Program
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 | Day 1 (Wednesday, October 10) | ||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Registration | ||||
| 10:00-10:15 | Opening Luís Paulo Rebelo, Director of ITQB | ||||
| Biology Session I Chairs: James Yates and Lia Domingues | |||||
| 10:10-10:40 | OP1. Renata Matos Enterococcus faecalis prophages are intricately interrelated and are important for adhesion to human platelets | ||||
| 10:40-11:00 | OP2. Ana Tavares High prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) of hospital origin in the community in Portugal | ||||
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee-Break sponsored by NZYTech and Sociedade Portuguesa Fisiologia Vegetal | ||||
| Biology Session II Chairs: Tiago Pais and Joana Rolo | |||||
| 11:30-11:50 | OP3. Ana Reis Functional characterization of Rrp44, the crucial component of the exosome | ||||
| 11:50-12:10 | OP4. Inês Silva A sRNA that controls the expression of a protein folding chaperone | ||||
| 12:10-12:30 | OP5. Vânia Pobre High throughput technologies and detailed analysis reveal the importance of exoribonucleases and RNA sequence and structure in the control gene expression | ||||
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30-15:30 | Poster Session I Biology and Plant Sciences (Posters 1-9) | ||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee-Break sponsored by Serdial | ||||
| 16:00-17:00 | Keynote Lecture “Genetic Conflicts” by Francisco Dionísio, FCUL | ||||
| Plant Sciences Session Chairs: Isabel Abreu and Liliana Ferreira | |||||
| 17:00-17:20 | OP6. Cátia Nunes Trehalose 6-phosphate primes SnRK1-regulated gene expression for growth in relation to sucrose availability | ||||
| 17:20-17:40 | OP7. Nuno Almeida Differential expression of Lathyrus cicera and Lathyrus sativus transcriptomes in response to rust (Uromyces pisi) infection | ||||
| 17:40 | Welcome reception sponsored by ITQB/IBET | ||||
Day 2 (Thursday, October 11) | |||||
| Technology Session I Chairs: Marta Justino and Filipe Almeida | |||||
| 9:40-10:00 | OP8. Joana Lamego A journey through the production and analysis of a human metabolising enzyme to the modification of an in vitro cell model | ||||
10:00-10:20 | OP9. Ana Carina Silva Improving Peste des Petits Ruminants Vaccine production and stability | ||||
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee-Break sponsored by Omnilabor and Ordem dos Biólogos | ||||
| 10:50-11:50 | Keynote Lecture "Chromatin dynamics in African Trypanosoma", Luísa Figueiredo, IMM | ||||
| Technology Session II Chairs: Marco Patrone and Pedro Silva | |||||
| 11:50-12:10 | OP10. Ana Filipa Rodrigues Using functional genomics for improved manufacture of virus-based biopharmaceuticals: Transcriptional profiling and metabolic engineering of retroviral vector producing cell lines | ||||
| 12:10-12:30 | OP11. Cláudia Queiroga Disclosing Carbon Monoxide Protection in Cerebral Ischemia: Insights into the cellular mechanisms | ||||
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30-15:30 | Poster Session II Technology (Posters 10-17) | ||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee-break sponsored by Serdial | ||||
| 16:00-17:00 | Keynote Lecture "Bacterial proteins, a new class of multi-functional anti-cancer drugs", Arsenio Fialho, IST | ||||
| Technology Session III Chairs: Pedro Mateus and Sowmiah Subbiah | |||||
| 17:00-17:20 | OP12. Isabel Martins Analysis of Aspergillus nidulans during biodegradation of recalcitrant substrates and ionic liquid stress | ||||
| 17:20-17:40 | OP13. Rui Ferreira There’s more to cork than sealing wine: plastics and drugs | ||||
| 17:40-18:00 | OP14. Helga Garcia Suberin, making new from the old | ||||
| Day 3 (Friday, October 12) | ||||
Technology Session IV | |||||
| 10:20-10:40 | OP15. Bárbara Almeida Micropollutants biodegradation in water and wastewater treatment systems: characterisation of the microbial populations involved in the removal process | ||||
| 10:40-11:00 | OP16. Sandra Sanches Integration of membrane filtration and photolysis processes for drinking water treatment | ||||
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee-Break | ||||
| Biological Chemistry & Chemistry Session I Chairs: Sofia Venceslau and Débora Tavares | |||||
| 11:30-11:50 | OP17. Eva Lourenço Synthesis of new protein stabilisers inspired by compatible solutes of hyperthermophilic microorganisms | ||||
| 11:50-12:10 | OP18. Przemyslaw Nogly X-ray structure of a substrate-specific α-phosphoglucomutase from Lactococcus lactis at 1.5 Å resolution - a new member of the haloacid dehalogenase superfamily | ||||
| 12:10-12.30 | OP19. Fábio Silva Hydrogen Metabolism in Desulfovibrio gigas | ||||
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30-15:30 | Poster Session III Biological Chemistry (Posters 18-22) | ||||
Biological Chemistry Session II | |||||
| 15:30-15:50 | OP20. Maria Alves Molecular mechanisms of cytochromes involved in extracellular electron transfer | ||||
| 15:50-16:10 | OP21. Mafalda Figueiredo Bacterioferritin protects the anaerobe D. vulgaris against oxidative stress conditions | ||||
| 16:10-16:30 | OP22. Zélia Gouveia Targeting heme with single domain antibodies | ||||
| 16:10-16:30 | OP23. Pedro Sousa Supercomplexes of Prokaryotic Aerobic Respiratory Chains | ||||
| 16:30-17:20 | Coffee-Break sponsored by Serdial | ||||
| 17:20-18:50 | Interactive Session Miguel Gonçalves, SparkAgency | ||||
20:00 | Closing Dinner | ||||
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Poster Session I: Biology and Plant Sciences | |||||
| Biology | |||||
| PP1 | Carriage of pneumococcal serotype 19A reduces Staphylococcus aureus carriage in Portuguese children in the era of PCV7 Débora Tavares, Ana Cristina Paulo, Hermínia de Lencastre, and Raquel Sá-Leão | ||||
| PP2 | Polymorphisms in Inc proteins and differential expression of inc genes among Chlamydia trachomatis strains correlate with invasiveness and tropism of lymphogranuloma venereum isolates Filipe Almeida, Vítor Borges, Rita Ferreira, Maria José Borrego, João Paulo Gomes, and Luís Jaime Mota | ||||
| PP3 | Screen for novel type III secretion effectors of Chlamydia trachomatis Maria Cunha and Luís Jaime Mota | ||||
| PP4 | Nitrogen-fixing biofertilizers for gramineous crops Nádia Castanheira, Ana C. Dourado, Paula I. L. Alves, Alicia Cortés Pallero, M. Teresa Barreto Crespo, Nuno Borges, Paula Fareleira | ||||
| PP5 | Zeb1 function in neural stem/progenitor cells – a genomic approach Pedro Rosmaninho, Vera Teixeira, Alexandre Raposo, and Diogo S. Castro | ||||
| Plant Sciences | |||||
| PP6 | A reverse genetics approach to identify cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) genotypes with improved polyphenolic content Ana Margarida Ferro, Rafael Lozano, Sónia Gonçalves, and Maria Margarida Oliveira | ||||
| PP7 | Understanding salt tolerance in plants: Two different approaches Inês S. Pires, Sónia Negrão, Melissa M. Pentony, Isabel A. Abreu, Margarida M. Oliveira, and Michael D Purugganan | ||||
| PP8 | Chickpea seed protein digestibility and antinutritional content Isa C. Ribeiro, Nuno Simões, Sébastien Planchon, Isabel Duarte, João B. Freire, Manuela Chaves, Jenny Renaut, and Carla Pinheiro | ||||
| PP9 | Differential expression of Lathyrus cicera and Lathyrus sativus transcriptomes in response to rust (Uromyces pisi) infection Nuno Felipe Almeida, Susana Trindade Leitão, Björn Rotter, Peter Winter, Diego Rubiales, and Maria Carlota Vaz Patto | ||||
Poster Session II: Technology | |||||
| PP10 | Using functional genomics for improved manufacture of virus-based biopharmaceuticals: Transcriptional profiling and metabolic engineering of retroviral vector producing cell lines Ana F. Rodrigues, Miguel Guerreiro, Ana S. Oliveira, Paula M. Alves, Wei-Shou Hu, and Ana S. Coroadinha | ||||
| PP11 | “Bioactivator” ionic liquids? Diana Ruivo, Francisco J. Deive, Ana Rodriguez, José M. S. S. Esperança, and Luís P.N. Rebelo | ||||
| PP12 | Developing even higher ionicity ionic liquids (hiils). Simple: just add salt F. S. Oliveira, A. B. Pereiro, J. M. M. Araújo, J. N. C. Lopes, Gabriel Feio, I. M. Marrucho, and L. P. N. Rebelo | ||||
| PP13 | Systems-level analysis of baculovirus-host interactions: from genomic to metabolomic decomposition Francisca Monteiro, Vicente Bernal, and Paula M. Alves | ||||
| PP14 | New CO2 separation membranes based on pyrrolidinium ionic materials Liliana C. Tomé, David Mecerreyes, Carmen S.R. Freire, Luís Paulo N. Rebelo, and Isabel M. Marrucho | ||||
| PP15 | Awakening of silent secondary metabolites genes of two model Ascomycota by ionic liquids Paula C. Alves, Diego O. Hartmann, Isabel Martins, Helga Garcia, Maria Cristina Leitão, Jörg Becker, and Cristina Silva Pereira | ||||
| PP16 | Production of helper-dependent canine adenovirus type 2 (CAV-2) vectors for gene therapy: Impact of transcomplementing gene products on producer cell-line P.Fernandes, E.J. Kremer, A.S. Coroadinha, and P.M. Alves | ||||
| PP17 | New ionic liquids from renewable resources S Sowmiah, C.A.M Afonso, J.M.S.S Esperança, and L.P.N Rebelo | ||||
Poster Session III: Biological Chemistry | |||||
| PP18 | Crz1 and Ca2+ - signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae exposed to arsenic stress Rita T. Ferreira, Ana R. Courelas Silva, Catarina Pimentel, Liliana Batista-Nascimento, Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada, and Regina A. Menezes | ||||
| PP19 | Structural Virology Of The Murid Gamma-Herpesvirus 4 Bruno Correia, Colin McVey, Marta Miranda, and Maria Arménia Carrondo | ||||
| PP20 | Unveiling specificities of the substrate pathways in a high activity H2 producing enzyme Carla S. A. Baltazar, Vitor H. Teixeira, and Cláudio M. Soares | ||||
| PP21 | Structural investigation of the NO sensing domain of the human soluble guanylate cyclase Meire C. Almeida and Manolis Matzapetakis | ||||
| PP22 | Study of energy transduction in bacteriorhodopsin using continuum electrostatics methods | ||||
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