Maria De Fatima Freire De Melo Ximenes

Full Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). I teach parasitology and medical entomology for courses in biological sciences, medicine and biomedicine. I coordinate the research laboratory in entomology and develop research with vectors of endemic diseases in the Brazilian semiarid region. I was head of the microbiology and parasitology department; director of the biosciences center; vice-rector and pro-rector of extension at UFRN.