May 19th at 1 pm, don’t miss Diana Rodrigues "The rostral ventromedial medulla as a key target of the maladaptive response to chronic inflammatory pain" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. 

Hélder Novais-Bastos, Pulmonologist, Physician-scientist in interstitial lung diseases, and head of Interventional Pulmonology Unit of Hospital de São João
"Decoding the host-environment crosstalk in pulmonary fibrosis: advancing precision medicine"

May 26 at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Raquel Cunha "RKIP in Lung Adenocarcinoma: Insights into tumor biology, prognostic significance, and resistance to EGFR targeted therapies" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. 

Natália Cruz-Martins, Assistant Researcher at ICVS
"From Nutrition to Clinical Research: A Journey of Growth, Innovation and Knowledge Integration"

ICVS Advanced Seminars, a weekly series aimed at fostering discussion on cutting-edge research, take place every Thursday at EM.
"Epidemiology of asthma in Portuguese adults – the EPI-ASTHMA study, a nationwide population-based survey”
Jaime Correia de Sousa, ICVS/EM, University of Minho

June 9th at 1 pm, don’t miss Cátia Rodrigues "Unveiling the contribution of itaconate to pulmonary granulomatous inflammation in sarcoidosis" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Advanced Seminars, a weekly series aimed at fostering discussion on cutting-edge research, take place every Thursday at EM.
“From neuronal polarization to function: unveiling the transport and function of neuronal surface receptors”
Luís Ribeiro, MIA, University of Coimbra

June 16th at 1 pm, don’t miss Daniela Abreu "Astrocytic Foxo1 regulates hippocampal spinogenesis, synaptic plasticity and enhances fear memory" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

June 23rd at 1 pm, don’t miss Daniela Garcia "Involvement of skeletal muscle in Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3: contribution to disease, potential for biomarker development and therapeutic targeting" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

June 30th at 1 pm, don’t miss Sónia Celeiro "SPINT2 Expression in Cancer: Focus on Its Role and Therapeutic Impact in BRAF-Mutated Melanoma" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

July 7th at 1 pm, don’t miss Adriana Teixeira-Costa “Lipid Metabolism-Mediated Mechanisms of Antifungal Immunity” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

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.

Your research data is valuable to the University of Minho, so organizing and sharing it securely increases its impact, promotes good Open Science practices and enhances reuse by other researchers.

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 of care or at home. Validated at TRL 6 with multiple patents filed, it targets bacterial respiratory infections and AMR, with plans to expand to STDs, sepsis, and hospital-acquired infections. Market launch is set for 2027 with a scalable “razor-and-blade” model, driving faster diagnostics, improved…

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.