Research and Enterprise
IBERS provides an intellectual environment in which researchers can share and explore ideas across traditional agricultural, grassland, rural, environmental and biological science disciplines, and work in multidisciplinary teams that draw upon the wide range of life science and social science expertise in Aberystwyth University.
IBERS carries out high quality, novel internationally important science in plant, animal and microbial sciences, agriculture, cell biology and physiology, genomics parasitology, ecology, plant and animal breeding/reproduction, social sciences and evolutionary processes together with integrating expertise to enable holistic and systems approaches.
IBERS research is organised into three core themes and a number of interrelated research groups.
Themes
Enterprise
Partnerships with the industrial and private sector helps ensure IBERS research remains responsive and relevant to industrial needs. IBERSs entrepreneurial scientists have access to world-class facilities and support to develop strategic alliances and links with industry:
Outreach
IBERS main funding partners:
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Research Groups
Activity is organised around a number of interrelated groups including:
- Abiotic Stress Resistance and Nutrient-use-Efficiency
- Animal Systems
- Aquatic, Behavioural & Evolutionary Biology (ABEB)
- Breeding Methodologies, Reproductive Biology, Epigentics
- Diet and Health
- Ecology
- Energy Crop Biology
- Microbiology
- Herbivore Gut Ecosystems
- Parasitology
- Plant Genome and Chromosome Biology
- Public Good Plant Breeding
Research Seminars
Further Information
Postgraduate research at IBERS
Contact Details
Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural SciencesAberystwyth University
Penglais
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 3DA
Tel: +44 (0)1970 622261 Fax: +44 (0)1970 622350 Email: ibers@aber.ac.uk