MSc Biotechnology, Bioprocessing & Business Management pre-reading list
This is a selection of reading material recommended by module leaders for those who would like to get ahead with their study before beginning their course. Module leaders have chosen resources which are freely available and can be used as a starting point to give you a brief introduction to some of the ideas in their modules.
You are not required to purchase textbooks or to read these suggestions before you begin the course. Many e-books and journals will be available to you online through Warwick Library once you enrol. Each module has its own reading list on its Moodle page.
You may also be interested in Academic Writing: A guide for pre-induction students, a Moodle guide provided by the Academic Writing Programme.
Core Modules
LF911 Accounting and Financial Management
- Read the financial pages of newspapers
- Access press and business websites with particular reference to the bio industry- build up a background knowledge of the industry structure and markets.
LF912 Business Strategy
- Collis, David J., and Michael G. Rukstad. "Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?." Harvard Business Review (2008): 1.
https://www.panelquest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/HBR-Can-you-say-what-strategy-is.pdf - Denney, E. (2019). The Yin and Yang of Business Strategy. Irish Business Journal, 12(1), 4.
https://sword.cit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=irishbusinessjournal - PISANO, GARY P. "YOU NEED AN INNOVATION STRATEGY." Harvard Business Review (2015).
Optional Modules
HR926 Microbiomics and Metagenomics
- Berg et al (2020) Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges. Microbiome 8:103.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00875-0 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54011/ - National Research Council (US) Committee on Metagenomics: Challenges and Functional Applications (2007) The New Science of Metagenomics: Revealing the Secrets of Our Microbial Planet. National Academies Press (US); Washington (DC);
Available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54011/ [last accessed 13 July 2020] - Escobar-Zepeda et al. (2015) The Road to Metagenomics: From Microbiology to DNA Sequencing Technologies and Bioinformatics. Frontiers in Genetics. 15 (6), 348.
https://dx.doi.org/10.3389%2Ffgene.2015.00348
BS978 Innovations to Prevent & Treat Infectious Disease
- The Microbiology Society's "Microbe Profiles" series of primers:
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/microbe-profiles - Alternatives to antibiotics—a pipeline portfolio review. Article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases by Lloyd Czaplewski et al; https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-30991500466-1/fulltext (Should be OA on the journal site, but if not it's available here:
https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/18412506/2016_01_22_Alternatives_to_Antibiotics_Accepted_manuscript_by_Czaplewski_et_al_2016.pdf)
BS945 Environmental protection, risk assessment and safety
- Rockstrom, J et al. (2009) A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 461, 473-475
https://www.nature.com/articles/461472a.pdf - Richmond, EK et al.(2018) A diverse suite of pharmaceuticals contaminates stream and riparian food webs. Nature Communications 9, 4491
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06822-w - Windsor, FM et al (2018) Endocrine disruption in aquatic systems: up scaling research to address ecological consequences. Biological Reviews 93, 626-641
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/brv.12360