Cristina Pacheco-Soares is a Researcher/Professor at the Laboratório de Dinâmica de Compartimentos Celulares, Universidade do Vale do Paraíba, São José dos Campos, Brazil. She earned a master's degree in Microbiology from the State University of Londrina in 1992 and a Ph.D. at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos Dos Goytacazes, Brazil, in 1998. She has experience in microbiology and biosciences, emphasizing cytotoxicity and genotoxicity, cryo-ultramicrotomes, cryofracture, and confocal microscopy.