Michelle Silva Araujo Volpato

Currently is veterinarian coordinator at startup XenoBrasil, incubated at the Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center. Provides administrative services related to the operationalization of Xeno Brasil's pig facilities, managed by the company Biotec. Postdoctoral degree, with a FAPESP grant and the Dean of Research at USP, at the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo (FMVZ/USP) (2021-2022). Collaborating professor in the Graduate Program in Anatomy of Domestic and Wild Animals (PPGAADS) from FMVZ/USP (2021-2022). In 2019, froze canine semen in Al Ain City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In 2018, was hired by the xenotransplantation research group of the Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center of USP to perform cesarean surgical procedures in sows. She was assistant coordinator and tutor of EAD postgraduate courses in Veterinary Medicine at UnyLeya (2019-2021). Postgraduate coordinator of the Veterinary Medicine course at Unimax (2018-2019). She was a professor of the disciplines of pathophysiology of reproduction, biotechnologies of reproduction I and II, and obstetrics of the undergraduate course in Veterinary Medicine at Unimax (2015-2019). Has doctorate and a master's degree in Animal Biotechnology from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu campus, both with a FAPESP grant. Residency in Pathophysiology of Reproduction and Veterinary Obstetrics at UNESP, Botucatu campus (2013). She works as a freelancer in animal reproduction since 2013. She wrote texts on swine farming as a freelancer for the company Swine It, and is a contracted researcher with a FAPESP TT5a grant at the start-up XenoBr, based at Genome/USP. Her main research interests are centered on reproductive pathophysiology, reproductive biotechnologies, regenerative veterinary medicine, xenotransplantation. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)