About us
Biology Education Centre organises the bachelors and masters education in biology at Uppsala University. We have two bachelors programmes, five masters programmes and more than 100 courses.
Organisation
The department Biology Education Centre is an organisation for undergraduate education in biology, biotechnology, bioinformatics and environmental biology within the biology section. We offer several programmes:
- Bachelors programme in biology/molecular biology (in Swedish only)
- Master's programme in biology (8 specialisations)
- Erasmus Mundus master's programme in evolutionary biology
- Master's programme in applied biotechnology
- Master's programme in bioinformatics
- Master's programme in molecular biotechnology
We are also responsible for courses in biology and natural sciences within the teacher education programmes. In addition we offer a large collection of evening, online, and weekend courses.
The teachers (professors, associate professors, research assistants, PhD students and others) on the courses are mainly employed at any of the three research institutions:
The Department of Organismal Biology (IOB)
The Department of Ecology and Genetics (IEG)
The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (ICM).
IBG and the biological research institutions are part of the Faculty of Science and Technology (TekNat) at Uppsala University, www.teknat.uu.se.
Departmental Board, IBG
2023-01-01–2025-12-31
Chairman
Richard Svanbäck
Alternate chairman – Fredrik Söderbom
Representatives IBG
| Members | Alternate member (group) |
| Elisabeth Långström | |
| Lisa Chytraeus |
Representatives ICM
| Members | Alternate member (group) |
| Lisa Klasson | |
| Erik Holmqvist |
Representatives IEG
| Members | Deputy (group) |
| Arild Husby | |
| Sebastian Sobek |
Representatives IOB
| Members | Deputy (group) |
| Irene Söderhäll | |
| Carina Schlebusch |
Student representatives
2023-01-01–2023-12-31
Members and alternate members from BÄR and the X-section.
| Members BÄR | Deputies (group) BÄR |
| Members X section | Deputies X section |
| Members PhD-students | Deputies PhD-students |
| Sofia Papadopoulou |
How to bill IBG
For questions about billing please ask your contact person at IBG.
Swedish Centre for School Biology and Biotechnology
A subdepartment of Biology Education Center – Swedish Centre for School Biology and Biotechnology – has the commission to work towards preschools, compulsory schools, upper secondary schools and in adult education. Their commission is given by the Ministry of Education with the aim to support and inspire teachers to work with biology and biotechnology by
- supporting discussion and exchange of ideas between teachers
- work for raised competence at all levels of biology teaching
- giving advice for practical work in the laboratory
- promoting development of outdoor education
- supporting an integrating view of life science
- giving information about current development within the biological field
- supporting and promoting contacts between research, school and industry
- stimulating discussions about sustainable development and ethical questions
They produce a free subscription inspirational magazine and a newsletter.
Visit the Swedish Centre for School Biology and Biotechnology