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

 Prof. Gaspar holds an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry (2006) and a doctoral degree in Cellular Biology (2011 – Recognized by UNICAMP in Medical Pathophysiology) from the University of Coimbra. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Chronic Disease Studies (2011-2013) and at BIDMC, Harvard Medical School (2013). She was also a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Research on Obesity and Comorbidities (OCRC), Universidade Estadual de Campinas, and a foreign visiting professor at PPGBQA. Currently, Dr. Gaspar is a Professor at the Department of Biochemistry at UFSC.  https://imunometabolismo.paginas.ufsc.br/

“Her research is focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms that are in the biogenesis of metabolic diseases and obesity.”

 

Courses:
a) BQA510035 – Neurobiology of obesity and metabolic diseases

 

Ongoing Projects:
a) Metabolic Derangements and Brain Metabolic Control Underlying Cognitive Decline.
b)Maternal obesity: pathophysiological and neurodevelopmental mechanisms for the biogenesis of autism and childhood obesity.
c) Importance of neuroinflammation in obesity associated with autism spectrum disorders: exercise as a pharmacological approach to prevent metabolic diseases.

 

Main Publications: 

Editorial Obesity and Diabetes: Implications for Brain-Immunometabolism. Frontiers in Neuroscience, v. 14, p. 1-2, 2020.

Transient Gain of Function of Cannabinoid CB1 Receptors in the Control of Frontocortical Glucose Consumption in a Rat Model of Type-1 Diabetes. Brain Research Bulletin, v. 20, p. 30226, 2020.

Abnormal brown adipose tissue mitochondrial structure and function in IL10 deficiency. EBiomedicine, v. 39, p. 436-447, 2019.

Downregulation of HIF complex in the hypothalamus exacerbates diet-induced obesity. Brain Behavior and Immunity, v. 73, p. 550-561, 2018.