We are working to restore the Unionpedia app on the Google Play Store
OutgoingIncoming
🌟We've simplified our design for better navigation!
Instagram Facebook X LinkedIn

School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester

Index School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester

The School of Biological Sciences is a School within the Faculty Biology, Medicine and Health at The University of Manchester. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 53 relations: Alan Eddy, Arthur Cain, Arthur Milnes Marshall, Biology, Charles Beyer, Chromosome, Claude Wardlaw, Daniel M. Davis, David H. Valentine, Derek Yalden, DNA, Elizabeth Cutter, Embryology, Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, Ethiopia, F. W. Sansome, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Flagellate, Frederick Ernest Weiss, Herbert Graham Cannon, Insect, International Genetically Engineered Machine, James Montagu Frank Drummond, Jodrell Bank Observatory, John Sulston, Keith Gull, Leukemia, List of life sciences, Lovell Telescope, Malaria, Manchester Museum, Microbiologist, Millipede, Molecular biology, Natural history, Peak District, Protozoa, Pseudoscorpion, Research Assessment Exercise, Royal Society of Biology, Sheena Cruickshank, Stephen Oliver (scientist), Sydney Harland, Sydney J. Hickson, University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, University of Manchester Faculty Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Victoria University of Manchester, ... Expand index (3 more) »

  2. Biology education in the United Kingdom
  3. Biology organisations based in the United Kingdom
  4. Departments of the University of Manchester

Alan Eddy

Professor Alfred Alan Eddy (4 November 1926 – 24 October 2017), usually known as Alan Eddy, was a biochemist who was Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) between 1959 and 1994.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Alan Eddy

Arthur Cain

Arthur James Cain FRS (25 July 1921 – 20 August 1999) was a British evolutionary biologist and ecologist.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Arthur Cain

Arthur Milnes Marshall

Arthur Milnes Marshall (1852–1893) was an English zoologist, known also as an administrator at Victoria University.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Arthur Milnes Marshall

Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Biology

Charles Beyer

Charles Frederick Beyer (an anglicised form of his original German name Carl Friedrich Beyer) (14 May 1813 – 2 June 1876) was a celebrated German-British locomotive designer and builder, and co-founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Charles Beyer

Chromosome

A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Chromosome

Claude Wardlaw

Claude Wilson Wardlaw (4 February 1901 – 16 December 1985) was a British botanist, who specialised in diseases of the banana.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Claude Wardlaw

Daniel M. Davis

Daniel Michael Davis (born) is Head of Life Sciences and Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Daniel M. Davis

David H. Valentine

David Henriques Valentine (16 February 1912 in Salford – 10 April 1987 in Manchester) was a British botanist and plant taxonomist.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and David H. Valentine

Derek Yalden

Derek William Yalden (4 November 1940 – 5 February 2013) was an eminent British zoologist and academic.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Derek Yalden

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and DNA

Elizabeth Cutter

Elizabeth Graham Cutter (9 August 1929 – 23 October 2010) was a Scottish professor at the University of Manchester and oversaw its botany department merged with ten other departments and worked to ensure it would be established in the new school.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Elizabeth Cutter

Embryology

Embryology (from Greek á¼”μβρυον, embryon, "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of animal biology that studies the prenatal development of gametes (sex cells), fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Embryology

Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby

Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, FRS (24 August 1904 – 22 October 1992) was a British botanist and educator.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby

Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Ethiopia

F. W. Sansome

Frederick Whalley Sansome CBE FRSE FLS (1902–1981) was a 20th-century British botanist who spent most of his later professional life teaching in Africa.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and F. W. Sansome

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Flagellate

A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Flagellate

Frederick Ernest Weiss

Frederick Ernest Weiss FRS FLS VMH (2 November 1865 – 7 January 1953) was an Anglo-German Botanist.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Frederick Ernest Weiss

Herbert Graham Cannon

Herbert Graham Cannon FRS FRSE FLS FRMS (1897–1963) was a leading English zoologist and keen supporter of Lamarckism.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Herbert Graham Cannon

Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Insect

International Genetically Engineered Machine

The iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition is a worldwide synthetic biology competition that was initially aimed at undergraduate and 'overgraduate' university students, but has since expanded to include divisions for high school students, entrepreneurs, and community laboratories.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and International Genetically Engineered Machine

James Montagu Frank Drummond

James Montagu Frank Drummond FRSE FLS (1881–1965) was a Scottish botanist, descended from a long line of botanists including James Drummond all living in the Inverarity area around Kirriemuir, and mainly working on the Forthringham estate.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and James Montagu Frank Drummond

Jodrell Bank Observatory

Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Jodrell Bank Observatory

John Sulston

Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and John Sulston

Keith Gull

Professor Keith Gull (born 29 May 1948) is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular microbiology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Keith Gull

Leukemia

Leukemia (also spelled leukaemia; pronounced) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Leukemia

List of life sciences

This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and List of life sciences

Lovell Telescope

The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Lovell Telescope

Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Malaria

Manchester Museum

Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Manchester Museum

Microbiologist

A microbiologist (from Greek μá¿‘κρος) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Microbiologist

Millipede

Millipedes (originating from the Latin mille, "thousand", and pes, "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derived from this feature.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Millipede

Molecular biology

Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Molecular biology

Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Natural history

Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Peak District

Protozoa

Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Protozoa

Pseudoscorpion

Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Pseudoscorpion

Research Assessment Exercise

The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was an exercise undertaken approximately every five years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils (HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DELNI) to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Research Assessment Exercise

Royal Society of Biology

The Royal Society of Biology (RSB), previously called the Society of Biology, is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom created to advance the interests of biology in academia, industry, education, and research.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Royal Society of Biology

Sheena Cruickshank

Sheena Margaret Cruickshank is a British immunologist and Professor in Biomedical Sciences and Public Engagement at the University of Manchester.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Sheena Cruickshank

Stephen Oliver (scientist)

Stephen George Oliver (born 3 November 1949) is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Stephen Oliver (scientist)

Sydney Harland

Sydney Cross Harland (1891–1982) was a British agricultural botanist with considerable international experience.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Sydney Harland

Sydney J. Hickson

Sydney John Hickson FRS (25 June 1859 – 6 February 1940), was a British zoologist known for his groundbreaking research in evolution, embryology, genetics, and systematics.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Sydney J. Hickson

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and University of Cambridge

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and University of Glasgow

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and University of Manchester

University of Manchester Faculty Biology, Medicine and Health

The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (BMH) is one of the three faculties that compose the University of Manchester. School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and University of Manchester Faculty Biology, Medicine and Health are biology education in the United Kingdom, biology organisations based in the United Kingdom and departments of the University of Manchester.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and University of Manchester Faculty Biology, Medicine and Health

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Victoria University of Manchester

The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Victoria University of Manchester

William Crawford Williamson

William Crawford Williamson (24 November 1816 – 23 June 1895) was an English Naturalist and Palaeobotanist.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and William Crawford Williamson

William Henry Lang

William Henry Lang FRS FRSE FLS (12 May 1874–29 August 1960) was a British botanist and served as Barker professor of cryptogamic botany at the University of Manchester.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and William Henry Lang

Yeast

Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom.

See School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester and Yeast

See also

Biology education in the United Kingdom

Biology organisations based in the United Kingdom

Departments of the University of Manchester

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Biological_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester

Also known as Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences (University of Manchester), University of Manchester Faculty of Life Sciences.

, William Crawford Williamson, William Henry Lang, Yeast.