The main X-ray crystallography laboratory contains fast collecting area detectors for rapid data collection and analysis. The School has extensive PC and computer graphics laboratories. We also have a new visualisation laboratory and multimedia seminar room, equipped with graphics workstations, funded through a grant made by Glaxo-Welcome. Entry qualifications Applicants should have formal training in chemistry or the biological or medical sciences, with desirably, at least an elementary training in physics and mathematics. However, consideration will be given to candidates with degrees in other appropriate subjects.
Oral examinations take place about a month later.
This is a multidisciplinary school comprising biologists, biochemists, chemists, crystallographers, electron microscopists, physicists and mathematicians all with an interest in molecular structure and biological function. Experimental techniques link the wide range of research interests in the Crystallography School and this MSc course has evolved directly from our interest in the study of molecular structure in all its aspects. Historically the School originated with the Biomolecular Research Laboratory directed by Professor J D Bernal founded in 1948. This laboratory included a centre for the construction and use of one of the first valve operated computers built by Dr A D Booth. Early work on the determination by X-ray analysis of the structure of DNA was carried out here by Dr Rosalind Franklin and is celebrated with the laboratory named in her memory.