Rossana R Porto

PhD Student

My undergraduate course was in physical education and I have always worked with exercise. 
I finished my master in Neuroscience at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 2014, working in the Cell Physiology lab, where the subject of study was a molecular chaperone, HSP70, induced in the hypothalamus by high intensity exercise and its relationship with lactate metabolism. I also conducted some work with diabetes and obesity meanwhile.
I started the PhD in Neurosciece at the same University in 2014, under Lucas de Oliveira Alvares supervision, now working with the influence of HSP70 in the molecular basis of memory. I am currently doing a year abroad, at The University of Sydney/Australia, working with HSP70 induction as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.