Event presents the power of fermented food to Viçosa’s community
The first edition of the Feira Fermentamóvel will be held by the Department of Microbiology, with the support of the Department of Nutrition and Health and the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA), next Friday and Saturday in Viçosa. The event marks the official launch of the Fermentamóvel, a traveling science project coordinated by PPGMBA professor Guilherme Martin, from the Fermented Products Microbiology Laboratory (FERMICRO). The [...]
Scientists present their entrepreneurial history at Microbiota Brasil
This week, the Continuing Education Program of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology turns its attention to the entrepreneurial history of Microbiota Brasil. The company is connected to TecnoPARQ-UFV and offers training, technical support, testing and various solutions in bioinformatics and research focused on beneficial microorganisms for the development of innovative products. On Wednesday, scientists Thalita Suelen Avelar Monteiro and Meiriele da Silva, the company's [...]
PPG discusses the challenges of entrepreneurship in Brazilian science
The perspectives and challenges experienced by Brazilian scientists seeking to become entrepreneurs are the subject of several actions that the PPG Agricultural Microbiology is starting this week. The second episode of MicroVerso, the PPG's podcast, is now available on the main audio platforms, and this time it features a conversation with Professor Alan Ferreira de Freitas, from UFV's Department of Administration and Accounting, an expert [...]
Department of Microbiology opens a call for professor
Applications are now open for the public competition to hire a professor for the Department of Microbiology at UFV. The notice is available at this link. The competition offers a Class A Professor position, with exclusive dedication, in the area of Food Microbiology. The qualification required is a PhD in Microbiology or Agricultural Microbiology or Food Science or Food Science and Technology or Food Engineering [...]
Board game created during PhD is a bet to popularize fermented foods
What if, rather than a thesis, years of study paved the way for the creation of a game? This is the story of researcher Jonas Teixeira who, at the end of his PhD in the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, presented a board game. “Colony”, named after the action of microorganisms, was developed to popularize and spread knowledge about fermented foods, the main object of [...]
PPG releases MicroVerso podcast this Monday
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology opens the new academic semester this Monday, August 7, with the launch of its podcast, MicroVerso. Conceived for the first semester of 2023, the program will cover topics of interest to microbiologists, with the aim of contributing to the debate and disseminating important information to the scientific community. In this first episode, journalist Mônica Calderano, PPG coordinator Wendel Silveira [...]
NEMA brings the world of microbiology to Semana do Fazendeiro
A group of students from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) and undergraduates linked to the program's laboratories are dedicating an entire week to promoting microbiology to the Viçosa community and visitors. Coordinated by the UFV Center for Studies in Agricultural Microbiology (NEMA), they are responsible for the microbiology stand at the 93rd edition of Semana do Fazendeiro, which ends this Friday with the [...]
Professor Mauricio Costa visits Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia
Professor Maurício Dutra Costa, supervisor of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, visited the campus of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, at the end of June, where he took part in the II International Conference of the GAT Research Program, a group focused on developing alternative therapies for cancer treatment. Maurício gave the lecture “Plant holobiont: associated microorganisms and their role in the [...]
Professor Cynthia Canedo and team awarded Petrobras Inventor Prize 2023
A team of researchers coordinated by Professor Cynthia Canedo, from the Applied Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, has just won the Petrobras Inventor Award 2023 for creating a process capable of removing ammonia from effluents with high salinity. The technique developed by Cynthia, with the support of Petrobras itself, over more than a decade, has been patented and is already being applied in state-owned Effluent Treatment Plants. [...]
NEMA brings DNA knowledge to public schools
The Agricultural Microbiology Studies Center (NEMA), took part in the 8th edition of Science in the Square last Saturday. The group of students from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) was at the Doutor Arthur Bernardes Municipal School in Viçosa, sharing scientific knowledge with students from nursery school to the 9th grade. This year, the theme presented by the group was “DNA: the molecule [...]
PPG has new student representation
Doctoral students Lutecia Medina and Rodrigo Gonçalves Dias are the new student representatives of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology. The pair took up their position this June and will remain in office for one year. Among the duties of the student representatives is to work with the coordinating committee to make decisions and draw up strategies for the development of the program. “During my [...]
Psychologist Isabella Mansur outlines strategies for controlling anxiety in the academic environment
The month of June begins at PPG Agricultural Microbiology with a talk on anxiety, productivity and mental health with clinical psychologist Isabella Mansur. On Thursday, June 1, at 5pm, she will talk about “Excessive productivity and increased anxiety” to PPG students and other interested parties. “The academic environment, of course, is already a stressful environment, with many activities, many challenges, so this is a very [...]
PPG opens call for applications for up to 11 master’s and ten doctoral positions
On Thursday, May 25, the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology at the Federal University of Viçosa (PPGMBA/UFV) published the criteria that will govern the selection process for filling vacancies for the master's and doctoral courses in the second semester of 2023 (2023-II). The notice provides for the distribution of up to 11 places for the Master's degree (3 places reserved for quotas) and 09 for [...]
Researchers develop microbial fat for the plant-based market
A group of researchers from the Laboratory of Microorganism Physiology at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa won an award at the latest edition of the technoPARQ Acelera Hackathon for an idea aimed at the food industry. The researchers' proposal is to develop a microbial fat capable of simulating animal fat, which can be used in the plant-based market, where global demand is growing every year. [...]
PPG coordinator visit German universities and project new exchange opportunities
Professor Wendel Batista da Silveira, coordinator of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, was in Germany from April 9 to 19 on a mission with nine other professors and representatives from UFV. As part of the Capes-Print Internationalization Program, the group visited seven German universities in order to establish new partnerships and strengthen ties that could promote teaching and research opportunities in Europe. “These are [...]
PPG graduate gets full doctoral scholarship in the USA
Researcher Túlio Machado, who holds a master's degree from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, has just been granted a place on the full PhD program at Purdue University, in the state of Indiana, USA. Túlio will start the course in August, after being one of two Brazilian students selected by the CAPES/Purdue Agriculture PhD Fellows Program. He will spend up to five years at [...]
Article reviews applications of microbial lipases in the food industry and leads in number of citations
The review article “Microbial lipases: Propitious biocatalysts for the food industry”, published in 2022, was recognized by ResearchGate as the most cited publication of the UFV Microbiology Department in January 2023. The article was written during the Covid-19 pandemic by doctoral student Cleonice Aparecida Salgado, with the participation of Scientific Initiation scholarship holder Clarissa Isabela Aparecida dos Santos and under the guidance of Professor Maria [...]
Journalist speaks to PPG on Wednesday about Science Communication
Léa Medeiros, a journalist from UFV's Directorate of Institutional Communication, is speaking this Wednesday, April 12, to students and professors from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology. Specializing in scientific communication, she will present the topic “Science Communication - we need to talk about it!”, at 4pm, in the Bioagro Auditorium. Léa has a degree from UFJF and a master's degree from UFV. She was [...]
Notice for the election of PPGMBA Student Representatives 2023
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology at the Federal University of Viçosa (PPGMBA-UFV) is calling on graduate students in the Agricultural Microbiology course at UFV to elect student representatives (01 permanent representative and 01 alternate representative) to the Coordinating Committee for a term of one year, in accordance with Article 15 of the UFV General Graduate Regulations. The term of office will begin in June [...]
Biosafety to be discussed at seminar on Wednesday, April 5
Next Wednesday, April 5, the Graduate Programe of Agricultural Microbiology community will hear from Alex Gazolla de Castro, PhD in Applied Biochemistry and technician at the UFV Microbiology Department. Alex will present “Safety and good laboratory practices” at 4pm in the Bioagro Auditorium. Anyone interested in the topic is invited to attend.
Results – FUNARDOC Notice
The Evaluation Committee, appointed by the Coordinating Committee of the Postgraduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology and composed by professors Marisa Vieira de Queiroz, Mateus Ferreira Santana and Olinto Liparini Pereira, considered candidate Thiago Oliveira Condé (the only applicant) to be approved. The candidate completed all the stages of the selection process and obtained a final mark of 97.
Capes rating of 7 opens up new perspectives and renews challenges for the PPG
Eighteen years after its first grade 6 in the Capes evaluations, the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology achieved the prestigious concept 7 in 2022, establishing its place among the best evaluated programs in the country. The change in level once again attests to the standards of excellence of the courses offered, opens up new prospects for students, professors and graduates, and also imposes new challenges [...]
USP professor discusses scientific communication in lecture this Wednesday
Next Wednesday, March 29, the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology is hosting an online lecture with Alan Angeluci, PhD, a professor in the Department of Information and Culture at the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) at the University of São Paulo (USP). Professor Alan will talk to students and teachers about “Communicating scientific knowledge in times of disinformation”. “I believe that, as scientists, we [...]
PPG has three students awarded scholarships to study abroad
Three students in the Graduate Program of Agricultural Microbiology have been awarded scholarships abroad by the Capes/Print program. The final result of notice no. 01/2023 Capes/PrInt - UFV has already been published. Bianca de Oliveira Hosken will have a 12-month scholarship to study at the Teagasc Food Research Center/Cork, in Ireland, and Jojo Rodrigues, will go to Queen's University of Belfast, in Northern Ireland, also [...]
Doctoral student recounts international experience in lecture on Wednesday
Doctoral student Maurício Alexander de Moura Ferreira, who has just finished his sandwich period at the University of Potsdam in Germany, shares his experience with PPG colleagues and other interested parties on Wednesday, March 23rd. Maurício is being supervised by Professor Wendel Batista da Silveira, and was awarded a CAPES scholarship in a joint call with the DAAD (German Exchange Service). The lecture will take [...]
Online lecture on healthy relationships at work this Monday, 5pm
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) is hosting next Monday, March 20, an online lecture with psychologist and educator Mary Lee Santos Silva. At the invitation of the PPG's Mental Health Committee, Mary Lee will talk about “How to develop healthy relationships at work”. “Whenever we talk about this subject, there is an expectation that there will be a manual to guarantee good relationships. [...]
PPGMBA-UFV student is selected to present work at an international congress
The "8th Conference on Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) 2022)", based in Galway, Ireland, is one of the most prestigious events in the areas of computational biology and systemic biology. In this event, the student Mauricio Ferreira, doctoral student of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology and member of the Yeast Physiology and Biotechnology Research Group, was selected for an oral presentation of the work [...]