Scientific Program
Preliminary Program
📍Center for Biological Sciences – UFSC, Florianópolis
📅 October 15–17, 2025
https://curtobiochemistry.com/
October 15
Session 1 – Energy Metabolism and Homeostasis
13:30 Opening
14:00-15:00 Opening Lecture – “Mitochondria, Diets, and the Regulation of Energy Metabolism” – Alicia Juliana Kowaltowski, PhD – USP
15:00–15:50 – Lecture 1 – “Is Cholesterol Good or Bad for Your Brain?” Jade de Oliveira, PhD – UFRGS
15:50–17:20 – Coffee Break & Poster Session 1
17:20–17:50 – Oral Presentations 1 – 2
17:50–18:40 – Lecture 2 – “Central Mechanisms of Energy Balance Control” Lício Augusto Veloso, PhD – UNICAMP
October 16
Session 2 – Molecular Pathways Linking Metabolism, Development, and Disease
8:30–9:20 – Lecture 3 – “The Surprising Functions of Adipocyte Extracellular Vesicles” – Clair Crewe, PhD – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (USA).
9:20–10:10 – Lecture 4 – “…” – Luiz Osório Leiria, PhD – USP
10:10–10:40 – Coffee Break
10:40–11:10 – Oral Presentations 3 – 4
11:10–12:00 – Lecture 5 –“When Physics and Chemistry Meet Biology: Phase Transitions of the Prion Protein in Health and Disease” – Yraima Cordeiro, PhD – UFRJ
Lunch
14:00–14:50 – Lecture 6 – “Histone Lactylation Couples Cellular Metabolism with Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks” – Marcos Simões-Costa, PhD – Harvard University (USA).
14:50–15:40 – Lecture 7 – “Schizophrenia from a Proteomics Perspective” Daniel Martins-de-Souza, PhD – UNICAMP
15:40–17:10 – Coffee Break & Poster Session
17:10–17:40 – Oral Presentations 5 – 6
17:40-18:30 – Lecture 8 – “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Accelerated Epigenetic
Aging in Bipolar Disorder” Gabriel R. Fries, PhD – UTHealth, Houston (USA)
October 17
Session 4 – Invertebrate and Aquatic Models in Toxicological Research
8:30–9:20 – Lecture 10 – Neurotoxicity Testing in Caenorhabditis elegans: New Applications within the Adverse Outcome Pathway” – Mirian B. Virgolini – National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
9:20–10:10 – Lecture 11 – “Transcriptomic Investigation and Biomarker Discovery for Zinc Response in Oysters (Crassostrea gasar)” – Karim H. Lüchmann, PhD –UDESC
10:10–10:40 – Coffee Break
10:40–11:40 – Oral Presentations 7, 8, 9, 10
Lunch
13:30–14:20 – Lecture 12 – “The Promising Model Amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis: From EVO-DEVO to Ecotoxicology” Gisela de Aragão Umbuzeiro, PhD – UNICAMP
14:20–15:20 – Lecture 13 – “Expression of Zebrafish Cytochrome P450 enzymes and the use of high throughput screening to discover their functions” Joanna Wilson, PhD – Professor of Environmental Physiology, Department of Biology, McMaster University (Canada)
15:20 – Closing Remarks
