Program

Time DAY 1
Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões
DAY 2
08:30 AM Registrations
08:45 AM
09:00 AM
09:00 AM Opening session (Prof. Vitor Vasconcelos) Workshops
09:15 AM
09:30 AM
09:30 AM Session 1: Doctor Maria Teresa Dinis
09:45 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:15 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM Maria João Pais (Comparative Endocrinology, CCMAR) - "Circannual Prevalence of tetrodotoxins in trumpet shells: sea stars as a possible source of contamination and implications for food safety"
11:00 AM
11:00 AM Inês Carvalho (Aquatic Animal Health, CIIMAR) – “Feeding duration shapes the immunomodulatory role of methionine in European Seabass”
11:15 AM
11:15 AM Paulo Santos (Aquatic Animal Health, CIIMAR) – “Harnessing Marine Algae Bioproducts to Enhance Immune Response in European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles”
11:30 AM
11:30 AM Aires Duarte (Coastal Biodiversity Laboratory, CIIMAR) - “Cultivation of Ulva sp. associated with a RAS fish farm: biomass productivity and its valorisation potential”
11:45 AM
11:45 AM André Monteiro (LANUCE, CIIMAR) – “Hediste diversicolor and Gammarus locusta as dietary supplements for gilthead seabream”
12:00 PM
12:00 PM Poster Session
12:15 PM
12:30 PM
12:45 PM
12:45 PM Lunch
01:00 PM
01:15 PM
01:30 PM
01:45 PM
02:00 PM
02:00 PM Session 2: Doctor Silvia Lino
02:15 PM
02:30 PM
02:45 PM
02:45 PM Mohamed Emam Mansour (Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics, CIIMAR) – “A Graph Neural Encoder for Multi-Omics Fusion and Protein”
03:00 PM
03:00 PM Mena Nagy Adly Khalaf (Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics, CIIMAR) – “Computational Detection of antimicrobial Peptide Candidates from Brown Algae via Integrated Bioinformatics Approaches”
03:15 PM
03:15 PM Cristina Sousa (Cyanobacterial Natural Products, CIIMAR) – Transcriptome analysis of a cyanobacterial strain and it’s new fatty acid incorporation pathway upon fatty acid supplementation”
03:30 PM
03:30 PM Leonor Ferreira (BBEH/B4H, CIIMAR) – New cytotoxin compound from cyanobacteria induces apoptosis and spheroid degradation of cancer cells
03:45 PM
03:45 PM Paulo Sousa (BBEH, CIIMAR) - “Chlorella vulgaris and Microplastics: Shifting Bioremediation Dynamics in Wastewater”
04:00 PM
04:00 PM Coffee Break
04:15 PM
04:30 PM
04:30 PM Session 3: Doctor Ana Colaço
04:45 PM
05:00 PM
05:15 PM
05:15 PM Carolina de la Hozz Schilling (Biogeographical Ecology and Evolution, CCMAR) – “First documentation of a nursery areafor the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, in Mauritania, West Africa.
05:30 PM
05:30 PM Jesús Fernández-Gutiérrez (Coastal Biodiversity Laboratory, CIIMAR) – “Could the same mitigation strategy be applied successfully in marinas under different environmental conditions?”
05:45 PM
05:45 PM Nicola Gambardella (Microbiome Ecology and Biogeochemistry, CIIMAR) – Mapping Pathogen Profiling of Cetacean Blow: Comparative insights from sequencing technologies
06:00 PM
06:00 PM Isabel Santos de Sousa (Microbiome Ecology and Biogeochemistry - CIIMAR) – Sustainable Space Habitats: Fungal Biotechnology for Bioregenerative Life Support Ecosystems
06:15 PM
06:15 PM David Neves (Endocrine Disruptors and Emerging Contaminants, CIIMAR) – Environmental Risk of Metformin in Gammarus locusta: Multi and Transgerational effects of Environmental levels
06:30 PM
06:30 PM Closing session
06:45 PM
07:00 PM