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Veterinary Virology
General Description
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Brief History
Virology graduate programme of U.U. Graduate School of Health Science established in 2012 within the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine offers Doctor of Philosopsy (Ph.D) degree in the field of Virology.
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Qualification Awarded
After the successful completion of the program and fulfillment of requirements, a doctoral degree in Virology is awarded.
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Level of Qualification
Third Cycle
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Specific Admission Requirements
To apply for a doctoral program; - Candidates must hold a Master´s degree, or a degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, or, for those with degrees in pharmacy and faculty of arts and sciences, an expert certificate in a department of laboratory as approved by Ministry of Health. A direct admission to the doctoral program with a Bachelor´s degree depends on specific requirements of the doctoral program. - For health sciences, holders of Bachelor´s and Master´s degrees must possess ALES with the minimum acceptable score on sciences determined by the Senate. - Among foreign languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Russian and Arabic, and for foreign nationals, among languages such as English, German, and French, candidates must demonstrate proficiency in a language by satisfying one of the following exams; ÜDS, KPDS, TOEFL or equivalent approved by YÖK, and provide the minimum acceptable score as approved by the Senate. Recognition of any other foreign language qualifications is dependent on the Senate. - For foreign nationals, admission requirement shall be any of the following; Turkish Proficiency Exam by TÖMER and corresponding ALES score, or scores in exams such as GRE or GMAT, accepted as internationally equivalent by YÖK. - Candidates for Master´s and doctoral programs must possess a minimum score of 55 points in ALES; 50 language points in ÜDS/KPDS/UÜDS or equivalent for Master´s programs, and 55 language points in ÜDS/KPDS or equivalent for doctoral programs. For foreign nationals, a Document by TÖMER certifying the knowledge of Turkish (except for those studying in Turkey) is accepted equivalent to the score of the exams approved by YÖK as an equivalent language proficiency exam. Those applying for doctoral programs with TUS are required to possess a minimum score of 50 points in related field. Those who score below 60 points in overall performance are not admitted. In evaluation, the listed exams are responsible for the following percentages: TUS/ALES score 50%, Foreign Language 15%, GPA of Bachelor´s/Master´s degree 15%, interview 20%.
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Specific arrangements for the recognition of prior learning
The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.
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Qualification Requirements and Regulations
In order to achieve the degree of PhD, students in the program must take and successfully complete all required Must Courses and Professional Must Courses. And students must get at least 75 points out of 100 in each course.
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Profile of The Programme
The aim of the Virology Ph.D program is to educate qualified persons about basic characteristics of viruses, their epidemiology and pathogenesis, antiviral immunity and virological laboratory activities. Furthermore this programme intends to give informations about viral disease of animals and viral zoonosis, their spesific diagnosis and prevention methods besides earn abilities to make evaluation on the cases. In order to develop scientific research abilities in an intense research environment, it is awaited from PhD students join to the projects, publish articles, prepare and write seminars in every educational term, participate to project training, scientific meetings and literature presentation.
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Key Learning Outcomes & Classified & Comparative
1. Developing innovations and problem resolving by/and creative and criticizing thoughts.
2. Presenting scientific, technologic, social or cultural innovations in own special field and contributing to the evolution of own knowledge-based society.
3. Assessing and using new knowledge systematically.
4. Developing innovations with different and new thoughts, methods, design and/or manipulating and/or improving current information. Also using current methods in different fields and searching inventive subjects.
5. Understanding also relevant fields; analyzing and deducing recent and complicate thoughts, which need expertise.
6. Using strategic decisions in problem resolving.
7. Defend original views when exchanging ideas in the field with professionals and communicate effectively by showing competence in the field
8. Assessing, synthesizing and rewieved analyzing of current information or innovations.
9. Getting advanced abilities in specialized field methods and researches.
10. Publishing at least one paper in own special field in a national/international refereed journal and/or developing own thought by generating or interpreting current information.
11. Leading in resolving problems in related or inventive fields
12. Communicating and discussing written, verbal and visual with a level of European Language portfolio C1
SKILLS Cognitive - Practical
  • Understanding also relevant fields; analyzing and deducing recent and complicate thoughts, which need expertise.
  • Developing innovations with different and new thoughts, methods, design and/or manipulating and/or improving current information. Also using current methods in different fields and searching inventive subjects.
  • Assessing and using new knowledge systematically.
  • Developing innovations and problem resolving by/and creative and criticizing thoughts.
  • Getting advanced abilities in specialized field methods and researches.
  • Using strategic decisions in problem resolving.
  • Assessing, synthesizing and rewieved analyzing of current information or innovations.
KNOWLEDGE Theoretical - Conceptual
  • Getting advanced abilities in specialized field methods and researches.
  • Understanding also relevant fields; analyzing and deducing recent and complicate thoughts, which need expertise.
  • Developing innovations and problem resolving by/and creative and criticizing thoughts.
  • Developing innovations with different and new thoughts, methods, design and/or manipulating and/or improving current information. Also using current methods in different fields and searching inventive subjects.
COMPETENCES Field Specific Competence
  • Assessing and using new knowledge systematically.
  • Developing innovations with different and new thoughts, methods, design and/or manipulating and/or improving current information. Also using current methods in different fields and searching inventive subjects.
  • Using strategic decisions in problem resolving.
  • Developing innovations and problem resolving by/and creative and criticizing thoughts.
  • Getting advanced abilities in specialized field methods and researches.
  • Defend original views when exchanging ideas in the field with professionals and communicate effectively by showing competence in the field
COMPETENCES Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility
  • Using strategic decisions in problem resolving.
  • Assessing and using new knowledge systematically.
  • Presenting scientific, technologic, social or cultural innovations in own special field and contributing to the evolution of own knowledge-based society.
  • Developing innovations and problem resolving by/and creative and criticizing thoughts.
  • Publishing at least one paper in own special field in a national/international refereed journal and/or developing own thought by generating or interpreting current information.
  • Leading in resolving problems in related or inventive fields
  • Understanding also relevant fields; analyzing and deducing recent and complicate thoughts, which need expertise.
  • Developing innovations with different and new thoughts, methods, design and/or manipulating and/or improving current information. Also using current methods in different fields and searching inventive subjects.
COMPETENCES Communication and Social Competence
  • Assessing and using new knowledge systematically.
  • Defend original views when exchanging ideas in the field with professionals and communicate effectively by showing competence in the field
  • Communicating and discussing written, verbal and visual with a level of European Language portfolio C1
  • Presenting scientific, technologic, social or cultural innovations in own special field and contributing to the evolution of own knowledge-based society.
  • Developing innovations and problem resolving by/and creative and criticizing thoughts.
  • Developing innovations with different and new thoughts, methods, design and/or manipulating and/or improving current information. Also using current methods in different fields and searching inventive subjects.
COMPETENCES Learning Competence
  • Presenting scientific, technologic, social or cultural innovations in own special field and contributing to the evolution of own knowledge-based society.
  • Assessing and using new knowledge systematically.
  • Developing innovations and problem resolving by/and creative and criticizing thoughts.
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Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples
Various sections and faculties of the university Research institutes of Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock Province local control laboratories of Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock Various research institutions (TÜBİTAK. Atomic Energy Agency etc) Private institutions for vaccine and biological material production Private institutions for production of diagnostics Private diagnostic and analytic laboratories
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Access to Further Studies
The entrance into postgraduate doctoral studies is possible for candidates who have successfully earned a Bachelor´s degree, and can provide ALES with a passing grade and meet foreign language qualifications.
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Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading
The exams of the courses can be done written, written-oral or applied. In order to take the tests of the postgraduate programs, the attendance of the courses is required to be at least 70% or 80%. The exams are evaluated by over 100points awarded. To be successful, at master with thesis and master without thesis programs, it is required to get at least 70 points out of 100 points; at doctorate and proficiency in art programs it is required to get at least 75 points out of 100 points. Within the frame of the principals mentioned above, to evaluate the points as letter grades; getting AA, BA, BB, CB and CC at master degree and scientific preparation programs, and AA,BA, BB and CB at doctorate programs are considered successful at the courses. At postgraduate programs, a student failed at any course can take the exams at the end of the semester even if the course is not opened up the following semester. The student failed at this exam on the ground of absence or not carrying out the preconditions of the lesson repeats the lesson when it is opened up. If the lesson is subtracted or not opened up, an equivalent lesson to it is determined by the suggestion of the concerned head of department and by the decision of the board. Under these circumstances, the student is responsible of the equivalent lesson instead of the lesson that s/he needs to repeat. The adjustment of the grades of the students who practice upon the national or international student Exchange programs like Erasmus and Farabi are executed by the decision of the board and the decision by the institution directory. These grades are recorded to the academic transcript. The academic standing of the student is determined at the end of every semester on the term grade point averages and general grade point averages that is calculated on the coefficients given as the letter grades according to the concerned regulations. Term grade point averages and general grade point averages are calculated by the grade point averages. Grade point average (GPA) is calculated by the division of the total credits to the total out of the multiplication of the course credits and letter grades’s equivalents. GPA is calculated as two digits after the comma. Both term grade point average and general grade point average are determined by the grades of the courses from AA to FF. All of the grades are recorded to the academic transcript.
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Graduation Requirements
Doctorate program is formed by at least eight courses providing that they are not less than 24 credits and more than 30 credits, one seminar at course and dissertation stage, proficiency test, thesis suggestion, thesis study, thesis exam and the publications stated at the regulation’s 44th article’s second subsection. For the students accepted with bachelor degrees, the program is formed by fourteen courses providing that they are not less than 42 credits and more than 50 credits, one seminar at course and dissertation stage, proficiency test, thesis suggestion, thesis study, thesis exam and the publications stated at the regulation’s 44th article’s second subsection. The thesis should have one of the following features: novelty to science, developing a new scientific method or applying a known method to a new branch. It should be published as the full text at an international index magazine. The name of the doctorate student may not be the first one. The publication of the candidate who is going to take the argument of the doctorate should be about the doctorate thesis or the branch s/he is doing doctorate.
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Mode of Study
Full-Time/Part-Time
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Address and Contact Details
Prof.Dr.Kadir YEŞİLBAĞ
Uludağ Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Viroloji Anabilim Dalı, Görükle kampusü, Bursa
kyesilbag@uludag.edu.tr
0224 2941295
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Facilities
There are 5 lecturer giving courses in Virology PhD program. Besides the basic and practical lectures in virology, immunology and biochemistry lectures are given to expand the competence of candidates. There are 2 research laboratories exist in the department. Doctorate students have chance to apply different methods including cell culture, ELISA and PCR for their practical works and thesis in these laboratories which submit a strong research infrastructure.
1. Semester
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
SAB 6001 BIOSTATISTICS Compulsory 2 2 0 5
VVR 6191 DISSERTATION SUPERVISION I Compulsory 0 1 0 1
VVR6001 STRUCTURE, GENOMIC AND ANTIGENIC CHARACTERISTIC OF VIRUSES Compulsory 2 0 0 4
VVR6003 REPLICATION OF VIRUSES - I Compulsory 2 2 0 5
VVR6021 PROPOGATION OF VIRUSES USING IN VIVO AND IN VITRO SYSTEMS – I Compulsory 2 4 0 6
VVR6023 VIRUS - HOST RELATIONS - I Compulsory 2 0 0 4
Click to choose optional courses. 5
Total 30
2. Semester
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
SAB 6002 BIOSTATISTICS Compulsory 2 2 0 5
VVR 6172 SEMINAR Compulsory 0 2 0 5
VVR 6192 DISSERTATION SUPERVISION II Compulsory 0 1 0 1
VVR6002 PROPOGATION OF VIRUSES USING IN VIVO AND IN VITRO SYSTEMS- II Compulsory 2 4 0 6
VVR6004 VIRUS - HOST RELATIONS Compulsory 2 0 0 4
VVR6006 MUTATION AND MECHANISM OF GENOMIC VARIATIONS Compulsory 2 0 0 4
VVR6012 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROJECT PREPARING AND PUBLICATION ETHICS Compulsory 1 0 0 1
VVR6024 STRUCTURE, GENOMIC AND ANTIGENIC CHARACTERISTIC OF VIRUSES - II Compulsory 2 0 0 4
VVR6026 REPLICATION OF VIRUSES -II Compulsory 2 2 0 5
Click to choose optional courses. -5
Total 30
3. Semester
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
VVR 6173 SEMINAR Compulsory 0 2 0 5
VVR 6183 PHD SPECIALISED FIELD COURSE III Compulsory 4 0 0 5
VVR 6193 DISSERTATION SUPERVISION Compulsory 0 1 0 5
YET6177 PROFICIENCY EXAM Compulsory 0 0 0 15
Total 30
4. Semester
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
VVR 6184 PHD SPECIALISED FIELD COURSE IV Compulsory 4 0 0 5
VVR 6194 DISSERTATION SUPERVISION Compulsory 0 1 0 25
Total 30
5. Semester
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
ENS6120 DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING Compulsory 3 0 0 5
VVR 6185 PHD SPECIALISED FIELD COURSE V Compulsory 4 0 0 5
VVR 6195 DISSERTATION SUPERVISION Compulsory 0 1 0 20
Total 30
6. Semester
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
EOZ6121 PLANNING AND EVALUATION IN EDUCATION Compulsory 3 2 0 5
VVR 6186 PHD SPECIALISED FIELD COURSE VI Compulsory 4 0 0 5
VVR 6196 DISSERTATION SUPERVISION Compulsory 0 1 0 20
Total 30
7. Semester
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
VVR 6187 PHD SPECIALISED FIELD COURSE VII Compulsory 4 0 0 5
VVR 6197 DISSERTATION SUPERVISION Compulsory 0 1 0 25
Total 30
8. Semester
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
VVR 6188 PHD SPECIALISED FIELD COURSE VIII Compulsory 4 0 0 5
VVR 6198 DISSERTATION SUPERVISION Compulsory 0 1 0 25
Total 30
1. Semester Optional Courses
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
VVR 6181 PHD SPECIALISED FIELD COURSE I Optional 4 0 0 5
VVR6005 DIAGNOSTIC METHODS IN VIROLOGY Optional 2 2 0 5
VVR6007 PATHOGENESIS OF VIRAL DISEASES Optional 2 0 0 3
VVR6009 IMMUN RESPONCE AGAINST VIRAL INFECTIONS Optional 2 0 0 3
VVR6011 MEDIA USED IN VIROLOGY AND FILTRATION TECHNIQUES Optional 2 2 0 5
VVR6013 VIRAL INFECTIONS OF RUMINANTS Optional 3 0 0 5
VVR6015 VIRAL ZOONOTIC INFECTIONS Optional 2 0 0 3
VVR6017 VIROLOGY ARTICLE EVALUATION - I Optional 2 0 0 3
VVR6019 BACTERIOFAGES Optional 1 0 0 2
2. Semester Optional Courses
Course Code Course Title Type of Course T1 U2 L3 ECTS
VVR6008 APOPTOZIS AND ITS RELATION TO VIROLOGY Optional 1 0 0 2
VVR6010 MUTATION AND MECHANISM OF GENOMIC VARIATIONS Optional 2 0 0 3
VVR6012 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC METHODS Optional 2 2 0 4
VVR6014 VIRAL FOOD INFECTIONS Optional 1 0 0 2
VVR6016 VIRAL INFECTIONS OF HORSES Optional 2 0 0 3
VVR6018 VIRAL INFECTIONS OF CATS AND DOGS Optional 3 0 0 5
VVR6020 PRION BIOLOGY AND DISEASES Optional 2 0 0 3
VVR6022 VIROLOGY ARTICLE EVALUATION -II Optional 2 0 0 3
VVR6182 PHD SPECIALISED FIELD COURSE II Optional 4 0 0 5
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