This module will teach you the basic principles of Bioinformatics; the biochemistry and structural biology of proteins, and modern protein structural...

Bioinformatics and Structural Biology as Applied to Drug Design (MEDC0075)

This module will teach you the basic principles of Bioinformatics; the biochemistry and structural biology of proteins, and modern protein structural determination techniques.

The unique tutorial and practical sections will equip you with good skills in using online bioinformatics and genomics databases, gene editing methods, and most commonly used bioinformatics methods, such as BLAST, and important visualisation software, such as RasMol and PyMOL.

The important questions are:

How can we apply bioinformatics to drug targets?
 What are the tools?
 What are drug targets?
 How do you clone and express these protein drug targets?
 How to visualise their structures?
 Why is it important to study a family of proteins?

Flight, expulsion, displacement, population transfers and genocide marked Central European history in the Twentieth Century. Circumstances and consequences...

Home, Exile and Displacement in Twentieth Century Central Europe (HIST0854)

Flight, expulsion, displacement, population transfers and genocide marked Central European history in the Twentieth Century. Circumstances and consequences varied drastically, but each case shattered the notion of a stable and secure home. What makes a place home? What makes people feel they belong? What happens when home is lost or becomes hostile? In this module students will examine the meanings of home, displacement and exile in the context of Twentieth Century Europe. We will do so in varying scales, investigating both broad social processes and structural shifts as well as uncovering the voices of the displaced. We will pay particular attention to the intertwined relationship between these massive population movements and the history of European nationalism, focusing on case studies such as Nazi Germany’s population settlement schemes, the aftermath of World War Two, the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Analysing memoirs, diaries, essays, film and artwork, we will aim to understand how people navigated and understood the process of displacement and how they processed, negotiated, protested, represented and remembered the loss of their home.

 