School of
Biomedical Sciences
Prof Jeremy Lakey
UCAS Open Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dWoD8peVA0
Welcome to Newcastle!
The Medical
St James’ Park
The Tyne Bridge
The Sage
School
The Cheviots
North Pennines
Kielder Water
Coastline
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•Climbing
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Outdoor Pursuits
•Kite Surfing
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•Sailing
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•Orienteering
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•Sailing
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•Skiing!
•Kite Surfing
•Canoeing
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Outdoor Pursuits a personal view
Warkworth
Bamburgh
Castles
Dunstanburgh
Alnwick
Hadrian’s Wall
Durham Cathedral
Tradition
St James’ Park
Medical Sciences
4,981
Science Agriculture
& Engineering
7,126
Humanities, Arts &
Social Sciences
10,767
TOTAL
22,874
The Quad
Newcastle University
For students, the low cost of living, the ease of finding accommodation, proximity
to the sea and dramatic countryside, famed nightlife and gregarious Geordie
hospitality mix to create a pretty punchy cocktail. So potent, in fact, Newcastle
tops our list.”
BEST UK UNIVERSITY CITY 2010
MSN Travel Website
A University City
The Great North Run
•Newcastle United
•Newcastle Falcons
•Newcastle Eagles
•Newcastle Vipers
•Gateshead Stadium
•Durham County Cricket Club
(Chester-le-Street)
Sport
The
Sage
The
BALTIC
Theatre
Royal
PLUS , The Biscuit Factory, Live Theatre, The Northern Stage, City Hall,
The Great North Museum, The Shipley Art Gallery.........
Arts & Culture
Night Life
Open until
Alternative Night Life?
10 pm
9 pm
Mon-Thurs
Fri-Sun
•Approximately 200 undergraduate degrees
•Plus over 260 postgraduate taught
programmes and research degrees
•Ranked in the Global Top 200 (by both the QS
& Times Higher Education Supplement)
•A founder member the Russell Group, an
association of 24 research intensive
Universities in the UK
•21 Research Centres 13 Research Institutes
• High rating in the Research Excellence
Framework (REF 2014)
Facts & Figures!
The Quad
£200m invested on campus improvements: new buildings,
refurbished laboratories, lecture theatres & computing suites.
•Lecture Theatres
•Seminar Rooms
•Teaching Laboratories
•Computing Clusters
•Walton Library
The Medical School
•Cafe
•Student Common Room
How did we do in the REF?
Times Higher Education ranking for Uo5, Biological Sciences.
A training in Biomedicine, what’s it all about?a short story from our current research;
Lu et al., Dual Proteolytic Pathways Govern
Glycolysis and Immune Competence (2014)
Cell 159, 1578–1590
Child A presents to doctor with repeated
infections
Microbiologists determine the types of
infections and the immune response
of the patient, enabling the doctor to
stabilise the patient; but what’s the
cause?
Physiologists characterise the
behaviour of the patient’s cells and
define their unusual behaviour.
Pharmacologists will use the data to
devise treatments
Biochemists characterise the faulty protein
and show how its structure is affected by the
mutation. They discover the molecular basis
of the disease which explains the findings
A relative has similar symptoms so
geneticists screen their genomes for
gene changes. A gene is indentified
which may cause the problem.
School of
Biomedical Sciences
Any questions?
UCAS Open Day