ICVS Advanced Seminars, a weekly series aimed at fostering discussion on cutting-edge research, take place every Thursday at EM.
Tiago Gil Oliveira, Principal Investigator at the Mechanisms of Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis thematic team, will present his talk titled "Brain regional susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease pathology” in room A0.03 thursday at 12h.

ICVS Advanced Seminars, a weekly series aimed at fostering discussion on cutting-edge research, take place every Thursday at EM.
Alfonso Araque, Professor in the Department of Neuroscience – University of Minneapolis, USA

Paolo Porporato, Paolo Porporato, University of Torino and principal investigator at MBC - Molecular Biotechnology Center “Guido Tarone"
“Targeting the muscle-tumor metabolic crosstalk”

May 5th at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Raquel Fernandes "Metabolic circuits of immune regulation and function during fungal infection" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. 

Pedro Gil, Principal Researcher and Associate Professor at the Karolinska Institute
"No natural numbers for malaria: the changing landscape of Plasmodium falciparum molecular epidemiology of drug resistance"

May 12 at 1 pm, don’t miss Cláudia Federo "Characterization of genetic diversity of Plasmodium spp in the Dominican Republic" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine. 

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.

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 is an Invited Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal, and serves as Scientific Director of the Barretos Cancer Hospital, Brazil. In this seminar, he will share his recent research on the interaction between the microbiome and colorectal cancer.

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 Minho, in 2017. In 2018, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canon Foundation and later received an FCT Individual Contract to investigate the role of Tau in nuclear processes, particularly its interplay with RNA-binding proteins. Since 2021, Joana has been a Junior Researcher at ICVS,…

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 the synapse during the formation and the aging of synapse, the role of those interactions during aging of the synapse and contribution of glial cells in the malfunctioning of neuromuscular junctions in Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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 European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM). He serves as Associate Editor at Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID) and Deputy Editor at Mycopathologia and mBio. Find more information on Dr. Hoenigl on his Clinical Mycology YouTube channel and on Twitter, under @martinhoenigl.

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.

January 5th at 1 pm, don’t miss Melyssa Carvalho‘s “Insights from Stem Cell Secretome-based Interventions in Spinal Cord Injury: Microglial Modulation of Phagocytosis and Synaptic Remodeling” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

January 8th at 1 pm, don’t miss Susana Monteiro‘s “Bad signal”: how spinal cord injury disrupts neuro-immune communications" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

January 12th at 1 pm, don’t miss Daniela Fernandes's "Defining novel behavioral traits and new therapeutic opportunities in a clinically relevant mouse model of Rett Syndrome" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

January 15th at 1 pm, don’t miss Carla Nunes‘s “Immunogenic DNA Export via Amphisomes in Parkinson’s Disease” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

January 19th at 1 pm, don’t miss Carla Pereira‘s “Optimizing the Cryopreservation of the Secretome from Induced Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Exploring the Efficacy of Lyophilization” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

January 22nd at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Rita Alvaro‘s “Circadian Medicine in Sleep Apnea: Implications for Health and Disease" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

December 26th at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Rita Moreira‘s “Influence of sex and gender on stress considering behavioral and neuroimaging measures” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

February 2nd at 1 pm, don’t miss Cidália Pereira‘s “Studying the role of the phospholipase D pathway in autophagy and lipid droplet turnover" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

February 5th at 1 pm, don’t miss Joana Sousa‘s “High-Throughput Screening Made Simple: Meet Our New Institute Platform" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

February 9th at 1 pm, don’t miss Luís Araújo‘s “Structural and Functional Analysis of Brain Maps in Alzheimer’s Disease" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

February 10th at 2 pm, don’t miss Tânia Catarina Medeiros‘s “Mitochondria: from Selfish symbionts to Cooperative organelles?" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

February 19th at 1 pm, don’t miss Belém Marques‘s "The Proteostasis Code of the iMSCs Secretome in Parkinson’s Disease" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

February 23rd at 1 pm, don’t miss Inês Castro‘s “Exploring TRPV4 as a molecular mechanism driving inflammatory cells' infiltration into the spinal cord after injury” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

February 26th at 1 pm, don’t miss Isabel Veiga‘s “Deciphering Antimalarial Drug Response: From Parasite Genetics to Therapeutic Failure" at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.