Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Carolina Gonçalves Santos.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Characteristics of eukaryotic cell
2. Membranes
3. Mitochondrion
4. Chloroplast
5. Compartments and protein sorting
6. Nucleus
7. Cell cycle
8. Cytoskeleton

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Ann H. Mounteer.

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

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to aquatic ecotoxicology, principle applications and pertinent legislation.
2. Main classes of organic and inorganic aquatic pollutants.
3. Dynamics of pollutants in aquatic environments, abiotic and abiotic processes.
4. Bioavailability, biotransformation and bioaccumulation of organic and inorganic pollutants.
5. Physiological, biochemical and histological responses at organism, population and community levels.
6. Laboratory evaluation of acute and chronic aquatic toxicity and quantification of responses (LCx, NOEC, LOEC).
7. Field studies: model ecosystems, bioindicators and biomarkers.
8. Aquatic toxicity and ecological risk assessment.

Format: Online and in-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: José Maria Franco de Carvalho.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Toxicity of the Construction and Building Materials
3. Energy
4. Life-Cyle Assessment of Construction and Building Materials
5. Performance Assessment of Construction and Building Materials
6. State-of-the-Art on the Strategies for Obtaining More Sustainable Construction and Building Materials
7. State-of-the-Art on the Utilization of Waste in Construction and Building Materials

Format: Online and in-person.

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 of sustainable materials and products.
5. Start-up exploration and incubation.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: André Pereira Rosa.

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

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Fundamentals of anaerobic digestion
2. Biomass in anaerobic systems
3. Anaerobic technologies for liquid effluents and solid waste treatment
4. Byproducts of anaerobic digestion and resource utilization

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: Emerson M. Del Ponte.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

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.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Junia Maria Clemente.

Time: Mondays, from 10 am to 12 pm and Tuesdays from 11 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Essential plants nutrients – a review.
2. Applications of plant tissue analysis on nutritional status and fertilizers recommendation.
3. Leaf diagnosis.
4. Evaluation of the nutritional status of plants by critical level, sufficiency range, balanced Kenworthy indices, Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated.
5. System (DRIS), Compositional Nutrient Diagnosis (CND) and mathematical chance.
6. Tissue testing and sap analysis. Official fertilizer recommendation tables: fundamentals, construction and use.
7. Nutrient recommendation by modeling the nutritional balance of the soil-plant system.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Guilherme da Silva Pereira.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to biotechnology
2. Identification of molecular markers
3. Application of molecular markers
4. Gene discovery and validation
5. Transgene and gene editing
6. Molecular breeding

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Marcos Henrique Fonseca Ribeiro.

Time: Mondays, from 4 pm to 6 pm and Thursdays, from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Data Science.
2. Fundamentals of data analysis.
3. Data collection and sources.
4. Data preparation and preprocessing.
5. Feature selection and extraction.
6. Unsupervised learning.
7. Supervised learning.
8. Ensembles.
9. Model explainability.
10. Advanced topics and applications.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Márcio José da Silva.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Group theory.
2. Characterization of coordination compounds.
3. Mechanisms of inorganic reactions.
4. Catalysis.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Jose Joao Lelis Leal de Souza.

Time: Mondays, from 9 am to 12 pm and Wednesday, from 10 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 5.

ECTS: 9.

Contents:

1. Soil description.
2. World Reference base for soil resources.
3. Soil Taxonomy.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Frederico Barros.

Time: Thursday, from 10 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 4.

Contents:

1. Monosaccharides;
2. Carbohydrate reactions;
3. Starch;
4. Carbohydrate nutrition and dietary fiber;
5. Bioactive compounds;
6. The protective effect of foods containing bioactive compounds on chronic noncommunicable diseases.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Érica Nascif Rufino Vieira.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 3.

Contents:

1. Functional compounds.
2. Probiotics, prebiotics, and symbiotics.
3. Microencapsulation technologies for functional compounds.
4. Application of functional microparticles in different food matrices.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Luis Augusto Nero.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7.

Contents:

1. Epidemiology of foodborne diseases;
2. Characterization of foodborne pathogens and diseases;
3. Detection and enumeration of foodborne pathogens;
4. Impacts of foodborne diseases;
5. Prevention of foodborne diseases;
6. Trends in food safety.

Format: Online.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Renata Veroneze.

Time: Mondays and Thursdays from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. SNP markers and linkage disequilibrium, genotype quality control, genotype imputation, training and validation populations, prediction accuracy, bias and dispersion, relationship matrices, RRBLUP, GBLUP, ssGLUP, genome wide association, Bayesian methods for genomic prediction and association.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Ana Cláudia Azevedo.

Time: Wednesday, from 4 pm to 6 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 4.

Contents:

1. Systems of Innovation
1.1 National Innovation System
1.2 Global Landscape of Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
1.3 Regional and Sectoral Innovation Systems
2. Helix Models of Innovation
2.1 Triple Helix Model of Innovation
2.2 Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Models
3. Ecosystems Approach
3.1 Innovation Ecosystems
3.2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
3.3 Knowledge Ecosystems
4. Innovation Environments
4.1 Science and Technology Parks
4.2 Incubators and Accelerators
5. Transformative Innovation Policy
5.1 Transformative Innovation Policy and Change.

Format: In-Person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Maria Augusta Lima Siqueira.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Solitary, presocial and eusocial insects;
2. Communication in social insects;
3. Defense strategies in social insects;
4. Caste determination;
5. Biology and ecology of social wasps;
6. Biology and ecology of social bees;
7. Biology and ecology of ants;
8. Biology and ecology of termites;
9. Evolution of sociality;
10. Social insects: introduction, importance and definitions
11. Degress of sociality in insects;
12. Foraging in social insects;
13. Assignments.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Carolina Gonçalves Santos.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Characteristics of eukaryotic cell
2. Membranes
3. Mitochondrion
4. Chloroplast
5. Compartments and protein sorting
6. Nucleus
7. Cell cycle
8. Cytoskeleton

Format: Online and in-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: José Maria Franco de Carvalho.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Toxicity of the Construction and Building Materials
3. Energy
4. Life-Cyle Assessment of Construction and Building Materials
5. Performance Assessment of Construction and Building Materials
6. State-of-the-Art on the Strategies for Obtaining More Sustainable Construction and Building Materials
7. State-of-the-Art on the Utilization of Waste in Construction and Building Materials

Format: Online and in-person.

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 of sustainable materials and products.
5. Start-up exploration and incubation.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Simon Luke Elliot.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS:7,5.

Contents:

1. What is s a scientific paper. Structure of a paper
2. Ethics in the publication of papers
3. Importance of Reading. Literature review and citation. Preparation of the manuscript. Critical reading.
4. Which journal to choose. How to submit. Peer review.
5. How to structure phrases in a paper. What to avoid and what to embrace. Principles of clear and effective writing.
6. Direct writing: active voice and strong verbs
7. How to construct an effective paragraph (organized and concise). Use of varied resources in writing. Review of writing
8. Title and Abstract: equilibrium and elegance.
9. Introduction: essential and dispensable parts.
10. Material and methods: the importance of precision and detail.
11. Results: simple, direct and precise writing.
12. Discussion: arguments, limitations and implications of the study

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Raul Narciso Carvalho Guedes.

Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9 to 10 am (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. General Toxicology
2. Insecticides in the Environment
3. Insecticides within the Individual
4. Population Effects
5. Community Effects
6. Measurement and Interpretations of Ecological Effects
7. Ecological Risk Assessment

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Simon Luke Elliot.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Insect Behaviour; Insects, Animals or Organisms?
2. Evolution. Proximal and Distal Explanations.
3. Hypotheses and Assumptions.
4. Experimentation.
5. Control of Behaviour; Organization of behaviours.
6. Foraging and Optimization; Learning; Victim-Enemy Behaviour Nutritional Ecology.
7. Sensory Organs and Nervous System.
8. Communication and signals; Acoustic communication; Semiochemicals.
9. Reproduction. Dispersal.
10. Life in Groups.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Francisco Murilo Zerbini and Poliane Alfenas Zerbini.

Time: Friday, from 7 am to 10 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 3.

ECTS: 5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Viral Ecology and Evolution. Evolutionary Mechanisms of Viruses.
2. Evolutionary Ecology of Viral Hosts.
3. Viral Diversity and Distribution.
4. Viruses in Ecosystems
5. Transmission and Epidemiology of Viral Diseases.
6. Emergence and Spread of Viral Diseases
7. Viral Ecology and OneHealth.
8. Case Studies and Current Topics.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti.

Time: Mondays, form 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: Guilherme da Silva Pereira.

Time: Tuesday, from 4 pm to 6 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 2.

ECTS: 4.

Contents:

1. Introduction to plant biotechnology
2. Trait discovery
3. Product development
4. Biosafety and regulatory issues
5. Case studies

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Marcos Henrique Fonseca Ribeiro.

Time: Mondays, from 4 pm to 6 pm and Thursdays, from 2 pm to 4 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Data Science.
2. Fundamentals of data analysis.
3. Data collection and sources.
4. Data preparation and preprocessing.
5. Feature selection and extraction.
6. Unsupervised learning.
7. Supervised learning.
8. Ensembles.
9. Model explainability.
10. Advanced topics and applications.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Márcio José da Silva.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Group theory.
2. Characterization of coordination compounds.
3. Mechanisms of inorganic reactions.
4. Catalysis.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Elson Santiago de Alvarenga.

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

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Electron spectroscopy theory and radiation absorption laws
2. Electromagnetic.
3. Instrumentation, preparation of solutions for spectroscopic analysis.
4. Effect of solvents on electromagnetic radiation absorption.
5. Woodward rules for polyenes, polyines, a,ß-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, benzene compounds and heterocyclic systems.
6. Influences of stereoelectronic effects on adsorption of organic compounds.
7. Molecular vibrations. Factors that influence vibrational frequencies.
8. Instrumentation: infrared sources, monochromators, detectors.
9. Techniques for preparing solid, liquid and gaseous samples.
10. Characteristic absorptions of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic compounds, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and derivatives, nitriles, amines, alcohols, ethers, phenols, halogenated and sulfur compounds.
11. Basic principles of mass spectrometry.
12. Instrumentation and sample preparation.
13. Molecular ion.
14. Isotopic abundance.
15. Determination of the elemental composition of a compound from the exact molecular ion mass and the M+1 and M+2 peaks.
16. Fragmentation processes; factors that influence fragmentation.
17. Main fragmentations of: alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic hydrocarbons, alkyl and aryl halides, alcohols, phenols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and derivatives, sulfur compounds, nitrile.
18. Chemical ionization and fast atom bombardment (FAB) techniques.
19. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and high performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (HPLC – MS).
20. Basic principles of nuclear magnetic resonance.
21. Chemical shift, Spin-Spin interaction.
22. Vicinal, geminal and long-distance coupling.
23. Analysis of hydrogen and carbon 13 NMR spectra.
24. Double resonance techniques and relaxation mechanisms; homonuclear and heteronuclear uncoupling; Nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE).
25. Two-dimensional NMR experiments: data acquisition; graphical representation of spectra; Spin homonuclear correlation(H-H COZY – 90 and COZY- 45); 13C-13C correlation (INADEQUATE technique).
26. J-resolved heteronuclear spectroscopy. experiments of heteronuclear correlation (HETCOR, HMQC, HMBC)
27. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of 31P, 29Si, 19F, 15N.
28. Elucidation of the structure of organic compounds by analyzing UV-VIS, IR, EM and NMR data: Examples of application of the methods studied in the identification of natural dyes, chemical components of food and wood.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Jose Joao Lelis Leal de Souza.

Time: Monday, from 9 am to 12 pm and Wednesday form 10 am to 12 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 5.

ECTS: 8,5.

Contents:

1. Soil description.
2. World Reference base for soil resources.
3. Soil Taxonomy.

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Monique Renon Eller.

Time: Mondays, form 4 pm to 6 pm, and Fridays, from 2 pm to 16 pm (GMT-3).

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7,5.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Scientific Communication;
2. Research Planning;
3. Grant and Proposal Writing;
4. Writing Research Papers;
5. Patent applications;
6. Publishing and Dissemination;
7. Ethical Considerations

Format: In-person.

Language: English.

Lecturer: Luis Augusto Nero.

Time: To be defined.

UFV Credits: 4.

ECTS: 7.

Contents:

1. Epidemiology of foodborne diseases;
2. Characterization of foodborne pathogens and diseases;
3. Detection and enumeration of foodborne pathogens;
4. Impacts of foodborne diseases;
5. Prevention of foodborne diseases;
6. Trends in food safety.