Knowledge branch: Science
Area of knowledge: Biology and genetics
Centre: Facultat de Ciències Biològiques
Degree code: 2251
Master degree website: https://www.uv.es/muvirologia
Participating Universities: University of València
Total credits of the degree: 60
Compulsory:30
Final project:30
Years: 1
Places available: 32
Teaching modality: Presencial
Language teaching: ------
First enrolment credit fee:35.34€
First enrolment credit feefor non-EU and non-communicating students from abroad:70.68€
Academic Coordinating Committee: José Manuel Cuevas Torrijos (Co-director)
Rafael Sanjuán Verdeguer (Co-director)
Nadezda Apostolova Atanasovska
Pilar Domingo Calap
Luis Martínez Gil
Jesús Rodríguez Díaz
Mónica Giménez Monleón (PAS)
Academic, scientific or professional interest: Virology is a discipline with a wide range of implications. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, viral infections play a key role in human health and can strongly condition our lives. However, the current pandemic is only the latest in a series of viral emergencies resulting from the transmission of viruses between animals and humans, including HIV/AIDS, variants of influenza, Ebola and the Zika virus, among others, to which must be added infections caused by other human viruses. In addition, viruses have a major impact on food production, both in agriculture and livestock, being ubiquitous and highly diverse entities with an important role in ecosystems. Finally, viruses and their derivatives have been the source of many innovations in molecular biology and biotechnology, providing practical proteins, expression vectors and even therapeutic agents against tumours or antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Therefore, the scientific, technological and social importance of viruses is unquestionable. This Master's proposal aims to adopt a generalist and integrative approach, including the implications of viruses in human, animal and plant health, but also the biology, evolution and biotechnological applications of viruses.