Online courses in English
When?
9
November 2020 – 19 December 2020 /---break---/ 11
January 2021 – 12 February 2021
Courses
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AREA |
CODE |
NAME |
LECTURERS |
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Veterinary
Medicine and Animal Science |
Animal
Vaccinology |
Abelardo
Silva Jr |
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Foodborne
Pathogens and Diseases |
Luís Augusto
Nero |
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Advanced
assisted reproductive technologies in cattle |
Luiz Sérgio
Camargo |
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Animal
Breeding and Genetics |
Simone Guimarães |
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Plant
Pathology |
General
Plant Pathology |
Eduardo
Mizubuti |
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Plant
Disease Epidemiology |
Emerson
Medeiros Del Ponte |
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Methods
in Molecular Plant Pathology |
Francisco
Murilo Zerbini Junior |
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Plant
Physiology |
Plant
Stress Physiology |
Eduardo Gusmão Pereira |
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Soil
Science |
Brazil
and West Africa: Geosystems,
Landscape, Land Use, Agricultural and Social connections |
Carlos
Schaefer |
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Applied
Biochemistry |
Bioinformatics |
Tiago Mendes |
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Entomology |
Scientific
Writing |
Ricardo
Campos – ricardo.campos@ufv.br Simon Elliot – selliot@ufv.br Lucas Paolucci – lucas.paolucci@ufv.br |
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Biological
Control of Arthropods |
Angelo Pallini - pallini@ufv.br Madelaine Venzon - madelainevenzon@gmail.com |
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Ecophysiological Interactions Among Aquatic Insects,
Fishes and Pollutants |
Eugenio de
Oliveira- eugenio@ufv.br (schedule to be defined) |
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Computer
Science |
Data
Structures and Algorithms |
Vladimir Di
Iorio - vladimir@ufv.br Michel Melo
da Silva - michelms@dcc.ufmg.br |
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Languages |
Portuguese
for foreigners |
Idalena Chaves |
Timetable:
UTC -03:00
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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8:00h |
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VET750 |
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VET750 |
LET604 |
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9:00h |
VET791 |
VET790 |
VET744 |
VET790 |
LET604 |
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ENT682 |
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ENT682 |
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10:00h |
BQI760 |
FIP600 |
BQI760 |
INF610 |
CBF770 |
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SOL735 |
SOL735 |
FIP602 |
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VET791 |
ENT682 |
VET744 |
ENT682 |
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11:00h |
BQI760 |
FIP600 |
BQI760 |
INF610 |
FIP704 |
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SOL735 |
SOL735 |
FIP602 |
CBF770 |
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VET791 |
ENT682 |
VET744 |
ENT682 |
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12:00h |
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FIP704 |
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13:00h |
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14:00h |
ENT671 |
ENT602 |
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ENT602 |
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15:00h |
ENT671 |
ENT602 |
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ENT602 |
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16:00h |
ENT671 |
ENT602 |
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ENT602 |
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17:00h |
ENT671 |
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TOPICS
VET744 - Animal Vaccinology
(60h)
Program:
1. History about vaccines
2. Immune response against vaccines
3. Vaccines classes
4. Design of recombinant vaccines
5. Adjuvants to improve immune response
6. Animal model
7.
Brazilian laws about registration of veterinary vaccines
VET791- Animal Breeding and
Genetics (30h)
Program:
1. Definition of animal breeding
2. How can animal breeding help in animal
production?
3. Genetic parameters in animal breeding
4. Correlation, inbreeding and crosses
5. Genomics applied to animal breeding
6.
Breeding and genomics applied to the main livestock species: Cattle (beef and
milk), pigs, poultry, horses.
VET790 - Advanced assisted
reproductive technologies in cattle (15h)
Assisted
reproductive technologies (ART), as artificial insemination and embryo
transfer, have been contributed to breeding programs in order
to enhance productivity in cattle. In the last 20 years new technologies
have arisen, increasing the impact of ART on animal production. Some of those
advanced technologies, as in vitro embryo production, have been broadly adopted in several countries whereas others, as
animal cloning, have focused on specific niches. Some technologies are not yet
commercially available as genome editing in embryos, but they can be a game
changer in animal breeding for the next decades. This course intends to offer
an overview of those advanced ART and how they have been applied to cattle
production.
Program:
1. Overview of in vitro embryo production.
2. Oocyte in vitro maturation and
fertilization.
3. Oocyte evaluation.
4. In vitro embryo culture.
5. Somatic cell nuclear transfer.
6.
Genome editing in livestock.
VET750 - Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases (60h)
Program:
1. Epidemiology of foodborne diseases
1.1.
Ecology of foodborne pathogens
1.2. Cases and outbreaks investigation
2. Characterization of foodborne pathogens and
diseases
2.1.
Taxonomy
2.2.
Virulence and pathogenicity
2.3.
Occurrence and distribution in the food chain
2.4.
Symptoms and target populations
2.5. Diagnosis, treatment
and control
3. Detection and enumeration of foodborne
pathogens
3.1.
Official protocols
3.2.
Sampling procedures and processing
3.3.
Conventional methods for enumeration and detection
3.4. Alternative methods for enumeration and
detection
4. Impacts of foodborne diseases
4.1.
Public health
4.2.
Industry
4.3. International trade and policies
5. Prevention of foodborne diseases
5.1.
Surveillance and official reports
5.2.
Industrial procedures
5.3.
Systematic approaches to assure food safety
5.4. Risk analysis
6.
Trends in food safety
6.1. Emerging foodborne pathogens
FIP600 - General Plant
Pathology (30h)
Program:
1. Overview of concepts and topics in plant
pathology.
2. History and relevance of plant pathology
for food safety, food security and agribusiness.
3. Symptomatology.
4. Etiology of plant diseases.
5. Biology and ecology of plant pathogens.
6. Basic concepts of epidemiology.
7.
Plant disease control.
FIP602 - Plant Disease Epidemiology (60h)
Program:
1. History and concepts in Botanical
Epidemiology.
2. Plant disease assessment and
quantification.
3. Temporal dynamics and analysis of
epidemics.
4. Pathogen dispersal, disease gradients and
patterns.
5. Yield loss assessment.
6.
Risk assessment and disease forecasting.
FIP704 - Methods in Molecular
Plant Pathology (60h)
Program:
1. Structure and function of macromolecules.
2. Nucleic acid replication and protein
synthesis.
3. Recombinant DNA techniques.
4. Basics of bioinformatics.
5. Diagnosis of phytopathogens using molecular
techniques.
6. Molecular markers.
7. Plant transformation for resistance to
phytopathogens.
8.
Genomics of phytopathogens.
Program:
1. Tools and techniques for statistical
analysis, visualization, data mining and data modeling applied to genomics,
transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
2. Advanced programming training on R
platform. Methodologies for large-scale sequence analysis including comparative
genomics, phylogenomic analysis, SNPs and selective
pressure analysis by dN/dS.
3. Unsupervised clustering and visualization
techniques for cluster identification and supervised classification techniques
for analyzing biomarkers or other targets of interest.
4. Systems biology techniques to integrate and
interpret data obtained by multiple omics. Construction and analysis, based on
graph theory, of molecular biological networks such as protein-protein
interaction network (interatome), metabolic network
and gene regulation network using the Cityscape software.
5.
Mathematical modeling of biological systems to identify patterns and integrate
different omics data.
ENT602 – Scientific Writing (45h)
Program:
1.
What is a scientific paper.
2.
Structure of a paper.
3.
Ethics in the publication of papers.
4.
Importance of Reading.
5.
Literature review and citation.
6.
Preparation of the manuscript.
7.
Critical reading.
8.
Which journal to choose.
9.
How to submit.
10.
Peer review.
11.
How to structure phrases in a paper.
12.
What to avoid and what to embrace.
13.
Principles of clear and effective writing.
14.
Writing with strong and active verbs.
15.
How to construct an effective paragraph
(organized and concise).
16.
Use of varied resources in writing.
17.
Review of writing.
18.
Title and Abstract: equilibrium and elegance.
19.
Introduction: essential and dispensable parts.
20.
Material and methods: the importance of
precision and detail.
21.
Results: simple, direct
and precise writing.
22.
Discussion: arguments, limitations
and implications of the study.
ENT671 –
Biological Control of Arthropods (60h)
Program:
1.
Concepts and terminology.
2.
Classical biological control.
3.
Augmentation biological control.
4.
Conservation biological control.
5.
Ecological basis for biological control.
6.
Predators (insects and mites).
7.
Parasitoids.
8.
Pathogens.
9.
Safety of biological control.
10.
Biological control programs.
11.
Legislation for the use of biological control
agents in Brazil.
ENT682 – Ecophysiological Interactions
Among Aquatic Insects, Fishes and Pollutants (60h)
Program:
1.
Concepts, categories
and biases.
2.
Aquatic organisms.
3.
Pollutants on aquatic systems.
4.
Physiological interactions and unintended
effects of aquatic pollutants.
5.
Biomolecular tools used in ecotoxicology.
CBF770 - Plant Stress
Physiology
Program:
1.
Plant stress responses
1.1. Concepts on stress and strain
1.2. Plasticity, acclimation
and adaptation
1.3. Temporal scale of plant stress response
2.
Metabolic adjustments and antioxidant metabolism
2.1. Signal transduction and stress response
2.2. Oxidative stress
2.3. Metabolic reprogramming during stress
response
3.
Light stress and thermic stress
3.1. Photosynthetic responses to excess
radiation
3.2. Shadow avoidance in plants
3.3. Responses to extreme temperatures
4.
Water stress and salinity
4.1. The control of hydric status and the
strategies of drought resistance
4.2. Osmotic and ionic effects of salinity
4.3. Metabolic bases of osmotic stress
tolerance
5.
Nutritional stress and resistance to trace metals
5.1. Nutrient use efficiency and nutritional
deficiency responses
5.2. Adaptive strategies to nutritional
deficit
5.3. Metal toxicity and phytoremediation
6.
Environmental pollution stress
6.1. Effects of organic and inorganic
pollutants in plants
6.2. Atmospheric pollutants
6.3. Bioindicators and pollution monitoring
Program:
1. The physical environment of Brazil and West
Africa - the Gondwana connection (10h).
2. Geomorphology, soils
and landscapes in West Africa (4h).
3. Geomorphology, soils
and landscapes in Brazil (6h).
4. The Human and social dimensions of West
African and Brazilian societies (10 h).
5. Agricultural traditions in both margins of
the Atlantic: the globalization of Tropical Plants (10 h).
6.
Present and Future of Brazil and Africa interplays (5 h).
INF610 - Data Structures and
Algorithms (60h)
Program:
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.
LET604 - Portuguese for
Foreigners (60h)
Program:
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).