Dr. Geonildo Rodrigo Disner completed his bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences with honors in 2012. He is a Master of Science and Doctor in Genetics with experience in Molecular Mutagenesis and Environmental Toxicology. Some of the research topics are related to emerging contaminants, PAHs, ecotoxicology, green toxicology, and alternative animal experimentation.
Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at Butantan Institute investigating immunoregulation, immune response, and toxinology using the gold-standard model Danio rerio. He was a Trainee member at The American Association of Immunologists (2020–2021). His research interests are new drug development, toxins, immunoregulation through miRNAs, epigenetics, molecular toxicology, environmental mutagenesis, and science outreach.
Prof. Dr. Carla Lima obtained a Ph.D. degree in immunology and postdoctorate in pharmacology at University of São Paulo, São Paulo. She is a scientific researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Toxicology at Instituto Butantan and cofounder and deputy coordinator of the Plataforma Zebrafish. She has rich experience in immunology, pharmacology, and toxicology research projects in an environment of academic and development/innovation vocation. The main focus of her research is using fish toxins as molecular tools to study the mechanisms underlying inflammatory processes, recapitulating immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in zebrafish embryos.
Prof. Dr. Monica Lopes-Ferreira is a biologist with a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of São Paulo and a postdoctorate appointment in biochemistry and pharmacology at Butantan Institute. From 2010 to 2012, she participated as a principal investigator at the Applied Toxin Center (CAT), a CEPID Project (Research, Innovation, and Dissemination Center), and FAPESP. She currently works as a scientific researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Toxicology (principal investigator and diffusion coordinator) and as a coordinator of the Zebrafish Platform at the Center for Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling (CeTICS, CEPID/FAPESP). Her work mainly focuses on regulation of the immune response, environmental toxicology, and the pharmaceutical properties of candidate molecules.
