Prof. Guilherme Campos Tavares obtained his PhD degree in Animal Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (original name) in 2018. He has experience in the area of Veterinary Medicine, with an emphasis on the health of aquatic organisms and technology and inspection of products of animal origin, especially fish, as well as genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics technologies for the study of pathogenic bacteria. He participated in the execution of two research projects funded by CNPq. He gave training lectures to academics, producers, and state agencies on health in fish farming. He is currently co-advisor of a doctoral student in the postgraduate program in Animal Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (original name), and Adjunct Professor I of the postgraduate course in Aquaculture (Nilton Lins University / INPA), being a master's advisor in this postgraduate program. He is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Applied Microbiology of Aquatic Organisms, based at Nilton Lins University. He has published scientific and technical articles related to infectious diseases in aquatic organisms, especially bacterial diseases that affect tilapia and surubim production in Brazil.