Faculty
The team of professors of the MSc in Animal Production – ICA / UFMG is multidisciplinary, composed of professionals from the areas of Agronomy, Animal Science, Veterinary Medicine and Food Engineering. The faculty has professors who have considerable experience in the research areas.
Qualification
All the professors are PhDs formed by some of the most prominent Brazilian and international universities. Browse through the list below to check on the permanent or collaborating professors of our program, as well as the research lines in which they conduct orientation and scientific action. You can also find their contact and link to access the lattes curriculum:
Alcinei Místico Azevedo
Research area:Animal Breeding and Management
Scientific performance: Analysis of zootechnical data by statistical models and computational intelligence
E-mail: alcineimistico@ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/9415018624563178
AmáliaSaturnino Chaves
Research area:Animal Nutrition and Feeding
Scientific performance: Nutrition and ruminant production
e-mail: amaliaschaves@yahoo.com.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/6900658388700024
Anna Christina de Almeida
Research area:Animal Breeding and Management; Quality of animal-source foods
Scientific performance: Evaluation of the pharmacological potential of bioactive compounds of plants in animal health
e-mail: aca2006@ica.ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/1097162372087621
Diego Vicente da Costa
Research area:Animal Nutrition and Feeding
Scientific performance: Insects as a protein feed for monogastric animals. Nutrition of aquatic organisms.
e-mail: diego@ica.ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/7881830802102376
Claudia Freire de Andrade Morais Penna
Research area:Quality of animal-source foods
Scientific performance: Microbiology and Physicochemistry of milk and derivatives
E-mail: moraiscf@vet.ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/9755286023695546
Eduardo Robson Duarte
Research area:Animal Breeding and Management; Animal Nutrition and Feeding; Quality of animal-source foods
Scientific performance: Alternative controls of parasites and pathogenic microorganisms in production animals
e-mail: duartevet@ica.ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/5234503447028731
Ernane Ronie Martins
Research area:Animal Breeding and Management
Scientific performance: Medicinal and aromatic plants for animal production
E- mail: ernane-martins@ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/0435226832258934
Leonardo David Tuffi Santos
Research area:Animal Nutrition and Feeding
Scientific performance: Forage culture and the integration between crop-livestock-forest
e-mail: ltuffi@ica.ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/6075904912928109
Letícia Ferrari Crocomo
Research area:Animal Breeding and Management
Scientific performance: Morphophysiology and reproduction biotechnologies in animal production
e-mail:leticiafcrocomo@ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/0711118889066020
Luciana Castro Geraseev
Research area:Animal Nutrition and Feeding
Scientific performance: Management and production of small ruminants
e-mail:lgeraseev@ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/1368116583439163
Marcelo Resende de Souza
Research area:Quality of animal-source foods
Scientific performance: Microbiology of milk and milk products
e-mail: marceloresende51@gmail.com
http://lattes.cnpq.br/6197248715251424
Mário Henrique FrançaMourthé
Research area:Animal Breeding and Management; Animal Nutrition and Feeding
Scientific performance:Technical and economic evaluation of dairy cattle production e-mail: mariohfm@ica.ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/9148417373310834
Maximiliano Soares Pinto
Research area:Quality of animal-source foods
Scientific performance: Technology of dairy products
e-mail: maxonze@ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/6690973527738451
Raphael Rocha Wenceslau
Research area:Animal Breeding and Management
Scientific performance: Genetic improvement applied to animal production
e-mail: rwenceslau@hotmail.com
http://lattes.cnpq.br/0891400653799988
Sandra Gesteira Coelho
Research area:Animal Breeding and Management
Scientific performance: Nutrition, reproductionand management of calves and dairy cows.
e-mail: sandragesteiracoelho@gmail.com
http://lattes.cnpq.br/0043057219064007
Thiago Gomes dos Santos Braz
Research area:Animal Nutrition and Feeding
Scientific performance: Management and conservation of pastures and genetic improvement of forage plants
e-mail: thiago-braz@ufmg.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/7419071918325021
Accreditation of Teachers in the Program:
For accreditation as permanent professor in the master’s course, the scientific production must begreater than 1.2 equivalent A1 per year in the Animal Science area. For collaborating teachers, the minimum production required will be 0.6 A1 per year in the Animal Science area.
Postgraduate Collegiate:
The postgraduate course in Animal Production is composed by professors: Anna Christina de Almeida and Mário Henrique FrançaMourthé as full members, Eduardo Robson Duarte and Thiago Gomes dos Santos Braz as alternate members beyond the coordinator Luciana Castro Geraseev and sub-coordinator Letícia Ferrari Crocomo.