Attendance at the classes of this course is mandatory, as they involve the acquisition of competencies based on practical work.

Students are divided into four practical groups.

Bioinformatics

The sessions will be held in the computer classroom.

During the practical sessions, students will work in pairs under the supervision of the teaching staff responsible for the course.

Throughout the three practical sessions, students will develop the proposed mini-project, in which they will apply the tools used in the Bioinformatics course to the discovery and characterization of a previously unannotated protein. In carrying out this project, students are expected to be able to use the bioinformatics tools correctly, formulate appropriate research questions, develop a work plan and, finally, prepare a PowerPoint summary presentation of the information obtained, together with its interpretation.

Immunology, Advanced Experimental Techniques and Virology

Laboratory practical classes and data analysis.

Students will carry out the experimental work in groups of two to three people under the supervision of the teaching staff responsible for the course.

The laboratory protocols and, where applicable, the response questionnaires will be available in the course Moodle classroom.

Before attending a practical session, students must have read the protocol and be familiar with the objectives of the practical activity, its theoretical background, and the procedures to be carried out.

Students must have successfully completed the laboratory safety and biosafety tests.

For the practical sessions, students must bring:

• The laboratory protocol and, where applicable, the questionnaire.
• A notebook for recording experimental observations and results.
• A laboratory coat.
• Safety glasses.
• A permanent marker.
• A calculator.

The practical session schedule can be consulted on the website of the Faculty of Biosciences.

The allocation of students to practical groups can be consulted in the Biotechnology Degree section of the Virtual Campus.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Bioinformatics

Assessment will be based on the submission, through Moodle, of the results obtained during the practical sessions in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.

The submission deadline will be the last practical session. This work will be presented to the instructor and the rest of the class in a short oral presentation (5–10 min)and uploaded to the Virtual Campus.

This PowerPoint presentation will account for 25% of the final course grade. Of this 25%, 20% will correspond to the professor's assessment and 5% will be obtained through peer assessment of the work presented.

Immunology

The assessment is based on two components:

1. The individual completion of a written test consisting of multiple-choice and short-answer questions (60% of the Immunology module grade), which will be held once all laboratory sessions have been completed, in a single examination for all students.
2. The preparation of a report for each practical session (maximum length of one page per practical), in which the results obtained will be described, analysed and discussed (40% of the Immunology module grade). This report must be submitted within one week after the final laboratory session.

Together, these two assessment components account for 25% of the final course grade.

Advanced instrumental techniques.

The assessment will be done by means of the resolution of a report that students must submit to the teaching staff no later than 15 days after completing the sessions (20% of the overall course grade), as well as on the assessment of students' attitude and work during the sessions (5% of the overall course grade).

Virology

The assessment consists of two activities:

1. An individual written test comprising multiple-choice questions with four possible answers (18% of the final course grade).
2. An oral presentation of one of the experimental practical activities, in which the content and organization of the presentation, the quality of the slides, and the quality of the communication will be assessed (7% of the final course grade).

Global assessment of the subject.

Attendance at the activities programmed in the Integrated Laboratories courses is mandatory. Absence at any of the sessions must be justified. Absences may not exceed 20% of the programmed activities. To pass the subject, you must obtain a final grade equal to or greater than 5.0 or higher and obtain a minimum grade of 3.5 in each module. Students who do not attain the minimum qualification in one or more of the module will receive a maximum final grade of the subject of 3.5 points out 10.

It will be considered that a student obtains the Non-Assessable qualification when he has attended less than 20% of the programmed sessions.

Repeating students will only be required to complete and be assessed in those modules that they did not pass during their first enrolment (grade below 4.0). For modules that have been passed, the grade will be retained for a maximum of three enrolments.

Single assessment

For those students who take the single assessment is compulsory to do the laboratory practices (PLAB) in the scheduled sessions with the rest of the group.

The single assessment consists of a single synthesis test with questions from all the integrated laboratory modules on the day scheduled in the academic calendar. The grade obtained in the synthesis test is 72% of the final grade of the subject. The attitude during the practices and attendance will be the remaining 28%.

The same retake system will be applied as for the continuous assessment.

Any irregularity committed during an assessment activity (academic misconduct, plagiarism, or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the course syllabus) that may lead to a significant alteration of the grade will result in that activity being graded as 0. If the course syllabus stipulates that obtaining a minimum mark in this assessment is an essential requirement to pass the course, or if multiple irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0. Furthermore, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student who incurs any of these irregularities.