Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioquímica – Graduate Program in Biochemistry

Faculty

PPGBQA faculty currently has 21 permanent professors, 1 collaborating professor, and 1 visiting professor. The permanent professors have a multidisciplinary academic background, with degrees in Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Oceanography, Veterinary Medicine, Chemistry, and Physical Education. In addition, the faculty has doctoral training in the field of Biochemistry (16), Chemistry (2), Physiology (1), and Neurosciences (1) in the main Universities of Brazil such as UFRGS (8), USP (5), UFSM (3), UFRJ (1), UNICAMP (1) and UFSC (1) and foreign universities such as the University of Montpellier in France (1) and the University of Córdoba in Argentina (1). Among the permanent professors, 18 are CNPq research productivity fellows.

Permanent members

The permanent professors of the PPGBQA integrate the three Lines of Research of the program: a) Biochemical Toxicology, b) Molecular and Structural Biology, and c) Signal Transduction. Although some professors work in more than one line of research, the current distribution of the faculty is constituted as follows:

1. a) Biochemical Toxicology:Afonso Celso Dias Bainy, Alcir Luiz Dafré, Alexandra Latini, Ariane Zamoner Pacheco de Souza, Eduardo Alves de Almeida, Marcelo Farina, Rozangela Curi Pedrosa.
   b) Molecular and Structural Biology:Alfeu Zanotto Filho, Boris Juan Carlos Ugarte Stambuk, Carlos Peres Silva, Hernán Francisco Terenzi, Guilherme Razzera.
   c) Signal Transduction: Alex Rafacho, Alexandre Pastoris Muller, Ana Lúcia Severo Rodrigues, Ariane Zamoner Pacheco de Souza, Carla Inês Tasca, Fátima Regina Mena Barreto Silva, Joana Gaspar, Manuella P. Kaster, Margarete Dulce Bagatini, Rodrigo Bainy Leal.

Click on the photos to learn more about the research interests of the PGBQA faculty members

Afonso C. Dias Bainy e-mail: afonso.bainy@ufsc.br (member since 2008)	Alcir Luiz Dafré e-mail: alcir.dafre@ufsc.br (member since 2008)	Alex Rafacho e-mail: alex.rafacho@ufsc.br (member since 2021)
Alexandra S. Latini e-mail: a.latini@ufsc.br (member since 2008)	Alexandre Pastoris Muller e-mail: alexandrep.muller@gmail.com (member since 2022)	Alfeu Zanotto Filho e-mail: alfeu.zanotto@ufsc.br (member since 2019)
Ana Lúcia S. Rodrigues e-mail: ana.l.rodrigues@ufsc.br (member since 2008)	Ariane Zamoner P. de Souza e-mail: ariane.zamoner@ufsc.br (member since 2009)	Bóris J. C. Stambuk e-mail: boris.stambuk@ufsc.br (member since 2008)
Carla Inês Tasca e-mail: carla.tasca@ufsc.br (member since 2008)	Carlos Peres Silva e-mail: carlos.peres@ufsc.br (member since 2008)	Eduardo Alves de Almeida e-mail: eduardoalves@furb.br (member since 2022)
Fátima R. Mena Barreto Silva e-mail: mena.barreto@ufsc.br (member since 2008)	Guilherme Razzera e-mail: guilherme.razzera@ufsc.br (member since 2019)	Hernán F. Terenzi e-mail: hernan.terenzi@ufsc.br (member since 2008)
Joana M. Gaspar e-mail: joanamgaspar@gmail.com (member since 2022)	Manuella P. Kaster  e-mail: manuella.kaster@ufsc.br (member since 2013)	Marcelo Farina e-mail: marcelo.farina@ufsc.br (member since 2008)
Margarete D. Bagatini e-mail: margaretebagatini@yahoo.com.br (member since 2018)	Rozângela C. Pedrosa e-mail: rozangela.pedrosa@ufsc.br (member since 2008)	Rodrigo Bainy Leal e-mail: r.b.leal@ufsc.br (member since 2008)

 

Collaborating and visiting members:  

The PPGBQA collaborating and visiting professors have complementary expertise to our permanent faculty. Dr. Maicon R. Kviecinski has joined us in 2021  as a Visiting Professor in the field of Toxicological Biochemistry. In 2023, Dr. Luisa D. Rona Pitaluga started her activities as a collaborating professor focusing on Molecular and Structural Biology.

Maicon R. Kviecinski e-mail: maicon.rk@ufsc.br (visiting member – since 2021)

Luisa D. Rona Pitaluga e-mail: luisa.rona@ufsc.br (collaborating member – since 2023)

 

Former members

 

Roberta de Paula Martins (collaborating member – 2021-2023)	Guilherme de Toledo e Silva  (collaborating member – 2021-2022)	Aderbal S. Aguiar Júnior (collaborating member – 2018-2022)
Andreza Fabro de Bem (permanent member – 2008-2021)	Tânia Pasa (permanent member 2012-2016/ collaborating member 2016-2020)	Karim Hahn Luchmann (collaborating member 2014-2017)
Maria Risoleta Freire Marques (collaborating member 2014-2016)	Patrícia Cardoso Severino (collaborating member 2008 -2011)	Nelson Horácio Gabilan (permanent member – 2008-2016/ collaborating member in 2016)
Javier Ignacio Vernal (collaborating member – 2008-2011)