The School of Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences at Auckland incorporates a wide range of disciplines underpinning research in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour; Microbiology; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Plant Molecular Science; Proteomics and Biomedicine; Structural Biology and also in Teaching and Learning Innovations. Our Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching programmes enable students studying at Auckland to focus their learning in one or more topic areas. These include Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Plant Science, Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behaviour and Physiology, Marine and Freshwater Biology.

Many Biological Sciences courses also contribute to related specialisations including marine science, environmental science, food and wine science, biotechnology, biomedical sciences, bioinformatics, biosecurity and bioscience enterprise.

The School currently employs 180 staff and supervises over 150 graduate research projects. SBS is located in the BioSciences Cluster - a dedicated research facility, which has world-class infrastructure shared between the School, five Research Centres and Institutes, and several Company Partners. Students can select from a broad selection of projects for Honours, Master and Doctoral degrees, which can be wholly supervised by SBS academics or jointly between SBS, University and/or industry scientists.

The Thomas Building construction project

To view a picture portfolio of construction progress, please click here.

Summer Studentships 2009/2010

SBS is pleased to announce the release of the 2009/10 Summer Studentships. For details of the application process see here. SBS Summer Studentship Information 2009-2010.pdf (14kB)

For a list of all projects (SBS, ISSG and Landcare Research) see here. SBS Summer Studentship Project List 2009-2010.pdf (243kB)
For application forms - SBS & ISSG see here Summer Studentships 2009-2010 Application form.pdf (97kB) , Landcare Research click here Landcare application form.pdf (50kB) . Plant & Food Summer Studentship 2009/10 Projects can be viewed here.