STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL BIOLOGY

 

1. Brief presentation (of the importance) of the discipline

This field includes a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines, such as physiology of organisms, neurobiology, embriology or developmental biology, cell biology, anthropology and evolution. It also includes research in the fields of biomedicine and other branches that use cytology, biochemistry, molecular genetics or microbiological knowledge. Masters will be able to perform demanding professional tasks in biomedicine and veterinary medicine, the pharmaceutical and food industries, agriculture and forestry, engineering professions and in the field of forensics.
The questions that structural and functional biology answers are topical and modern, and the results of a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines carry within themselves great applicative value both for the fields of biomedicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, as well as biotechnology and in the sphere of forensics.

2. Basic aims of the study program

The aim of the Master Program in Structural and Functional Biology is to educate top professionals and scientists who are qualified to research the construction and early development of living beings, using contempory microscopic, histological, cytological and molecular biological techniques, and research into functions also for the use of contemporary physiological methods in research into the nervous system and sensory organs of animals.

3. Method of study

Regular and part time.
In the 2011/12 academic year, the study program will be carried out in the form of regular study.
Twenty places will be available in the 2011/12 academic year, of which 10% (2 places) will be for foreign candidates. Studies will take place if at least 15 candidates enrol.

4. Duration of studies

The level two master study program Structural and Functional Biology lasts two years and amounts to 120 credit points. The program does not have orientations.

5. Professional title obtained

After completion of studies, the student obtains the title master of structural and functional biology (MSc.) written after their name.

6. Employment opportunities for graduates

Completion of the program Structural and Functional Biology provides masters with employment opportunities:

• in medical and veterinary laboratories,
• in laboratories for developmental biology and artificial insemination,
• in the pharmaceutical industry for carrying out physiological and behavioural experiments,
• in anthropological laboratories,
• in biomedical marketing of research equipment,
• in leadership and in the development of zoos and national parks,
• in natural history museums,
• in forensic laboratories.

  

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