Faculty

 Faculty

PPGBQA currently has 21 permanent professors, 1 collaborator, 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 is characterized by having 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), 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 productivity in research fellows.

The permanent professors of the PPGBQA integrate the three Research Lines of the program: a) Toxicological Biochemistry, 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:

a) Toxicological Biochemistry: 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.

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Afonso C. Dias
Bainy
e-mail:
afonso.bainy@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2008)

Alcir Luiz
Dafré
e-mail:
alcir.dafre@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2008)

Alex Rafacho
e-mail:
alex.rafacho@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2021)

Alexandra S.
Latini
e-mail: a.latini@ufsc.br
(credenciada desde 2008)

Alexandre
Pastoris Muller

e-mail: alexandrep.muller@gmail.com
(credenciado desde 2022)

Alfeu Zanotto
Filho
e-mail:
alfeu.zanotto@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2019)

Ana Lúcia S.
Rodrigues
e-mail:
ana.l.rodrigues@ufsc.br
(credenciada desde 2008)

Ariane Zamoner
P. de Souza
e-mail:
ariane.zamoner@ufsc.br
(credenciada desde 2009)

Bóris J. C.
Stambuk
e-mail:
boris.stambuk@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2008)

Carla Inês
Tasca
e-mail:
carla.tasca@ufsc.br
(credenciada desde 2008)

Carlos Peres
Silva
e-mail:
carlos.peres@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2008)

Eduardo Alves
de Almeida
e-mail:
eduardoalves@furb.br
(credenciado desde 2022)

Fátima R. Mena
Barreto Silva
e-mail:
mena.barreto@ufsc.br
(credenciada desde 2008)

Guilherme
Razzera
e-mail:
guilherme.razzera@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2019)

Hernán F.
Terenzi
e-mail:
hernan.terenzi@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2008)

Joana M.
Gaspar

e-mail:
joanamgaspar@gmail.com
(credenciada desde 2022)

Manuella P.
Kaster 
e-mail:
manuella.kaster@ufsc.br
(credenciada desde 2013)

Marcelo Farina
e-mail:
marcelo.farina@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2008)

Margarete D.
Bagatini
e-mail: margaretebagatini@yahoo.com.br
(credenciada desde 2018)

Rozângela C.
Pedrosa
e-mail: rozangela.pedrosa@ufsc.br
(credenciada desde 2008)

Rodrigo Bainy
Leal
e-mail:
r.b.leal@ufsc.br
(credenciado desde 2008)

 

Collaborators and Visitors:  

The PPGBQA collaborator professors have complementary expertise to the permanent scholars. Dr. Joana Gaspar was part of the PPGBQA Faculty as a Foreign Visiting Professor from 2018 to 2021 and a collaborating professor since 2021. In 2021, Dr. Maicon R. Kviecinski started as a Visiting Scholar working in Toxicological Biochemistry. Moreover, in 2023 Dr. Luisa D. Rona Pitaluga initiated her activities as collaborating professor focusing is Molecular and Structural Biology.

Maicon R.
Kviecinski

e-mail:
maicon.rk@ufsc.br
(Docente Visitante –
credenciado desde 2021)

Luisa D. Rona
Pitaluga
e-mail:
luisa.rona@ufsc.br
(Docente Colaboradora –
credenciado desde 2023)

 

Former Faculty

 

Roberta de
Paula Martins
(Docente Colaborador
de 2021-2023)

Guilherme de
Toledo e Silva 
(Docente Colaborador
de 2021 – 2022)

Aderbal S.
Aguiar Júnior
(Docente colaborador
de 2018 – 2022

Andreza Fabro
de Bem
(Docente Permanente
de 2008 – 2021)

Tânia Pasa
(Docente Permanente
de 2012 – 2016/
Colaboradora
de 2016 – 2020)

Karim Hahn
Luchmann
(Docente Colaboradora
de 2014 -2017)
Maria Risoleta
Freire Marques
(Docente Colaboradora
de 2014 – 2016)
Patrícia Cardoso
Severino
(Docente Colaboradora
de 2008 -2011)
Nelson Horácio
Gabilan
(Docente Permanente
de 2008 – 2016/
Colaborador em 2016)

Javier Ignacio Vernal
(Docente Colaborador
de 2008 -2011)