Associate Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP), under the Full-Time Teaching and Research Regime (RDIDP). Coordinator of the disciplines "Immunology and Parasitology" and "Virology" of the Biological Sciences course at FFCLRP-USP. Coordinator of the Immunology Laboratory of FFCLRP-USP, member of the Brazilian Society of Immunology (associated with the International Union of Immunological Societies/IUIS). Supervises the Postgraduate Program in Basic and Applied Immunology at FMRP-USP. I have a degree in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1988), a master's degree (1994), and a doctorate (1998) from the Postgraduate Program in Basic and Applied Immunology at the Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine (FMRP-USP). I completed two postdoctoral studies (PD) at FMRP-USP (1998-2000 and 2002-2005), having the opportunity to work in the Laboratory of Professor Michael Ferguson at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and had a FAPEMIG Recent Doctorate scholarship (2001). I was a professor at the Ribeirão Preto School of Nursing-USP, where he coordinated and taught Microbiology and Immunology. Immunology expertise, with an emphasis on Immunochemistry, Glycobiology, and Immunotherapy in Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and Toxoplasma goondii infections.