1. UCAS Open Day Prof Jeremy Lakey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dWoD8peVA0 School of Biomedical Sciences

2. St James’ Park The Medical School The Sage The Tyne Bridge Welcome to Newcastle!

3. North Pennines Kielder Water The Cheviots Coastline

4. Outdoor Pursuits Kite Surfing Canoeing Sailing Waterskiing Walking Hiking Climbing Orienteering Bouldering Cycling Mountain Biking Surfing

5. Outdoor Pursuits a personal view Kite Surfing Canoeing Sailing Waterskiing Orienteering Sailing Hill Walking Skiing!

6. Warkworth Bamburgh Dunstanburgh Alnwick

7. Hadrian’s Wall

8. St James’ Park Durham Cathedral Tradition

9. The Quad Medical Sciences4,981 Science Agriculture7,126 & Engineering Humanities, Arts &10,767 Social Sciences TOTAL22,874 Newcastle University

10. A University City For students, the low cost of living, the ease of finding accommodation, proximity to the sea and dramatic countryside, famed nightlife and gregarious Geordie hospitality mix to create a pretty punchy cocktail. So potent, in fact, Newcastle tops our list.” BEST UK UNIVERSITY CITY 2010 MSN Travel Website BEST UK UNIVERSITY CITY 2010 MSN Travel Website

11. Sport The Great North Run Newcastle United Newcastle Falcons Newcastle Eagles Newcastle Vipers Gateshead Stadium Durham County Cricket Club (Chester-le-Street) Newcastle United Newcastle Falcons Newcastle Eagles Newcastle Vipers Gateshead Stadium Durham County Cricket Club (Chester-le-Street)

12. Arts & Culture The Sage The BALTIC Theatre Royal PLUS, The Biscuit Factory, Live Theatre, The Northern Stage, City Hall, The Great North Museum, The Shipley Art Gallery.........

13. Night Life

14. Alternative Night Life? Open until 10 pm Mon-Thurs 9 pm Fri-Sun

15. Facts & Figures! Approximately 200 undergraduate degrees Plus over 260 postgraduate taught programmes and research degrees Ranked in the Global Top 200 (by both the QS & Times Higher Education Supplement) A founder member the Russell Group, an association of 24 research intensive Universities in the UK 21 Research Centres 13 Research Institutes High rating in the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014)

16. The Quad £200m invested on campus improvements: new buildings, refurbished laboratories, lecture theatres & computing suites. £200m invested on campus improvements: new buildings, refurbished laboratories, lecture theatres & computing suites.

17. The Medical School Lecture Theatres Seminar Rooms Teaching Laboratories Computing Clusters Walton Library Cafe Student Common Room

18. How did we do in the REF? Times Higher Education ranking for Uo5, Biological Sciences.

19. A training in Biomedicine, what’s it all about?- a short story from our current research; Child A presents to doctor with repeated infections Microbiologists determine the types of infections and the immune response of the patient, enabling the doctor to stabilise the patient; but what’s the cause? Physiologists characterise the behaviour of the patient’s cells and define their unusual behaviour. A relative has similar symptoms so geneticists screen their genomes for gene changes. A gene is indentified which may cause the problem. Biochemists characterise the faulty protein and show how its structure is affected by the mutation. They discover the molecular basis of the disease which explains the findings Pharmacologists will use the data to devise treatments Lu et al., Dual Proteolytic Pathways Govern Glycolysis and Immune Competence (2014) Cell 159, 1578–1590

20. UCAS Open Day Any questions? School of Biomedical Sciences