Main collaborations and partnerships
Our research group has established important partnerships with other national and international research centers. In Brazil, PPGCTA collaborates with USP through the Laboratório de Microbiologia da Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, developing collaborative research in the characterization of L. monocytogenes and, more recently collaborating in a project entitled “Establishment of a collaborative center in animal and phyto-sanitary defense to evaluate microbiological risks of animal derived food products (CDA-ARMPOA)”. Other institutions also participating in the project include UNIFESP, UNESP, UFV and UFRGS. In addition, PPGCTA is collaborating with UFV on a project that involves the phenotypic and molecular characterization of Estafilococos coagulase positive, as well as on another project with UFRGS on the genotypic characterization of Salmonella spp. strains and Estafilococos coagulase positive associated with occurrence of food poisoning in Rio Grande do Sul.
Local, national and international partnerships
In order to develop current and relevant projects, with significant contribution to science and technology, PPGCTA finds it necessary to collaborate with other programs at UFPel and other institutions. This is essential and recommended given that instead of competing actions, resources are optimized, avoiding overlapping of actions and investments and as a consequence, better and more consistent results are obtained. This has been the view of PPGCTA. For example, during PPGCTA’s faculty participation in the conception, structuring, and execution of CT-INFRA projects, the goal was to nucleate competencies and infrastructure in order to optimize a multi-use facility. Within UFPel, collaborations occur with the graduate program in the following areas: Biotecnologia Agrícola, Agronomia, Fitossanidade, Ciência e Tecnologia de Sementes, Zootecnia e Sistemas de Produção em Agricultura Familiar.
At a regional level, IRGA, Embrapa – CNP Clima Temperado and CNP Uva e Vinho, Cientec, UFRGS (Microbiologia de Alimentos), UFSM (Núcleo de Pós-Colheita), FURG (Bioquímica e Tecnologia de Alimentos), Urcamp (Vitivinicultura), Emater (extensão rural), Sebrae (arranjos produtivos locais -APLs), OCERGS, Sindiarroz-RS, Cipel and Senai have been the main partners.
Nationaly, Petrobrás, Embrapa Caprinos Ceará, Universidade de Ponta Grossa, EPAGRI SC, rice industries and Sindarroz-SC, Sindiato-To, Saggoias-GO, OCEPAR-PR, Ministério da Agricultura, SEBRAE no Programa Alimentos Seguros e Certificação de Unidades Armazenadoras (MAPA e CONAB), among others. Also worth mentioning is the program with Fundação Ezequiel Dias (FUNED) from Minas Gerais, developing research activities involving S. aureus.
Main collaborations and partnerships
Our research group has established important partnerships with other national and international research centers. In Brazil, PPGCTA collaborates with USP through the Laboratório de Microbiologia da Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, developing collaborative research in the characterization of L. monocytogenes and, more recently collaborating in a project entitled “Establishment of a collaborative center in animal and phyto-sanitary defense to evaluate microbiological risks of animal derived food products (CDA-ARMPOA)”. Other institutions also participating in the project include UNIFESP, UNESP, UFV and UFRGS. In addition, PPGCTA is collaborating with UFV on a project that involves the phenotypic and molecular characterization of Estafilococos coagulase positive, as well as on another project with UFRGS on the genotypic characterization of Salmonella spp. strains and Estafilococos coagulase positive associated with occurrence of food poisoning in Rio Grande do Sul.
Internationally,PPGCTA collaborates with the Departamento de Ciência y Tecnologia de los Alimentos, do Instituto Nacional de Ciência y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), in Madrid, Spain, in a study developed to evaluate agar ALOA for detection of L. monocytogenes cells damaged by high isostactic pressure. In Germany, at the Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), at Universität Bielefeld, Xanthomonas arboricola, pv. pruni, bacterial genome was studied using DNA microarray. In the London School of High Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, strains isolated by the PPGCTA group were studied also using DNA microarray. In the US at Purdue University, a collaborative study has been started involving Listeria monocytogenes.
International exchange has occurred between PPGCTA and:
INRA/ENSAT UMR990 - http://atg.toulouse.inra.fr/equipe/990.html - France - Dr. Mondher Bouzayen’s research group has collaborated with PPGCTA since 1994, on the theme "Biologie moléculaire et physiologie de la maturation des fruits". 3 thesis and several publications have resulted from this collaboration.
JOHN INNES CENTER (JIC) - http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/index.htm - Norwich - England. Dr. Leonardo Nora, recently graduated from JOHN INNES, and has since agreed during his doctoral studies, to study secondary metabolites in plants. The project with JIC encompasses bilateral exchange (Dr. Cathie Martin, from JIC has come to PPGCTA) with the focus of isolating, characterizing and quantifying molecules.
UNIVERSITY OF HALLE – Germany. Ongoing collaboration to study secondary metabolites in plants, including nor-tropane and tropane alkaoids, coordinated by Dr. Birgit Draeger from University of Halle, and Dr. Leonardo Nora from PPGCTA.
UNIVERSITÄT BIELEFELD – BIELEFELD/ Germany. Collaboration in the areas of Molecular biology, food microbiology, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Alfred Pühler of the Genetics laboratory, Biotechnology Center at Universität Bielefeld. The program includes techno-scientific collaboration and exchange of students and professors from Brazil to Germany and vice-versa.
INRA – Angers – France. Collaboration in projects that involve studying quality attributes of rosaceous plants including apple. Dr. François Laurens maintains a program with Embrapa – Uva e Vinho and UFPel that allows for research and development initiatives regarding breeding and understanding fruit quality attributes.
London School of High Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. England. Under the coordination of Dr. Brendan Wren and Dr. Wladimir Padilha da Silva, with the participation of Dr. Élen S. Nalério (currently at EMBRAPA), PPGCTA started collaborations to study structural and functional genomics of pathogenic bacteria.
