ICVS Seminar “To Eat or to Seek: the role of autophagy in food sensing mechanisms”

Next Monday at 1 pm, don’t miss Jorge Fernandes “To Eat or to Seek: the role of autophagy in food sensing mechanisms” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

Jorge H. Fernandes obtained a B.SC. in Biochemistry (2018) and a M. Sc. In Applied Biochemistry with a specialization in Biomedicine (2021) at University of Minho, having developed is dissertation work on understanding the potential of natural products originated from Chinese medicinal plants as therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Currently he is a Ph.D. student at the ICVS in the School of Medicine, University of Minho. His work focuses on the role of autophagy as an intracellular food sensing mechanism with impact on behaviour modulation, making use of the Caenorhabditis elegans model.