Silvana Beani Poiani

Graduated in Biological Sciences and PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Sao Paulo State University - Unesp, Rio Claro, Brazil. Performed a 6-month internship for the development of a doctoral dissertation at Keele University (United Kingdom) at the Chemical Ecology Group - Lennard-Jones Laboratories, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. E.D. Morgan and Dr. Falko P. Drijfhout. She is in her second postdoctoral and has completed 1 year postdoctoral internship at the Department of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University (Czech Republic). She Has experience in internal morphology of social insects, chemical ecology and applied ecology, focusing on histology and ultrastructure, acting on the following subjects: bees, termites, leaf-cutting ants, histochemistry, cytochemistry, cell alterations, aging and cell death, glandular and cuticular chemical composition, surface pheromones, non-specific pesticides, toxicity; immune defense system, antioxidants. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)