Professor Eugene Fletcher, from Carleton University in Canada, will be in Viçosa between August and September on a visit through the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (Canada), aimed at the academic activities of Canadian professors in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Starting on the 12th, he will be teaching the course MBI 795 – Special Problems II – “Yeast Biotechnology: Engineering yeast cell factories”, for which registration is already open. “This is an excellent opportunity for students in the UFV Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology to take a course that will address the application of systemic metabolic engineering to the construction of metabolically ‘engineered’ yeasts for application in bioprocesses,” says the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, Wendel Silveira, whose laboratory collaborates with Professor Eugene’s research group.

Postgraduate students from related areas can also apply. Further information can be obtained directly from Professor Wendel at wendel.silveira@ufv.br.