Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Joyce Correna Carlo.

Time: Wednesday, from 2 pm to 6 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction.
2. State of the art in energy efficiency.
3. National and international regulations and standards.
4. Energy efficiency variables and external factors.
5. Energy audits and commissioning.
6. Energy efficiency assessment methods.
7. Energy efficiency in the design process.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: André Pereira Rosa.

Time: Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

Fundamentals of anaerobic digestion;
Biomass in anaerobic systems;
Anaerobic technologies for liquid effluents and solid waste treatment;
Byproducts of anaerobic digestion and resource utilization;

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Luis Viteri Jumbo.

Time: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 6 pm to 8 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 6.

ECTS: 9.

Contents:

1. Use of statistical software in zoological data analysis.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Célio Cabral Oliveira.

Time: Tuesday, from 8 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Structure of biomolecules
2. Structural databases
3. Visualization of biomolecular structures
4. Molecular modeling
5. Protein-ligand docking
6. Molecular dynamics simulations
7. Three-dimensional evolution
8. Structural bioinformatics in biotechnology

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Eduardo Gusmão Pereira.

Time: Friday, from 10 am to 13 am (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 4.

Contents:

1. Plant stress responses.
2. Metabolic adjustments and antioxidant metabolism.
3. Light stress and thermal stress.
4. Water stress and salinity.
5. Nutritional stress and resistance to trace metals.
6. Environmental pollution stress.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: José Maria Franco De Carvalho.

Time: Wednesday, from 8 am to 12 am (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Science and Technology of Building Materials;
2. Bonding.
3. The Architecture of Solids.
4. Development of Microstructure.
5. Surface Properties.
6. Response of Materials to Stress.
7. Failure and Fracture.
8. Rheology of Fluids and Solids.
9. Particulate Composites.
10. Aggregates.
11. Portland Cement-based Composites.
12. Organic Binders-Based Composites.
13. Advanced Characterization Techniques.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: José Maria Franco de Carvalho.

Time: Thursday, from 8 am to 10 am (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 4.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Technology Entrepreneurship in Engineering
3. Considerations on Viability
4. Design and Testing af Sustainable Materials and Products
5. Start-up Exploration and Incubation

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Evanilda Nascimento de Godoi Bustamante.

Time: Tuesday, from 8 AM to 12 PM (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Education as a necessity of social life;
2. Democracy and education;
3. Education and justice;
4. Educational Public Policies.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Alexandre Santos Brandão.

Time: Monday from 9 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Introduction and Fundamentals of Digital Images.
2. Image Enhancement Techniques.
3. Image segmentation.
4. Color Image Processing.
5. Morphological Processing.
6. Applications.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Teogenes Senna de Oliveira, Igor Rodrigues de Assis, Raphael Bragança Fernades e Richard Bell.

Time: Monday, from 8 to 10 am and Fridays, from 8 to 10 am (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. The natural environment of the Tropics
2. Tropical soil mineralogy
3. Tropical soil physics
4. Soil acidity
5. Soil organic carbon in the Tropics
6. Tropical soil fertility
7. Soils and Slash-and-Burn Agriculture
8. Soil-surface and subsoil constraints in crop lands
9. Soil management in rice cultivation
10. Soil management in perennials and annuals crops
11. Soils and livestock-based tropical systems
12. Course introduction
13. Soils and Tropical Tree-Based Systems
14. Natural reversion or not- reversion of the degradation
15. Restoration of drastically altered soils – desertification, salinization, and natural and anthropogenic disasters

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti.

Time: Monday, from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Concepts, Importance, and symptomatology of plant diseases.
2. Etiology.
3. Mycology, phytopathogenic fungi, and fungal diseases.
4. Epidemiology. Variability of phytopathogens.
5. Plant-pathogen interaction.
6. General principles and practices for plant disease control.
7. Fungicides.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Lucilene Silva de Oliveira.

Time: Monday, from 2 pm to 5 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 4,5.

Contents:

1. Physiology of pre-harvest and post-harvest development;
2. Maturation index;
3. Molecular biology and its application in the conservation and quality;
4. Fundamentals of post-harvest conservation;
5. Postharvest technologies.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Sérgio Yoshimitsu Motoike and Edgard Picoli.

Time: Monday, from 8 am to 10 am and form 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Plant, cell, tissue and organ cultures: definition, history and applications
2. Organization of a plant tissue culture laboratory
3. Plant tissue culture media – inorganic components
4. Plant tissue culture media – organic components
5. Morphogenesis in plant tissue culture
6. Applications of plant tissue culture techniques – micropropagation
7. Clonal variations in plant tissue culture
8. Applications of plant tissue culture techniques – clonal cleanse and rejuvenation
9. Applications of plant tissue culture techniques – embryo rescue and synthetic seeds
10. Applications of plant tissue culture techniques – conservation of crop genetic resources
11. Applications of plant tissue culture techniques – plant genetic transformation
12. Applications of plant tissue culture techniques – double haploid technology

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Ann Mounteer.

Time: Wednesday, from 8 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Wastewater characterization and applicability of biological processes.
2. Classification of biochemical operations, microorganisms and biological reactors.
3. Microbial ecology and bioenergetics of biological treatment processes.
4. Biological treatment modeling: process kinetics and reactor hydraulics.
5. Treatability studies.
6. Conventional treatment processes: anaerobic reactors, stabilization ponds, activated sludge and variants, biological filters.
7. Physical, chemical and microbiological monitoring of biological treatment.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Márcio José da Silva.

Time: Mondays, from 2 pa to 4 pa and Wednesdays, from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Bonding theories of coordination compounds (TLV, TCC, TOM)
2. Group Theory: An introduction to symmetry
3. Relevant aspects of the Chemistry of Coordination Compounds; reactivity, characterization
4. Isomerism in coordination compounds
5. Main Reactions of Coordination Compounds
6. Hard and soft acids and bases

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Garbas Anacleto dos Santos Junior.

Time: Tuesdays, from 10 am to 12 am and Thursdays, from 10 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Hydrogen – Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 14 Group 15 Group 16.
2. Acids, bases and ions in aqueous solution.
3. Reduction and oxidation.
4. Inorganic chemistry in non-aqueous media.
5. Synthetic methodologies in inorganic chemistry – Group 17 Group 18.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Emily Correna Carlo Reis.

Time: Tuesdays, from 9 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Basic concepts.
2. Postharvest physiology.
3. Control of ripening and senescence.
4. Treatment and materials before transport and storage.
5. Storage systems.
6. Physiological disorders and diseases.
7. Distribution and use of products.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Guilherme da Silva Pereira.

Time: Tuesdays, from 10 am to 12 pm and Wednesdays, from 10 am to 12 pm. (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to genetic data analysis
2. Molecular markers
3. Mapping populations
4. Linkage map
5. QTL mapping
6. Genetic data analysis of outcrossing species
7. Genome-wide association studies
8. Genomic selection
9. Genetic data analysis of autopolyploid species

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Joyce Correna Carlo.

Time: Wednesday, from 14 pm to 18 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. State of the art in energy efficiency
3. Brazilian and international regulations and standards
4. Energy efficiency variables and intervening external factors
5. Energy audits and commissioning
6. Energy efficiency assessment methods
7. Energy efficiency in the design process

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Kaio Olimpio das Graças Dias.

Time: Thursdays, from 2 pm to 6 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Molecular Markes
2. Resemblance between relatives
3. Linear Mixed Model
4. Genomic Selection

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Leandro Licursi de Oliveira.

Time: Tuesday, from 8 am to 12 am (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. The immune system.
2. Techniques in Immunology.
3. Cellular Immune Response.
4. Immunology and disease.
5. Advanced topics in immunology.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Luciano Fietto.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 1.

ECTS: 2.

Contents:

1. Structure
2. Production and purification
3. Applied technology

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Edgard Augusto de Toledo Picoli.

Time: Mondays, from 11 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 5.

ECTS: 9.

Contents:

1. Light microscopy and electron microscopy
2. Plant cells and tissues
3. Organization of the plant body

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Eduardo Gusmão Pereira.

Time: Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Plant stress responses.
2. Metabolic adjustments and antioxidant metabolism.
3. Light stress and thermal stress.
4. Water stress and salinity.
5. Nutritional stress and resistance to trace metals.
6. Environmental pollution stress.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Leonardo Esteves Lopes.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

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; Conservation and management of ecosystems;
9. Local people and their importance for conservation;
10. Conservation and management: from theory to practice.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: José Maria Franco de Carvalho.

Time: Wednesdays, from 8 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Science and Technology of Building Materials
2. Bonding
3. The Architecture of Solids
4. Development of Microstructure
5. Surface Properties
6. Response of Materials to Stress
7. Failure and Fracture
8. Rheology of Fluids and Solids
9. Particulate Composites
10. Aggregates
11. Portland Cement-based Composites
12. Organic Binders-Based Composites
13. Advanced Characterization Techniques

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: José Maria Franco de Carvalho.

Time: Thursdays, from 8 to 10 am (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 3.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Technology Entrepreneurship in Engineering
3. Considerations on Viability
4. Design and Testing of Sustainable Materials and Products
5. Start-up Exploration and Incubation

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Evanilda Nascimento de Godoi Bustamante.

Time: Tuesdays, from 2 pm to 04:20 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Education as a necessity of social life;
2. Democracy and education;
3. Education and justice;
4. Educational Public Policies

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Alexandre Santos Brandão.

Time: Mondays, from 9 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction and Fundamentals of Digital Images.
2. Image Enhancement Techniques.
3. Image segmentation.
4. Color Image Processing.
5. Morphological Processing.
6. Applications.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Simon Luke Elliot.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Insect-Microbe Interactions (What is symbiosis? Parasitism and mutualism as a continuum | Modes of transmission of symbionts | Theory on evolution of virulence | Types of parasitism: castration, gigantism etc, host manipulation | Immune defence | Insects as vectors: plants versus animals and vectors as hosts | Types of mutualism | An overview of applications (microbial control and biotechnology))
2. Insect-Virus Interactions (Baculoviruses and other occluded viruses | Arthropod vectors of plant viruses | Arthropod vectors of animal viruses | Mutualistic or nonpathogenic viruses (or their remnants))
3. Insect-Prokaryote Interactions (Bacillus thuringiensis | Other bacilli and other bacterial pathogens | Wolbachia and other sex ratio distorters | Bacteria as defensive and trophic mutualists | Insects as vectors of prokaryotes)
4. Insect-Protist Interactions (Protists as pathogens and trophic mutualists)
5. Insect-Fungus Interactions (Entomophthoraceae – obliged to kill | Hypocrealean pathogens | Trophic mutualisms and fungiculture | Insects, endophytes and phytopathogenic fungi | Microsporidia)
6. Insect-nematode interactions (Nematode parasites of insects | Nematode pathogens with bacterial mutualisms)
7. Extensions (The insect microbiome and food webs | Production of entomopathogens | Biotechnological applications | Management of vectorborne diseases | Diseases of beneficial insects)

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Luiz Alexandre Peternelli.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 3.

Contents:

1. Introduction and motivation
   1.1. Overview of Statistical Learning and Machine Learning
   1.2. Supervised learning and unsupervised learning
   1.3. Regression problems versus classification problems
2. Some methods for regression and classification
   2.1. Linear regression models and the least squares method
   2.2. Linear model selection
   2.3. Ridge regression
   2.4. Principal Components Regression
   2.5. Partial least squares regression
   2.6. Logistic regression
   2.7. Linear Discriminant analysis
3. Model evaluation and selection
   3.1. Cross-Validation
   3.2. Bias, variance, and model complexity
   3.3. The Bootstrap
4. Other supervised learning methods
   4.1. Concepts about decision trees and the Random Forests)
   4.2. K-nearest neighbor
5. Some unsupervised learning methods.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti.

Time: Monday, from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 4.

Contents:

1. Concepts, Importance, and symptomatology of plant diseases.
2. Etiology.
3. Mycology, phytopathogenic fungi, and fungal diseases.
4. Epidemiology. Variability of phytopathogens.
5. Plant-pathogen interaction.
6. General principles and practices for plant disease control.
7. Fungicides.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti.

Time: Tuesdays, from 9 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 4 pm. (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 5.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Concepts of population biology
2. Selection and variability in populations
3. Mutation and variability in populations
4. Migration and variability in populations
5. Genetic drift and and variability in population
6. Recombination and variability in populations
7. Useful tools and resources to study population biology

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Ricardo dos Santos Ferreira.

Time: Tuesdays, from 8 to 10 am and Thursdays from 10 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Programming Applied to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
2. Introduction to Machine Learning
3. Unsupervised Learning
4. Supervised Learning
5. Deep Learning and Convolutional Networks
6. Recurrent Networks and Attention Mechanisms

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Antônio Galvão do Nascimento; Wendel Batista da Silveira.

Time: Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Microbial cell structures and functions.
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. Classification of microbial metabolism.
9. Central Metabolic Pathways.
10. Flux in Central Metabolic Pathways.
11. Fermentations. Autotrophy.
12. Mineral nutrition. Monomer biosynthesis.
13. Polymer biosynthesis. Growth yield.
14. Regulation of metabolic pathways.
15. Multigene networks and global regulation systems.
16. Nutrient limitation responses and growth rate effects on cellular physiology.
17. Environmental adaptive responses.
18. Cellular communication and biofilms.
19. Cellular differentiation and morphogenesis

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Márcio José da Silva.

Time: Mondays, from 2 pa to 4 pa and Wednesdays, from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Bonding theories of coordination compounds (TLV, TCC, TOM)
2. Group Theory: An introduction to symmetry
3. Relevant aspects of the Chemistry of Coordination Compounds; reactivity, characterization
4. Isomerism in coordination compounds
5. Main Reactions of Coordination Compounds
6. Hard and soft acids and bases

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Garbas Anacleto dos Santos Junior.

Time: Tuesdays, from 10 am to 12 am and Thursdays, from 10 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Hydrogen – Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 14 Group 15 Group 16.
2. Acids, bases and ions in aqueous solution.
3. Reduction and oxidation.
4. Inorganic chemistry in non-aqueous media.
5. Synthetic methodologies in inorganic chemistry – Group 17 Group 18.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Heitor Mancini Teixeira.

Time: Fridays, from 8 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 5.

ECTS: 8.

Contents:

1. The objective of this course is to understand and apply statistical analysis methods and techniques with a focus on sustainability and agricultural research. Statistical analyses will be performed using R Studio software.
2. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
   2.1. Determine the appropriate statistical analysis method for a research question.
   2.2. Understand the theoretical and mathematical basis of statistical methods.
   2.3. Conduct statistical analysis in R.
   2.4. Interpret the results of statistical analysis.
   2.5. Report the results using scientific language.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Taíla Veloso de Oliveira.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Teoric Unity
2. Polymer Science
3. Sustainable Polymers
4. Other conventional Materials
5. Active, Smart and Intelligent Materials

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Emily Correna Carlo Reis.

Time: Wednesday, from 9 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Basic concepts.
2. Postharvest physiology.
3. Control of ripening and senescence.
4. Treatment and materials before transport and storage.
5. Storage systems.
6. Physiological disorders and diseases.
7. Distribution and use of products.