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Bioscience
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
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Course Summary
- Type: MSc
- Location: Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- Duration: 1 year
- Deadline: 15-01-2013
Course Description
The Bioscience program plays a key role in addressing many of the global challenges being tackled by KAUST. An important research thrust of the Bioscience program is the genomics of stress-tolerant plants and how their physiology and metabolism allow them to thrive under conditions of high salinity, low water and/or high temperatures. This research will impact our ability to grow food in lands and in areas of water scarcity. We address the worldwide energy crisis through research on biofuels and other renewable energy sources. Another major focus of the Bioscience program is high-performance computing to create new methods for information extraction, allowing analysis and understanding of the voluminous data produced from cutting-edge biological experiments. Finally, the unique location of KAUST on the shores of the Red Sea makes comprehensive exploration of the biodiversity of this unique ecosystem and its potential medical applications possible.The Bioscience curriculum provides a strong introduction to the fundamentals of living matter. Each course is a self-contained module providing a complete review of the subject concerned, including Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Genetics, Protein Structure and Function, Synthetic Biology, Genomics, Stem Cells, and Physiology and Metabolic Engineering. Advanced courses such as Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and the Visualization of Biological Systems, are also offered.
