Program

INSTRUCT-PT day – 13 February 2026
ITQB, Oeiras

Program

09:30 - 10:00  Registration

Chair: Elin Moe, ITQB NOVA

10:00 - 10:05  Welcoming address – João Paulo Crespo - ITQB NOVA Director 

10:05 - 10:35 Present and Future directions of Instruct-ERIC - Harald Schwalbe, Instruct-ERIC Director

10:35 - 10:50 The broad portfolio offered by Instruct Centers – John Dolan, Instruct-ERIC

10:50 - 11:10 Instruct-PT - Margarida Archer, ITQB NOVA and Carlos Cordeiro, Ciências - ULisboa

11:10 - 11:30   Coffee Break

Chair: 

11:30 - 11:45 Portuguese Platform of BioImaging (PPBI), Node of Euro-Bioimaging - Luísa Cortes, CNC-UC

11:45 - 12:00  Latest developments at CryoEM@ PT - Paulo Ferreira, INL

12:00 – 13:30   Lunch Break

Chair: 

13:30 – 13:50  Activation Mechanism and Structural Assembly of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ClpP1P2 Protease and Its Associated ATPases - Katharina Weinhäupl, i3s

13:50 – 14:10  Unravelling Protein Interactions in the AAA+ ATPase RuvBL1/RuvBL2 Complex - Catarina Paiva, iBET

14:10 – 14:30 Structural studies on Polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases (PhaC) - Guilherme Alves, FCT NOVA

14:30– 14:50  STEP (Stop Tuberculosis Efflux Pumps): a comprehensive approach to understand the mechanisms of antibiotic efflux - Joana Santos, i3s

14:50– 15:10  Time-resolved and ultra-high resolution crystallography: the new frontiers - Arwen Pearson, University of Hamburg

15:10 - 15:30   Coffee Break

Chair: Carlos Cordeiro, CiÊNCIAS, ULISBOA

15.30 - 16:00  Bridging Structural Biology, Bioinformatics, and AI: Scientific Rigor with Translational Impact - Irina Moreira, CNC-UC and PURR.AI

16:00 - 17:00  Round table: Structural biology: new methods, new ideas, new intelligence

Moderador: Margarida Archer (ITQB NOVA)

Panel: Harald Schwalbe (INSTRUCT-ERIC), Irina Moreira (CNC-UC and PURR.AI), Paulo Ferreira (INL), Sérgio Matos (Universidade de Aveiro), Eurico Cabrita (NOVA FCT), Carlos Cordeiro (Ciências - ULisboa)

17:00  Concluding remarks