Elisa Micaela Costa Ferreira

Biomedical and PhD student at the University of São Paulo-USP. Member of CISM - Center for Research and Innovation in Mental Health, in axis 3 of technological interventions, currently participates in the projects: CONEMO and Multifaceted Intervention in Mental Health for health professionals in Jaguariúna. Active in scientific research since 2017, carried out with CAPES-Cnpq grants, and a Butantan Foundation grant, he developed a project with Micrurustoxin, the Mlx 9 Toxin from the Snake Venom of the Micrurus lemniscatus Species, and its Phospholipases A2 and Possible Changes in the Cytoskeleton of Cells , Specifically Neurons and Astrocytes, in the Department of Pharmacology at the Butantan Institute. Also participated in a study on obesity, using glutamate for treatment in an animal model, at the Butantan Institute. Participation in the study on the roles of melatonin. Thematic project under the coordination of Prof. Professor José Cipolla Neto of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Department of Neurobiology, both at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at USP. Projects she coordinated: Melatonin, Physiology and Pathophysiology. Basic and Clinical Studies, Characterization of Hypomyelatonninemic Syndrome and the Role of Therapeutic Replacement with Melatonin; Physiology and pathophysiology of the animal raised and suckled under conditions of hypomelatoninemia: molecular changes in the fetal, neonatal and adult hippocampus. At the Pharmacology Laboratory, at the Butantan Institute. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)