RESEARCH SUPPORTING STAFF
Administrative Staff
María Silvina Ferrer
Degree: Financial Operations Technical Assistant
Position: Administrative Officer - Accounting - CPA-CONICET
Activities: Secretary. General administration. Administration of national and international subsidies for researchers.
Graciela Guadalupe Meinardi
Degree: PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
Position: Administrative Officer. art 9 -CONICET
Area: Administration
Activities: Responsible for the fulfillment of INIMEC accounting and administrative processes as well as for the monitoring and yield of subsidies for Foncyt projects, and those foreign received by researchers.
Marcelo Hector Perosio
Degree: Electronic Engineer, Management Engineer (MBA)
Position: Main Professional - CPA-CONICET
Area: Infrastructure
Activity: Plant Engineering.
Vivarium Staff
Marisa Gigena
Degree: PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Position: Associate Professional - CPA-CONICET
Area: Vivarium
Activities: She is responsible for managing all activities performed by the IMMF Vivarium since 2013. There are six technicians who work in this area. She coordinates the activities performed by these with the aim of offering different services of High-level Technology (STAN, in its Spanish acronym) to users who are internal and/or external to the Institution. She is in charge of the training through the organization of workshops and internships in relation to all aspects concerning test animals.
Romina Maiorano
Degree: Clinical Laboratory and Histopathology Technician
Position: Associate Technician - CPA-CONICET
Area: Vivarium
Activities: Production and maintenance of animals under SPF conditions. Management of the Vivarium ́s sterilization area.
Eliana Soledad Martínez
Degree: Clinical Laboratory and Histopathology Technician
Position: CPA Associate Technician - CPA-CONICET
Area: Production Vivarium.
Activities: Ensuring the welfare of animals. Performing thinning, sexing, weaning and crossbreeding keeping the outbreeding and inbreeding systems in rats and mice. Assigning a certain pregnancy date to animals (rats and mice). Preserving and monitoring genetically modified mice strains under micro insulation conditions. Extraction and collection of biological samples in rats and mice. Making and updating maternity and animal stock records. Managing and monitoring biosecurity measures. Performing and coordinating sterilization cycles and their corresponding controls.
Jesica Piovano
Degree: Clinical Laboratory and Histopathology Technician
Position: Assistant Technician - CPA-CONICET
Area: Experimental Vivarium
Activities: Production and maintenance of test animals (rats and mice), and the conditioning of materials used for such purpose. Taking of samples and administration of substances on such animals.
Joaquín José Nigro
Position: Associate Technician - CPA-CONICET
Area: Equipment and Laboratory maintenance
María de los Milagros Nigro
Degree: Clinical Laboratory and Histopathology Technician
Position: Assistant Technician - CPA-CONICET
Area: Vivarium
Activities: Planning of rats and mice production and monitoring of their macro and micro environment; management of colonies, biological samples collection and design of marking methods. Determining animals’ state of health, and maintaining the area under biosecurity regulations.
Patricio Pereyra
Position: Assistant Technician
Area: Vivarium
Activities: Training and performance in the Test Animals Area. (Experimental Vivarium)
Currently, an undergraduate student of the Psychology Degree in the National University of Córdoba, carrying out the End of Course Project within the framework of Neuroeducation.
Participation in a project about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) through the behavioral and neurochemical characterization of a genetically modified mouse, which displays the clinical features of such disorder (Neurophysiology Lab).
Staff in charge of common areas or associated to projects
Soledad de Olmos
Degree: Biochemist. Ph.D. in Health Sciences
Position: Main Professional - CPA-CONICET
Area: Neuroanatomy and Experimental Histology
Activities: Neuroanatomy and Histology Lab Manager. The activities performed are devoted to the improvement of neurohistological techniques, particularly the Golgi Silver Impregnation technique, in which the elimination of regular fibers is achieved and the impregnation of degenerated axons is increased (de Olmos y col 1969, 1972, 1981,1984). The technique known as Silver Staining (A-Cu-Ag) (de Olmos y col., 1994) is the latest modification to argentic methods and is highly sensitive to reveal neurodegenerative changes caused by different types of injuries. This feature turns the A-Cu-Ag technique into an ideal tool for the full neuroanatomical description of those brain structures involved in the answer to different agents that cause irreversible neurodegenerative damage. Dr. de Olmos offers her experience and the development of neurohistological techniques as a High-level Technology Service (STAN) of the INIMEC-CONICET.
María Mónica Remedi
Degree: Biochemist, Pharmacist, PhD in Chemical Sciences
Position: Main Professional - CPA-CONICET
Area: Neurobiology Lab. Stem Cells Culture Lab
Activities: Culture of induced stem cells (iPSCs), development of different protocols for the two- and three-dimensional culture and its differentiation into neurons by means of different techniques. Participation in the development of research projects of the INIMEC Neurobiology Lab as a specific project support task.
Andrea Vanina Pellegrini
Degree: Clinical Biochemist, Pharmacist, PhD in Chemical Sciences
Position: Associate Professional - CPA-CONICET
Area: Cell Culture
Activities: Manager of the Common Culture Room, Institute’s material and tools sterilization, cooperation with users in culture tasks, Control of mycoplasma contamination in cells and samples of vivarium through PCR. Participation in projects in collaboration with INIMEC labs.
Gonzalo Quassollo
Degree: Biologist, PhD in Biology
Position: Assistant Professional - CPA-CONICET
Area: Microscopy
Activities: In charge of the Microscopy Department. He provides advice and assistance in the use of microscopes (spinning disk confocal or DSU), Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscope or TIRFM, Confocal, and other laboratory equipment. He advises users on the handling, conservation and processing of samples that will be used on microscopes. Image processing. Participation in projects in collaboration with INIMEC labs.