PhD in Environmental and Biomedical Microbiology

Academic year 2024-25

See the pre-registration, admission and registration deadlines for the 2024-25 academic year.
You may also check this information for the 2023-24 academic year.

Degree data and benchmarks

Below are the main data and benchmarks, as well as the results of the satisfaction surveys for the degree programme, which are periodically analysed and monitored by the centre administrator, the head of studies and the corresponding quality assurance commissions, with a view to promoting the ongoing improvement of the programme.

 

Satisfaction of groups involved

Satisfaction index

 
2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23
Student satisfaction 3,55 3,75 3,50 3,20 3,20
PDI satisfaction 3,00 3,33 3,40 3,33 3,16
PAS satisfaction - 3,00 - 2,50 -

Description

Student, PDI and PAS satisfaction levels are rated on a scale of 1 to 4, where 1 means ‘not at all satisfied’ and 4 means ‘very satisfied’. They are obtained from the following surveys:

  • Survey of student satisfaction with the study programme (yearly)
  • Survey of satisfaction and identification of needs of teaching and research staff (PDI) (yearly)
  • Biennial survey of satisfaction and identification of needs of administrative and service staff (PAS) who have supported undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

 

Survey participation rates

 
2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23
Student participation rate 50% 36% 22% 42% 45%
PDI participation rate 64% 31% 58% 53% 43%
PAS participation rate - 50% - 67% -

Description

Only the data that meet a double criterion of representativeness have been considered valid: on one hand, reaching 4 answered surveys and, on the other hand, that the number of answered surveys is equal to or greater than 15% of the population

Thesis

Link to the institutional repository (DSPACE)

Year Thesis
2025
  • Mechanisms of resistance development to novel beta-lactams in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
2024
  • Estrategia de selección y evaluación de actividades biológicas de interés cosmético de una colección de microorganismos
2023
  • Bacterial whole-genome sequencing for establishment of reference sequences, comparative genomics, biomarker discovery and characterization of novel taxa
  • Estudio poblacional y genómico del patógeno vegetal Xylella fastidiosa
  • Role of the complement factor H-related proteins 1 and 3 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
2022
  • High-throughput cultivation of heterotrophic bacteria during a North Sea spring bloom and genomic insights into the genus Winogradskyella
  • Implicaciones epidemiológicas y clínicas del análisis genómico comparativo del virus del papiloma humano
  • Metagenomic characterization of hypersaline anaerobic sediments of S'Avall solar salterns, and evaluation of salinity as selection force in the taxonomic structure of methanogenic consortia
  • Pared celular, β-lactamasa AmpC, sistema inmune y virulencia: nuevas conexiones y hallazgos en Pseudomonas aeruginosa
2021
  • Epidemiologia molecular y mecanismos de resistencia en Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Impacto de los clones de alto riesgo y análisis del Resistoma a través de la secuenciación Masiva
  • Estrategias de Klebsiella pneumoniae para subvertir los sistemas defensivos del huésped
  • Estudio de la interacción entre los marcadores de virulencia,perfil de resistencia y clones de alto riesgo en los modelos Caenorharbditis elegans y Galleria mellonella. Evaluación del valor predictivo como marcadores pronósticos en la bacteriemia por Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
  • Novel treatment strategies for chronic respiratory infections based on the analysis of antimicrobial resistance dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
2020
  • Estudio del papel de las exoproteasas AprA y LasB en las infecciones por Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Influencia de los factores meteorológicos en las enfermedades durante la infancia
  • Phylogenomics of Bacteriodetes; halophilic Bacteriodetes as an example on how their genomes interact with the enviroment
2019
  • Conexión entre metabolismo del peptidoglicano, resistencia a beta-lactámicos y virulencia en Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Taxa novelty, resistance and resilience of halophilic microbial communities of solar salterns to environmental changes
2018
  • "Implicaciones ecológicas y clínicas del análisis comparativo de genomas de micobacterias ambientales y patógenas"
  • Catabolismo y tolerancia a hidrocarburos en el linaje Roseobacter. Aproximación multiómica
  • CLONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN Pseudomonas aeruginosa CHRONIC RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS: INTERPATIENT TRANSMISSION AND RESISTOME EVOLUTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL CYSTIC FIBROSIS CLONE.
  • Efecto de la mutación de mucA y eftM sobre la patogenicidad de Pseudomonas aeruginosa
2017
  • Identification of P. aeruginosa binding molecules for complement component C3 and surfactant protein A