Professor Monique Eller joins group of PPGMBA advisors
Professor Monique Eller, from UFV's Food Department, is the new supervisor of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA). Monique, who is a former alumnus of the program, returns to PPGMBA with consolidated work in biotechnology and industrial microbiology. At the head of the Biochemical and Fermentation Processes Laboratory, the researcher has collaborated with several PPGMBA professors in recent years, and celebrates the opportunity to [...]
Application deadline extended for master’s and doctoral selection process
Application deadline for the master's and doctoral selection process has been extended until May 26, 2025, until 12:00 p.m. (May - Brasília time). More information: https://posmicrobiologiaagricola.ufv.br/index.php/processo-seletivo/
Continuing education program shows experience of PPGMBA alumni
This week, the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology begins another cycle of lectures promoted by its continuing education program. In this first semester of 2025, the guests will be alumni of the PPG, who will share with students and other interested parties their experiences in building their careers after completing their master's and doctoral degrees. “This is a demand that came from the students themselves, [...]
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 [...]
PPGMBA PhD student takes on position on the SBV Junior Board
Yam is part of the UFV Virus Laboratory team Doctoral student Yam Santos, from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA), is one of the new members of the Junior Board of the Sociedade Brasileira de Virologia (Brazilian Society of Virology -SBV) for the 2025-2026 biennium. This is the second time that a researcher from PPGMBA is part of this group - in [...]
Final Result – PIPD-CAPES scholarship selection
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology announces the final result of the selection process for PIPD-CAPES scholarship holders. We ask that the selected candidate express interest in taking up the position by 12/23/2024 by email to mba@ufv.br. Final Result
PhD student and PPGMBA advisor participate in publication that maps fungal discoveries around the world
The newly described genera Atripes, Parahumicola and Purimyces Doctoral student Jaqueline Aparecida de Oliveira, from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, and her advisor, Professor Olinto Liparini Pereira, are among the co-authors of the article “The 2024 outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa", published in November by the journal Mycosphere. This is the third edition of the paper, prepared and coordinated by British [...]
PIPD-CAPES scholarship selection – Candidates selected for Oral Argument
Candidates Selected for Argumentation: Result - approved for argumentation The argumentation is scheduled to take place on the following date: December 18, 2024, 2p.m. (Brasília/DF time) We will soon send the Google Meet link by email to all selected candidates. NOTE: The grades for each stage will be published at the end of the analysis of the Curriculum Vitae. Information about the selection process: https://posmicrobiologiaagricola.ufv.br/2024/10/abertas-inscricoes-para-selecao-de-bolsista-pipd-capes/
PPGMBA professors and students are honored by the UFV Technological Innovation Center
Professors Maria Catarina Kasuya, Denise Bazzolli, Cynthia Canedo and Mateus Santana received their tributes on the evening of Thursday, November 21 Eleven advisors and thirteen students from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) were honored on Thursday night, November 21, at a ceremony celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Centro de Inovação Tecnológica (Technological Innovation Center) of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa [...]
Doctoral students awarded prizes at the Latin American Symposium on Food Safety
Doctoral students Nathália Leite, Bianca Hosken and Juniel de Oliveira, and professors Felipe de Almeida and Guilherme Martin represented the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology at the Latin American Symposium on Food Safety (IAFP Latino - 2024), held between November 11 and 14 in Santos (SP). In the event for the first time, the researchers had the opportunity to present part of the research they [...]
Research identifies fungi to control macauba stem rot
In Campinas, Jaqueline presented the partial results of the research carried out at the Laboratory of Mycology and Fungal Etiology of Plants. A pioneering study involving fungi that inhabit macauba roots, carried out at UFV's Laboratory of Mycology and Fungal Etiology of Plants, was presented during the 1st International Congress and 2nd National Congress on Macauba, between October 23 and 25, in Campinas [...]
PPGMBA invites students, graduates and professors to contribute to self-evaluation
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology begins its Self-Evaluation period today, with an eye on its strategic planning and promoting changes that can have a positive impact on the academic community. Students, graduates and professors are invited to take part via the online form, specific to each of these groups, which can be filled in from this Wednesday, November 6th. Links to the form have [...]
PPG students present their work at the Virology Congress
The Virology Laboratory team, coordinated by Professor Poliane Alfenas Zerbini, was in Foz do Iguaçu in the first week of October A group of researchers from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) linked to the Virology Laboratory were in Foz do Iguaçu from October 2 to 5 for the 35th Congresso Brasileiro de Virologia. Professor Poliane Alfenas Zerbini presented the lecture “Transforming [...]
Applications open for PIPD-CAPES scholarships
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) of the Universidade Federal de Juiz De Fora (UFV) announces the opening of applications for the selection of 01 (one) scholarship holder for the Institutional Postdoctoral Program-PIPD, in accordance with the Regulations of the Institutional Postdoctoral Program-PIPD, CAPES Ordinances No. 282, of September 4, 2024, CAPES No. 307, of September 24, 2024, and CAPES No. 318, of October [...]
PPG advisor participates in mission to Italy to develop new partnerships
Guilherme, center, met Italian researchers at the universities of Catania and Turin José Guilherme Prado Martin, advisor to the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA), was part of a mission of professors and researchers from the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) to Italy in the second week of October. The group of representatives from five PPGs, as well as the Dean of Graduate [...]
Mycology league consolidates by boosting knowledge about fungi
One of the first mycology leagues in Brazil has been active at UFV since the end of 2022. Named LA Fungi (Academic League of Studies and Research in Mycology - LA Fungi), the league is coordinated by the advisor of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) Marliane Cássia Soares da Silva, and was created by students of the university, with the support of professor [...]
Applications open for the 2025/1 selection process
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (PPGMBA/UFV) hereby publishes the criteria that will govern the selection process for filling vacancies in the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology for the Master's and Doctorate courses for the first semester of 2025 (2025-I). Up to 09 places will be offered for the Master's (02 places reserved for quota), 05 for the Doctorate [...]
PPG promotes new series of lectures focusing on interpersonal relationships
This week, the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology begins another stage of its continuing education program, this time focused on developing healthy relationships at work. Students and the entire academic community are invited to attend face-to-face meetings with professionals who will provide information and a safe environment for sharing experiences. The first lecture will be given by psychologist Ana Flávia Remiggi Garcia on Wednesday, September [...]
Event brings microbiology to the square in downtown Viçosa
This Saturday, September 14, the first edition of “Microbiologia na Praça” (Microbiology in the Square) will take the science produced by the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) to the Viçosa community. The date was chosen in reference to International Microorganism Day, celebrated on September 17. For the first time, the Viçosa community will be able to see fermented foods up close, microscopes used in [...]
PPGMBA receives visit from Professor Eugene Fletcher of Carleton University
Professor Eugene Fletcher, from Carleton University in Canada, was welcomed to the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology for his first visit to Brazil. Eugene conducts research into yeasts and, since the beginning of 2024, has been working in partnership with Professor Wendel Silveira, coordinator of the Microorganism Physiology Laboratory and the PPGMBA. The visit to Brazil formalizes the joint work of the two teams, with [...]
Professor Eugene Fletcher, from Carleton University in Canada, visits PPGMBA
Professor Eugene Fletcher, from Carleton University in Canada, was welcomed by the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) of the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), for his first visit to Brazil. Eugene conducts research into yeasts and, since the beginning of 2024, has been working in partnership with Professor Wendel Silveira, coordinator of the UFV's Microorganism Physiology Laboratory and the PPGMBA. The visit to [...]
Poliane Zerbini takes research results to the International Congress of Mycology in the Netherlands
Professor Poliane Alfenas Zerbini, supervisor of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, was one of the speakers at the International Congress of Mycology, held between August 11 and 15 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Poliane was invited to present to the mycologists the results of her research involving viruses with the potential to infect the fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, a cosmopolitan phytopathogen that affects several agricultural crops [...]
Professor Eugene Fletcher, from Canada, presents seminar on yeasts this Wednesday
On a visit to Brazil, Professor Eugene Fletcher, from Carleton University in Canada, will present a seminar on “Re-designing biological systems in yeast for useful applications” next Wednesday, August 28, at 4pm, in the Bioagro Auditorium. Professor Fletcher is in Brazil for a visit funded by the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (Canada), aimed at the academic activities of Canadian professors in Latin America [...]
Results – Election of Student Representatives 2024
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology announces that Plate 1, composed of Lorena Cornélia Ribeiro (effective) and Sebastião Moreira Junior (alternate), received 38 votes, while Plate 2, formed by Juniel Marques de Oliveira (effective) and Nathália Nogueira Leite (alternate), received 18 votes. There were no blank or null votes. The result will therefore be ratified during the Coordinating Committee meeting on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, [...]
Election of Student Representatives 2024
The Graduate Programe of Agricultural Microbiology announce the slates of candidates for student representatives: Slate 1: Lorena Cornélia Ribeiro (effective) and Sebastião Moreira Junior (alternate) Slate 2: Juniel Marques de Oliveira (effective) and Nathália Nogueira Leite (alternate) The candidates will have the opportunity to present themselves and talk to the students on August 21, after the seminar. The election will be held on August 22 [...]
Visiting professor Eugene Fletcher lectures in Viçosa, Brazil
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”, [...]
Doctoral student concludes sandwich program in Europe with presentation at Royal Society of Chemistry conference
Jojo presented her work in London Jojo Rodrigues, a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, is about to finish her sandwich internship at Queens University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. In August, she returns to Brazil with the knowledge and technology to nanoencapsulate the fish vaccines she is developing under the guidance of Professor Tiago Mendes at the Molecular Biotechnology [...]
Dutch professor gives lecture on precision fermentation this Monday
World population growth and climate change pose a major challenge for food security in a sustainable context. In this sense, precision fermentation has become a sustainable solution due to the potential for converting renewable raw materials into specific and highly nutritious proteins by microorganisms, such as the production of beta-lactoglobulin protein from whey by yeasts. However, not all nutrients reach the desired product, resulting in [...]
PhD student selected for international workshop on fungi and the Amazon bioeconomy
Gustavo, who is from Chile, has been in Viçosa since 2018, when he started his master's degree PhD student Gustavo Andrés Iglesias Barrera was the only representative from Minas Gerais at the workshop “The role of Fungi in the Amazonian bioeconomy”, organized by the State University of Maranhão (UEMA) and Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), through the Amazônia+10 programme, funded by the British Council. [...]
PhD student conducts research at university in Norway
Paloma spent six months at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences PhD student Paloma Cunha is back in Brazil after six months working at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway. In Europe, the researcher was welcomed by Italian professor Davide Porcellato and Brazilian post-doc Vinícius da Silva Duarte, a graduate of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology. During her time abroad, [...]
More than 20 researchers take PPGMBA work to VI Smagro
More than 20 researchers from eight different laboratories represented the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology at the VI Simpósio de Microbiologia Agrícola (Smagro), between April 9 and 12 in Piracicaba. This year, the theme of the event was “Biodiversity and Sustainable Production”, and the program also included three other parallel events: the V Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia Agrícola, Agropecuária e Ambiental (CBMAAA); the XIII Encontro [...]
Article on bacterial cellulose is one of the most accessed in the Journal of Basic Microbiology
The article “Bacterial cellulose: Strategies for its production in the context of bioeconomy”, produced by a team of researchers from the Fermented Products Microbiology Laboratory (Fermico), coordinated by Professor José Guilherme Prado Martin, was one of the most downloaded articles on the Journal of Basic Microbiology website. The data refers to the first 12 months after the text was published in 2022. The work evaluates [...]
Mission brings trio of British professors to PPGMBA
British professors Paul Richard Langford, Janine T. Bossé and Andrew Rycroft visited UFV in March, from the 11th to the 22nd. They were welcomed by Professor Denise Bazzolli, coordinator of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics of Bacteria (LGMB -Bioagro/UFV) and advisor to the Postgraduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA). The trip is yet another mission carried out as part of the partnership developed since 2012 [...]
Professor takes mushroom production course to Congresso Brasileiro de Micologia
The “Production of Edible Mushrooms” course, offered successfully for over two decades as an extension activity by the UFV Microbiology Department, was one of the highlight activities at the X Congresso Brasileiro de Micologia, held in Belo Horizonte last week. Professor Marliane de Cássia Soares da Silva, from the Postgraduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, was responsible for taking the course to the event, accompanied by [...]
VI Jornada de Verão offers courses and introduces PPG to undergraduate students
The sixth edition of the Jornada de Verão da Microbiologia, promoted by the Agricultural Microbiology Studies Center (NEMA), offers five days of courses and lectures, from today until Friday. The event, aimed mainly at undergraduate students, precedes the official opening of the semester, which happens next Monday, March 4. The courses are given by professors or by students - master's and doctoral students from the [...]
Women scientists gain more and more space in Microbiology
Sixty-three percent of the students approved to enter the PPG Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) last year are women. What's more, in 2023, of the 15 doctoral defenses made by the program, ten were carried out by women (66.7%), and of the 14 master's defenses, 11 are the crowning achievement of the science produced by them (78.6%). But if the combination of women and science sounds relatively [...]
Alumni launch new edition of book with translation into indigenous language
Professor and researcher Noemia Kazue Ishikawa, a graduate of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, is launching a new edition of the book “Embaúba - a tree and many lives” on Thursday, December 21. Originally published in 2016 in Portuguese, English and Japanese, the book mixes a true story with scientific knowledge by telling children about the experience of a teacher and a group of [...]
Study maps microorganisms with potential to optimize coffee production
An article developed in partnership between researchers from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology (PPGMBA) at UFV and the Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (Venda Nova dos Imigrantes campus) has mapped the presence of microorganisms in the soil and in coffee fruit. In the article “Microbiomes associated with Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora in four different floristic domains of Brazil” published in November in the [...]
PhD student develops tools to optimize prediction of protein use in metabolic models
It is impossible to think of a sustainable world without the effective participation of microorganisms in the development of bioprocesses. The research of doctoral student Maurício Alexander Moura Ferreira, from the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology at UFV, focuses on the development of optimization tools for predicting the use of proteins in metabolic models. Two of these tools, which can be used to rationalize the [...]
Professor ends sabbatical in Berkeley and begins new stage of research in Brazil
Poliane Alfenas, a professor in the Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology, is back in Viçosa after a year at the University of California, Berkeley campus. At the American university, she worked alongside Professor Britt Koskella on different projects involving microbial ecology and evolution, with a special focus on viruses that infect microorganisms. “What struck me about her work is that these are studies involving plants. [...]
With a focus on networking, PPG inaugurates the Alumni Portal
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology's (PPGMBA) Alumni Portal is now available on the website. The tool was developed as a way of fostering interaction between the program itself and its students and alumni. The idea is for former PPG students to use the space to register their contact details and share their projects and current occupation. “With this portal, interested parties will be able [...]
First meeting of PPG students and graduates takes place in November
The first edition of the UFV Agricultural Microbiology Students and Alumni Meeting will be held in November, during the program of the VI International Symposium on Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB2023). For the first time, the symposium will have a moment specifically aimed at exchanging experiences between former PPG students and current master's and doctoral students, as a way of strengthening the researchers' network. “The idea [...]
Scientific entrepreneurship workshop
In the last two weeks of September, the PPGMBA Continuing Education Program offers the workshop “Entrepreneurship: how is it inserted in our daily lives?”, by Professor Cristiano Valério Ribeiro. He will present students with a case of transformation during the pandemic, proposing learning through action. “The idea is to work with the students on how to undertake in practice. It will be a very hands-on [...]
Scientific entrepreneurship workshop
In the last two weeks of September, the PPGMBA Continuing Education Program offers the workshop “Entrepreneurship: how is it inserted in our daily lives?”, by Professor Cristiano Valério Ribeiro. He will present students with a case of transformation during the pandemic, proposing learning through action. “The idea is to work with the students on how to undertake in practice. It will be a very hands-on [...]
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 [...]