POSTGRADUATE COURSES
The program maintains stricto sensu (masters and doctorate). The course courses cover the two areas of concentration: Infectious and Parasitic Diseases and; Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
HISTORY
The Graduate Program in Biological Sciences (PPG-CBIOL) is offered by the Center for Research in Biological Sciences (NUPEB) at UFOP. NUPEB was formally institutionalized in 1994 as part of the strategy used by UFOP to facilitate the implementation and consolidation of scientific research in the area of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology. The PPG-CBIOL began its activities 23 years ago, with the approval of the Master's Degree in 1998 (Concept 3), with the mission at that time to catalyze and coordinate Postgraduate teaching and research activities in different areas of Biological Sciences at UFOP . The PPG-CBIOL was UFOP's first initiative for the creation of postgraduate programs in the entire area of Life Sciences. Therefore, its creation is considered by the institution as a milestone in the training of human resources in the area of biological sciences at UFOP. In 2004, CBIOL had its doctorate approved, going to grade 4. Three years after the approval of the Doctorate, in the 2007 evaluation, the Program obtained grade 5. From the creation of the doctorate, the program has been consolidated over the last two years. decades progressing substantially, culminating in CAPES' elevation to Grade 6 during the 2013-2016 quadrennium (when it was the only Grade 6 program in the institution), demonstrating how successful the adopted strategy was. Thanks to the efforts of its faculty and students, it also began to attract students from other countries such as: Nepal, Portugal, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, among others. It also attracted senior researchers through the now extinct Science Without Borders program from: Portugal, United Kingdom, United States and Spain.
However, in the last quadrennium the program had its concept reduced to 5, which led us to hold a series of meetings to discuss, reflect and reorganize our program with the objective of returning to the position previously reached, consolidating it in the next quadrennium and continue in this process towards the highest qualification.
The most important change involved the reformulation of the program's areas of concentration. Until 2018, the PPG CBIOL, due to the diversity of teacher training and its multidisciplinary nature, had three areas of concentration: 1) Structural Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; 2) Metabolic and Physiological Biochemistry and; 3) Protozoan immunobiology, each with very well defined lines of research, presenting a balance in the number of professors in each area. However, after several collegiate meetings between 2017/2018, and a general meeting in September 2019 with the participation of all the program's professors, we decided to restructure the areas of the PPG CBIOL. Thus, as of March 2020, the program was made up of two areas: 1) Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and 2) Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. This update in the areas of concentration is part of the articulation of the PPG CBIOL that engaged through a strategic reformulation project with the objective of returning to concept 6 by CAPES. In addition, with an eye to the future, PPG CBIOL seeks to refine the engagement of its areas of concentration with the present (contemporaneity) providing both coherence and adherence to its lines and research projects around the central and specific objectives of the program.