Food Security - Bioscience for a sustainable supply of sufficient, affordable, nutritious and safe food, adapting to a rapidly changing world:
Diet and health
Microbial food safety
Agricultural systems and environment
Basic Bioscience Underpining Health - Lifelong Health and Wellbeing: the basic molecular, cellular, tissue and systems mechanisms responsible for longevity or premature ageing and how these are modulated by diet, exercise and developmental factors
Other World Class Bioscience
Exploiting New Ways of Working - Enabling innovative working practices in an era of rapid technological advancement, the next generation internet, and quantitative and computational approaches to bioscience
Research expertise in and for the development of the next generation of bioanalytical and biological technologies, in areas including (but not exclusively) bioimaging, ’omics technologies and biomolecular characterisation
Research expertise in the development of the next generation of computational and bioinformatic tools, and resources to drive data intensive bioscience and tackle the bioscience data deluge
Research expertise in synthetic biology, an emerging area at the interface of biology, engineering, chemistry and IT that focuses on the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes
Boosting skills, across the biosciences, to ensure that all researchers are effective in exploiting new tools and methodologies relevant to their research as they become available
Other strategically important and vulnerable ‘niche’ research skills
In vivo skills - This area covers whole animal physiology and integrative mammalian biology, including the development of skills for the handling of both laboratory and large animals, particularly where these skills are developed through collaboration with industry
