferguson – Effect of mosquito behaviour on malaria transmission
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Prof. Dan Haydon – Disease dynamics in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania
Prof. Shaun Killen – The costs and benefits of group living in animals
Dr Ashley Le Vin – Animal behaviour, kin recognition in animals
Dr Martin Llewellyn – Parasites, and impacts of gut microbiota on hosts
Dr Jan Lindstrom – The evolution of antibiotic resistance in parasitic nematode worms
Prof. Barbara Mable – Effects of gene duplication on reproduction and mating systems
Dr Anna McGregor – Marine mammal behaviour, noise pollution
Prof. Jason Matthiopoulos – The analysis of animal movement and habitat choice
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Dr Dominic McCafferty – thermal biology, biology of marine mammals
Prof. Neil Metcalfe – Links between metabolic rate, behaviour and ecology in fish
Prof. Pat Monaghan – How early-life stress affects the rate of ageing in birds
Dr Ruedi Nager – The welfare and breeding ecology of birds
Prof. Rod Page – Developing methods to measure and record biodiversity
Dr Kevin Parsons – The evolution and development of body shape in fish
Dr Victoria Paterson – The biology of parasites
Prof. Colin Selman – Factors affecting the rate of ageing in mammals
Dr Sofie Spatharis – The productivity and dynamics of marine ecosystems
Dr Stewart White – Ornithology/Tropical rainforest ecology
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Structure of Animal Biology Degrees
Level 1 is general biology
Level 2 is a bit more specialised
Choose degree at end of 2nd year:
Level 3
- Zoology
- Marine & Freshwater Biology
- Animal Biology (3 yrs, not Honours)
Level 4 Senior honours
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Theme 1: Radiations
& extinctions
Theme 2: Evolution & diversity
Theme 4: Anthropocene
Theme 3: Living together
Level2
Course 2A:Animal Biology, Evolution & Ecology
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Level3
Field course at Millport FSC
Field course at SCENE
Course 3A:
Core skills
Invertebrate biology
Aquatic ecosystems
Applied evolution
Vertebrate life
Applications & careers week
Course 3B:
Animal physiology
Parasite biology
Ecological & developmental biology
Quantitative skills
Mini project programme
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Ecology / Freshwater Biology Field Courses
run at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment – the University’s own
field station on Loch Lomond
Level3
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New teaching building opened in 2014
Level3
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Field course on freshwater ecology
Level3
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Level3
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Also residential field course for terrestrial ecology based on surrounding oak woods and
mountains
Level3
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Level3
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Marine Biology Field Course, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae
• One week residential field course at Millport Field Studies Council
• Investigate biology of rocky and sandy shores, marine ecosystems
Level3
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Quantitative skills
✓ Designing effective experiments
✓ Statistical analysis
Applied evolution
Level3
✓ Molecular methods
✓ Applications for animal conservation
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Mini projects program – Study sitesPut training into practice! Design, Run & Write up a small research project
Cochno Farm
GK Teaching Labs
SCENE
Millport
Mini-projects Level3
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Senior honours
• Three 10-week courses - choice of option courses
• Core Skills – critical analysis, essay
• Honours research project – work individually on unique project, lasting almost 6 months (starting in summer vacation or at start of 1st Semester), supervised by member of staff
Level4
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Wide variety of Honours projects
• Impact of urbanisation on leatherback turtle nesting behaviour
• Impact of elephants on woody vegetation in South Africa
• Effect of wolves’ presence on residents’ attitude in Finland
• Chronic stress responses in dancing monkeys in Pakistan
• Diversity of primates in Peru
• Plumage development in wandering albatross chicks
• Acoustics as indicator for biodiversity in coral reefs in Sri Lanka
• Microplastics in aquatic sediments and birds
• Tick bite risk in people of the Outer Hebrides
• Role of farm management on parasite abundance
• Association between diet and cellular senescence in mice
• Changes in immunoglobulin G in grey seal milk
Level4
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Different options:
Evolution: Pattern and
Process
Level4
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Tropical EcologyLevel
4
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Ecology and Conservation of African ecosystems –
field course in Kenya
Level4
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Tropical Marine Biology –field course in Red Sea
Level4
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Disease EcologyLevel
4
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Freshwater EcologyLevel
4
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Behavioural Ecology
Level4
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Ecological speciation
Level4
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Fisheries and AquacultureLevel
4
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Applying Ecology:
Conservation and
Management of Populations
Level4
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Our ‘Work Placement’ DegreeMSci Zoology / Marine & FW Biology
• First 3 years identical to honours course
• Year out on work placement between Level 3 and 4
• 5th year – is the level 4 honours course
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Work Placement Destinations
Apply to do this degree option in 3rd year –competitive, so academic performance is critical
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Zoological Society
• Student organisation
• Organises scientific talks, trips
• Social events
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Exploration Society
✓ Student society runs many expeditions each summer
✓ Destinations include Cyprus, Ecuador, Guyana, Iceland, Sri Lanka, Tobago, Trinidad
✓ Can conduct Honours project as part of an expedition
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Recent Animal Biology Graduates
• Research officer studying fur seals for British Antarctic Survey
• Biodiversity officer, Glasgow city council
• PhD in environmental impact of whale watching off Scotland
• Biology teacher
• Researcher in lizard conservation in Australia
• Conservation organiser for a reserve in Ecuador
• Researcher for wildlife documentary company
• Research assistant studying ageing in meerkats, Cambridge University
• Researcher studying Marine Protected Areas, Natural England
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• Assistant Marine Survey technician, Orkney Island Council.
• Principal Aquatic Ecologist, Jacob’s Engineering
• Phytoplankton Ecologist, SEPA
• Conservation biologist, Kakapo research, New Zealand
• Head of habitats and species for RSPB Scotland
• Animal nutritionist, Chester Zoo
• Wildlife film maker, National Geographic
• Elephant conservation officer for a game park in South Africa
• Fisheries biologist, Environment Agency
Recent Animal Biology Graduates
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Recent Animal Biology Graduates
• Molecular ecologist studying fish genetic diversity, Marine Lab, Aberdeen
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What our graduates thought of our degrees
Look at the National Student Survey at:
discoveruni.gov.uk
97-100% of our students are satisfied with the course
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Any questions?
Raise them at the webchat from 16.00 - 17.00
via the online registration form: