Master in Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology

The work developed by a student during one academic year, according to the indicative plan of the course and on a full time basis, totals 60 ECTS.

Study Programme

Course unit title	Year	Regime	Type	Subject area	ECTS credits
Biological Big Data Analytics	1	1st Semester	Compulsory	INTERDISC	6.0
Environmental Microbiology	1	1st Semester	Compulsory	MICROBIOL	6.0
Laboratorial Project I	1	1st Semester	Compulsory	MICROBIOL	6.0
Metabolic diversity	1	1st Semester	Compulsory	MICROBIOL	6.0
Applications in Microbiology	1	2nd Semester	Compulsory	MICROBIOL	6.0
Laboratorial Project II	1	2nd Semester	Compulsory	MICROBIOL	6.0
Microbial Genomics	1	2nd Semester	Compulsory	MICROBIOL	6.0
Molecular Microbiology	1	2nd Semester	Compulsory	MICROBIOL	6.0
Molecular Biotechnology	1	1st Semester	Elective *	INTERDISC	6.0
One Health - Human and Planetary Health	1	1st Semester	Elective *	INTERDISC	6.0
Valorization and Sustainable Management of Fungi	1	1st Semester	Elective *	INTERDISC	6.0
Bioinformatics	1	2nd Semester	Elective *	INTERDISC	6.0
Biorremediation	1	2nd Semester	Elective *	INTERDISC	6.0
Entrepreneurship: from the idea to the business plan	1	2nd Semester	Elective *	INTERDISC	6.0
Scientific Writing	1	2nd Semester	Elective *	INTERDISC	6.0
Rules The student should register in optional curricular units in a total of 12 ECTS, (6 ECTS per semester). One of the optional curricular units may be chosen among those taught in the University, through the open list rule, subject to the approval of the course coordination
Course unit title	Year	Regime	Type	Subject area	ECTS credits
Seminar in Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology	2	1st Semester	Compulsory	MICROBIOL	6.0
Dissertation in Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology	2	Annual	Elective *	MICROBIOL	54.0
Internship in Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology	2	Annual	Elective *	MICROBIOL	54.0

The optional course units are offered on a yearly basis, depending on the availability of the Organic Unit