Online Graduate courses in English at UFV
When?
15 March
2021 – 2 July 2021
Courses
|
AREA |
CODE |
NAME |
LECTURERS |
|||
|
ENG 691 |
Evandro de Castro Melo |
|||||
|
ENG 673 |
Lêda Rita D´Antonino Faroni |
|||||
|
ENG 792 |
Domingos Sárvio Magalhães
Valente |
|||||
|
ENG 792 |
Ernandes Rodrigues de Alencar |
|||||
|
ENG 796 |
Daniel Marçal de Queiroz |
|||||
|
Animal
Science and |
ZOO 796 |
Multivariate analysis for construction of environmental
indicators with respective predictive models |
Fabyano Fonseca e Silva |
|||
|
VET 791 |
Abelardo
Silva Junior |
|||||
|
Carlos Eduardo
Real Pereira |
||||||
|
Architecture |
ARQ 661 |
Luciana
Bosco e Silva |
||||
|
Computer
Science |
INF 610 |
Vladimir Di
Iorio |
||||
|
Michel Melo
da Silva |
||||||
|
INF 723 |
Sabrina
Azevedo |
|||||
|
Entomology |
ENT 774 |
Simon
Elliot |
||||
|
ENT 682* |
Ecophysiological Interactions
Among Aquatic Insects, Fishes and Pollutants |
Eugenio
Oliveira |
||||
|
ENT 662 |
Eugenio
Oliveira |
|||||
|
Environment |
TGA 610 |
Sibele
Augusta Ferreira Leite |
||||
|
Brenno Santos Leite |
||||||
|
CBF 641* |
Leonardo
Esteves Lopes |
|||||
|
Food Science & Technology |
TAL 706 |
Frederico
Barros |
||||
|
Languages |
LET 604 |
Idalena Chaves |
||||
|
LET 792 |
Idalena Chaves |
|||||
|
Microbiology |
MBI 610 |
Antônio Galvão do Nascimento |
||||
|
Hilário Cuquetto Mantovani |
||||||
|
Wendel Batista da Silveira |
||||||
|
Nutrition |
NUT 791* |
Hércia Stampini Duarte Martino |
||||
|
NUT 791* |
Lipoic, lipoteichoic and Teichoic acid: biosynthesis,
mechanisms involved and therapeutic purposes |
Maria do
Carmo Gouveia Peluzio |
||||
|
NUT 642 |
Juliana
Farias de Novaes |
|||||
|
Plant
Pathology |
FIP 606 |
Emerson
Del Ponte |
||||
|
FIP 607 |
Gleiber Quintão Furtado |
|||||
|
Jorge Luis Badel Pacheco |
||||||
|
Leandro Grassi de Freitas |
||||||
|
Murilo Zerbini |
||||||
|
Plant
Science |
FIT 632 |
Sergio Yoshimitsu Motoike |
||||
|
FIT 678 |
Guilherme da Silva Pereira |
|||||
|
Soil
Science |
SOL 793 |
Samuel Valadares |
||||
|
Edson
Mattiello |
||||||
|
Maurício
Fontes |
||||||
* = courses with timetable to be defined
Timetable:
UTC -03:00
Except for
the ENG courses, the timetable below presents the times reserved for synchronous
activities, every week.
The ENG
courses will use synchronous activities only eventually, on dates indicated to
the students in advance.
|
|
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
8:00h |
FIT 632 |
NUT
642 |
ENG 792 |
ENG 796 |
NUT
642 |
|
|
ENG 691 |
ENG 673 |
FIP 607 |
ENG 691 |
|
|
|
FIP
607 |
LET 792 |
|
LET
604 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ENT
774 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ENG
792 |
|
|
9:00h |
FIT 632 |
NUT
642 |
TGA 610 |
ENG 796 |
NUT
642 |
|
|
ENG
691 |
ENG 792 |
ZOO 796 |
ENG
691 |
|
|
|
FIP
607 |
ENG 673 |
FIP 607 |
LET 604 |
|
|
|
|
LET 792 |
|
ENT
774 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ENG
792 |
|
|
10:00h |
FIT 678 |
NUT
642 |
TGA 610 |
INF 610 |
NUT
642 |
|
|
ENG
673 |
ENG 792 |
ENG
796 |
ENG
792 |
|
|
|
MBI
610 |
ENG 673 |
TAL
706 |
MBI
610 |
|
|
|
SOL 793 |
|
ZOO 796 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
VET
971 |
|
|
|
11:00h |
FIT 678 |
NUT
642 |
TGA 610 |
INF 610 |
NUT
642 |
|
|
ENG 673 |
ENG 673 |
TAL 706 |
MBI
610 |
|
|
|
MBI 610 |
|
ZOO 796 |
|
|
|
|
SOL 793 |
|
VET
971 |
|
|
|
12:00h |
|
|
|
FIP
606 |
|
|
13:00h |
|
|
|
FIP
606 |
|
|
14:00h |
ARQ
661 |
ENT 662 |
ENT
774 |
SOL 793 |
ENT
662 |
|
|
INF 723 |
|
|
|
|
|
15:00h |
ARQ
661 |
ENT 662 |
ENT
774 |
SOL 793 |
ENT
662 |
|
|
INF 723 |
|
|
|
|
|
16:00h |
ARQ
661 |
|
|
|
INF
723 |
|
17:00h |
ARQ
661 |
|
|
|
INF 723 |
TOPICS
SOL 793 –
Chemistry and Fertility of Tropical Soils (75h)
1.
Introduction.
2.
Basic concepts of soil chemistry and
mineralogy.
3.
Plant nutrients and beneficial elements.
4.
Nutrient dynamics in the soil-plant-atmosphere
continuum.
5.
Soil acidity, liming and dynamics of Ca and Mg
in the soil-plant system.
6.
Nitrogen.
7.
Phosphorus.
8.
Potassium.
9.
Sulfur.
10.
Micronutrients.
11.
Basic concepts for soil fertility evaluation
and control.
12.
Fertilizers.
13.
Nutrient management in agriculture and
forestry.
FIP 606 –
Analysis and visualization of research data (60h)
1.
Fundamentals
of surveys and experiments
2.
Data
types, organization and cleaning
3.
Data
exploration and summary statistics
4.
Inferential
statistics
5.
Tabular
and graphical outputs
6.
Summary
report in R Markdown
7.
Bonus:
R for data analysis
FIP 607 –
Plant Pathogens (60h)
1. Fungi
1.1. History and importance
1.2. Morphology, reproduction, ecology
and dissemination
1.3. Characteristics and
classification
1.4. Basis of taxonomy and
identification
1.5. Symptoms of plant fungal diseases
1.6. Pathogenicity tests
1.7. Life cycle
1.8. Control of fungal diseases of
plants
2. Bacteria
2.1. History and importance
2.2. Morphology, structure and
physiology
2.3. Multiplication, survival and
dissemination
2.4. Plant penetration and tissue
colonization
2.5. Variability and taxonomy
2.6. Symptoms and disease control
2.7. Isolation from infected tissue
2.8. Pathogenicity tests
3. Nematodes
3.1. Definition and importance
3.2. Anatomy and taxonomy
3.3. Biology and ecology
3.4. Pathogenic relationships of the
main genera and interactions with other
microorganisms
3.5. Management of plant nematodes
4. Viruses
4.1. History and importance
4.2. Symptoms induced by plant viruses
4.3. Morphology and structure
4.4. Replication strategies
4.5. Cell-to-cell and long-distance
movement
4.6. Sub-viral infectious agents
4.7. Genetic variability and evolution
4.8. Natural transmission
4.9. Control of plant virus diseases
VET 791 -
Viral infections of swine (30h)
1. Etiology, pathogenisis and clinical signs, control and prophylaxis of
viral infections of swine
2. African
Swine Fever
3. Aujesky Disease
4. Influenza
A
5. Parvovirosis
6. Porcine
Circovirus Associated Disease
7. Porcine
Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome
8. Porcine
Epidemic Diarrhoea Virus/ Transmissible
Gastroenteritis Virus
9. Infection
by Senecavirus A and Rotavirus
ZOO 796 -
Multivariate analysis for construction of environmental indicators with
respective predictive models (45h)
1.
Basic concepts
of Experimental Design in Agricultural research.
2.
Statistical
concepts behind ANOVA.
3.
Introduction to
Mixed Model theory.
4.
Variance
components and genetic parameter estimates.
5.
Statistical
analysis of longitudinal and multivariate datasets.
6.
Introduction to
Genomic Selection.
7.
Introduction to
Genome-Wide Association Study
MBI
610 - Microbial Physiology (60h)
1.
Microbial cell structure and function.
2.
Composition, organization, and physiology of
microbial cells.
3.
Nutrient transport and protein secretion.
4.
Growth of microbial populations.
5.
Thermodynamics and energy conservation in
biological systems.
6.
Introduction to cellular bioenergetics.
7.
Electron transport.
8.
Bioenergetics in the cytosol.
9.
Classification of microbial metabolism.
10.
Central Metabolic Pathways.
11.
Flux in Central Metabolic Pathways.
12.
Fermentations.
13.
Autotrophy.
14.
Mineral nutrition.
15.
Monomer biosynthesis.
16.
Polymer biosynthesis.
17.
Growth yield.
18.
Regulation of metabolic pathways.
19.
Multigene networks and global regulation
systems.
20.
Nutrient limitation responses and growth rate
effects on cellular physiology.
21.
Environmental adaptive responses.
22.
Cellular communication and biofilms.
23.
Cellular differentiation and morphogenesis.
ENT 774 -
Symbioses: From Mutualism to Parasitism (45h)
1. Basic Concepts of Symbiosis
2. Evolutionary Ecology of Symbioses
3. Types of Mutualism
4. Parasitism and modes of transmission
5. Ecology of Symbioses
6. Case Studies
7. Applications of theory
ENT 682 - Ecophysiological Interactions Among Aquatic Insects, Fishes
and Pollutants (60h)
1. Concepts
2. Categories
and biases
3. Aquatic
organisms
4. Pollutants
on aquatic systems
5. Physiological
interactions and unintended effects of aquatic pollutants
6. Biomolecular
tools used in ecotoxicology
ENT 662 –
Physiology of insects (60h)
...
TAL 706 -
Food Carbohydrates and Bioactive Compounds (30h)
1.
Carbohydrate reactions.
2.
Starch.
3.
Carbohydrate nutrition and dietary fiber.
4.
Bioactive compounds.
5.
The protective effect of foods containing
bioactive compounds on chronic noncommunicable diseases.
6.
Seminar presentations.
ENG 673 -
Mycotoxins in agricultural products (75h)
1.
Mycotoxins in pre-harvest: contamination of
crops.
2.
Mycotoxin risk assessment and management in
agricultural products.
3.
Deterministic methods for assessing mycotoxin
exposure.
4.
Food safety and regulations of agricultural
products contaminated by mycotoxins.
5.
Legislation and regulation of mycotoxin limits
in foods.
6.
Sampling for evaluation of mycotoxins in
agricultural products.
7.
Mycotoxin analysis techniques.
8.
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
(HACCP) to control mycotoxins in agricultural products.
9.
Influence of environmental conditions on the
production of mycotoxins.
10. Control of
mycotoxins in grain storage.
11. Techniques
for decontamination/detoxification of mycotoxins in grains.
12. Mycotoxins
and their effects on human and animal health.
ENG 796 -
Special Problems (Digital Agriculture) (45h)
1.
Principles of digital agriculture.
2.
GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems.
3.
Mapping soil attributes.
4.
Mapping plant attributes.
5.
Yield mapping.
6.
Internet of thing and connectivity.
7.
Cloud computing and big data.
8.
Digital irrigation.
9.
Geoprocessing in the digital agriculture.
10. Machine
learning.
11. Applications
of digital agriculture to agriculture engineering systems.
ENG 792 -
Special Topics (Geoprocessing Applied to Agriculture) (45h)
1. Basic
concepts of GIS.
2. Geoprocessing
tools for vector layers.
3. Spatial
selections.
4. Basic
concepts of geostatistics.
5. Unsupervised
and supervised classification.
6. Orbital
remote sensing in QGIS 3.
7. Cases in
geoprocessing applied to agriculture.
ENG 792 -
Special Topics (Post-Harvest of Agricultural Products) (45h)
1. Psychrometry.
2. Post-harvest
losses of agricultural products.
3. Post-harvest
physiology of fruits and vegetables.
4. Storage of
agricultural products.
5. Quality of
agricultural products.
6. Factors
affecting quality of stored agricultural products.
7. Grain
drying.
ENG 691 -
Algorithms Applied to Agricultural Process (60h)
1. Algorithms
in the development of computer programs.
2. Programming
languages applied to agricultural process.
3. Application
development for agricultural process.
4. Decision
support systems for agricultural process.
CBF 641 -
Conservation and Management of Natural Ecosystems (45h)
1. Introduction
to and history of Conservation Biology.
2. Ecosystem
services and its valuing.
3. Habitat
disturbance, loss, and fragmentation.
4. Fire and
biodiversity.
5. Overharvesting
of natural resources.
6. Invasive
species and its impacts upon the biological communities.
7. Global climate
changes.
8. Extinctions
and how to prevent them.
9. Conservation
and management of ecosystems; Local people and their importance for
conservation.
10. Conservation
and management: from theory to practice.
TGA 610 -
Pollution Control and Waste Valorization (45h)
1- Sustainability
and Pollution Control.
2- Environmental
Technologies Applied to Agricultural / Agroindustrial
Waste.
3- Physical-chemical
analysis for process monitoring and pollution control.
4- Introduction
to the Concept of Waste Recovery: a) Anaerobic Biodigestion;
b) Microalgae production; c) Combustion; d) Liquefaction.
5- Outline of a
Proposal for the Valuation of Agricultural (s) / Agroindustrial
Waste (s).
LET 604 - Portuguese for
Foreigners (60h)
1. Listening comprehension and analysis of
oral texts, in Portuguese.
2. Production of oral texts.
3. Analysis of academic written texts.
4. Reading and interpretation of written
texts.
5. Writing texts related to several academic
genres (abstracts, conference presentations, bibliographical essays, journal
articles, conference proceedings, etc.)
6. Vocabulary and grammar.
7.
Preparation for the Portuguese language proficiency exam for foreigners (Celpe-bras).
LET 792 -
Portuguese for Foreigners – Level 2 (45h)
1.
Brazilian Portuguese: oral and written expression.
2.
Learning grammar and vocabulary.
3.
Linguistic aspects.
4.
Linguistic variation.
5.
Aspects of Brazilian culture.
6.
Listening comprehension.
7.
Oral and written production of texts.
ARQ 661 - Scientific Methodology
Applied to Architecture and Urbanism I
(60h)
1.
Scientific knowledge, science and technology.
2.
Research methodology, method and techniques.
3.
Academic production of thesis, dissertation and articles.
NUT 791 - Nutrition and microbiome:
designing the gut by what we eat (30h)
1.
Plant origin bioactive compounds and impact to intestinal health:
interactions between dietary plant origin bioactive compounds, their potential
effects on the intestinal bacterial populations, and overall intestinal
functionality and morphology and gut health.
2.
Digestion and transport, and Nutrients-Gene interactions in the
intestinal brush border membrane and basolateral membrane.
3.
How to design in vivo methods, in ovo,
in order to assess dietary interventions.
NUT 791 - Lipoic, lipoteichoic and
Teichoic acid: biosynthesis, mechanisms involved and therapeutic purposes (30h)
1.
Introduction.
2.
Chemical structure of the lipoic, lipoteichoic and Teichoic acid.
3.
Absorption, biosynthesis and plasma concentrations of the of
lipoic, lipoteichoic and teichoic acid characteristics.
4.
Mechanisms involved and therapeutic purposes of the of lipoic,
lipoteichoic and Teichoic acid.
5.
Relationship of the lipoic, lipoteichoic and teichoic
acid with chronic diseases.
6.
Antioxidant properties of the lipoic, lipoteichoic and teichoic
acid.
NUT 642 - Nutritional Epidemiology (60h)
1.
Methods in nutritional epidemiology with an
emphasis on evaluation food consumption.
2.
Errors and biases inherent to the methods of
dietary surveys in epidemiological studies.
3.
Development of the Food Frequency
Questionnaire.
4.
Minimizing errors in the measurement of
dietary intake.
5.
Implications of total energy intake for
epidemiological analysis.
6.
Evaluation and control of underreporting of
energy intake in epidemiological studies.
7.
Assessment of dietary patterns.
8.
Use of biochemical markers to assess food
intake.
9.
Critical analysis of computer programs in
dietary assessment.
10.
Critical analysis of the Food Guide for the
Brazilian Population.
11.
Other relevant indicators in nutritional
epidemiology studies.
FIT 678 –
Quantitative and molecular genetics in plant breeding (60h)
1.
Elements of genomic analysis.
2.
Principles of quantitative genetics associated with molecular
markers.
3.
Principles of population genetics in plant breeding.
4.
Population genetics at the molecular level.
5.
Analysis of segregating populations with molecular markers.
6.
Association between agronomic traits and molecular markers.
7.
Experimental design in loci study of inbred lines.
8.
Experimental design in loci study of open-pollinated species.
9.
Parental selection for breeding purposes.
10.
Molecular marker-assisted breeding.
11.
Fixation of directly introduced DNA segments.
12.
Maintaining improved populations.
FIT 632 – Plant Cell and Tissue Culture (60h)
1.
Plant
cell and tissue culture: a brief history, description, technology and potential
applications of organ culture, meristem culture, anther/pollen culture, callus
suspension cultures and protoplast culture.
2.
Plant
micropropagation: regeneration through meristem and callus cultures.
3.
Somatic
embryogenesis: production, preservation and use of somatic embryos as
propagules.
4.
Storage
of germplasm: cryopreservation.
5.
Somatic
hybridization; induction and utilization of somatic variants; plant
transformation.
6.
Commercialization
of tissue culture technology: concept of commercialization and the need, design
of typical tissue culture laboratory and its management.
INF723 -
Data Visualization (60h)
1.
Sources and data collection for visualization.
2.
Basic statistical / mathematical analysis and data mining.
3.
Data representations and visual metaphors.
4.
Visual principles.
5.
Elements of interaction.
INF610 - Data Structures and
Algorithms (60h)
1.
Basic and advanced data structures: lists, queues, stacks, trees
and graphs.
2.
Principles of analysis of algorithms.
3.
Algorithm design paradigms.
4.
NP-Completeness.