Joana M. Gaspar
PhD in Cellular Biology (2011- Revalidation by UNICAMP in Medical Pathophysiology) and BS in Biochemistry (2006) by the University of Coimbra. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Chronic Disease Studies (2011-2013) and at BIDMC, Harvard Medical School (2013). She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Research on Obesity and Comorbidities (OCRC), State University of Campinas and 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
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.
Publications: