Mini-curriculum

Clarissa Vaz graduated as a Veterinarian in the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil. She earned a MS degree in Preventive Veterinary Medicine and a PhD in Veterinary Sciences, both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. She served the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of UFRGS as a temporary professor, teaching Veterinary Virology at the Department of Veterinary Clinical Pathology. After her PhD, she joined the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), working as a young researcher at the Embrapa Swine and Poultry - a research unit in Concórdia, Santa Catarina, where she has worked ever since. Her research currently focuses on avian health and food safety. She has co-authored articles reporting results on build up litter in broiler farms and bacteriophages to control Salmonella in broilers. She has served the working group of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply on the Codex Alimentarius Food Hygiene Committee for control of Salmonella and Campylobacter in chicken meat and as a member of the scientific committee of the National Poultry Health Plan. She is presently a PSA member, and she also serves as a member of the Poultry Health Committee in Santa Catarina.

Education

1994 - 2000

Graduação em Medicina Veterinária

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Title: Conservação de Recursos Genéticos Animais

Obtained year: 2000

Advisor: Mara Iolanda Batistella Rubin

2000 - 2002

Mestrado em Ciências Veterinárias

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Title: Genotipificação de amostras sorotipificáveis e não sorotipificáveis de Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae através de RAPD

Obtained year: 2002

Advisor: Sérgio Ceroni da Silva

2003 - 2007

Doutorado em Ciências Veterinárias

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Title: Determinação da diversidade fenotípica e genotípica de Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica sorovar Enteritidis no Rio Grande do Sul

Obtained year: 2007

Advisor: Cláudio Wageck Canal

Areas of expertise

1. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Veterinary Medicine
2. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Veterinary Medicine / Subárea: Preventive Veterinary Medicine
3. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Veterinary Medicine / Subárea: Preventive Veterinary Medicine / Especialidade: Biologia Celular Molecular
4. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Microbiology
5. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Food Science and Technology / Subárea: Food science / Especialidade: Food Microbiology