Our Program has a diversified program of studies. There are courses with a workload expressed in credits, where each credit corresponds to 15 (fifteen) class hours. The courses are grouped into compulsory and optional categories according to their respective syllabuses. For the master’s degree, each student must complete 1,050 (one thousand and fifty) hours, corresponding to 70 (seventy) credits, distributed as follows: a) 7 (seven) credits in compulsory courses, b) 13 (thirteen) credits in optional courses, and c) 50 (fifty) credits in the master’s dissertation. For the doctorate, each student must complete 2,685 (two thousand six hundred and eighty-five) credit hours and 179 (one hundred and seventy-nine) credits, distributed as follows: a) 9 (nine) credits in compulsory subjects, b) 20 (twenty) credits in optional subjects, and c) 150 (one hundred and fifty) credits in the thesis. There are also special courses such as “Special Topics in Genetics and Molecular Biology” and “Special Activities”, which are used to supplement some contents with teachers from other institutes to obtain a good level of updating as well as to make the obtaining of credits more flexible for both masters and doctoral students.
Mandatory courses
2 BIO 324 – Teaching Internship in Graduation I (2 credits = 30 hours)
2 BIO 325 – Teaching Internship in Graduation II (2 credits = 30 hours)
2 BIO 297 – Molecular Genetics (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 265 – Seminars I (1 credit = 15 hours)
2 BIO 266 – Seminars II (1 credits = 15 hours)
Optional courses
2 BIO 268 – Analysis of Experiments in Genetics (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 269 – Special Activities I (1 credit = 15 hours)
2 BIO 270 – Special Activities II (1 credit = 15 hours)
2 BIO 271 – Cell Biology (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 272 – Animal Cytogenetics (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 273 – Plant Cytogenetics (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 274 – Cell Culture, 3 cr, 45 h, M/D (theoretical/practical)
2 BIO 275 – Genetic Engineering (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 327 – Evolution (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 261 – In vitro experimentation (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 278 – Fundamentals of Mutagenesis (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 317 – Genetics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 281 – Population Genetics (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 318 – Genetics of Prokaryotic Microorganisms (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 283 – Cancer Genetics (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 323 – Quantitative Genetics (6 credits = 90 hours)
2 BIO 285 – Applied Toxicological Genetics (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 319 – Genomics and Bioinformatics (3 credits = 45 hours)
2 BIO 403 – Molecular genetics of plant-bacteria interaction (3 credits = 45 hours)
2 BIO 287 – Molecular Markers (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 288 – Ultrastructure and Functioning of the Eukaryotic Chromosome (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 298 – Molecular Biology Strategy for Studies of Abiotic Stresses in Plants (3 credits = 45 hours)
2 BIO 320 – Construction of Enriched Libraries in Eukaryotic Microsatellites (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 321 – Cancer Risk Assessment: Genetic Polymorphisms and Epigenetic Factors (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 322 -Structural and Functional Plant Genomics (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 321 – Epigenetics (6 credits = 90 hours)
2 BIO 402 – Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology (3 credits = 45 hours)
Special Topics in Genetics and Molecular Biology
2 BIO 406 – Bacterial cytology (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO409 – Delimitation of species with genetic data (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 298 – Molecular Biology Strategy for Studies of Abiotic Stresses in Plants (3 credits = 45 hours)
2 BIO 320 – Construction of Enriched Libraries in Eukaryotic Microsatellites (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO2 50 – Instrumental Reading in English (4 credits = 60 hours)
2 BIO 407 – Stem cells and their applications (3 credits = 45 hours)
2 BIO 411 Genomic Wide Selection (1 credit = 15 hours)
2 BIO 410 Genome assembly softwares and strategies for annotation transposable elements (1 credit = 15 hours)
2 BIO 412 Genetics, genomics and biodiversity conservation (3 credits = 45 hours)