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 […]

November 3rd at 1 pm, don’t miss Bárbara Pereira‘s “Caloric Restriction Mimetics as Secretome-Enhancing Agents for Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Based Therapy in Parkinson's Disease” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

November 6th at 1 pm, don’t miss Vanessa Coelho-Santos‘s “Development of neurovascular networks: from tip cells to coupling” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

November 10th at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Margarida Oliveira‘s “Real-time Color Imaging for Nerve-Identification During Surgery” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

November 13th at 1 pm, don’t miss Juan Gallo‘s “Magnetic nanocomposites for immunotheranostic applications” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

November 17th at 1 pm, don’t miss Samuel Alves‘s “The impact of astrocytic metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 manipulation in the medial prefrontal cortex” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

November 20th at 1 pm, don’t miss Vânia Cardoso‘s “Inside AccelBio: Accelerating drug discovery through collaboration” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

November 24th at 1 pm, don’t miss João Afonso‘s “iPSC-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells and their Secretome: Effects on Neurovascular and Cellular Responses” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS and Escola de Medicina - Universidade do Minho celebrate World Science Day with the roundtable “Science: it’s fundamental!”

November 27th at 1 pm, don’t miss Pedro Morgado‘s “Cognitive (Dys)Regulation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - insights from neuroimaging studies” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

December 4th at 1 pm, don’t miss Hélène Léger‘s "NDR1/2 Kinases in Retinal Neurodegeneration: How NDR2 Shapes Microglial Activation and Neurovascular Dysfunction in Diabetes" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

December 11th at 1 pm, don’t miss Belém Sampaio Marques´'s “"The Proteostasis Code of the iMSCs Secretome in Parkinson’s Disease"” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

December 15th at 1 pm, don’t miss Sofia Sousa‘s “Novel KDM4C inhibitors for the treatment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer: rational design, synthesis and biological validation” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.