Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| I semestre | Oct 1, 2020 | Jan 29, 2021 |
| II semestre | Mar 1, 2021 | Jun 11, 2021 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sessione invernale d'esame | Feb 1, 2021 | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Sessione estiva d'esame | Jun 14, 2021 | Jul 30, 2021 |
| Sessione autunnale d'esame | Sep 1, 2021 | Sep 30, 2021 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sessione estiva di laurea | Jul 13, 2021 | Jul 13, 2021 |
| Sessione autunnale di laurea | Oct 12, 2021 | Oct 12, 2021 |
| Sessione invernale di laurea | Mar 10, 2022 | Mar 10, 2022 |
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2020 | Dec 8, 2020 |
| Vacanze Natalizie | Dec 24, 2020 | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Epifania | Jan 6, 2021 | Jan 6, 2021 |
| Vacanze Pasquali | Apr 2, 2021 | Apr 5, 2021 |
| Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2021 | May 21, 2021 |
| Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2021 | Jun 2, 2021 |
| Vacanze estive | Aug 9, 2021 | Aug 15, 2021 |
Exam calendar
Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Science and Engineering Teaching and Student Services Unit.
To view all the exam sessions available, please use the Exam dashboard on ESSE3.
If you forgot your login details or have problems logging in, please contact the relevant IT HelpDesk, or check the login details recovery web page.
Should you have any doubts or questions, please check the Enrollment FAQs
Academic staff
045 802 7823
bernardo.calabrese@univr.it
vittoria.cozza@univr.it
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Type D and Type F activities
Le attività formative in ambito D o F comprendono gli insegnamenti impartiti presso l'Università di Verona o periodi di stage/tirocinio professionale.
Nella scelta delle attività di tipo D, gli studenti dovranno tener presente che in sede di approvazione si terrà conto della coerenza delle loro scelte con il progetto formativo del loro piano di studio e dell'adeguatezza delle motivazioni eventualmente fornite.
| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1° 2° | Python programming language | D |
Vittoria Cozza
(Coordinator)
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Quantitative methods for biotechnology (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S008282
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
ING-IND/34 - INDUSTRIAL BIOENGINEERING
Period
I semestre dal Oct 1, 2020 al Jan 29, 2021.
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to provide students with conceptual and methodological tools to investigate biological systems on a quantitative basis. The students will learn how to analyze and understand the biological laws governing systems' behavior and they will acquire professional skills within a multidisciplinary framework of biotechnology and related applied fields. The students will be encouraged to critically revise the biological notions gathered during their Bachelor-level studies. This revision will focus on quantitative and temporal aspects, allowing the students to make progress towards a dynamical description of biotechnological processes. Modern modeling approaches will be critically discussed and compared to highlight both their positive and limiting aspects. At the end of the course, the students will be able to professionally operate in the fields of biotechnology and interact with experts from different disciplines (or in other sectors) on the basis of a common quantitative language.
Program
Each class introduces basic concepts of quantitative biotechnology through combination of lectures and exercises. Exercises will be solved using RStudio, a free and open-source integrated development environment for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics. For each argument, a number of problems derived from the scientific literature and from the research activity of the teacher will be proposed and solved. The first part of the course will revise the basic facts about probability theory and univariate statistics and then concepts of multivariate statistics and modeling of biotechnology processes will be introduced. Lectures:
- Introduction to RStudio and R: presentation, installation and basic commands
- Discrete and continuous probability distributions
- Univariate statistics: main tests used for the analysis of biotechnology experiments
- Two-ways ANOVA and its application two study the synergism between two treatments
- Correlation and linear regression in one dimension and multiple dimensions
- Principles of linear algebra
- The Mahalanobis distance
- Principal Component Analysis
- Survival analysis: Kaplan-Meier method and the Cox proportional hazard modellistici
- Error propagation theory
- Principles of non-linear regression
- Principles of differential equations and their numerical solution
- Growth models for population biology
- Growth models for cells in a closed (standard culture) or in an open (bioreactor) environment
- Models for cell physiology
- Oscillations in biology
Lectures slides are available at:
http://profs.scienze.univr.it/~chignola/teaching.html
RStudio notebooks will be developed during the practical classes and will become part of the didactic material available to students.
All activities will be carried out in a mixed mode, i.e. both in presence and remotely.
Examination Methods
The skills acquired by the students will be evaluated by means of an oral exam where the students will be asked to present their solution to a biotechnology problem provided by the teacher at the end of the course. The completeness and preciseness of the student's approach as well as his/her ability to present the solution will be evaluated.
The final test will be carried out remotely.
Career prospects
Module/Programme news
News for students
There you will find information, resources and services useful during your time at the University (Student’s exam record, your study plan on ESSE3, Distance Learning courses, university email account, office forms, administrative procedures, etc.). You can log into MyUnivr with your GIA login details: only in this way will you be able to receive notification of all the notices from your teachers and your secretariat via email and also via the Univr app.
Graduation
Deadlines and administrative fulfilments
For deadlines, administrative fulfilments and notices on graduation sessions, please refer to the Graduation Sessions - Science and Engineering service.
Need to activate a thesis internship
For thesis-related internships, it is not always necessary to activate an internship through the Internship Office. For further information, please consult the dedicated document, which can be found in the 'Documents' section of the Internships and work orientation - Science e Engineering service.
Final examination regulations
List of thesis proposals
| theses proposals | Research area |
|---|---|
| Valutazione dell'applicazione di nanoparticelle biogeniche per il controllo del cancro batterico del kiwi | AGRICULTURE - AGRICULTURE |
| Valutazione dell'applicazione di nanoparticelle biogeniche per il controllo del cancro batterico del kiwi | APPLICATIONS OF LIFE SCIENCES - APPLICATIONS OF LIFE SCIENCES |
| Valorizzazione di scarti agroindustriali mediante fermentazione termofila per la produzione di acidi organici come precursori chimici di polimeri | Applied biotechnology (non-medical), bioreactors, applied microbiology - Applied biotechnology (non-medical), bioreactors, applied microbiology |
| Valutazione dell'applicazione di nanoparticelle biogeniche per il controllo del cancro batterico del kiwi | Applied biotechnology (non-medical), bioreactors, applied microbiology - Applied biotechnology (non-medical), bioreactors, applied microbiology |
| Immobilizzazione di enzimi d’interesse industriale su nanoparticelle biomimetiche magnetiche | Applied Life Sciences and Non-Medical Biotechnology: Applied plant and animal sciences; food sciences; forestry; industrial, environmental and non-medical biotechnologies, nanobiotechnology, bioengineering; synthetic and chemical biology; biomimetics; bioremediation - Biomimetics |
| Immobilizzazione di enzimi d’interesse industriale su nanoparticelle biomimetiche magnetiche | Applied Life Sciences and Non-Medical Biotechnology: Applied plant and animal sciences; food sciences; forestry; industrial, environmental and non-medical biotechnologies, nanobiotechnology, bioengineering; synthetic and chemical biology; biomimetics; bioremediation - Non-medical biotechnology and genetic engineering (including transgenic organisms, recombinant proteins, biosensors, bioreactors, microbiology) |
| Immobilizzazione di enzimi d’interesse industriale su nanoparticelle biomimetiche magnetiche | Chemical engineering, technical chemistry - Chemical engineering, technical chemistry |
| Effetto delle condizioni operative applicate al processo di digestione anaerobica su produzione di biogas e stabilità del carbonio organico del digestato | Earth System Science: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management - Biogeochemistry, biogeochemical cycles, environmental chemistry |
| Influenza dalla variazione stagionale del feedstock sulla produzione di biogas e sulla stabilità del carbonio organico presente nel digestato prodotto | Earth System Science: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management - Biogeochemistry, biogeochemical cycles, environmental chemistry |
| Valorizzazione di scarti agroindustriali mediante fermentazione termofila per la produzione di acidi organici come precursori chimici di polimeri | Environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, biodegradation - Environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, biodegradation |
| Bilanci di massa e di materia in digestori anaerobici alimentati con residui agricoli e zootecnici. | Products and Processes Engineering: Product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy processes, material engineering - Chemical engineering, technical chemistry |
| Studio della composizione chimica e della stabilità termica di poliidrossialcanoati ottenuti da diverse matrici ambientali. | Products and Processes Engineering: Product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy processes, material engineering - Chemical engineering, technical chemistry |
| Valorizzazione di scarti agroindustriali mediante fermentazione termofila per la produzione di acidi organici come precursori chimici di polimeri | Products and Processes Engineering: Product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy processes, material engineering - Chemical engineering, technical chemistry |
| Immobilizzazione di enzimi d’interesse industriale su nanoparticelle biomimetiche magnetiche | Products and Processes Engineering: Product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy processes, material engineering - Materials engineering (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, etc.) |
| Valorizzazione di scarti agroindustriali mediante fermentazione termofila per la produzione di acidi organici come precursori chimici di polimeri | Products and Processes Engineering: Product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy processes, material engineering - Production technology, process engineering |
| Studio delle proprietà di luminescenza di lantanidi in matrici proteiche | Synthetic Chemistry and Materials: Materials synthesis, structure-properties relations, functional and advanced materials, molecular architecture, organic chemistry - Colloid chemistry |
| Multifunctional organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials for applications in Biotechnology and Green Chemistry | Synthetic Chemistry and Materials: Materials synthesis, structure-properties relations, functional and advanced materials, molecular architecture, organic chemistry - New materials: oxides, alloys, composite, organic-inorganic hybrid, nanoparticles |
Attendance modes and venues
As stated in the Didactic Regulations, there is no generalised obligation of attendance. Individual lecturers are, however, free to require a minimum number of hours of attendance for eligibilitỳ for the profit exam of the teaching they teach. In such cases, attendance of teaching activities is monitored in accordance with procedures communicated in advance to students.
Part-time enrolment is permitted. Find out more on the Part-time enrolment possibilities page.
The course's teaching activities take place in the Science and Engineering area, which is composed of the buildings of Ca‘ Vignal 1, Ca’ Vignal 2, Ca' Vignal 3 and Piramide, located in the Borgo Roma cluster, and Villa Lebrecht and Villa Eugenia located in the San Floriano di Valpolicella cluster.
Lectures are held in the classrooms of Ca‘ Vignal 1, Ca’ Vignal 2 and Ca' Vignal 3, while practical exercises take place in the teaching laboratories dedicated to the various activities.
