<About the GABBA Program>

The GABBA Program is a Graduate Program in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology that started in the academic year of 1996/1997 from the merger of 4 MSc Programs in the University of Porto, from the Faculty of Sciences (Genetics), Faculty of Medicine (Cell Biology and Oncobiology) and the Abel Salazar Institute for Biomedical Sciences (Immunology).

Two Research Institutes of this University, the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP) and the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC) are also integral parts of the Program (See also Institutions Involved).

Each academic year (or edition) 12 students with degrees in relevant areas of Basic and Applied Biology are selected. The total length of the Program is 4 years.

The Program consists of a first academic semester with theoretical, practical and laboratorial modules. Based on last year’s edition, the Program has the following modules: Biostatistics, Cell Cycle, Developmental Biology, Ethics, Science and Society, Finding Genes for New Diseases, Formal and Population Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Genetic Evolution, Homeostasis of the Immune System, Immune Response to Infection, Lymphocyte Biology, Molecular Therapy, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neuroscience, Oncobiology, Parasitology, Protein Folding and Misfolding, Regulation of Gene Expression, RNOMICs, Structural Biology and Tissue Regeneration (See also Program Modules). In addition to these scheduled modules, the students are expected to organize a Symposium on a topic of their choice and have the possibility of attending complementary modules, within the scope of the future project.

At the end of this semester students have the opportunity to visit for an interview labs where they will do their PhD thesis work, which should last three and a half years.