 My teacher, my first professor, her name is Cynthia Kia from the University of Brasilia in Brazil. Everybody that studies in the University of Brasilia will tell you that she's the most amazing microbiology teacher and I used to love to work with her, I did my master's with her because she's able to identify the bacteria by smelling the petri dish and I knew from this that all studying with her was amazing. It's like she's so much passionate about microbiology that it's contagious and that's what got me into microbial ecology and also doing my PhD I had the opportunity to go abroad and work at Jim Prosser's lab which is also one of my microbiology heroes and both of them is both due to their passion for microbiology but also for their able to do human relationships so well and pass their knowledge and discuss with you and be so critical about the work and yeah I've learned so much with them that they are both of them are my microbiology heroes.