Degree in Biotechnology

CE1: Have abilities to disseminate and participate in the social debate on aspects related to biotechnology and its use.
CE2: Show capabilities for working in the laboratory as regards safety, handling, waste disposal and annotated record of activities.
CE3: Assimilate the ethical and legal principles of scientific research in biotechnology.
CE4: Know the fundamentals of transport phenomena and know how to obtain and use matter and energy balances in bio-industrial processes.
CE5: Know the basis of design and operation of bioreactors.
CE6: Know how to design and implement a complete protocol for obtaining and purifying a biotechnological product.
CE7: Know how to search for and obtain information from the main patent databases and prepare the report for a patent application of a biotechnological product.
CE8: Know and know how to apply the criteria of biotechnological risk assessment.
CE9: Know the fundamental elements of communication and public perception of biotechnological innovations and the risks associated with them.
CE10: Know how to design a prospective market research for a biotechnological product.
CE11: Be able to use English to write reports and to interpret information from protocols, manuals and databases.
CE12: Have an integrated view of the R&D&I process from the discovery of new basic knowledge to the development of particular applications of that knowledge and the introduction of new biotechnological products into the market.
CE13: Know the chemical and physical principles that determine the properties of biological molecules and govern the reactions in which they are involved.
CE14: Know the structural and functional characteristics of macromolecules.
CE15: Know the biochemical and molecular bases of cell function.
CE16: Learn, develop and apply the main techniques for the preparation, staining and observation of biological samples.
CE17: Be able to observe and interpret the results obtained through optical microscopes.
CE18: Be able to determine the type of inheritance of a certain character.
CE19: Be able to solve practical problems in genetics(including population genetics).
CE20: Be able to place the different living beings in the phylogenetic tree.
CE21: Be able to understand the evolutionary relationships between organisms.
CE22: Be able to understand the biological basis of human diversity and its cultural implications, including gender difference.
CE23: Be able to identify the molecules that make up a living being.
CE24: Be able to determine metabolite concentrations, kinetic and thermodynamic parameters and control coefficients of intermediate metabolism reactions.
CE25: Understand the process of synthesis of proteins, their processing and their location in different sub-cellular compartments.
CE26: Understand cell signalling processes.
CE27: Know how to carry out a study of the different phases of the cell cycle and quantify them correctly.
CE28: Be able to analyse the energy cost of the cellular processes.
CE29: Design protocols for the separation, purification and characterisation of biological molecules.
CE30: Properly handle the equipment and material of a biochemistry and molecular biology laboratory.
CE31: Be able to use recombinant DNA techniques and design protocols.
CE32: Know how to use immunological techniques in qualitative and quantitative tests.
CE33: Know how to grow and maintain cells in vitro.
CE34: Be able to perform an integrated analysis of gene expression at the level of transcriptome, proteome and metabolome.
CE35: Know how to present projects in all fields of biotechnology both orally and in writing, showing a collaborative attitude for teamwork with professionals from other fields.
CE36: Be able to practise professionally in the specific profiles of the degree, showing knowledge of the national and international reality in the biotechnology industry, market and public and private institutions.
CE37: Acquire suitable professional skills.
CE38: Develop skills to cooperate with other professionals.
CE39: Be able to work under the orders of heads.
CE40: Be able to use the different bibliographic sources and databases specific to biology and use bioinformatic tools.
CE41: Be able to use mathematical and statistical tools to solve biological problems.
CE42: Be able to recognise biological diversity and know the organisation of living beings and the position of human beings and model organisms in biotechnological experimentation amid this diversity.
CE43: Know and understand the molecular bases of genetic information and the mechanisms of transmission and variation and the possibility to manipulate them.
CE44: Demonstrate the ability to correctly calculate the relevant parameters of a process or an experiment by representing the experimental data.
CE45: Become familiar with current hypotheses on the mechanisms of genome evolution, with particular emphasis on the mechanisms of acquisition of new genes and the role of recombination and transposition in the evolutionary process.
CE46: Be able to identify the motivations that lead to the study of the complete genome of organisms and metagenomes of complex microbial communities, as well as the potential that such a study has from a theoretical and applied point of view.
CE47: See the need for mechanisms to prevent and repair errors or injuries in DNA and know how they work.
CE48: Know the structure and organisation of genomes along the evolutionary scale (viruses, prokaryotes and eukaryotes), in the latter case, considering both the nuclear and organelle genomes.
CE49: Know and understand the genetic basis and implications of the phenomena of cell differentiation and development of multicellular organisms.
CE50: Know the processes of flow of genetic information in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells: replication, transcription and translation. Understand how these processes are regulated.