Seminários desenvolvido no Departamento de Biologia
January 13
Elisabete Silva (University of London, Faculty of Pharmacy). Environmental estrogens and breast cancer - is there a link?
January 20
Tony Collins (DBio - Biotech). Life in the cold: Molecular adaptations to low temperatures.
January 27
Prof. Elisabete Oliveira (Dep. Física, Universidade do Minho). Monoolein-based lipoplexes as non-viral vector for transfection in Mammals:From Physicochemical characterization to application.
February 10
Prof. Enrico Coen (John Innes Centre, UK). Biological Origami: from Genes to Organ Shape.
February 24
Nuno Micaelo (Dep. de Química, Universidade do Minho). Modelação Biomolecular: Métodos de simulação em biologia estrutural.
March 3
Alain da Silva Morais (DBio ? Microbiology). Role of the cascade PPARgamma - Adiponectin - AMPK in the control of hepatic fibrogenesis and steatohepatitis.
March 10
Dalila Pedro (DBio ? Biomedicine). Chemopreventive effects of Salvia officinalis tea in a rodent colon cancer induced model.
Luis Conceição (DBio ? Plants). Study of Hypericum perforatum defense mechanisms against Colletotrichum gloeosporioides: Relevance of phenolic metabolism and hypersensitive response.
March 17
Arunava Pradhan (DBio - Ecology). Impacts of metal nanoparticles on leaf litter decomposition by aquatic microbes.
Alexandra Correia (DBio ? Microbiology). Candida albicans secreted aspartyl proteinase expression influences T cell function in a model of murine peritonitis.
March 24
Ana Patrícia Guedes (DBio ? Plants). Essential oils from plants and in vitro shoot cultures of Hypericum androsaemum L., H. perforatum L. and H. undulatum Schousboe ex. Willd.
Luísa Borges (DBio ? Ecology). Biogeography of wood boring organisms in European Coastal waters.
April 7
Rui Silva (DBio - Microbiology). Modulation of Bax by Mammalian Protein Kinase Calpha in Yeast.
April 14
Olga Lage (CIIMAR, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade do Porto). Exploring different bacteria: Studies of the OJF Planctomycetes culture collection.
April 21
Sara Alves (DBIO ? Biomedicine). Autophagy regulation by KRAS towards understanding its role in colorectal carcinoma.
May 5
Alice Ramos (DBio - Biomedicine). Nutrition and chemoprevention of colon cancer.
Monica Landi (DBio - Ecology). Marine Fish Resources under the genetic lens.
May 19
Daniela Batista (DBio ? Ecology). Responses of aquatic decomposers to cadmium stress in a warming scenario.
Vitor Silva (DBio - Plants). Sterol metabolism and the plant drough response.
June 9
Izolda Pasakinskiene (Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Lithuania). Biodiversity, molecular phylogeny and plant photophysiology studies at the Botanical Garden of Vilnius University.
June 16
Sofia Duarte (DBio - Ecology). Food preferences of the freshwater shrimp Atyaephyra desmarestii.
Gabriela Ribeiro (DBio ? Microbiology). Fatty acid secretion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
June 30
Isabel Rodrigues (DBio - Ecology). Predicted climate change and nutrient runnoff may alter microbial community structure and accelerate leaf decomposition in Streams.
July 7
Dr. Jan Schmid (Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Massey University, New Zealand). Candida albicans: Population genetics- based approaches to understanding its interaction with the human host. AND Fungal endophytes of ryegrasses : how plant and fungus keep their balance
