Milan, Italy
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The programme aims to provide students with advanced skills in molecular biotechnology, computational biology, and bioinformatics, with a strong focus on the most advanced tools and approaches for the analysis of genomes, proteomes, and metabolomes. Entirely taught in English, the degree combines lecture-based courses with an experimental laboratory project leading to a dissertation to be chosen among projects offered by the University and other research institutes.
The MB&B Master's degree aims to provide students with advanced skills in molecular biotechnology, computational biology, and bioinformatics, with a strong focus on the most advanced tools and approaches for the analysis of genomes, proteomes, and metabolomes. The main goal of the MB&B Master's degree is to give the students the broad theoretical and practical background needed to apply their knowledge to various biological/biotechnology problems.
A specific goal of MB&B includes providing deep and up-to-date knowledge in the following core subjects:
- Bioinformatics
- Molecular biology and biotechnology
- Functional genomics and "-omics" technologies
- Protein expression systems
- Metabolic engineering and industrial processes
- Structural biochemistry
- Molecular enzymology
- Data analysis
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Curriculum
Year 1
First semester
Compulsory
- Biotechnological Products and Processes
- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Methods in Bioinformatics
- Molecular and Cellular Microbiology
- Rational Design and Structural Characterization of Bioactive Molecules
Second semester
Compulsory
- Advanced Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology
- Advanced Plant Cell Biotechnology
- Protein Engineering and Molecular Enzymology
Compulsory
- English Proficiency B2 (3 ECTS)
Year 2
Compulsory
- Thesis Project and Final Dissertation
Program Outcome
In addition, students will have the opportunity to develop skills in further specific disciplines of their interest, choosing from courses in plant genetics, nanotechnology, biophysics, molecular microbiology, molecular parasitology, structural biology, patenting and technology transfer (the latter, included in the University project for the development of soft skills). The MB&B Master's degree combines lecture-based courses (in the first year and the first term of the second year) with an experimental laboratory project leading to a dissertation (second year), to be chosen by the students among many projects offered by the University of Milan and other research institutes, including private companies.
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Career Opportunities
The MB&B Master's degree provides employment opportunities in the following areas:
research laboratories in both private and public institutions, management of production facilities in the biotechnological industry, including diagnostics, chemicals, and the agro-food industry; promotion of scientific development and technological innovation in Research & Development in various industrial settings; service management in areas related to industrial biotechnology, as well as in Quality Control laboratories; research laboratories in both private and public institutions. Graduates will be able to operate, in their fields of specialization, at a high level of responsibility, managing the ethical, technical, and legal aspects of their work. In addition, thanks to its strong commitment to teaching a broad range of biotechnological disciplines, the MB&B Master's degree is ideal to provide the background knowledge required for PhD and other higher education courses.
The specific business contexts that the MB&B graduates can enter are, among others: the pharmaceutical industry, chemical industry, food industry, industry and services for environmental biotechnology, biotechnology service centres applying information technology, genomics, and proteomics research laboratories of both public and private institutions, with reference to the professions here listed: biologist and similar professions, biochemist, biophysicist, biotechnologies.
MB&B graduates will possess full and updated knowledge in:
- The production of intermediates and products for fine chemicals and the food industry
- Industrial fermentation processes for the production of metabolites and for obtaining energy from renewable sources
- Control of biotechnological processes
- Development of innovative diagnostic techniques
- Analysis of nucleotide and protein sequences and structures
- Development of new biologically active molecules through the study of molecular interactions between proteins and nucleic acids, and the identification of new molecular targets
- Design and development of bioinformatics platforms and new methods for biological data analysis.