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Possui graduação em Medicina Veterinária pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1982) e doutorado - Justus Liebig Universitaet Giessen (1991). Atualmente é Professora Titular da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, orientadora de mestrado e doutorado no Programa Ciências Veterinárias . É consultora de diversos periódicos científicos nacionais e internacionais. É membro do grupo Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA). Tem experiência na área de Medicina Veterinária, com ênfase em Doenças Infecciosas de Animais, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: suino, salmonela, resistencia, epidemiologia e caracterização fenotípica e genotípica e segurança dos alimentos.

She graduated in Veterinary Medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1982. In 1991, she received the ?Doktor Veterinärmedizin? degree from Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. She began as Professor at the Preventive Veterinary Medicine Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1998. Prior to that, she had served from 1986 to 1998 as Associated Professor at the Microbiology Department of the same University. She lectures on bacteriology, zoonosis and food borne diseases in the undergraduate and graduate courses. Since 1998, she has been engaged in research projects aiming to study and control food borne pathogens, particularly Salmonella, transmitted by pork. . She was the director of the Graduate Program of the Veterinary Faculty from 2011 to 2013.