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 |
Alcir Luiz Dafré e-mail: alcir.dafre@ufsc.br (credenciado desde 2008) |
Alex Rafacho |
Alexandra S. |
Alexandre |
Alfeu Zanotto Filho e-mail: alfeu.zanotto@ufsc.br (credenciado desde 2019) |
Ana Lúcia S. |
Ariane Zamoner |
Bóris J. C. |
Carla Inês |
Carlos Peres |
Eduardo Alves |
Fátima R. Mena |
Guilherme Razzera e-mail: guilherme.razzera@ufsc.br (credenciado desde 2019) |
Hernán F. |
Joana M. |
Manuella P. |
Marcelo Farina |
Margarete D. |
Rozângela C. |
Rodrigo Bainy |
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. |
Luisa D. Rona |
Former Faculty