• Generate knowledge through engineering concepts and methods that apply modern technologies to the solution of living systems and health care problems.
• Understand how biological processes take place to sustain essential and direct impact functions on the understanding of cellular function under normal and pathological conditions.
• Design, analysis and interpretation of data in biological systems, public health and medicine.
• Study the problems, challenges and opportunities related to teaching and learning experimental sciences in different educational contexts.
• Biochemistry and biophysics of fluids and membranes
Bioengineering
• Molecular and cellular biology
• Biomedical probability and statistics
• Science Education
• Medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology
• Food technology
• Environmental biotechnology
• Analytical and metrological services unit
_• History of the Mexico-U.S. border
• Smuggling
• Social vulnerability to natural threats and disasters
Gender and environment
• Social ecology
• Migration, gender and ethnicity
• Forced migration, public safety and human rights
• International migration
• Anthropology of emotions
• Anthropology is history of education
• Intercultural education
• Indigenous education
• Sociology and economics
• Communication and cultural studies
• Globalization and locality
• Border anthropology
• American colonial history
• Train human resources at the master's and doctoral level in the areas of expertise of the center through recognized quality graduate programs.
• Strengthen the linkage with the public, private and social sectors through research and development projects, technology services, consulting and training programs.
• Experimental and applied biology
• Earth sciences
• Applied physics
• Oceanology
• Sciences of the sea and land
• Life sciences
• Information science
• Department of Public Administration Studies
• Department of Economic Studies
• Department of Urban and Environmental Studies
• Department of Social Studies
• Department of Cultural Studies
• Department of Population Studies