Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master's program in Biotechnical Systems and Technologies is designed to prepare highly qualified professionals capable of solving tasks at the intersection of natural science disciplines, including biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The program aims to form competencies in students that enable them to research, develop, and implement new biotechnical objects and knowledge-intensive technologies.

Program Details

• Program Name: Biotechnical Systems and Technologies
• Specialization: 12.04.04 "Biotechnical Systems and Technologies" and 12.04.04_02 "Biophysics"
• Languages of Instruction: Russian
• Forms of Education: Full-time (both budget and contract-based)
• Objective: To prepare students for careers in scientific research, biophysics, and structural biology of living systems, as well as in interdisciplinary fields of the economy, such as bioengineering, biotechnology, and biomedicine.

Key Features

• The program focuses on acquiring innovative knowledge in molecular and structural biology and applying this knowledge to create and exploit biotechnical and biomedical technologies.
• Graduates of the "Biophysics" program are capable of solving research tasks in molecular and structural biology and applied problems in biomedical technologies.

Profile Disciplines

• Protein Engineering
• Biotechnology
• Biophysics
• Genomics
• Methods of Mathematical Modeling
• Molecular Virology
• Molecular Immunology
• Molecular Physiology
• Molecular Medicine
• Molecular-Biological Technologies
• Synergetics

Career Opportunities

• Scientific staff in profiled research institutes and biomedical centers
• Service engineer
• Medical physicist

Examples of Graduate Projects

• Obtaining and characterizing a reassortant candidate vaccine strain of influenza A virus
• Adaptation of the influenza H2N2 virus to reproduction in mouse lungs and analysis of accompanying mutations
• Development and study of the mechanism of action of new antiviral drugs based on the natural alkaloid cytisine
• Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of genes during viral infections
• Multiplex analysis of inflammation factors in human blood serum using new mass spectrometric approaches
• Mechanisms of forming complexes of DNA with peptides carrying ionic self-complementary motifs
• Role of the secondary structure of the NS gene in the pathogenesis of influenza A virus
• Molecular basis of neurological complications in influenza

Significant Research Projects

• Influence of macromolecular crowding on structural properties of actin and its denaturation processes
• Obtaining a stable form of plasmid DNA from the E.Coli DH10/BR strain

Scientific Laboratories

• Laboratory of Synthetic Biology
• Scientific Research Complex "Nanobiotechnology"

Partner Organizations

• Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
• Kurchatov Institute - Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics
• Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry named after I.M. Sechenov (St. Petersburg)
• Institute of Cytology (St. Petersburg)
• BIOCAD (St. Petersburg)
• POLISAN
• St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums
• SOGAZ MEDICINA Clinic Group
• Medical Institute named after S. Berezin
• Institute of Experimental Medicine
• Institute of Toxicology, Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia
• "Almazov National Medical Research Centre" of the Ministry of Health of Russia

Program Leadership

• Program Director: Yuriy Nikolaevich Orlov
• Scientific Director: Marina Nikolaevna Karpenko