Anna Pereira-Fernandes
History
- Member for
- 2 years 2 days
Professional information
- Own research projects
- Position in the lab
- PhD student
- Curriculum Vitae
In 2009 I graduated as Master in Bio- Engineering at the VUB, and decided to start a PhD at the University of Antwerp. Since November 2009 until now I am a PhD student at EBT and the title of my work is :The role of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the development of obesity.
- Selected presentations
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
- Anna Pereira-Fernandes, C. Vanparys, T. Hectors , R. Blust (2010). The role of endocrine-disrupting environmental chemicals in the global epidemic of obesity. Poster 16th European Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing – Linz (Austria) september 1-4 2010
- Anna Pereira-Fernandes, Laurence Roosens, Tinne Geens, Tine Hectors, Caroline Vanparys, Eveline Dirinck, Luc Van Gaal, Wim Van Hul, Hugo Neels, Adrian Covaci, Ronny Blust, Philippe Jorens. Endocrine-disrupting compounds: from accumulation to their role in the global “endocrine” epidemic of obesity. Human Biomonitoring meeting: From human biomonitoring to policy: a sustainable 'marriage' between' health and environment. October 27-28 2010, Brussels
- Anna Pereira-Fernandes, C. Vanparys, T. Hectors, R. Blust. Use of the 3T3-L1 cell line to study the obesogenic effect of endocrine-disrupting environmental chemicals. November 25 2010, Louvain La Neuve
- Anna Pereira-Fernandes, Caroline Vanparys, Tine Hectors, Adrian Covaci, Luc Van Gaal, Philippe Jorens, Ronny Blust The role of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the development of obesity: an omics approach. 28th - 31th August 2011, Eurotox congres, Paris, France
PLATFORM PRESENTATION
-Pereira-Fernandes A, Vanparys C, Hectors T, Van Gaal L, Covaci A, Jorens P, Blust R. THE ENVIRONMENTAL OBESOGEN HYPOTHESIS: A MECHANISTIC EVALUATION OF THE HYPOTHESIS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SCREENING SYSTEM FOR OBESOGENIC SUBSTANCES. Dioxin congress 21th-25th August 2011, Brussels, Belgium
- Awards
- ESTIV Student Presentation award, at the Dioxin congres, August 2011 in Brussels.