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Program

April 6th (Saturday)

8:00Check-in

9:00Opening session

9:45Made in MIB/MEB

  • Catarina Moura: Multimodal label-free imaging for stem cell plasticity and skeletal regeneration
  • Ana Barros: Bioprocesses associated with microalgae
  • João Pedrosa: Software for analysis of pulmonary X-ray images
  • Cátia Fidalgo: Sterilization Methods for Decellularized Scaffolds

11:00Coffee Break

11:30Portable Medicine: The Biomedical Future

  • Rui Pedro Paiva: WELCOME Vest - DPOC monitoring vest
  • Sofia Balula Dias: Parkinson Early Detection - iPROGNOSIS
  • André Pardal: SwitHome - post-Stroke Walking rehabilITation at Home

13:00Lunch

14:00Speed Dating - Session 1

14:30Ageing: A Challenge for Biotechnology

  • Aubrey de Grey: Why Age May Soon Cease to Imply Aging (VideoCall)
  • João Pedro de Magalhães: Genes regulating ageing and the quest for immortality
  • Bruno Bernardes de Jesus: Silencing of the lncRNA Zeb2-NAT facilitates reprogramming of aged fibroblasts and safeguards stem cell pluripotency

16:00Coffee Break

16:30Cells at Work

  • Isabel Rocha: In silico Synthethic Biology strategies for novel Cell Factories
  • Manuel Carrondo: Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP) at IBET/GenIBET
  • Qasim Rafiq: Automated approaches for the process development and manufacture of cell and gene therapies

18:00Speed Dating - Session 2

April 7th (Sunday)

9:00Towards a Greener World

  • Vânia Oliveira: Microbial Fuel Cells: fundamentals, challenges and applications
  • Isabel Ferreira: Natural food additives: are you aware of what nature could provide?
  • Eduardo Gudiña: Biosurfactants: production, applications and future potential

10:30Coffee Break

11:00A Tour through Bioentrepreneurship

  • Biofabics: 3D Biotissues Analogues
  • Biotrend: Biotrend: Experts in Bioprocessing
  • WeSENSS and Insignals Neurotech: BRAIN Lab Spin-Offs
  • BlueClinical Translational Medicine

12:30Lunch

14:00Speed Dating - Session 3

14:30Engineering in Nature's Style

  • Diana Olejnik: To be as Nimble as a bee
  • Marta Correia da Silva: Developing commercially valuable products for marine biofouling by bioprospecting the marine world
  • Glenn Gaudette: Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue

16:00Coffee Break

16:30Exercising: From Lab to Tech

  • Pedro Forte: Helping wheelchair-racing athlete's to excel with Computer Fluid Dynamics
  • Daniel Moreira Gonçalves: Exercise as a polypill
  • João Paulo Vilas-Boas: Swimming Biomechanics

18:00Closing Session