Elisia Gomes da Silva is a Laboratory Technician at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), a Biomedical Researcher at the Faculty of Health Ibituruna (2012), and a Specialist in Microbiology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2014). She has a Master's in Pharmacology at UFSM (2019). She is a PhD student in Pharmacology at UFSM and a collaborating researcher at the Laboratory of Fish Physiology (LAFIPE), at the same institution. She works in the research of essential oils and their phytochemicals as a treatment for bacterial diseases in fish using silver catfish (Rhamdia quelen) as an experimental model.