Magistracy
Speciality Code:
7M05105
Speciality Name:
Genetics
Faculty:
Biology and Biotechnology
Qualification:
- Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Natural Sciences
- Model of graduating student
- Mandatory disciplines
- Elective disciplines
- Professional
LO1. Analyze genetic mechanisms and processes at the molecular, cellular, organismal and population levels.
LO2. Interpret molecular genetic changes and their impact on health and heredity.
LO3. Apply genetic methods to create and improve biological objects in medicine and agriculture.
LO4. Use modern molecular genetic technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
LO5. Interpret the results of genetic research, taking into account the statistical significance and scientific novelty
LO6. Analyze scientific and patent information with the help of modern information technologies.
LO7. Teach theoretical and applied disciplines using a student-oriented approach, digital and interactive methods and other modern educational technologies.
LO8. Conduct interdisciplinary research to solve complex problems in biology, medicine, ecology and agriculture
LO9. Comply with ethical and legal norms in scientific and professional research.
LO10. Carry out professional and personal self-education for professional growth
LO2. Interpret molecular genetic changes and their impact on health and heredity.
LO3. Apply genetic methods to create and improve biological objects in medicine and agriculture.
LO4. Use modern molecular genetic technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
LO5. Interpret the results of genetic research, taking into account the statistical significance and scientific novelty
LO6. Analyze scientific and patent information with the help of modern information technologies.
LO7. Teach theoretical and applied disciplines using a student-oriented approach, digital and interactive methods and other modern educational technologies.
LO8. Conduct interdisciplinary research to solve complex problems in biology, medicine, ecology and agriculture
LO9. Comply with ethical and legal norms in scientific and professional research.
LO10. Carry out professional and personal self-education for professional growth
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Psychology of management
- Number of credits: 3
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.
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Genetic Engineering
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to develop the ability to practice molecular genetic methods in genetic engineering. It will consider general principles of gene cloning; design methods for hybrid (recombinant) DNA molecules (recDNA); vector DNA molecules; expression of cloned genes in pro- and eukaryotic cells; gene-engineering system of Saccharomyces cerevisiae; vector systems of animal and plant cells.
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Molecular and Forensic-Medical Expertise
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form the ability to analyse molecular genetic examination results to establish the biomaterial's genetic authenticity and determine hereditary pathology. It will consider DNA profiling methods: polymerase chain reaction (PCR), restriction fragment length polymorphism (PDRF), short tandem repeats (CTP) and interpretation of their results; DNA diagnostic methods in criminology and human kinship determination; databases of DNA profiles.
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Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to apply practical skills in the organization and planning of scientific research. The discipline studies: forms and methods of planning, organization and design of scientific articles and dissertations; forms of summarizing the results of scientific research in presentations, speeches, projects, articles.
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Ethics and Biosafety in Genetics
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to develop the ability to apply genetic technologies and biosafety methods following national and international bioethics standards in biology, genetics and medicine. It will consider basic principles of bioethics, bioethical problems of genetics, bioethical attitudes to laboratory animals, state and international requirements for conducting preclinical and clinical studies, and GLP rules.
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Biostatistics in genetics
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form the ability to apply statistical methods in genetics to determine a statistically significant difference in the degree of heritability and variability of the compared study groups. It will consider parametric and nonparametric methods of biostatistics (Student's test, chi-square, Mann-Whitney test, etc.), correlation, regression analysis; analysis of variance (ANOVA); methods for determining the inheritance and inbreeding coefficients; methods of accounting for the frequency of mutations.
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Foreign Language (professional)
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.
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History and Philosophy of Science
- Number of credits: 3
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.
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Pedagogy of Higher Education
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.
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Evolutionary biology
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form the ability to analyse evolutionary biology's achievements and contemporary problems. It will consider methods of evolutionary biology: paleontological, biogeographical, morphological, and molecular genetic; the neutral theory of molecular evolution, theory of Punctuated equilibrium, theory of evolutionary epigenetics, principles of evolutionary developmental biology; modern problems of the synthetic theory of evolution; achievements of experimental evolutionary biology and unresolved questions of evolutionary biology.
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Agrogenetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to develop the ability to apply genetic technologies to improve crops and animals, increase yields, and increase resistance to diseases and adaptation to environmental changes. It will consider methods of plant breeding and improvement, biotechnological approaches in crop production, molecular markers for breeding, genetic aspects of increasing productivity and health of farm animal breeds.
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Stem Cell Genetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form the ability to describe and evaluate the mechanisms of differentiation and labelling of stem cells. It will consider the scientific and methodological basis of stem cell production, cell differentiation potential, stem cell potency, various types of stem cells by their origin, function and use, sources and methods of organ transplantation, and ethical and legal norms of their use.
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Genetic Analysis
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form a holistic understanding of the essence of genetic analysis to summarise the experimental data and research planning. It will consider the theory of genetic analysis, the construction of logical, mathematical, and experimental models for genetic analysis, the principles and methods of genetic analysis, and the tasks of this analysis concerning eukaryotic organisms in the process of the result.
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Genopathology
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form the ability to analyse the molecular genetic mechanisms of the occurrence, development and inheritance of various pathological conditions and diseases. It will consider molecular, biochemical, and cytological bases of genetic diseases; monogenic, multifactorial and chromosomal diseases; methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hereditary diseases; enzymopathies; methods of diagnosis of genetic diseases.
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Gene therapy
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to develop the ability to analyse methods and technologies for introducing or modifying genes into body cells to treat or prevent diseases. It will consider gene delivery vectors, mechanisms of transfection and transduction, target diseases for gene therapy, overcoming immune and biological barriers in gene therapy, and stages of clinical trials of gene therapy.
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Immunogenetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form a critical understanding of the role and importance of the immune response mechanisms, their genetic causation, and their ability to apply this knowledge in practice. It will consider molecular immunology, genetics of histocompatibility, sources of diversity of antigen recognition structures, the evolution of immunity, immunoreactivity, immunogenicity primary defects of the immune system, induction of specific immunity, genetic control of the immune response, immunodeficiency, autoimmune diseases, immunotherapy.
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Molecular cytogenetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline: to form the ability to analyze chromosomal abnormalities using molecular cytogenetic methods of research. The following aspects will be considered: the structural and functional features of human chromosomes; the mechanisms of interaction of the molecular components of the chromosome; the mechanisms of formation of systemic mutations as a result of chromosome reorganization; molecular cytogenetic methods (FISH, SKY, PCR and microarray analysis of chromosomes) for the diagnosis of hereditary diseases and infertility.
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Neurogenetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to develop the ability to analyse the genetic mechanisms underlying the functions and dysfunctions of the nervous system. It will consider the genetic basis of the development and functioning of the central nervous system, molecular genetic methods for studying brain functions, genetics of neurological disorders (Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, sclerosis, etc.), and the use of genomic data to study the nervous system.
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Oncogenetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form a holistic system understanding of modern advances in oncogenetics and the molecular mechanisms of the mutagenic and carcinogenic effects of environmental pollutants. It will consider biology and genetics of carcinogenesis; oncogenes and oncoproteins; mechanisms of viral and hormonal carcinogenesis; the role of genes, receptors, growth factors, disorders of cellular systems in the processes of tumor formation.
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Population Genetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form the ability to analyse patterns of inheritance and variability of the genotypic composition of populations under the action of elementary evolutionary factors. It will consider populations' ecological and genetic characteristics, their basic properties and structure, and patterns of inheritance in panmictic populations, Hardy-Weinberg methods for finding allelic and genotypic frequencies in populations.
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Pharmacogenetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form professional competencies in pharmacogenetics and molecular diagnostics. It will consider the pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic mechanisms of the sensitivity of the individual organism to drugs, genetic variations of enzymes involved in drug metabolism, the interaction between genes and drugs that determine the therapeutic response, and the methods of personalised medicine using molecular diagnostics.
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Epigenetics
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Discipline aims to form the theoretical knowledge in the field of epigenetics. It will consider objects and methods of epigenetics, mechanisms and ways of realisation of epigenetic signals in the cells of different organisms, the value of RNA interference, small RNA and chromatin, genomic imprinting, and the role of epigenetics in various diseases in humans.
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Pedagogical
- Type of control: Защита практики
- Description: Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.
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Research
- Type of control: Защита практики
- Description: The purpose of the practice is to develop the ability to plan and conduct research work. The practice develops academic skills, including the preparation and conduct of research work, both individually and as part of research teams and structural units of scientific institutions. The research practice aims to collect and process large amounts of data (factual material) using modern information and communication technologies to carry out the research work. During the course of research practice students should be competent in: - plan research and development work; - to work with scientific literature independently: to annotate scientific sources, to make abstracts and reviews; - independently conduct scientific research in the field of language system and basic laws of literature development; - use modern information resources to solve research problems; - collect, process, analyze and systematize scientific information; - use innovative methods of domestic and foreign philological schools; - argumentatively present the results of scientific research; - prepare and edit scientific publications: theses, articles. During the course of research practice students will learn following aspects: Theoretical foundations of research work. Modern methods and techniques in philological research. Independent development of scientific and applied projects in the field of linguistics and literary criticism. Rule of formation of educational and methodical literature. Interpretation of the results of scientific research.