Delfim Duarte is a physician-scientist and leader of the Hematopoiesis and Microenvironments group.

July 14th at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Isabel Silva "Novel therapeutic approaches for bladder cancer" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

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Sandro Queirós (SQ) graduated in Biomedical Engineering in 2013 by the University of Minho (Portugal). In 2018, he completed a joint Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering by the University of Minho (Portugal) and in Biomedical Sciences by KU Leuven (Belgium). Since 2018, SQ is a full-time researcher at ICVS, having been granted an FCT-funded junior research position in 2020.

July 28th at 1 pm, don’t miss João Machado “Assessing astrocytic modulation of neuronal activity in cortico-limbic circuits” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

September 1st at 1 pm, don’t miss João Frei “When the Brain Sleeps, Microglia Listen: Responses to MCH Neuron Activity” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

September 8th at 1 pm, don’t miss Marta Araújo “Elucidation of the Functional Roles of Lipid Metabolism During Leishmaniasis” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

September 15th at 1 pm, don’t miss Tatiana Fernandes “Unravelling the role of itaconate in the immunometabolic regulation of antifungal immunity” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

September 22nd at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Clara Faria "Cholinergic dynamics of projections from Laterodorsal Tegmentum to the Nucleus Accumbens in associative learning" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

September 29th at 1 pm, don’t miss Mariana Ferreira “Sleep and MCH-neuron impact on microglia-Aβ plaque dynamics” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

October 2nd at 1 pm, don’t miss Bruno Almeida's "IPLEXMED: Driving the Next Generation of Diagnostics from Lab to Life" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. IPLEXMED, a spin-off from the University of Minho and INL, is developing NEXAGUARD®—a portable, graphene-based diagnostic platform delivering lab-quality results in 20 minutes at the point […]

October 6th at 1 pm, don’t miss Sara Guerreiro's "Layer-specific imbalances in cortical interneurons in the Dp(16)1Yey mouse model of Down Syndrome" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

October 9th at 1 pm, don’t miss Rui M. Reis's “Exploring the Microbiome in Colorectal Cancer: Implications for Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy Response” at the A0.01 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. Rui Manuel Reis, PhD, has dedicated nearly three decades to cancer research, primarily focusing on molecular pathology to discover and validate biomarkers. He […]

October 13th at 1 pm, don’t miss Alessander Leyendecker Junior's "Neuroprotective and pro-dopaminergic effects of the secretome from hypoxic and normoxic iMSCs cultured under dynamic conditions in Parkinson’s Disease in vitro models" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

October 16th at 1 pm, don’t miss Joana Silva's “The interplay between Tau and RNA granules in Stress-induced neuronal dysfunction” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. Joana Margarida Silva graduated in Applied Biology and completed an MSc in Molecular Genetics in 2012. She obtained her PhD in Health Sciences from the School of Medicine, University of […]

October 20th at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Rita Oliveira's "Alveolar macrophage response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

October 21st at 11 am, don’t miss Richard Robitaille's “The neuromuscular junction as a therapeutic target and source of biomarkers in ALS” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. Richard Robitaille’s research interests include the study of the role of glial modulation in synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, interactions of glial cells during […]

October 27th at 1 pm, don’t miss Margarida Macedo's "Endogenous opioid signaling in the nucleus accumbens in motivated behaviors" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

October 28th at 1 pm, don’t miss Martin Hoenigl's “Impact of Climate Change on Fungal Diseases: from the pathogen to the host” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. Martin Hoenigl, M.D., has a particular interest in conducting research on clinical mycology, including fungal diagnostics, host-fungal pathogen interactions, and pharmacology of antifungal drugs. Dr. Hoenigl is the past president of the […]