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MASTER’S DEGREE
NUTRIGENOMICS
AND PERSONALISED
NUTRITION
CEP
The Centre for Postgraduate Studies at the UIB (CEP) centralises and
coordinates the training programmes on offer and academic management of
the official Master’s degrees, providing support and information to students,
professors and academic commissions of Master’s degrees, thus promoting
the progressive adaptation of the UIB to the directives of the European Higher
Education Area. The CEP processes the admission of postgraduate students
with foreign qualifications and the validation of overseas postgraduate
qualifications. The CEP has agreements for Mater’s internships with numerous
institutions, companies and public and private enterprises. Moreover, the CEP
channels numerous calls for grants and aid specifically for Master’s students at
the UIB, both as regards mobility and for studying.
Currently, the CEP manages over 30 official Master’s degrees, including
interuniversity ones, as well as joint Master’s and dual degrees with foreign
universities. These qualifications offer education of international renown to
1300 students from 30 countries from all over the world. The range of Master’s
degrees available at the UIB covers the branches of:
• •Arts and Humanities
• Sciences
• Health Sciences
• Social and Legal Sciences
• Engineering and Architecture
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CENTER FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDIES - UIB OFFICIAL
http://cep.uib.cat/en/
Crta. de Valldemossa, km 7.5 07122 Palma (Illes Balears) MASTER
Tel: (+34) 971 17 3336 · postgrau@uib.cat
What is it about? What job opportunities will I have? Notable specificities
The modern society requires food not only as On one side, the Master offers access to Admission from different studies: innovative big food or biotechnological
a source of nutrients and energy, but also as a PhD programs (from both itineraries of Graduates in Biology, Biochemistry, enterprises with high interest in research and
key factor for increasing life- and health-span. specialization) and we have a good experience Biotechnology, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, development. The signing of new agreements
Several years ago, the European Commission with different students that have accesed to Medicine, Chemistry, Oenology, Pharmacy, with collaborating institutions is under way.
funded the research network of excellence different doctoral programmes (including Food Science and Technology, Nursery,
NuGO devoted to Nutrigenomics, with UIB as the PhD programme in Nutrigenomics Veterinary Medicine and other possible health Involvement of specialists from EFSA
one of the founder members; this prompted and Personalised Nutrition), getting the science related degrees can access the Master. and AECOSAN: The Master also has the
us to design a new, unique in the world, PhD degree. Moreover, and in combination Moreover, the Academic Commission will participation of specialists that have taken or
specialised postgraduate programme. with the previous studies of the graduates, the master degree increases job opportunities or consider the admission of other graduates presently take part in official agencies related
In the new millennium, we are starting to the possibility of promotion within enterprises of the field, in companies of sectors such as depending on their specific education, both with Food Safety and Nutrition such as the
unravel the secrets of the human genome. nutrigenomic/nutrigenetic testing, application of knowledge in diet/health recommendations, food national and foreign students. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and
We have different and multiple gene variants enterprises with programmes of research and development and functional foods, biotechology, Agencia Española de Consumo, Seguridad
that make the biological response to diet and food safety and health claims, etc. Support of excellence research networks Alimentaria y Nutrición (AECOSAN). This is
environment different from one individual to and institutions: The Master has de support another evidence of the important presence
another (nutrigenetics) and new disciplines of Scientifics of the European Nutrigenomics of the lecturers involved in the Master in the
and techniques, such as epigenetics and the Specific data Organization (NuGO) (www.nugo.org), Scientific and professional ambit related with
“omics” techniques (functional genomics, the Spanish excellence research network the field of study.
epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics “Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
and metabolomics) help us to understand the Master’s management Dr. Andreu Palou and Dr. Ana M. Rodríguez Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición” Participation of students in international
complex relationship between gene expression (CIBERobn) (www.ciberobn.es) and the workshops/conferences: Since the lecturers
and nutrients and the individual responses to Responsible center Center for Postgraduate Studies Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Nutrition of the Master are active research Scientists
diet. An individual knowledge of the individual New student vacancies 35 and Biotecnology of the UIB (LBNB) (http:// involved in national and international projects,
genetic response to the daily challenges we have to cope with can help us to protect our health Modality On site palou.uib.es), leader of coordinated European it is usual they organise some scientific
from future metabolic diseases. Nutrigenomics is the modern molecular nutrition and opens de Projects as BIOCLAIMS (www.bioclaims.eu). workshops or seminars, where the Master
road to a Personalised Nutrition, designed for each individual person in accordance to their gene Scope Professional and Researcher profiles These scientific networks include outstanding students are welcome and encouraged to
variants and how gene expression is regulated under different challenges. Pre-registration http://www.uib.eu/study/master/MNNP/?languageId=1 specialists in the field and most of the lecturers participate. Former good experiences have
Conditions for enrolment http://www.uib.eu/study/master/MNNP/accesiAdmissio.html of the Master are part of such networks. been possible with the organization of the
Grants http://estudis.uib.cat/informacioperalumnes/Beques-i-ajuts/ meetings “Workshop and Management
Collaborating Universities: The University Committee Meeting MITOFOOD” in 2009,
Price 2000 € * Rovira i Virgili (URV) and the University of “I BIOCLAIMS symposium and Kick-Off
What skills will I acquire? *Indicative price. Official fees are ruled every academic year by governamental decree, published in the corresponding official Barcelona (UB) teach the official Master in Meeting” in 2010 and “Alimentación Saludable
bulletin BOIB. You have the option of paying in installments. Nutrition and Metabolism. The Master in y Sostenible” in 2013.
Nutrigenomics and Personalised Nutrition
shares some subjects with the Master The Master is a cultural “melting pot”:
in Nutrition and Metabolism. Taking the from the very beginning, students come from
Structure of the degree common subjects does not involve that the different origins, thus giving the Master an
students have to move from one university extra interest in terms of multiculturalism and
to another, because the lessons of the shared scientific exchange. The teaching languages
Itineraries (choose one) subjects are done in special videoconference are both English and Spanish following the
Module 2A classrooms, thus the students can go normally formula of oral lessons given in Spanish,
to the Campus of the University where they but with all the slides and didactic materials
are enrolled. This collaboration potentiates the in English (and few subjects completely in
Research in quality and the number of participating experts English). Such type of formula has been
Compulsory module Nutrigenomics Compulsory module in the Master. very successful so far, and we have received
Module 1 and Personalised Module 3 students from different parts of the world such
Nutrition Collaborating Institutions/Enterprises: as different regions of Spain, other European
(20 ECTS) Different high-standard institutions and countries, America, Africa and Asia.
enterprises collaborate in the Master, especially
Fundamentals of
Nutrigenomics Master Thesis in the practical training, such as Alimentómica,
and Personalised Module 2B (15 ECTS) Biópolis, biosearch life, CIBERobn, Grupo
Nutrition Leche Pascual and Unilever. They are all
(25 ECTS)
The students will acquire knowledge and foods, aspects related to food safety and
abilities realated to the whole field of efficiency, and specific practical training in Innovation and FURTHER INFORMATION
nutrigenomics and the possibilities of its research labs or in collaborating enterprises Development in
application in personalised nutrition, as well of the sector. The students also develop skills Nutrigenomics and
as the basic and research tecniques important in scientific communication and the scientific Functional Foods Center for Postgraduate Studies Dr Andreu Palou and Dr Ana M. Rodríguez
in the discipline, but also in how to design method. (20 ECTS) University of the Balearic Islands postgrau@uib.cat · Tel. 971 17 3336
new projects and developments, functional http://www.uib.eu/study/master/MNNP/?languageId=1
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