Master in Biotechnology + 60 ECTS Credits

Thanks to this university master's degree, you will be able to focus your studies on this area of ​​science, one of which has the greatest potential for development, acquiring some of the most valued and demanded skills and abilities in the current labor market. To this end, the following objectives are established, among others: - Interpret quality control plans, applying criteria to organize and supervise laboratory activities, collecting the key aspects in Standard Work Procedures. - Assess the need to use Good Laboratory Practices or other established quality systems, applying them in the form of instructions for laboratory tasks. - Apply protein and nucleotide chain extraction techniques. - Develop the cloning of nucleotide chains using the basic procedures of genetic engineering. - Perform immunological and genetic assays to characterize microorganisms. - Carry out toxicity and mutagenesis tests. - Analyze the measures necessary to prevent risks associated with biotechnology. - Analyze biotechnology from its different fields of application, focusing to a greater extent on food biotechnology. - Know the different food biotechnology techniques and the main types of foods. - Analyze the impact of genetically modified foods and functional foods on current diets. - Acquire basic knowledge of health biotechnology. - Learn the main applications of biotechnology. - Know the legal framework of products derived from health biotechnology. - Know what regenerative medicine, gene therapy and cell therapy consist of. - Analyze the measures necessary to prevent risks associated with biotechnology. - Describe tools for genome analysis. - Perform genome comparisons to identify and store observed differences. - Describe and identify the different computational methods most commonly used in bioinformatics. - Describe and use optimization processes and genetic algorithms to facilitate identification tasks. - Describe and document different phylogenetic reconstruction methods. - Describe the methods of analyzing big data in functional genomics and proteomics. - Identify the procedures for comparing protein structures. - Describe and use the most commonly used methods for predicting the linear structure of proteins. - Represent the methods of fitting between proteins, and between small molecules and proteins. - Analyze security measures related to the prevention of risk derived from biotechnological products and services. - Analyze security measures related to the procedures and work methods of activities related to biotechnology. - Analyze the systems, equipment and devices used to prevent the risk derived from the sequence of biotechnological operations, relating the systems and devices to the risk factors that affect them. - Analyze the means necessary to observe environmental protection measures. - Relate the hygienic risk factors in the facilities where biotechnological activities are carried out with their effects on health and with the detection and/or measurement techniques and devices. - Apply corrective response actions to emergency situations in a biotechnological context.