Speaker Maria de Nazaré Correia Soeiro is Graduated in Biological Sciences at Faculdade de Humanidades do Pedro II, Brazil, Dr Soeiro got her MSc defense (in Parasitology Program at IOC/Fiocruz) in 1993 regarding the Biological aspects of surface molecules acting at the invasion steps of Trypanosoma cruzi on cardiac cells. The PhD degree (in Cellular and molecular biology Program– IOC/Fiocruz) regarding the role of acute phase proteins on different mouse models of T.cruzi infection was defended at 1999. Part of the experimental studies (molecular and ultrastructural approaches) was conducted both at the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven (Department of Human Genetics, Campus GasthuisbergB-3000, Leuven, Belgium) and at Institut National de la Sante et la Recherche Medicale (INSERM Laboratoire de Microscopie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR 8532, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France). At 2002 and 2005, Dr Soeiro worked at the INSERM (Unit 524 – at Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Antitumorale – IRCL, Lille/França and EMI INSERM 01-05 - CEA/Grenoble/France, respectively) due to bilateral collaborative projects regarding programmed cell death mechanisms and TGF-beta signaling during T.cruzi infection. The team of Dr Soeiro has expertise in experimental chemotherapy (in vitro and in vivo) for anti-parasitic agents (synthetic and biomolecules), especially for Chagas disease. Presently she is titular Researcher from Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), head of the Cellular Biology Laboratory (IOC/FIOCRUZ). From 2007 up to 2009, was coordinator of Chagas Disease Program from FIOCRUZ (http://www.fiocruz.br/pidc). Since 2003, she acts on the Biosafety Inter Commission of IOC (CIBIO) working (2004-2012) as Head of the Professional Trainee in Biosafety –CIBIO/IOC. Since 2005, she is member from the Scientific Stage Committee from IOC (PIBIC/IOC), being the head from 2006-2007 and 2012-2014, and presently is member of the Pos-graduation committee of Biologia Parasitária Program (IOC/Fiocruz). Dr Soeiro is referee of several international scientific journals and member from the editorial team of Parasitology and Parasitology Open. Dr Soeiro participates in different Consortium and Networks (CPDD, RESNET, PDE4PNPD, CORALSOL, among others), has published 114 peer reviewed research papers and reviews, has 08 book chapters, edited one book and supervised more than 25 máster, PhDs projects  and pós-docs. Over the years, Dr Soeiro has been awarded with several prizes, including the best PhD thesis of one of her students on Biological Science at 2012 and 2017 by CAPES (Brazil) and Prêmio Anual IOC de Teses Alexandre Peixoto 2017 by Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz.