Research Team

Heidi Cervantes
Junior Research Scientist

Felippe Mousovich Neto
Postdoctoral Associate

Tamires Duarte Afonso Serdan, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate

Tamires received her bachelor’s degree from Fieo University, Brazil. She obtained a Ph.D. degree in Health Science from the Cruzeiro do Sul University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. During her Ph.D. she also worked as a visiting student in the Molecular Biosciences Department at Stockholm University, Sweden. In her Ph.D. research, Tamires studied the role of brown adipose tissue in the regulation of metabolism in obesity and insulin-resistant models. Tamires is the recipient of the prestigious FAPESP scholarship from the State of São Paulo in Brazil. She joined Dr. Shamsi’s laboratory in October 2021.