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The School promotes an interdisciplinary approach to both applied and fundamental research problems and to postgraduate training. Research in the School is organised into three major interdisciplinary centres: the Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI), Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC) and Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD). Together these centres encompass the full spectrum of research in biological sciences, spanning investigations on the properties and behaviour of individual molecules to planetary environmental dynamics.

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BayesPiles : visualisation support for Bayesian network structure learning

Vogogias, Athanasios; Kennedy, Jessie; Archambault, Daniel; Bach, Benjamin; Smith, V Anne; Currant, Hannah (2018-11) - Journal article

We address the problem of exploring, combining, and comparing large collections of scored, directed networks for understanding inferred Bayesian networks used in biology. In this field, heuristic algorithms explore the ...
Differential responses to gosling distress calls in parental and non-parental Greylag Geese

Loth, Alina; Frigerio, Didone; Kotrschal, Kurt; Szipl, Georgine (2018-04) - Journal article

The pre-fledging survival of Greylag goslings (Anser anser) is known to be influenced by parenting style and particularly parental vigilance. Visual and acoustic cues may be important in parental vigilance: if vision is ...
Assessing the utility and limitations of accelerometers and machine learning approaches in classifying behaviour during lactation in a phocid seal

Schuert, Courtney; Pomeroy, Patrick; Twiss, Sean (2018-10-16) - Journal article

Background: Classifying behaviour with animal-borne accelerometers is quickly becoming a popular tool for remotely observing behavioural states in a variety of species. Most accelerometry work in pinnipeds has focused on ...
Human cytomegalovirus major immediate early 1 protein targets host chromosomes by docking to the acidic pocket on the nucleosome surface

Mücke, Katrin; Paulus, Christina; Bernhardt, Katharina; Gerrer, Katrin; Schön, Kathrin; Fink, Alina; Sauer, Eva-Maria; Asbach-Nitzsche, Alexandra; Harwardt, Thomas; Kieninger, Bärbel; Kremer, Werner; Kalbitzer, Hans Robert; Nevels, Michael (2014-01-15) - Journal article

The 72-kDa immediate early 1 (IE1) protein encoded by human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) is a nuclearly localized promiscuous regulator of viral and cellular transcription. IE1 has long been known to associate with host mitotic ...
Identifying the "demon whale-biter" : patterns of scarring on large whales attributed to a cookie-cutter shark Isistius sp

Best, Peter B.; Photopoulou, Theoni (2016-04-07) - Journal article

The presence of crater-like wounds on cetaceans and other large marine vertebrates and invertebrates has been attributed to various organisms. We review the evidence for the identity of the biting agent responsible for ...