Program

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09:50 – 10:10

Paula C. Alves, Diego O. Hartmann, Isabel Martins, Helga Garcia, M. Cristina Leitão, Jörg Becker, Cristina Silva Pereira
"Ionic liquid stimuli augment secondary metabolite production in fungi: the case of a proficuous producer, Aspergillus nidulans"

Ana Filipa Silva, Gilda Carvalho, Adrian Oehmen, Renata Soares, Maria Lousada-Ferreira, Arjen van Nieuwenhuijzend, Ana V. Coelho, Maria A. M. Reis, Teresa Crespo
"Characterization of microbial community structure and influence of extracellular proteins in membrane bioreactor fouling"

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break / Poster session

11:00 – 11:20

Neuza Teixeira, Sriram Varahan, Matthew J. Gorman, Kelli L. Palmer, Anna Zaidman-Remy, Ryoji Yokohata, Jiro Nakayama, Lynn E. Hancock, Antonio Jacinto, Michael S. Gilmore and Maria de Fátima Silva Lopes
"Enterococcus faecalis Fsr regulon and its impact during Drosophila melanogaster infection"

11:20 – 11:40

Adélia Varela, Celso Martins, Isabel Martins, M. Cristina Leitão, Tiago Martins, Óscar Núñez, M. Teresa Gálceran, M. Vitória San Romão and Cristina Silva Pereira
"Soil functioning during pentachlorophenol decay: the case study of filamentous fungi"

Diego O. Hartmann, and Cristina Silva Pereira
"Toxicity and beyond: ionic liquids as potential tools in biological sciences"

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

14:20 – 15:10

Invited Speaker |  Sérgio Oliveira from SPOTS – Neuro Linguistic Programming

15:10 – 15:30

João M.S. Cardoso, and Beatriz Royo
"Sustainable catalysis based on organometallic iron complexes"

15:30 – 15:5

S. Sowmiah, C.A.M. Afonso, J.M.S.S. Esperança, L.P.N. Rebelo
"New ionic liquids from renewable resources"

15:50 – 16:20

Coffee break / Poster Session

16:20 – 16:40

Marta Marques, Antonio De Lacey, Pedro M. Matias and Inês A. C. Pereira
"Structural and functional studies of a high-activity [NiFeSe] hydrogenase"

Sónia Mendes, and Lígia O. Martins
"Multi-Enzymatic Systems for Cleaning-up Xenobiotics from the Environment"

17:00 – 17:20

Ana Raquel Ramos, Kimberly L. Keller, Judy D. Wall and Inês A.C. Pereira
"Interaction between the Qmo complex and APS reductase: a link between the menaquinone pool and sulfate reduction?"

09:30 – 09:50

Laura Paixão, Joana Oliveira, Eva Lourenço, Rita Ventura, André Verissímo, Susana Vinga, Morten Kjos, Jan-Willem Veening, Peter Andrew, Hasan Yesilkaya and Ana Rute Neves
"The metabolic routes used by Streptococcus pneumoniae to grow on “host” sugars"

09:50 – 10:10

Gonçalo Poças, Federico Herrera, Tiago Outeiro, Pedro Domingos
"Genetic and functional interaction of alpha-synuclein and huntingtin in Drosophila"

10:10 – 10:30

Ana M. Esteves, Sanjeev K. Chandrayan, Patrick M. McTernan, Michael W. W. Adams, Nuno Borges and Helena Santos
"Mannosylglycerate and di-myo-inositol-phosphate have interchangeable roles during stress adaptation of Pyrococcus furiosus"

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break / Poster session

11:00 – 11:20

Margarida Saramago, Inês Jesus Silva, Igor Ruiz de los Mozos, Susana Domingues, Sandra Viegas, Nabila Haddad, Rute Gonçalves Matos, and Cecília Maria Arraiano
"The relevance of RNase III in several pathogenic bacteria"

11:20 – 11:40

Lia Domingues, Ahmad Ismail, Isabel Rodríguez-Escudero, Víctor J. Cid, Maria Molina, Luís Jaime Mota
"Analyses of the molecular and cellular function of SteA, a Salmonella effector protein"

11:40 – 12:00

Dina S. Coelho, Fatima Cairrão, Xiaomei Zeng, Elisabete Pires, Ana V. Coelho,David Ron, Hyung Don Ryoob and Pedro M. Domingos
"ER stress signaling is required for photoreceptor differentiation in Drosophila"

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch   

14:00 – 14:50

Invited Speaker | Ana Freitas Reis from Progma - Personal Branding

14:50 – 15:10

Filipa Nunes,Anabela L. Isidro, Lia Domingues, Mónica Serrano and Adriano O. Henriques
"SpoVID: a morphogenetic protein essential for the assembly of the spore coat in Bacillus subtilis"

15:10 – 15:30

Liliana Ferreira, Mark Donoghue, Filipe Borges, Rob Martienssen, João Maroco, Mª Margarida Oliveira, Ana Paula Santos
"Disclosing the role of DNA methylation in rice response to salt stress"

15:30 – 15:50

Alexandre Borges, Sara Monteiro, Ana Lourenço, Ricardo Ferreira
"Dirigent Proteins: Plant Defence Modulation by Enantioselective Regulation"

15:50 – 16:20

Coffee break / Poster session

16:20 – 16:40

Andreia Miguel, Ana Milhinhos, Brian Jones and Célia Miguel
"Towards an understanding of the phellogen molecular regulation"

16:40 – 17:00

Rui C. Pimpão, Gordon McDougall, Maria E. Figueira, Pedro Oliveira, Derek Stewart, Ricardo B. Ferreira, Gary Williamson, Claudia N. Santos
"Bioavailable metabolites from ingestion of berry fruits by human volunteers"

17:00 – 17:20

Maria Cecília Almadanim, Nuno Gonçalves, Sónia Negrão, Isabel A. Abreu, Maria Margarida Oliveira
"OsCPK17, a promising signal transducer candidate in rice abiotic stress response"

P1. Photochromic ionic liquids (PCILs) - Mário R.C. Soromenho,Carlos A. M. Afonso, José M. S. S. Esperança, Luís P. N. Rebelo
 

P2. The nitroreductase FrxA protects Helicobacter pylori from nitrosative injury - Margarida Parente , Marta C. Justino, Ivo G. Boneca and Lígia M. Saraiva
 

P3. Peptide dendrimers conformational determinants: a computational study - Luís C. S. Filipe , Miguel Machuqueiro,Tamis Darbre and António M. Baptista
 

P4. Studies on the stability and oligomerization states of the helicases RuvBL1 and RuvBL2 - Sara Silva , Tiago Bandeiras, Pedro Matias
 

P5. New dye-decolourising peroxidases from Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas putida MET94: towards biotechnological applications - Sónia Mendes , Ana Santos, Vânia Brissos, Murat Sezer, Smilja Todorovic and Lígia O. Martins
 

P6. Characterization of probiotic strains of the epiphytic microflora of table olives - Cátia M. Peres , Marta Alves, Liliana Moreira, Adrián Hernandez Mendoza, Mª Rosário Bronze, Cidália Peres,Francisco Xavier Malcata
 

P7. Turning Corynebacterium glutamicum into a cell factory for the production of 2,3-butanediol - D. Radoš , A.L. Carvalho, B. Blombach, A.R. Neves, B. Eikmanns and H. Santos
 

P8. Insights into the discriminatory ability of PGRP-SA, a peptidoglycan perception system produced by the Drosophila innate immune syste - Filipa Vaz , Gonçalo Covas and Sérgio R Filipe
 

P9. Role of the adaptive immune system in Escherichia coli adaptation to the mouse gut - João Batista
 

P10. The FemXAB protein family is essential for the survival of Staphylococcus aureus - João M. Monteiro ¹ , Daniela Münch², Hans-Georg Sahl², Mariana G. Pinho¹

P11. The GL glucosaminidase of Staphylococcus aureus binds DNA at the cell surface - Inês R. Grilo ¹ , Ana Madalena Ludovice^1,2, Alexander Tomasz³, Hermínia de Lencastre^1,3, Rita G. Sobral^1,4
 

P12 – The use of flourescent D-aminoacids unravels new sites of peptidoglycan synthesis inStaphylococcus aureus ^– Maria Teresa Ferreira and Mariana G. Pinho
 

P13. A mosaic genetic screen to identify targets of the IRE1/Xbp1 signalling pathway in Drosophila - Nadine Schweizer , Vanya Rasheva and Pedro Domingos
 

P14. Exploring the spore-host interface of probiotic strains of Bacillus subtilis - Patrícia Amaral , Teresa Costa, Adriano O. Henriques and Maria C. Amaral
 

P15. Quantitative analysis of spermatozoa chemotaxis in three dimensions - Pedro Ângelo Silva ¹ and Jorge Carneiro
 

P16. Epidemic strains of Clostridium difficile ribotype 027 from an outbreak in a Portuguese hospital - Antunes, W ., M. Serrano, A. Santos, J. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, M. Oleastro, A.O. Henriques.
 

P17. Role of SUMOylation in the activity of two TFs regulating OsDREB1B gene expression - André Cordeiro , Isabel A. Abreu, M. Margarida Oliveira and Nelson J.M. Saibo
 

P18. Tissue and developmental-specific small RNA profiles in Pinus pinaster - Andreia Rodrigues , Inês Chaves, Andreas Bohn² and Célia Miguel
 

P19. Mechanistic insights into polyphenol-mediated protection against alpha-synuclein toxicity - Diana Macedo , Sandra Tenreiro, Ricardo B. Ferreira, Tiago F. Outeiro and Cláudia N. Santos
 

P20. What about the role of Trehalose-6-Phosphate (T6P) in the legume response to water deficit (WD)? - Branco, D .
 

P21. Considering genetic structure and familiar relatedness in a maize association panel - Mara Lisa Alves, Susana T. Leitão^, Pedro Mendes-Moreira⁾, Zlatko Šatović and Maria Carlota Vaz Patto
 

P22. Unraveling Post-Transcriptional Regulation Mechanisms on Eucalyptus Wood Formation - Victor Carocha

P23. Modulation of neuronal differentiation by carbon monoxide and oxygen levels - Ana S. Almeida , Paula M. Alves, Helena L. A. Vieira
 

P24. Study of two Dsr proteins involved in dissimilatory sulfate reduction - André A. Santos , Fabian Grein, Sofia S. Venceslau, Murat, Sezer Smilja Todorovic, Christiane Dahl and Inês A. C. Pereira
 

P25. Tailoring retroVLPs immunogenicity by the manipulation of cellular tetraspanins - H.R. Soares , R. Castro, H. Tomás, A.F. Rodrigues, A. I. Almeida, M. Guerreiro, B. Bellier, D. Klatzmann, P. M. Alves, M. J. T. Carrondoand A. S. Coroadinha
 

P26. Purification of adenovirus by 2-column periodic countercurrent chromatography - Piergiuseppe Nestola , Ricardo Silva^, Cristina Peixoto^, Paula M. Alves^, Manuel Carrondoand José Paulo Mota
 

P27. B iophysical characterization of both Dps from Deinococcus radioduran - Sandra P. Santos , Célia V. Romão
 

P28. Unravelling the metabolome of GS-CHO cells towards bioprocess optimization - Tiago Duarte , Nuno Carinhas, Laura Calvo Barreiro, Manuel J. T. Carrondo, Paula M. Alves, Ana P. Teixeira
 

P29. Development of Structured Lipid Particles Containing Glyceryl Monooleate Through Supercritical Fluid Precipitation Technology - V. S. S. Gonçalves , A. A. Matias, I. D. Nogueira, C. M. M. Duarte