The Universities of Dundee and St Andrews will graduate their second batch of joint graduates in the St Andrews day graduation ceremony today, with one student going on to study for a PhD at Dundee on wasps infected with a bacterium that can change their gender.
Sixteen students will graduate with a Masters of Environmental Biology that they have worked for at both universities, taking a mixture of classes in St Andrews and Dundee.
This research based degree will see most of the students go on to further study. Claire Embling has secured a PhD position in the Sea Mammal Research section of the Gatty Marine Laboratories in St Andrews and Ian Pearce will start a PhD with Dr Steve Hubbard in the Division of Environmental and Applied Biology at the School of Life Sciences and Professor Mark Chaplain and Dr Sandy Anderson in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Dundee working on the bacterium that changes the gender of insects.
Dr Steve Hubbard at the University of Dundee said: "This is the second year of the MRes course, which is specifically a research training course. The student intake this year was of a very high quality and they are graduating with extremely good degrees. Many will go on to do PhDs in well regarded departments and Universities."
The graduation ceremony will take place at the University of St Andrews.
Contact Dr Steve Hubbard 01382 344479.
By Jenny Marra, Head of Press 01382 344910, out of hours: 07968298585, j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk