The Post-Graduate Program in Genetics and Animal Breeding aims to provide general physical and intellectual space for the academic training of graduates in the fields of genetics and animal breeding. Historically, this objective has guided the actions of the program since its establishment in 1985. Until that time the FCAV / UNESP campus de Jaboticabal, offered only a program of postgraduate studies in animal husbandry, with the predominant area for animal nutrition. However, the demand for professionals (teachers and researchers) with level of postgraduate studies in the field of animal breeding was great and was not answered.
In the last 10 years the demand for professionals who work in the area of genetics and animal breeding has increased. The development of new strategies for animal production, the need to meet a growing market demands, has as a consequence the search for a professional with this profile. Moreover, there are new job opportunities in the light of advances in the field of molecular genetics and its effect on the breeding of domestic animals and the conservation genetics.
Thus, the main objective of the program remains the training of professionals capable of teaching and research in the areas of animal genetics and breeding of livestock, to meet the needs of human resources of public and private institutions.
This objective has been achieved since the professionals trained by this program are working or giving continuity to their studies in areas focus (animal breeding and genetics), many of them as teachers or researchers in institutions of repute in our country and the outside.
Currently, the program has 13 permanent faculty, of which around 54% have productivity grants from CNPq. All accredited teachers and researchers in the Graduate Program in Genetics and Animal Breeding are developing activities with students in undergraduate courses, serving as teachers and / or guiding of monographs for graduation and / or work experience.
The level of scientific cooperation with other teachers of the current national and international institutions, with the presence of visiting professors, and outside of Brazil. The program also has received students from abroad, particularly in Argentina, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay.
By December of 2006 were 122 qualified teachers. Of these, 79 (64, 8%) are in the labor market, with 24.6% in public universities, 11.5% in research institutes, private universities in 13.9% and 14.8% in private companies. Twenty-six students (21.3%) continue their studies, conducting doctoral courses (18.8%) and post-doctoral degree (2.5%). The activities of the remaining 13.9% are not known.
The program offers scholarships, Masters (Capes + CNPq) and Ph.D. (Capes) and, thanks to the efforts of teachers and students has been approved grants from FAPESP, the Organization of American States (provided for foreign) and private companies .
The resolution UNESP 4 of 22/01/97 regulates the placement of teaching post-graduate students in graduate programs, allowing a training of student teaching with the allocation of credits, but without lengthening their time of titration. This last measure has provided a growing exchange between graduate and postgraduate studies. Such treatment has expanded the scope of the resolution of the CAPES, which set the stage for teaching of their stock.
In summary, the program includes: – Teaching staff with high qualifications and training appropriate to the profile of teachers and doctors in the areas of genetics and animal breeding – Infrastructure for excellence – Intense integration with the undergraduate courses – with exchange national and international institutions, research-development peak. Thus it has provided a training in research and education that has guaranteed the placement of graduates in the labor market