INVITED SPEAKERS
PLENARY LECTURES
Friday, 6th December
Plenary Lecture S1 - Industrial and Food Microbiology and Biotechnology - Sylvie Dequin (INRA, Montpellier, France)
Plenary Lecture S2 - Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology - Alfons Stams (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Plenary Lecture S3 - Health Microbiology and Biotechnology - – pending confirmation
Saturday, 7th December
Plenary Lecture S4 - Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Physiology - Prof. NICOLAU VAN UDEN Career Prize
Plenary Lecture S5 - Bioprocess engineering - Alois Jungbauer (Univ of Nat Res and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
PlenarPlenary Lecture S6 - Cellular Microbiology and Pathogenesis - Maria Mota (Fac de Medicina, Univ de Lisboa, Portugal)
Sunday, 8th December
Plenary Lecture S7 - Genomics and Systems Biology -Ed Feil (University of Bath, UK)
Plenary Lecture S8 - Emerging technologies - Henk Haagsman (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
KEYNOTES
Friday, 6th December
S1: António Vicente (UM) - Applications of nanotechnology in the agro-food sector
S2: David Smith (CABI, UK) – (sponsored by the MIRRI project)
S3: Marta Aires Sousa (ESSCVP) - Methicillin-resistant S. aureus: a problem inside and outside Portuguese hospitals
Saturday, 7th December
S4: Paula Ludovico (ICVS/UM) - The yeast chronological aging stress response: proteotoxic stress and age-related dysfunctions
COST session: Giovanna Ferrari (Univ. Salerno, Italy) - (sponsored by COST Action EP4Bio2Med)
S6: Jorge Leitão (IST) - Post-transcription regulation in bacterial pathogenesis: roles played by RNA chaperones and sRNAs
S7: Manuel Santos (BIO, UA)
S8: Jorge Saraiva (DQ, UA) - High pressure technology: 20 years of increasingly food commercial successes and future food and biotechnological potential applications
Sunday, 8th December
S1: Gustavo Goldman (USP, Brasil) - Signal transduction mechanisms for cellulase production and glucose sensing in filamentous fungi
S2: Isabel Gordo (IGC) - Pathoadaptation of Escherichia coli to Macrophages
S3: Paula Teixeira (ESB)