2023/2024 academic year
First year
1st semester
BLOCK A (All)
Experimental Design (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Vitor Sousa, Inês Fragata
Genomics and Environmental Changes (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Octávio Paulo, Filipe de Sousa
BLOCK B (Evolution)
Experimental Evolution (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Margarida Matos, Pedro Simões
Genes and Adaptation (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Sara Magalhães, Leonor Rodrigues
BLOCK C (Organism)
Hormones, Metabolism and Reproduction (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Élio Sucena
Biophysics of Development (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Élio Sucena
Animal Models in Biomedical Research (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Élio Sucena
OPTIONALS – Plus 6 or 3+3 ECTS in optional course(s):
Recommended Optionals:
Phylogenetics and Molecular Evolution (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Octávio Paulo
Seminars in Organismal and Evolutionary Biology (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Alisson Gontijo
Basic Biomolecular Methods (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Rita Zilhão
Biomolecular Methods (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Rita Zilhão (8 vagas)
Genetics and Natural Selection (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Francisco Dionísio
Stress Biology (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Carlos Gravato
2nd semester
BLOCK A (All)
Evolution and Development (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Patrícia Beldade
Research Practice (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir, Élio Sucena, Gabriela Rodrigues
BLOCK B (Evolution)
Molecular Ecology (6ECTS)
Faculty: Vítor Sousa
Evolutionary Medicine (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Patrícia Beldade
Evolutionary Applications (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Ivo Chelo
BLOCK C (Organism)
Genes and Molecules in Development (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir, Ana Rita Carlos
Stem Cell Biology and Technology (6 ECTS)
Faculty: Gabriela Rodrigues
OPTIONALS – Plus 6 or 3+3 ECTS in optional course(s):
Recommended Optionals:
Comparative and Developmental Neurobiology (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Clara Amorim
Disease Mechanisms and Ageing (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Ana Rita Carlos
Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer (3 ECTS)
Faculty: Carla Lopes
Second year
Project (3 ECTS)
In this course students normally plan and write their dissertation project.
Dissertation (57 ECTS)
The dissertation work can be done in FCUL or in other institutions in Portugal or abroad.