Bio-molecular engineering and nanobiotechnologies (IBION-Tec)

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Science

Presentation

The IBION-Tec course offers students the possibility to acquire skills at the interface of Engineering Sciences and Life Sciences. This Master specialization is clearly positioned at the interface of Biology, Physics - Electronics and Chemistry. It opens the students' field of competence to innovative and efficient techniques such as Biotechnologies and nano-biotechnologies facilitating their integration in research centers and industries. This specialization offers a base of competence dedicated to the field of biomolecular detection applied to diagnosis. 

Its strength is that it covers a wide range of activities in Research and Development, in the fields of diagnostics and traceability, from the molecular to the industrial process scale.

This Master's program focuses on the design of innovative tools dedicated to diagnosis and traceability. This "design part" of the training takes place over the two years of training, offering students access to various technological platforms and practical workrooms. The objective is to collectively develop a project that will lead to its feasibility, or even to the development of a prototype for one innovation per year in the field of detection techniques.

The quality of life of citizens is at the heart of the training's concerns with the consideration of food safety and the safety of care in a context of sustainable development. 

The objective of IBION-Tec is to acquire, in accordance with European regulations, diagnostic and detection tools for traceability (medical, agronomic, food, etc...).

For more information on this course and its content, go to https://bioagro.edu.umontpellier.fr/ibion-tec/

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Objectives

This training covers 4 main areas of intervention: 

  1. Control of the identity of organisms (prokaryotes / eukaryotes) and products used or consumed including their quality. 
  2. Detection of chemical and biological pollutants in the environment and in food.
  3. The fight against fraud in food and non-food industrial products
  4. The conduct of innovative projects within the public research and industrial development couple

This offer is particularly original at the regional level and should also attract students at the national and international level.

The Master's degree trains students in the scientific process by :

  • acquisition through practical work (pesticides, active biomolecules, identification by molecular markers, etc.) given over one to two weeks, with the intervention of researchers, biostatisticians and documentalists. 
  • acquisition through innovative projects given over the two years of training (50 hours in the first year and 100 hours in the second year). The projects are developed and monitored by the students. From idea to feasibility, the innovative project must lead to the design of a prototype. The projects are fully supervised by the University through its development service. 
  • Preparation for the internship: Acquisition of mastery of the writing of a report or a synthesis of research work (plan, style, bibliography, figures, tables, legends, discussion of results, appendices, summary in English.
  • M1 and M2 internships of five and six months in public or private research laboratories (work in a professional environment, application of the rules of good laboratory practice, experimental conduct, obtaining data that must be processed, analyzed statistically, interpreted, producing a bibliographic synthesis, writing and presenting a dissertation, defending one's work in a limited time in front of a jury of researchers and engineers, etc.). These two internships allow students to acquire a first professional experience.
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Know-how and skills

The training gives access to both business and research careers. The professions resulting from this training are :

  • Design engineer in diagnosis and detection 
  • Traceability management engineer  
  • Manager of an analysis laboratory
  • R & D Project Manager

Types of jobs accessible beyond the sensu-stricto skills :

  • Production manager
  • Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations Manager
  • Study and research engineer
  • Traceability management engineer
  • Hygienist
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Organization

Program

The IBION-Tec program is divided into 4 semesters, each of which includes teaching units (UE) validated by ECTS credits. It follows the L3 Life Science. It is a participative training by learning for the student.

The first year (M1) of the program is mainly devoted to the initiation of the innovative project which constitutes the basis of the training. The 5-month internship completes the M1 training with a first experience in a laboratory. Through the teaching provided during the two semesters, the M1 year is also a year for acquiring the fundamentals of nanotechnology. 

The second year (M2) is devoted to the organization of the annual BIOTRACE conference, focused on communication and exchange with the professional community. M2 is the finalization of the innovative project: The student has two weeks of experimentation to achieve a proof of concept or feasibility. The 6-month internship is a professional experience corresponding to the student's professional project.

The list of teaching units that make up the course can be found on the Master's website https://bioagro.edu.umontpellier.fr/master-biologie-agrosciences/ibion-tec/ 

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Select a program

M1 - Bio-molecular engineering and nanobiotechnologies (IBION-Tec)

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  • Biostatistics with R

    5 credits
  • Plurisciences Interface

    6 credits
  • Internship preparation and professional integration

    2 credits
  • Innovative Project 1

    3 credits
  • CHOICE 1

    6 credits
    • Choice of 2 out of 8

      • Multidisciplinary Lab project 1 (UE PHARMACIE)

        3 credits
      • Phytochemistry and valorization of biomolecules

        3 credits
      • Food microbiology and toxicology 2

        3 credits
      • 15 challenges in plant breeding

        3 credits
      • Emergences Resistances Adaptations

        3 credits
      • Engineering of recombinant protein production

        3 credits
      • Metabolic engineering of plant biomolecules of interest

        3 credits
      • Food microbiology and toxicology 1

        3 credits
  • Protein bioengineering dedicated to traceability 1

    3 credits
  • Immunotechnology (UE PHARMACIE)

    5 credits
  • Interface Plurisciences 2

    4 credits
  • Project management

    3 credits
  • Innovative Project 2

    3 credits
  • M1 internship

    12 credits
  • Pollution in agro-environmental systems

    3 credits
  • New generations of analysis

    5 credits

M2 - Bio-molecular engineering and nanobiotechnologies (IBION-Tec)

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  • Biosensors and microdevices

    2 credits
  • Bioinformatics

    3 credits
  • Nanotechnologies for health (EU PHARMACY)

    2 credits
  • Sensors and instrumentation

    3 credits
  • Innovative project 3

    11 credits
  • CHOICE 1

    3 credits
    • Choice of 1 of 3

      • Bioethics and regulation (UE PHARMACIE)

        3 credits
      • Diagnosis and traceability in health

        3 credits
      • Virology

        3 credits
  • Formulation of biomedicines and biomaterials (UE PHARMACIE)

  • Project management and conferences

    3 credits
  • Protein bioengineering dedicated to traceability 2

    2 credits
  • Creation - entrepreneurship and valorization

    2 credits
  • Internship M2

    21 credits
  • Creation and setting up of R&D projects

    5 credits

Admission

How to register

Applications are made on the following platforms: 

French & European students:

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Target audience

The Master IBION-Tec is accessible to holders of a bachelor's degree with a minimum of knowledge in biology, chemistry and physics, such as :

  • Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Biochemistry or Cellular and Molecular Biology, or Biotechnology and Traceability, Biotechnologies;
  • Bachelor of Chemistry.
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Necessary pre-requisites

Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Immunology, Microbiology, Organic Chemistry

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Recommended prerequisites

Quality management, electronics

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And then

Further studies

Depending on the year of the former Master Dtec-Bio, 30 to 60% of the students go on to a thesis. Among them, 30 to 40% are CIFRE grant holders.

We encourage students, especially those who wish to go into entrepreneurship, to continue their studies with a year of specialization in management and business administration (IAE training).

Further study is also possible by entering a M2 in Bioinformatics or Quality Management.

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Continuing your studies abroad

Internships can be done abroad (the former Dtec-Bio Master's program counted between 1 and 5 M1 and/or M2 internships abroad (USA, Canada, Italy, Spain, Sweden, England).

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Bridges and reorientation

A reorientation of our M1 students is possible with the Masters in Health Biology, IBIS and BIOTIN.

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Professional integration

From M1 onwards, our specialization is very much focused on giving our students the maximum of assets for their job search, namely : Knowledge of the company, professional project, applications to traceability, European legislation, quality approach, project management and organization of a workshop in M2. All of these points are integrated into specific courses that provide students with the essential reference points and bases for their professional integration.

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