Biography:

Daniela Álvarez was born in Santiago, Chile, She studied Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Valparaíso graduated in 2015. She is currently studying the PhD program in Nutrition and Food of the University of Chile. She devoted herself to study the reproductive alterations of gestational obesity in female offspring in a rat model. She is currently doing research on a mouse model of gestational obesity and study the placental transport of fatty acids and the metabolic alterations at the fetal liver level