Useful Information re:

4th Year Subject Choices

Deadline for selecting your 4th year subject choice:
Friday 17th February 2012.

4th year Zoology structure (including ECTS info)

Range of Zoology 4th year project areas and supervisors

Career possibilities in Zoology and related areas

Postgraduate Options: MSc and PhD

Zoology 4th year: Structure

Project 30% 18 ECTS

Literature review 20% 12 ECTS
Integrative Zoology 10%
6 ECTS
Exam ZO408 20% 12 ECTS (first half of
main Zoology lecture course)
Exam ZO409 20%
12 ECTS
(second half of Zoology lecture course)
Total 100% Total ECTS - 60

Project areas and supervisors

Dr. Louise Allcock

Morphological and molecular systematics of Cephalopoda
Dr. Louise Firth
Marine community ecology
Dr. Uri Frank
Stem cells and developmental biology
Dr. Bob Kennedy
Ecology of marine invertebrates and ecological assessment in marine
sediments
Dr. Colin Lawton
Population ecology of Irish mammals and their status in ecosystems
Dr. Grace McCormack

Evolutionary biology range of projects at microevolutionary or

macroevolutionary scales focusing on marine sponges.

Dr. Anne Marie Power

The biology of marine invertebrate populations and population interactions
Dr. Gerhard Schlosser
Development of the nervous system in amphibians

Career possibilities: examples

Ecological/environmental careers: these

can be based in a government agency
(e.g. Marine Institute) or in a company
(ecological consultancy)
Molecular/cellular careers: these can be
based either in government laboratories
or in companies (e.g. biotechnological
ones)
Teaching (at various levels)
NOTE: Many of the above will require
further (postgraduate) qualifications

Postgraduate options

The main two options are a 1-year

MSc and a 3/4-year PhD
For applied aspects of Zoology
(ranging from ecological to
molecular): MSc is best option
For fundamental Zoology, and for an
academic career in Zoology: PhD is
best option