Maria Elisa Calcagnotto
PhD in Neurology / Neuroscience (UNIFESP)
Professor of the Dept. of Biochemistry – ICBS - UFRGS since 2013. She holds degree in Pharmacy from UFRGS and in Medicine from PUCRS, medical residency in Neurology at Hospital São Lucas-PUCRS, and Ph.D. in Neurology/Neurosciences from UNIFESP, Brazil. Postdoctoral fellow in Basic Neurophysiology, with emphasis on electrophysiology, at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) - McGill University, Canada (3 years), at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), United States (5 years), and at UNIFESP (1 year). Postdoctoral fellow in cellular therapy and neuroscience at the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER) in Seville, Spain (2 years), and PNPD fellow in neurophysiology at the Dept. of Biochemistry – UFRGS, Brazil (3 years). Has experience in the field of Medicine, Neurology, Epilepsy, Basic and Clinical Neurophysiology (including techniques of in vitro and in vivo electrophysiological recordings). In the PPG in Neurosciences at UFRGS, she is the responsible professor for the courses: 1) CNS Electrophysiology, 2) Neuroscience Communication to Society, and 3) Experience in Supervising Junior Scientific Students. Her research line includes neurochemical and neurophysiological aspects of neural excitability and synaptic plasticity and biological rhythms involved in the mechanisms of epilepsy.