Orientamento in Itinere (Tutor)
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Delegato dipartimentale per l'Orientamento e Servizi agli Studenti: Dr. Stefano Crocchianti (075.585.5515, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Docenti di riferimento ai quali gli studenti possono rivolgersi in caso di necessità per richiedere un servizio di tutorato personale e per concordare le corrispondenti modalità di svolgimento:
Prof. Ferdinando Costantino (075.585.5514, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof.ssa Maria Noelia Faginas Lago (075.585.5527 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof. Pier Luigi Gentili (075.585.5576, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof. Raimondo Germani (075.585.5538-48, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof.ssa Oriana Piermatti (075.585.5559, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof. Aldo Romani (075.585.5620, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof.ssa Paola Sassi (075.585.5585, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Docenti che assistono gli studenti nella scelta degli insegnamenti opzionali previsti dal Regolamento, coadiuvati dalla Dott.ssa D. Bonelli:
Prof.ssa Nadia Balucani (075.585.5507, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof. Raimondo Germani (075.585.5538, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof.ssa Loredana Latterini (075.585.5214, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof.ssa Paola Belanzoni (075.585.5520, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Prof. Aldo Romani (075.585.5620, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Bachelor degree in Chemistry
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Course name |
Chemistry |
Field(s) of study |
ISCED Area 05 – Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics |
Qualification award |
Bachelor Degree |
Level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework |
EHEA First cycle; EQF Level 6 |
Length of programme / number of credits |
3 years / 180 ECTS |
Language of Teaching |
Italian/English |
Department |
Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie |
Programme director |
Assunta Morresi |
Access to the course |
open access with assessment of personal competencies |
Specific admission requirements |
Formal Requirements
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Evaluation of specific subject knowledge on entry and catch up programmes |
Verification of the knowledge required for the attendance of the course of study through a compulsory evaluation test of indicative and non-selective nature; if the test is not passed, the student will be given additional educational obligations and will be granted with: • alignment courses, • tutoring, • online alignment courses, • study of additional texts indicated by the course of study.
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Profile of the programme |
The course aims at providing students with a good grounding in the core areas of chemistry (inorganic, organic, physical, biological and analytical chemistry) and with the necessary background in mathematics and physics. The students will have basic knowledge also in more specialized topics in chemistry and will have built up practical skills during laboratory courses in which they have worked either individually or in groups. The graduates will have the ability to gather and interpret scientific data and to communicate information and ideas. They will have competences to fit them for entry-level graduate employment in the general workplace, including chemical industry, and will have developed those learning skills to allow them to undertake further study with a sufficient degree of autonomy. |
Programme learning outcomes |
Graduates of the Programme will be able to demonstrate: - capacity for applying knowledge in practice - oral and written skills in presenting scientific arguments - capacity to learn and adapt - problem solving - ability to work autonomously - ability to demonstrate knowledge and understating of essential concepts, principles and theories of chemistry - ability to apply such knowledge to the solution of qualitative and quantitative problems - skills in the safe handling of chemicals - skills to conduct standard laboratory procedures and use instrumentation in synthetic and analytical work - ability to interpret data derived from laboratory observation. |
Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements |
Admission to the final exam for graduation will require that the student has acquired all the credits in the study plan other than the final exam. The final exam is associated with an internship/industrial placement of 12 ECTS that can be carried out within the department laboratories or other research institutes or external companies or abroad (through the Erasmus Traineeship program or other exchange programs). The activity carried out will be reported in the bachelor thesis. The final exam for graduation is public and consists of an oral presentation of the thesis work to the graduation committee. |
Examination regulations and grading scale |
Assessment is normally an oral or written exam; in some cases there are intermediate exams during the course; other evaluation elements (seminars, reports, etc.) can be foreseen in specific course units and are described in the Course Unit Profiles. The main exam sessions are held in January/February, March/April, June/July, September/October. Students may retake exams, if not passed. The University provides an ECTS Grading Table, which shows the actual distribution of the examination and final grades among students for each degree programme. The final degree evaluation is expressed in one hundred and tenths (0-110 scale), the minimum grade is 66/110 and the maximum grade is 110/110. The calculation of the final grade of each candidate takes into account the average of the grades obtained in the subject exams, as well as the quality of the work performed in research or in the final thesis which is discussed in public before an exam commission. “Cum laude” (110 cum laude) may be added to the maximum grade if the exam commission decides unanimously. |
Obligatory or optional mobility windows |
The mobility windows are optional and flexible and can cover a semester or an entire academic year depending on the needs of the individual student. The course of study encourages and promotes mobility associated with internship activities (12 ECTS, 2 months) scheduled for the second semester of the third year through the Erasmus Traineeship program. |
Work-based learning |
The course includes an internship activity associated with the final exam. The internship can be carried out within the department hosting the course (research-based), but also at external companies (industrial placement) or abroad. The aim of the internship is to provide the student with the opportunity to conduct an initial research project and have personal first-hand experience of what research is about The industrial placement is a valid alternative as it is associated with a well-defined training project that must be approved by the President of the course. It is possible to use part of the free credits to increase the duration of the industrial placement. |
Occupational profiles of graduates |
Graduates can start the profession of Chemist: passing the State exam for the qualification to exercise the profession Section B allows enrollment in the professional register as Junior Chemist. The graduate will have as occupational fields: research, synthesis, analysis, characterization and quality control laboratories, both in the chemical industry as well as in other industries in the sectors of health, environment, energy, food, conservation of cultural heritage, polymers, adhesives, paints, dyes, products for agriculture, etc., in research institutes and in the public sector. Further possibilities are consultancy activities as a freelancer (for the skills foreseen for the first level graduate) in the sectors of analysis and quality control, environmental protection and civil protection activities. |
Agreements and collaborations
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Master degree in molecular and industrial biotechnologies
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Coordinator: Prof.ssa C. Emiliani (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Bachelor degree in Biotechnology
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Coordinator: Prof.ssa C. Emiliani (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
EChemTest
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EChemTest® (ectn.eu/committees/virtual-education-community/echemtest) is developed by the ECTN Association and aims to evaluate knowledge and skills in Chemistry. It provides a means for the:
- Professional worker seeking for career development and industrial mobility: of progression at work, of self-evaluation for motivation and starting a formal course or taking a national examination;
- Student seeking for European Academic Exchange: of evaluation of the chemistry knowledge as well as the understanding of chemistry in a foreign language to undertake a period of study in another country, or to evaluate competence at a European level;
- Citizen interesting in self-evaluating his/her knowledge in chemistry: to pursue life-long learning.
EChemTest® is a one hour test composed of up to 30 questions of different types, taken at random from a large question bank, covering the Euro-Curriculum Chemistry Program at four different levels equivalent to:
- Pre-University Level 1: a person at the end of compulsory education (General Chemistry 1);
- Pre-University Level 2: a person at the beginning of University studies (General Chemistry 2);
- University Bachelor Level 3: a person at the end of the Core Chemistry Syllabus at the University Level as defined in the «Chemistry Eurobachelor®» (Analytical Chemistry 3; Biological Chemistry 3; Chemical Engineering 3; Inorganic Chemistry 3; Organic Chemistry 3; Physical Chemistry 3);
- University Master Level 4: a person at the end of a Master degree in one of the specialized chemistry area in agreement with the «Chemistry Euromaster®» requirement (Computational Chemistry 4;
EChemTest® examination is available in one of our official Test Centres. If you are successful you will be eligible for the «ECTN – European Certificate in Chemistry». If you are not familiar with automated tests, it is strongly recommended before taking any of the official assessments, to train yourself with our demonstration tests – ask for your free personal account now.
EChemTest® is an Internet-based service, running: 1. on several environments such as Windows (Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 3+) and Mac OS X (Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox 3+); 2. Unicode for all non Latin-character based languages (Cyrillic, Greek, Slavic).
EChemTest® information and request at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Sessions Schedule
Due date | 7 June 2018 | 27 August 2018 | 8 January 2019 | 14 March 2019 |
Test date |
21 June 2018 | 11 September 2018 | 22 January 2019 | 28 March 2019 |
Materiale della seduta del 06/09/2021
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Documentazione relativa al punto 2 o.d.g.: Approvazione verbale seduta precedente - Verbale 8 del 20.7.2021
Documentazione relativa al punto 5 o.d.g.: Relazione sull’attività dei Ricercatori a Tempo Determinato - Goracci
Documentazione relativa al punto 8 o.d.g.: Ratifica decreti - DD da 153 a 184
Sections
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Allo scopo di garantire una migliore funzionalità ed efficienza dell’organizzazione e dei servizi resi e dell’utilizzo deli spazi ad esso assegnati il Dipartimento è organizzato in Sezioni. Ad ogni Sezione sono assegnati spazi e attrezzature secondo le esigenze della ricerca e della didattica del personale afferente, sulla base delle specifiche attività. Il Coordinatore di sezione coadiuva il Direttore nell’attribuzione e nella verifica dei compiti del personale tecnico amministrativo assegnato alla Sezione. Ad ogni Sezione fa riferimento un numero di professori e ricercatori non inferiori a sette ed almeno una unità di personale tecnico amministrativo.
- Ambiente, Biodiversità e Beni Culturali - Coord. Prof. David Michele Cappelletti
- Biologia - Coord. Prof. Stefania Pasqualini
- Scienze Biochimiche e Biotecnologiche - Coord. Prof. Carla Emiliani
- Chimica Fisica - Coord. Prof. Loredana Latterini
- Chimica Generale ed Inorganica - Coord. Prof. Filippo De Angelis
- Chimica Organica - Coord. Prof. Luigi Vaccaro
Molecular Physiology (Prof. Luigi Catacuzzeno)
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Research area: Dr. Catacuzzeno’s research is focused on ion channels, plasmamembrane proteins that allow the passage of ions inside or outside of the cells. More specifically, he works on two themes: 1) Study of the pathophysiological consequences of ion channel activity; 2) Study of the structure-function relationship in ion channels. The research is mainly developed with the use of the patch-clamp technique for the recording of ionic currents mediated by ion channels or the membrane potential dynamics, and the use of the C/C++ programing language for the setup of theoretical models.
Specific research objectives
Study of the pathophysiological consequences of the ion channel activity
A research focus of Dr. Catacuzzeno is the study of the role of ion channels in the pathophysiology of the glioblastoma, a highly invasive brain tumor. More specifically, glioblastoma cells express ion channels different for typology and expression level from those expressed by normal brain cells. Based on this evidence, he’s trying to understand if this differential expression might be important in the tumor malignance. His data indicate that tumor ion channels are indeed used in cell migration, a process relevant for the high invasiveness of this tumor, that allow tumor cells to invade other regions of the brain. Because of this process surgery becomes mostly unsuccessful to fight this type of tumor. He also discovered that several agents typical of the tumor microenvironment (such as serum proteins that enters in contact with tumor cells and the hypoxic environment) are able to influence the tumor aggressivity by modulating the activity of ion channels. Some publications dealing with this research topic can be found here:
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Study of the structure-function relationship in ion channels
Since 1998 it has been possible to obtain the atomic structure of ion channels through the use of experimental techniques such as crystallography and, more recently, cryo electron microscopy. It is thus possible to study in detail the mechanism through which ion channel structure give rise to two important functions: gating, that is their ability to open and close in response to physical and chemical stimuli, and selective permeation, that is the ability of ion channels to allow a highly efficient passage of some ions while excluding other ions at the same time. On the base of these premises, a research activity of Dr. Catacuzzeno consists in building theoretical models that elucidate the physical mechanisms at the base of ion channel behavior by considering their structural properties and the laws of electrodynamics. To this end Dr. Catacuzzeno applies to the crystallographic structures of ion channels the molecular dynamics technique, that predict the movement of protein and ionic atoms. He uses in addition more macroscopic theoretical models such as the Langevin and the Brownian dynamics, in order to predict experimentally testable quantities. Some publications dealing with this research can be found here:
Esami On-line durante l'emergenza Covid-19
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Gli esami di profitto si svolgeranno in modalità online.
Gli studenti con disabilità che incontrano difficoltà a collegarsi online, a sentire bene le voci dei docenti che pongono le domande d’esame (ad es. perché le voci sono riprodotte elettronicamente dal computer) possono chiedere che le domande d'esame gli siano rivolte per iscritto ed eventualmente anche rispondere per iscritto alle domande, in deroga alla regola generale che prevede lo svolgimento orale delle prove d’esame online.
Questa possibilità è prevista espressamente nella Guida esami di profitto online, a pag. 11, punti 2.4.1 e 2.4.2. In tal caso lo studente viene "trasformato da Partecipante in Relatore" (Vedi APPENDICE C della Guida esami di profitto) e attraverso la funzione "condividi" del Software Microsoft Teams, può sottomettere la risposta scritta alla domanda d'esame.
Gli studenti interessati devono contattare la prof.ssa This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., che provvederà a segnalare l'esigenza alla commissione d'esame.