Areas of Expertise
Areas of Concentration
The programme is structured around a single area of concentration, Biotechnology of Natural Resources, which aims to study the purification, characterisation and application of natural resources (plant, animal and microorganism origins) from land and sea in order to discover new biotechnological products/services that can be used in different areas of science (health, agriculture, microbiology, etc.).
Lines of Research
Two lines of research are offered:
‘Purification and characterisation of biomolecules’, which aims to detect, isolate, purify and characterise (chemically, physically, physicochemically and structurally) biologically active molecules found in organisms from Brazil’s marine and terrestrial biodiversity;
‘Biotechnological application of biologically active molecules’, which aims to characterise the biological activities of biologically active molecules purified from terrestrial and marine species (animals and plants) found in Brazilian biodiversity, seeking to discover new molecular markers, biosensors, new drugs and new biotechnological tools, including the development of hybrid systems through functionalisation with nanomaterials.
