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Master's Degree in Molecular Biosciences (L)

  • New offer
Modality
In-person
Branch of knowledge
Science
Ambit of knowledge
Bioquímica y biotecnología.
School(s)
Faculty of Sciences
Avda. Alfonso X O Sabio, s/n, 27002
Lugo
982824095 (Conserxaría)
982824009 (Decanato)
ciencias.decanato@usc.gal
Campus
Lugo
Coordinator
Enrique Manuel Cabaleiro Lago
Contact
caba.lago@usc.es

The Master in Molecular Biosciences aims to provide specialized, multidisciplinary and integrative training in the broad areas of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, oriented towards applied research and the transfer of knowledge to industry; and in particular, to the development of products and services based on the selective manipulation of biomolecular processes.

  • Duration: 2 academic years
    RUCT code: 3500266
    ECTS Number: 90
    Seats number: 12

    Dean or center director:
    ASTERIA M. LUZARDO ALVAREZ
    asteriam.luzardo@usc.es

    Title coordinator:
    Enrique Manuel Cabaleiro Lago
    caba.lago@usc.es

    Use languages:
    Spanish, Galician

    Coordinator university:
    University of Santiago de Compostela

    Partaker universities:
    University of Santiago de Compostela

  • • Compulsory: 42
    • Optional: 18
    • Compulsory external internships: 12
    • Master's final dissertation: 18
    o Total: 90

    The study plan of the Master in Molecular Biosciences has a total of 90 ECTS, divided into 3 semesters, of 30 ECTS each.
    The first two semesters are dedicated to the teaching of compulsory subjects (42 ECTS) and optional subjects (18 ECTS) with an offer of optional subjects of 36 ECTS. The second year of the degree is made up of a single semester, dedicated to the Internship (12 ECTS) and the Master's Thesis (18 ECTS).

  • This Master's degree, in general, aims to provide students with advanced scientific training in the field of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, oriented both towards applied research and the development of products, goods and services based on the manipulation of biological and molecular processes.
    Thus, with the implementation of the Master in Molecular Biosciences, the following objectives are intended to be achieved:
    • Provide students with advanced, specialised, and multidisciplinary training in areas related to Biochemistry and Biotechnology in sectors as diverse as: food, bio sanitary, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, environmental and chemical.
    • Train students in carrying out work and studies in areas linked to scientific and research activities or aimed at other professional activities such as joining technological companies, working in R&D&I laboratories, in the pharmaceutical industry, industrial agri-alimentary, etc.
    • Train future professionals trained to create companies of a technological, innovative, or high added value nature.

  • Mobility

    Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programmes are managed through the International Relations Office, such as
    national exchange programmes (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):
    https://www.usc.gal/gl/servizos/area/internacional

    Internships

    The external academic internships will be carried out in their curricular modality, as a part of the study plan and the training project. It corresponds to a compulsory subject of the third semester with 12 ECTS.
    Students will carry out internships in a collaborating entity, company, or institution, duly coordinated and will allow the student's academic training to be completed through interaction with the world of work and business, thus improving both the scientific and
    technical training acquired in the compulsory subjects of the degree as well as its transversal competences and personal skills. Students will receive complete information through the corresponding call for external internships. During the internship, students will have an academic tutor from the University, who must be teaching staff of the degree and an external tutor from the collaborating entity with professional experience and knowledge necessary for effective tutoring. The assessment will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of article 25 of the aforementioned Regulations: at the end of the internship period, the external tutor will send a final report to the academic tutor and the student will prepare an internship report. The academic tutor, in view of the external tutor's report and the report, will asses the internship developed by issuing an assessment report.

  • The Master's Final Dissertation takes the form of a compulsory subject of the 3rd semester of 18 ECTS. At the time of presentation and defence, the student must have passed all the other credits necessary to obtain the degree (72 ECTS).
    The USC has a Regulations governing the registration, preparation and defence of bachelor's and master's degree final projects (Governing Council 10 March 2016) and for each degree a specific regulation is developed in the centre specific regulations for each degree. In addition, the centre's IQAS process manual regulates, in the the procedure for assigning and carrying out the TFM.
    https://minerva.usc.es/xmlui/handle/10347/14563
    https://www.usc.gal/es/centro/facultad-ciencias/calidad/documentacion-s…

    The student will develop integrative work that allows applying the skills acquired in the degree's teachings. In it, the realisation, presentation, and individual defence before a tribunal will be carried out of a dissertation in any of the areas related to Molecular Biosciences, in which the skills acquired in the subjects taken in the master's degree are synthesized and integrated.
    The Master's Thesis may be carried out in any of the lines of research offered by the Master's professors. The specific work topic will be assigned by the academic committee
    of the master's degree to each student, taking into account the lines of work offered, the preferences expressed by the students and the availability of teaching staff.
    To determine the viability of a topic to be developed as a TFM, the student must present a proposal following a standardized form to the Commission of the Master's Degree in Molecular Biosciences. Once approval of the proposal is obtained, the TFM can be prepared and presented for defense.
    The master's final dissertations must have a tutor who will be the one who assists in the direction of the student. Co-tutors may also be appointed with the functions that are previously determined. In the case of work that is carried out within the framework of agreements or with companies or institutions, a co-guardian may be appointed who may be staff of the entity in which the work is carried out. The methodology will be set by the tutor and co-tutors, depending on the type of TFM that the student is going to carry out. Once the work is completed, the student must prepare a report, which must be presented to the corresponding tribunal.
    The evaluation of the TFM will be carried out by a university tribunal in accordance with the criteria of the TFM Regulations and on the basis of the TFM Evaluation Rubric. Both the regulations and the rubric will be drawn up by the degree's Academic Committee in accordance with the ‘Regulations for the registration, preparation and defence of final degree and master's degree projects at the University of Santiago de Compostela’ and the teaching guide for the subject.

The contents of this page were updated on 07.30.2024.