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University of Glasgow

MRes Infection and Immunobiology

Hi
I just got my unconditional offer for an MRes in Infection and Immunobiology starting this September. Was just wondering if anyone else on here was starting this course as well? Would be nice to get to know a few people before starting the course.

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Reply 1

Iain-C

I'm doing this course too! And we'll probably be graduating with the same specialisation considering I did my undergraduate in Virology here too! :smile:

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Reply 2

virologygirl

Woo

Finally finding a few people. I think you make it 8 in total :smile:

. Have you seen our timetable? We have 3 hour long lectures :0

Reply 3

Iain-C

I had 3 hour lectures in my final year so I'm used to it :smile:

where are you seeing the timetable information? Excited to start?

Reply 4

virologygirl

Original post by Iain-C

I had 3 hour lectures in my final year so I'm used to it :smile:

where are you seeing the timetable information? Excited to start?

I've never even had a 2 hour lecture :0 I may struggle with 3 hours, especially if it's immunology

Under my timetable on the myglasgow thingy. Yeah I'm excited you?

Reply 5

Iain-C

Yeah pretty excited. I haven't been able to register yet because i'm waiting for the alumni discount to be applied to my fees. Do they have lecture titles and things? Where did you study your undergraduate?

Reply 6

virologygirl

Original post by Iain-C

Just the module title no actual lecture titles. I studied at Leeds uni :-) I'd kill for an alumni discount but hey ho.

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Iain-C

Original post by virologygirl

Just the module title no actual lecture titles. I studied at Leeds uni :-) I'd kill for an alumni discount but hey ho.

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Ah cool, haha yeah it's pretty good to have but it's just a shame they aren't organised enough to apply it :P What kind of projects do you think you'd like to do?

Reply 8

virologygirl

Original post by Iain-C

Ah cool, haha yeah it's pretty good to have but it's just a shame they aren't organised enough to apply it :P What kind of projects do you think you'd like to do?

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I like negative sense RNA viruses so maybe schmallenberg or something like that. Not really sure TBH, I'm hoping they lay the titles/ideas out for us I'm crap at coming up with my own stuff. You?

Reply 9

Iain-C

Original post by virologygirl

I've worked with Hepatitis C for a work placement and Influenza for my honours project before and hated my project. I'd like to work on HIV and Hepatitis C. Ideally I think Ebola is very interesting but I highly doubt there are facilities for that in Glasgow.

Reply 10

virologygirl

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I hate hep c and hiv. Love influenza and Ebola but Glasgow don't work on Ebola. They do a lot on hep c and hpv and hsv (urgh really hate these).

Reply 11

Iain-C

Original post by virologygirl

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I hate hep c and hiv. Love influenza and Ebola but Glasgow don't work on Ebola. They do a lot on hep c and hpv and hsv (urgh really hate these).

Haha well that's good then, one less person to fight for the projects I'd like :P They do a LOT on influenza here so you're in luck with that. I did an essay on ebola for honours and that turned out well and a poster on HIV and that also went well so I think those are my two favourites with Hepatitis C coming in third :P It's insane how much you forget about what you learn in your undergraduate though.

Reply 12

virologygirl

Original post by Iain-C

Yeah, I did my dissertation (lab one) on HRSV, it was meant to be on schmallenberg but the company we sent the DNA to to be cloned cocked up by optimising the nucleotide code and not telling us, so all my designed primers wouldn't anneal!!

Did my essay on Schmallenberg virus.

Reply 13

Iain-C

Original post by virologygirl

That's interesting. Hope it went well :smile:

I'm really hoping to get registered on Monday and get some more information. Excited for the essay we're going to write as well.

Reply 14

virologygirl

Original post by Iain-C

That's interesting. Hope it went well :smile:

I'm really hoping to get registered on Monday and get some more information. Excited for the essay we're going to write as well.

It definitely went well I got a 1st :smile:

Yeah the essay we write they give us a list of titles and we have to pick our top 3 choices and we get given one of them.

We only have 1 exam, and we can't really revise for it as they give us a journal article and we have to answer 6 short answer questions on it (a lot harder than it actually sounds if you haven't done an exam like this before)

Reply 15

Iain-C

Original post by virologygirl

It definitely went well I got a 1st :smile:

Congratulations! I suck so much at exams but I think that sounds manageable if that's all we have to do. I am better at things like that. Have you been sent any course information by the uni? I just feel out of the loop because I have not been able to register yet.

Reply 16

virologygirl

Original post by Iain-C

Not been sent anything by the uni sadly. Just got info off of my Glasgow but not all that much. Our intro week is the 9th I do believe then lectures start at 10am on the 16th

Reply 17

Iain-C

Original post by virologygirl

Not been sent anything by the uni sadly. Just got info off of my Glasgow but not all that much. Our intro week is the 9th I do believe then lectures start at 10am on the 16th

Cool, I just got an email today asking if I was still planning on attending due to the discount not being applied but it was finally added to my account today so I can register :smile:

They are going to send out an email to us soon she said.

Reply 18

virologygirl

Original post by Iain-C

Cool, I just got an email today asking if I was still planning on attending due to the discount not being applied but it was finally added to my account today so I can register :smile:

They are going to send out an email to us soon she said.