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

Prof. Kaster holds an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences and a doctoral degree in Neurosciences at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. She carried out postdoctoral research in Neurosciences at the Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology – University of Coimbra, Portugal,, at McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, United States, and at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, United States.

“Her research is focused on the study of the biochemical and molecular mechanisms involved in resilience or susceptibility to stress and its impact on cognitive and emotional changes”

Main Publications:

CD300f immunoreceptor is associated with major depressive disorder and decreased microglial metabolic fitness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. 1: 1-12.

Stress and signaling pathways regulating autophagy: From behavioral models to psychiatric disorders. Experimental Neurology, 2020; 334: 113485.

NLRP3 Inflammasome-Driven Pathways In Depression: Clinical And Preclinical Findings. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2017; S0889: 30064-30068.

Caffeine acts through neuronal adenosine A receptors to prevent mood and memory dysfunction triggered by chronic stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015; 122: 7833/201423088-7838.