Institutional
FOUNDATION
Aware that the consolidation of a Postgraduate program requires investment, maturity of the faculty/researchers and the implementation of competitive projects and research, focused on the regional and national reality, a group of experienced professors, most of whom were previously linked to the Postgraduate Program in Animal Science (PPGCA/UFPI), which has been standing out in the State of Piauí, in academic-scientific and technological production, in the area of veterinary medicine, proposed in 2018, the creation of a new Program linked to the area of Veterinary Medicine. Of this group, composed of 10 professors for the permanent staff of the new Program, 08 (eight) are Research Productivity Scholars, 06 (six) from CNPq and 02 (two) from UFPI. In addition, all of them contributed by providing laboratory infrastructure, with equipment intended for the development of research and teaching activities.
Thus, also due to the lack of a Postgraduate Program in the area of Veterinary Medicine in the State of Piauí, added to the State's potential in the agricultural area, and because it is a health hub for both human health and animal health, the creation of the Postgraduate Program in Technology Applied to Animals of Regional Interest (PPGTAIR) was approved in 2019, being the first in the State to be authorized to offer places for Master's and Doctorate degrees from the beginning.
MODALITY, MISSION AND OBJECTIVE
The Program was conceived with the mission of promoting scientific, technological and regional innovation development in a sustainable and ethical manner through research activities. To this end, it seeks to enable the gathering, articulation and adherence to complementary, cross-cutting and related themes through the Concentration Area “Advanced Diagnostics in Animal Health”, which is integrated with the main objective of developing and applying modern processes in the different branches of veterinary medicine. In this context, the Program focuses its efforts on comprehensive research involving studies on the technology of foods of animal origin, which allow microbiological and technological investigation of industrial processes that impact animal and human health, extending to immunopathological and molecular studies of parasites of interest to regional epidemiology and public health. Furthermore, the improvement of reproductive biotechnologies, the genomic study of unconventional animals and the genetic improvement of herds that constitute production chains relevant to the regional economy, as well as approaches to clinical diagnosis of diseases and innovative therapies in animal models, including cellular biotechnology and materials science.
HISTORICAL PROFILE OF INTERNATIONALIZATION
In PPGTAIR, all the researchers involved interact with several groups in different areas, in Brazil and a good part abroad. Among the national cooperations, the following stand out in the areas of Morphology, Developmental Biology, Stem Cell Biotechnology, the Domestic and Wild Animal Anatomy Program of FMVZ/USP–SP, Postgraduate Program in Morphology of UFC and UFRJ, Animal Bioscience of CFZEA/USP-SP, Postgraduate Program in Biological Sciences of ICB and Animal Science of the Veterinary School of UFMG, Animal Science of UFERSA-RN, of UEMA-MA, and the postgraduate program in Veterinary Medicine of UFCG, in partnership with Dr. Nádia Karina Guimarães de Souza, from the Institute of Education and Research (IEP) of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein São Paulo/SP. In the area of Reproduction Animal Genetics and Engineering, with the programs in Veterinary Sciences at UECE-CE, PPG in Medical Sciences at UNIFOR-CE, in Veterinary Sciences at UNIVASF-PE, in Animal Science at the School of Veterinary Medicine at UFMG, in Animal Science and Animal Science at UFV - MG and UNESP - Jaboticabal, the Postgraduate Program in Experimental Pathology at Fiocruz, Health Science at UFBA. Postgraduate Program in the area of Materials at UFRN, UNESP in Bauru and Araraquara, in the area of Chemistry with the Programs at Unicamp, USP in São Carlos, UFPB, UFMA and UFSCar. Partnerships in the areas of immunoparasitology of leishmaniasis, with researchers from the Gonçalo Moniz Research Center - Fiocruz-BA, epidemiology from UERJ and UFRJ, diagnosis and vectors from UFMS, Microbiology from UFPB and URCA. Through research networks, such as the Network for scientific technical cooperation and training of human resources in Animal Sciences and Health (UFRRJ - UFPI - UNRC) and the Biotechnology Research Network (UFPI-UECE - UNIIFOR - UNIVASF). This, with an ongoing project of the MCTI/CNPq/FNDCT Call for Cross-Cutting Action - Regional Research Networks.
Regarding international cooperation, the PPGTAIR teaching group has collaborations with the National University of Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina CAFP-BA, through a research network with Professors Maria Marta Reynoso, Adriana Torres, Maria Inés Medina, Cecília Inés Frigerio, Susana Gertrudis Bettera, Juan Miguel Marioli, Nancy Rodríguez, Claudia Rodriguez; Cooperation with the Infectious Disease Research Institute of Seattle - United States, in the area of vaccinology and immunotherapy, through Dr. Steven Reed, with the Autonomous University of Madrid, in the area of development of recombinant proteins for the diagnosis of leishmaniasis, with Prof. Dr. Manuel Soto. Furthermore, with the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, through Prof. Dr. Josefina Maria Illera del Portal, with the University of Córdoba (Prof. Dr. Juan Vicente Delgado Bermejo, University of Guelph (Prof. Dr. Flávio Schramm Schenkel). Also, partnerships with Prof. Dr. Valeria Bouquet "Chimical Sciences" from the University of Rennes, France, with Prof. Dr. Juan Andres Bort, from the materials area, from the Universitade Jaume I-Castellon de La Plana, Spain, Prof. Dr. Francisco Veiga and Prof. Dr. Antonio Ribeiro from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, Prof. Dr. Maguy Jaber, from the University of Paris, France, Fabrice Gaslain, from Mines Paris Tech, France, Prof. Dr. Manuela Pintado from Microbiology of the Catholic University of Porto, Portugal.
Numerous benefits were generated by carrying out various actions, through the execution of projects, such as: promotion and partnership, Pró-equipamentos, CAPES/MINCYT, Procad, Casadinho, Casadinho/Procads, CAPES CAFP-BA, among others, recycling/updating of human resources, sharing of infrastructure, exchange of experiences, transfer of technologies, participation and organization of scientific events, postgraduate students in sandwich internships, teaching of disciplines, participation in co-supervision, examination boards with postgraduate programs; projects for mobility of visiting professors and joint publications, in addition to other important, innovative activities of the state of the art in these themes.
MANAGEMENT 2022 - 2024
HISTÓRICO DE COORDENADORES (AS)
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY
Executive Secretary: Cesar Viana da Silva
Phone: + 55 (86) 22224038 (phone and whatsapp)
E-mail: ppgtair@ufpi.edu.br
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm
Address : Federal University of Piauí, Minister Petrônio Portela University Campus, Center for Agricultural Sciences, Postgraduate Building, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, ZIP Code 64049-550
LOCATION
PHYSICAL STRUCTURE
POSTGRADUATE BUILDING OF THE CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, WHERE PPGTAIR IS INSTALLED
Facade of the postgraduate building
Computer lab
Classrooms
Meeting room
Orientation room
Building kitchen
Auditorium of the postgraduate building
LABORATORIES USED BY THE PROGRAM
Located in a two-story building with 800m2, it consists of spaces reserved for administrative, academic and research units. It includes eight laboratories: serology, molecular biology, morphology, preclinical studies center (with two experimental surgical rooms), image analysis, microscopy, bioprinting and stem cell cultivation (two cultivation rooms and one support room). It also has an auditorium with capacity for 50 people, two classrooms, study rooms and teaching rooms, offering an environment favorable to multidisciplinary interaction between researchers and postgraduate students. The main equipment includes real-time PCR, conventional PCR, automated histotechnics, CO2 incubators, laminar flow hoods, cytocentrifuges, inverted microscopes, fluorescence microscopy, stereomicroscopes and binocular light microscopes, spectrophotometers, water baths, bioprinters, refrigerated cytocentrifuges, ultrafreezers at -80 ° C, Milli-Q water purification systems and sonicators . The technical manager is Veterinarian Cleyton Charles Dantas Carvalho.
Animal Health Laboratory (LASAN)
It has 855 m² of built area and has three large laboratories: Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Parasitic Diseases Laboratory and Female Reproduction Pathophysiology Laboratory. The laboratories are equipped with laminar flow hoods, autoclaves, sonicators, thermocyclers, microplate readers (ELISA), microplate washer, Real-Time PCR machines, Shaker-type incubators, bacteriological ovens, microscopes (optical, inverted and fluorescence), Nanodrop, dry bath, wet water baths, CO2 incubators, ultrafreezers -80 ° C, refrigerators, freezers -20 ° C, Milli-Q type water purification system, water double distiller, refrigerated centrifuge, scales, orbital and vortex shakers, BOD type ovens; stereomicroscopes, microcentrifuge. Responsible technicians: Richard Atila de Sousa (Veterinarian) and Felipe Araújo de Alcântara (Biomedical).
Laboratory of Physiological Sciences (DMV)
The physical infrastructure of the Physiological Sciences Laboratory, to develop the mentioned activities, has a total area of 180 m², of which 60 m² is reserved for the Research Laboratory, where there are areas and equipment used to prepare plant extracts for research on anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive effects, as well as antiparasitic activity and toxicity, distributed in a laboratory for practical classes, a research laboratory, teachers' rooms, a room for storage and preparation of materials, a room for preparation of extracts and a room for cell culture. The available equipment is a drying oven with forced air circulation, a Willye knife mill, a rotary evaporator and a freeze dryer; a chamber with exhaust and laminar flow, a container for liquid nitrogen and a CO2 oven. For common use in the various activities, there are: standard and refrigerated centrifuges, analytical balances, pH meters, Vortex mixers, spectrophotometer, water distiller and double distiller, 03 standard freezers (-20°C) and one Ultrafreezer at (-80°C), three refrigerators, stereomicroscopes and binocular light microscopes, spectrophotometers, water bath. Technical managers : Rosalba Soares ( agronomist) and Terysdalva Costa (biologist).
With 280 m², it has 3 laboratories, a warehouse, teachers' rooms, a computer lab and a support room. Among the equipment, the following stand out: Ovens, dryers, centrifuges, distillers, desiccators, pH meters, deionizers, condensers, rotary evaporator, Spin coating, heating blanket, muffles, MicroRaman, FTIR, atomic absorption, TG/DSC/DTA/MS, XRD, XRF, nanorheometer, surface area analyzer (BET), extruder, SEM/FEG, Mechanical Testing Machine, Elementary Analyzer, Plasma Nitriding Reactor, Potentiostat, DLS, Zeta, Real-Time PCR Platform, Flow Cytometry Platform ( FACSAriaIIu, FACSArray and LSRFortessa) and Sequencing Platform capable of identifying more than 4 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). It also provides DIVA, FCAP and Flow Jo software for analyzing results.
Food Microbiology Laboratory (NUEPPA)
The Center for Food Studies, Research and Processing (NUEPPA) is located at the CCA and meets the demand for research in several areas of food. These include: quality control, development of products of plant and animal origin.
NUEPPA supports research (PIBIC, PIBIT, PIBEX, ESCO 1, ECSO 2 and TCC), internships and teaching for undergraduate courses at CCA (Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural Engineering and Animal Science), CCS (Nutrition and Pharmacy) and CCN (Chemistry, Physics and Biology).
It also serves three postgraduate courses for Masters and Doctorate (PPGAN, PPGZT and PPGTAIR) and the Quality Control and Inspection line of the POA of the Multidisciplinary Program Residency of HU, UFPI.
It has an area of 1504.65 m2 where tests on food quality and microbiological control are carried out. It has: vertical and horizontal autoclaves, scales, hot plate, shaking table, water bath, evaporators, distiller, BOD, colony counter, microscopes, microcentrifuges, homogenizer, HPLC, agitator, Milli-Q water purifier.
Partnership between UFRJ and UFPI, provides scientific transfer of the student body between current postgraduate programs.
Laboratory of Reproductive Biotechnology
It has 160 m², with 70 m² of open area, intended for the collection of semen and oocytes. The rest of the area houses the nitrogen cylinders, semen processing and in vitro embryo production sectors.
Anatomy Laboratory (DMV)
Bee Laboratory (Multi-user Research Laboratory of the HONEY Production Chain – LABMEL) (Beekeeping – DZOO)
Animal Reproduction Biotechnology Laboratory (LBRA/DCCV)
Physiological Sciences Laboratory
Laboratory of Advanced Studies of Emerging and Resistant Microorganisms
Genetics Laboratory (DZOO)
Histopathology Laboratory (Animal Pathology)
Laboratory of Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Biology (Animal Pathology)
Animal Nutrition Laboratory (DZOO)
Laboratory of Experimental N Eurochemistry Research (LAPNEX)
Laboratory of Experimental Toxicology and Cancerology ( LATOCEX)