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Through an interdisciplinary training strategy, graduates in Applied and Experimental Biology can provide scientifically and professionally comprehensive answers to a wide range of biological problems through the use of modern laboratory techniques and methods of analysis and interpretation of results. The course includes three curricula: biosanitary, foods and nutrition, and forensic, with educational tracks geared toward the specific fields of activity.

The course of study provides a solid theoretical and practical preparation, the latter achieved through advanced teaching labs, characterized by the active participation of students on exercises drawn from real cases and problems. Seminar activities are planned, held both by course instructors and by Italian and foreign scholars and professionals, managers, and laboratory directors, which enable students to deepen and broaden the topics under study both applicable to the world of research and the profession.

Graduates are able to work in both basic research laboratories and the health, food, and forensic sectors, possessing a thorough knowledge of instrumental methodology, analytical instruments, and techniques for data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation. For example: pharmaceutical industry research activities, food safety laboratory activities, expert activities for toxicological evaluations and biological tissue identification.

An integrated view of biological processes: from cells to organisms, through the tools of experimental research, for the improvement of health and society.

The degree program in Applied and Experimental Biology will provide you with a high level of mastery of the scientific method of inquiry, making you capable of working with broad autonomy and taking responsibility for projects and facilities. Through significant experimental activity in the laboratory, you will have the opportunity to acquire the cultural tools and capacity for critical analysis necessary not only to carry out research activities but also to apply knowledge in the different contexts of life and society in which we live.

In particular, the training you will receive will enable you to work, with specific skills, in activities of promotion, development and management of scientific innovation in the fields of biomedical disciplines, industry, public and private health care, at scientific research institutions and foundations, also in accordance with current regulations.

Three curricula to choose from

The master's degree program in Applied and Experimental Biology offers three curricula: Biosanitary, Foods and Nutrition, and Forensic.

The "Biosanitary" curriculum provides for the acquisition of advanced scientific knowledge of the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying the main diseases of Man as well as the application of the main diagnostic methodologies, aimed at developing a critical view of science that also enables the design and development of research projects. This path is achieved through characterizing activities in the areas of anatomy, physiology, medical biotechnology, human genetics, pathophysiology and laboratory medicine.

In the first year you will study:

• Statistics
• Human anatomy
• Molecular microbiology
• Biotechnology and molecular genetics: biomedical biotechnology and human molecular genetics
• Cellular and developmental biology
• Human Physiology
• Special Pharmacology

In the second year, which will be activated in yr 2021-2022, you will instead address the following subjects:

• Hygiene
• Laboratory Medicine: clinical biochemistry and clinical pathology
• Pathology and pathophysiology

The "Food and Nutrition" curriculum provides for the acquisition of advanced scientific training at the cellular, molecular, and biochemical levels of food, the mechanisms of nutrition, and the prevention of related diseases. This training is achieved through characterizing activities in the fields of nutrition, biomolecular, biomedical, in the fields of applied biology in the areas of food toxicology and food science and technology.

In the first year you will study:

• Statistics
• Food Chemistry
• Molecular microbiology
• Biochemistry of nutrition
• Human physiology and nutrition
• Food biotechnology
• Food toxicology
• Nutrition Hygiene

In the second year, which will be activated in yr 2021-2022, you will instead take the following subjects:

• Instrumental Analysis
• Food Hygiene and Safety
• Pathology and pathophysiology
• Food safety management systems
• Food product analysis and legislation

The "Forensic curriculum provides for the acquisition of advanced skills in the field of human, animal and plant biology, focused on application in forensic contexts such as violent crimes against people and animals, fraud, illegal species trade and crimes against natural heritage and the environment. Specifically, human biology skills will be obtained through characterizing activities in the areas of genetics, anatomy, anthropology, toxicology and histology, and environmental skills through microbiology, botany, mycology and zoology.

In the first year you will study:

• Statistics
• Human anatomy
• Molecular microbiology
• Forensic anthropology
• Forensic genetics
• Human Physiology
• Toxicology
• Forensic Cytology and Histology

In the second year, which will be activated in yr 2021-2022, you will instead tackle the following subjects:

• Instrumental Analysis
• Forensic epidemiology
• Forensic pathology
• Botany and Forensic Mycology
• Entomology and Forensic Zooology

The course takes place mainly at:

Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences - DISTAV
Corso Europa 26
16132 Genova
www.distav.unige.it

Some lectures and/or labs take place at:

Department of Physics - DIFI
Via Dodecaneso 33
16146 Genova
www.difi.unige.it

Department of Health Sciences - DISSAL
Via Pastore 1
16132 Genoa
www.dissal.unige.it

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