Marco Antônio Peliky Fontes
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Biography
Marco Antônio Peliky Fontes has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from Federal University of Minas (UFMG), Brazil and Post Doctoral studies from University of Sydney, Australia. He is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics at the UFMG. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed Physiology and Neuroscience journals. Member of the American Physiological Society and INCT Nanobiofar / Brazil. The central area of his research is Cardiovascular Neuroscience with focus in circuits involved in the cardiovascular response to emotional stress and the central contribution of peptides for cardiovascular control.