Team – Laboratório de Cronobiologia Binacional

Our team

Coordinators

Received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Physics from the University of São Paulo in 1990, 1992 and 1997, respectively. From 1998 to 2000, she was a posdoc in the Center for Biological Timing, University of Virginia. From 2001 to 2006, she was a posdoc in Physics at the University of São Paulo. Since 2007 she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo. Her research interests include: Chronobiology, Comparative Physiology, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.

Graduated in Animal Husbandry – Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (1989), Master in Biological Sciences – Physiology (1993) and PhD in Science- Physiology by the State University of Campinas (1999). She was a visiting student for three years in the Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern Universitlbcy, Illinois, USA. She did a post-doctorate at the Institute of Biosciences at USP- São Paulo. Later she was a Visiting Researcher at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal. She is currently CONICET Independent Researcher at La Rioja Regional Center for Scientific Research and Technology Transfer – CRILAR, in Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina. She has experience in chronobiology, animal behavior, learning and memory.

Team members

Her research interests involve ecophysiology and chronobiology, particularly how endogenous mechanisms contribute to the understanding of organism-environment interactions. She holds a Bachelor degree in Biological Sciences and a Master degree in Sciences (General Physiology) by the University of São Paulo, during which she worked in the Binational Lab investigating the temporal pattern of tuco-tucos’ emergence to the surface and its variation throughout the year, in a semi-field environment. Currently, she is interested in understanding how tuco-tucos change their behavior as a response to the energetic challenges they face throughout the year, using bio-logging techniques to extract information on their activity underground.

Master of Sciences (2021), Licentiate and Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo (2018). He has worked as a graduate student in the field of Chronobiology since his undergraduate research, with an emphasis on photoperiodism and seasonality in laboratory studies. Currently, he is a PhD candidate (PPG Fisiologia Geral USP), developing a project within Chronobiology, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Gisele Akemi Oda and Dr. Verónica Sandra Valentinuzzi.

University Technician in Biogenetics. National University of La Rioja: December 2015.

[01/06/2017-Present time] CPA Technician at CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research) exclusive dedication at CRILAR (Regional Center for Research and Transfer of La Rioja) in: “Laboratory of Applied Mycology” and “Binational Laboratory of Argentina-Brazil Chronobiology ”. In charge of the rodent animal housing: feeding, cleaning, rhythm register control. Field work: capture, placement and control of collars with biologgers. Weighing, stool collection for hormonal analysis.