Programme

April 4th, Saturday

9:30Opening session

9:45Made in MIB/MEB

  • Joana Xavier (Germany): Earth's first bioreactors: from bioengineering to the origin of life
  • Ana Luísa Teixeira (Portugal): Where MIB took me
  • Célia Cruz (Portugal): Connecting the dots

11:00Break

11:30Bioengineer on a Mission

  • Miguel Castanho (Portugal): Fighting Zika virus with antiviral peptides and conjugates translocating blood-placental and blood-brain barriers
  • Waldir Júnior (Portugal): Project AFRICA: Empowering small-scale farmers in rural Africa
  • Vanessa Pereira (Portugal): Sustainable development of photocatalytic membranes for water and wastewater treatment applications

13:00Lunch (at home)

14:30A Trip through the Nervous System

  • António Salgado (Portugal): (Pre-recorded) Therapeutic Approaches using Stem Cells Secretome in CNS Injury and Degeneration
  • Zahra Moussavi (Canada): Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Treatment as a Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Brian Lithgow (Canada): Electrovestibulography
  • Cristiana Carvalho (Portugal): The use of Biomaterials applied to Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

16:00Break

16:30Bioengineering: Drawing the line

  • Ricardo Correia (Portugal): The future of Digital Health
  • Rui Gaspar (Portugal): Transhumanism and Human Enhancement technologies - views from experts, laypeople and biohackers
  • Hans-Curt Flemming (Germany): How dead are "dead" bacteria?

April 5th, Sunday

9:00Cutting Edge: The new way to operate

  • Zoltan Takats (UK): iKnife: from real-time chemical analysis of tissues to autonomous surgical robots
  • Christophe Chautems (Zurich): Steering a flexible catheter with an external magnetic field to treat cardiac arrhythmias
  • Mário Gonçalves: Will technology substitute surgeons in the next few years? How to keep up with new technologies in surgery.

10:30Science Under '5 - Pitch Session

11:30Break

12:00The Climate Changes, so do we

  • Idalina Gonçalves (Portugal): Valorizing biomolecules from agrofood byproducts through the development of biodegradable formulations – POTATOPLASTIC project
  • Margarida Maia (Portugal): Is dietary modulation an effective strategy to reduce enteric methane emissions from ruminants?
  • Phillip Williamson (UK): Opportunities (and limitations) to increase biologically-driven ocean carbon uptake for climate mitigation

13:30Lunch

15:00Tailored Biology

  • Karen Polizzi (UK): Genetically-encoded biosensors for accurate detection of molecules
  • Tetsuhiro Harimoto (USA): Programming bacteria to detect and treat cancer
  • Manuela Pintado (Portugal): Bioproducts in the context of a bioeconomy: case study of alchemy project

16:30Coffee Break

17:00Zoom in on Cancer

  • Kelwin Fernandes (Portugal): Fighting cervical cancer with Artificial Intelligence
  • Flávia Sousa (UK): PLGA nanoparticles for the delivery of antibodies in the treatment of glioblastoma

18:00Closing Session and Pitch Winner Announcement