Schedule

March 26th, Saturday

9:00Opening session

9:45Made in Bio

  • Carlos Guimarães (Portugal): Bending Cells and Materials to a Bioengineer’s Will: Fabricating Living Tissues, Engineering 3D Cancer Models, and Fighting COVID19
  • João Pinto (Portugal): How Bioengineering is the Best Path to AI, from Medical Decision to Biometrics
  • João Albuquerque (Portugal): Bioengineering, where can it deliver you?
  • Bruna Ávila (Australia): I am a bioengineer, so what? - A life odyssey

11:00Coffee Break

11:30Fueling the Curiosity

  • Bárbara Maurício (Portugal): Towards a greener world: The need for an energetic revolution
  • Pablo Nikel (Denmark): Engineering environmental bacteria for production of new-to-nature compounds
  • Rafal Lukasik (Portugal): Biorefinery – challenges and perspectives

13:00Lunch Break

14:00Speed Dating - Session 1

14:30Go Bio or Go Home

  • Hugo Ferreira (Portugal): Neurofeedback in Sports: Becoming a super-athlete
  • Ibrahim Fatih Cengiz (Portugal): Meniscus Tissue Engineering
  • Travis Nemkov (USA): Metabolomics of Endurance Capacity in World Tour Professional Cyclists

16:00Coffee Break

16:30Forensics, My Dear Watson

  • Eugénia Cunha (Portugal): Interdisciplinarity in Forensic Anthropology
  • Arjo Loeve (Netherlands): How harmful is shaking a baby? – Forensic Biomechanics for Infant Injury Investigations
  • Eugene Vanderpol (USA): Biomechanical Engineering & Forensic Application

18:00Speed Dating - Session 2

March 27th, Sunday

9:00Warning: Controversy Ahead

  • Catarina Ginja (Portugal): The Use of Genomic Tools to Improve Cattle Resilience Under Challenging Environments
  • Ana Sebastião (Portugal): Cannabinoids and their negative impact in brain diseases and memory
  • Vic Harkness (UK): The Security Implications of a Biometric Future

10:30Science Under 5' - Pitch Session

11:30Coffee Break

12:00Can You Hear The Eco?

  • Laurent Daudet (France): Is massive-scale AI unsustainable? – The case of large language models
  • Maria Barbosa (Netherlands): Towards industrial products from microalgae
  • Maria Fernandes (Netherlands): Generating porcine pluripotent cell lines for the biofabrication of muscle and fat for cultivated meat applications

13:30Lunch Break

14:30Speed Dating - Session 3

15:00Turning Science into Miracles

  • Eric T. Wong (USA): Tumour Treating fields in glioblastoma treatment
  • Pedro Baptista (Espanha): Liver Tissue Regeneration
  • Nuno Empadinhas (Portugal): Microbiology of Parkinson’s Disease

16:30Coffee Break

17:00Game Changing Engineering

  • Vision-Box (Portugal): How Biometrics Improve Passenger Experience on a Post 9/11 World
  • Nuno Cerca (Portugal): Microbial Interactions in Infectious Diseases and the Therapeutic Challenges
  • Joana Caldeira (Portugal): CRISPR-mediated fetal gene activation: a game-changer for intervertebral disc regeneration

18:30Closing Session