Areas of Concentration and Lines of Research
The stricto sensu Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology is constituted by two Areas of Concentration: Cellular and Molecular Biology and Pharmacology and Immunology. These cover 13 Lines of Research.

Lines of Research in the Cell and Molecular Biology Area of Concentration:

• Biochemical, molecular, genetic or structural characterization of infectious agents and their hosts
• Genetics and molecular epidemiology
• Genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome of organisms
• Biotechnology: vaccines and diagnostics
• Regulation of gene expression and molecular biology of microorganisms and parasites;
• Biochemical, molecular, genetic or structural characterization of insects
• Bioinformatics, biomathematics and biostatistics

Lines of Research in the  Pharmacology and Immunology Area of Concentration:

• Immunopharmacology
• Inflammation, drugs and natural products
• Immunobiology of lymphoid organs
• Immunological mechanisms involved in the pathology of autoimmune, infectious and parasitic diseases
• Cellular and neuro-cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology
• Toxinology