Fundamental Biology

We prepare masters in biology for research and production activities in scientific organizations, in the field of nature protection and nature management, healthcare, agriculture, food industry, and in the education system.

Graduates of this master’s degree program are ready for independent scientific activity, organization of work of a biological orientation in a variety of institutions and enterprises, teaching in any educational institutions, including the organization of the educational process.

Major Academic Disciplines

• modern problems of biology
• computer technologies for the analysis of biological information
• comparative genomics and karyosystematics
• biological resources
• population ecology
• modern methods of field research
• methods of physiological research
• dynamics of ecosystems
• nutrition and metabolic physiology
• organization of scientific activities and popularization of science
• biosphere, global and regional environmental problems
• environmental protection
• human evolution
• adaptive morphology of plants
• fundamentals of ornithology
• physiology of sensory systems
• design of the educational process
• teaching biology in higher education

Professions for Graduates

Graduates of this master’s degree program are prepared for two types of professional activity: research and teaching.

• biologist-researcher in scientific institutes, research centers and laboratories, biological stations, nature reserves and national parks, botanical gardens, zoos, etc.
• biologist in medical and industrial laboratories, medical and diagnostic centers, forensic departments;
• specialist in the field of environmental protection in enterprises, biomonitoring centers and government agencies;
• teacher in higher and secondary professional educational institutions
• teacher of biology in schools, lyceums, gymnasiums, colleges
• teacher in institutions of additional education for children and adults, etc.

Graduates scope of employment:

• research organizations
• biotechnology companies
• higher educational institutions
• secondary professional educational institutions
• general education institutions
  • schools
  • gymnasiums
  • lyceums
• additional education organizations