ICVS

ICVS Seminar "ProChild CoLab Against Poverty and Social Exclusion (ProChild CoLAB)”
2023-06-05 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Next monday at 1 pm, ICVS Seminars 2023 live sessions continue in the A0.02 auditorium at UMinho’s School of Medicine!
Don´t miss Isabel Soares “ProChild CoLab Against Poverty and Social Exclusion (ProChild CoLAB)”. Isabel Soares recently won the “Prémio Ibérico de Psicologia 2023” award.

Isabel Soares is a full professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Minho, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.
She was President of the School of Psychology between 2013-2016 and is currently Director of the Department of Applied Psychology.
His activity as a teacher falls within the areas of Developmental Psychology, Developmental Psychopathology and Attachment Studies.
In terms of research, he is a member of the Center for Research in Psychology at the University of Minho,
being coordinator of the Unit for Research on Development and Psychopathology and responsible for the Study Group on Attachment and Parenting.
With several projects financed by FCT and Fundação Bial and national and international publications,
her research has focused on the impact of social and family adversity on children’s development.
In the field of interaction with society, she was the Researcher Responsible for the application
of the Collaborative Laboratory against Poverty and Social Exclusion in Childhood, named ProChild CoLAB, approved and funded by FCT, currently President of the Board.

ICVS Seminar " Identification and manipulation of brain-wide fear memory traces”
2023-06-12 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss Sofia Leal Santos ” Identification and manipulation of brain-wide fear memory traces” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Sofia Leal Santos completed her MD at University of Minho in 2021 and is completing her PhD through the Minho MD/PhD program.
She developed methodologies to quantify neural ensembles across the brain, and studied how conditioned fear learning and its neural correlates are altered by noradrenergic modulation with propranolol, and by fear extinction

ICVS Seminar “Dynamics of immune response in post COVID-19 condition”
2023-06-19 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss André Santa Cruz “Dynamics of immune response in post COVID-19 condition” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
André Santa Cruz, MSc in Medicine, is an Internal Medicine specialist since 2016, currently working on Hospital de Braga. He is also a researcher at ICVS / 2-CA and Invited Assistant at the School of Medicine – Minho University. By connecting clinical and laboratory research, he aims at identifying and understanding the immunological mechanisms that relate to COVID severity, response to treatment and patients’ long-term outcome.

Training Course | Applied Clinical Psychopharmacology
2023-06-19 13:30 - 2023-06-23 14:00
Through seminars and interactive clinical cases, the course will revisit the basic concepts of psychopharmacology, explore the specificities of the different psychopharmacologic classes, analyze the fundamental principles and explore international guidelines and explore future perspectives on psychopharmacology.
Link: https://b-acis.pt/workshops/applied-clinical-psychopharmacology/

ICVS Seminar "PsychoGlia: a tale of neurons, drugs and glia"
2023-06-26 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss Teresa Summavielle ’s seminar “PsychoGlia: a tale of neurons, drugs and glia” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Teresa Summavielle has a degree in biochemistry and a PhD in developmental neurotoxicology. Presently she coordinates the Neurobiology and Neurologic Disorders integrative program at i3S, where she is also Vice-Director and Head of the Addiction Biology Group. Her research explores the crosstalk between neurons and glial cells under exposure to psychoactive substances and has a strong focus on neuro-immune regulation. She coordinates courses in Neurobiology of Addiction and Neurotoxicology in doctoral and master programs (University of Porto) and she is an invited professor at the Escola Superior de Saúde (Polytechnic University).Advocating for responsible experimentation, she integrates the CARE committee at FENS. On a societal perspective, she runs since 2008 a science-based campaign to prevent drug use by the adolescent population and is an acting city council women at the municipality of Porto.

ICVS Seminar "Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) in Africa - the beginning of the end?”
2023-06-27 13:00 - 14:00
Don´t miss José Pedro Gil “Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) in Africa – the beginning of the end?”.
Pedro Gil is a molecular biologist by degree and leads a group at Dept. of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institute.
His main research area focuses on malaria disease and represents a composed perspective of in vivo (clinical trials), ex vivo and in vitro approaches.
In particular, he has long standing on the identification of Plasmodium falciparum malaria genetic variation associated with in vivo (clinical) and in vitro response to combination therapy.
To this adds the search for a better understanding of the pharmacogenomics of native African populations, under the pharmacological vision of a host-pathogen interaction context leading to parasite drug resistance.
To this end, he has been successful in successive EDCTP-funded platforms, namely, WANECAM I resulting in the EMA approval of Artesunate-Pyroniridine (Pyramax®),
WANECAM II, presently running for the development of the novel KAF156-Lumefantrine combination, and more recently the C-MARC project, a molecular surveillance platform for artemisinin resistance in East Africa.
He has supervised over 17 PhD students, having published 111 articles in indexed journal.
Pedro has also served as editor of several indexed journals, consultant of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Partnerships for Development Program
and grant evaluator for Wellcome Trust, Swiss Science Foundation, Austrian National Bank Foundation, National Institutes of Health, among other.

Training Course | Braga Otology Surgery Course
2023-07-03 08:30 - 2023-07-07 19:30
Theoretical and practical course aiming to fully address the various aspects of otologic surgery, covering basic and essential topics, as well as more advanced themes such as lateral skull base surgery, keeping in mind the future with techniques such as endoscopic ear surgery and surgery of eustachian tube.
Link: https://b-acis.pt/workshops/braga-otology-surgery-course/

ICVS Seminar "Molecular Modelling and Simulation: overview of medicinal topics”
2023-07-03 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss Tarsila Castro “Molecular Modelling and Simulation: overview of medicinal topics”.
Expert in computational chemistry, Dr. Tarsila Castro has worked as a researcher in the Centre of Biological Engineering since 2017,
where she collaborates with experimentalists in the fields of health, biotech and nanotechnology.
Currently, she is also collaborating with SOLFARCOS company (Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Solutions) in the development of novel bio-based cosmeceuticals.
Castro completed her PhD in Sciences – specialty in Chemistry – in 2016 at the University of Minho and her Master’s Degree in Medicinal Chemistry in 2011 also at the University of Minho.
Earlier, in 2009, she completed the Degree in Industrial Chemistry at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil.
Her first experience as a post-Doc researcher was achieved via the European Project, “BioCell-NanoART – Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-architectures”, in Romania (2017-2020),
where she studied neuronal proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease and the aspects that were significant to the development of new technology.

ICVS Seminar "Dendritic mechanisms underlying temporal memory structures"
2023-07-10 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss Alcino Silva “Molecular, cellular, circuit and behavioral mechanisms of temporal memory structures” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Alcino Silva got his Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University in 1979. There, he worked with William Sofer on Drosophila tRNA non-sense suppressors and minored on philosophy (epistemology). In 1983 he joined the graduate program of human genetics at the University of Utah, where he worked with Ray White, a pioneer in Human Genetics, on the inheritance of epigenetic information (Silva et al, 1988; Cell PMID: 2898978). During his post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Nobel Laureate Dr. Susumu Tonegawa (1988-92), Dr. Alcino J. Silva introduced transgenic mice to neuroscience studies of learning and memory and pioneered the field of Molecular and Cellular Cognition (Silva et al, Science 1992, PMIDs 1321493 &1378648). His first independent position (1992) was with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, where his research group had a key role in the development of Molecular and Cellular Cognition into a mainstream neuroscience field. In 2002 Dr. Silva founded and became the first President of the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, an international organization with more than 7000 members and with branches in North America, Asia and Europe. Besides work on molecular, cellular and circuit approaches to cognition, his laboratory also develops bioinformatics strategies to address the growing complexity of the literature, including the development of a set of algorithms and a free web app (researchmaps.org) to track causal information in biology. In 2006/2007 Dr. Silva served as Scientific Director of the Intramural Program of the National Institute of Mental Health. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, and directs the Integrative Center for Learning and Memory. He has been awarded a number of prizes and distinctions, including most recently the Order of Prince Henry (2008), the Senior Roche Award For Translational Neuroscience (2009), and in 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement Science.

ISN Satellite Workshop Astrocytic Control of Brain Circuits and Behavior
2023-08-05 13:00 - 2023-08-06 15:00 | ICVS – School of Medicine, Braga, Portugal, ICVS – School of Medicine, Braga, Portugal
Chairs
João Filipe Oliveira, Braga, Portugal
Christian Henneberger, University of Bonn, Germany

Scientific description
Recent technological developments allowing specific manipulation of astrocytes in behaving animals created a new research field aiming to dissect the role of astrocytes in higher brain functions. Neuron-glial networks display a surprising degree of complexity, where astrocyte neurochemical signaling modulates neuronal circuit function. This dialogue at the cellular level is reflected in the network outputs, thereby affecting the production of behavior.
This satellite event will gather experts to discuss the contribution of the underlying astrocyte physiological mechanisms to this equation: molecular, morphological, metabolic, and functional heterogeneity; and the balance between focal and global calcium astrocyte activity.
This diverse panel will also ensure a stimulating discussion based on various opinions and approaches to tackle the common goal of understanding astrocyte modulation of neural circuits and behavior.

Speakers
Alfonso Araque – University of Minnesota, USA
Amit Agarwal – Heidelberg University, Germany
Annalisa Scimemi – University at Albany, USA
Audrey Denizot – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Axel Nimmerjahn – Salk Institute, USA
Chris Dulla – Tufts University, USA
Christian Henneberger – Institute of Cellular Neurosciences, University of Bonn, Germany
Gertrudis Perea – Cajal Institute, Spain
Inbal Goshen – The Hebrew University, Israel
João Filipe Oliveira – ICVS, School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Matthew Holt – i3S, Porto, Portugal
Rune Enger – University of Oslo, Norway
Ruth Beckvordersandforth – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany
Tommaso Fellin – Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Yukiko Goda – RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan

Deadlines:
Registration is open!
Early Bird Registration: April 28
Regular Registration: July 14

Further information here:
https://b-acis.pt/workshops/isn-satellite-astrocytic-mechanisms/

ICVS Seminar "Emerging roles of the critical oncogenic molecule Cadherin-3 in glioblastoma”
2023-09-04 13:00 - 14:00
Next monday at 1 pm, ICVS Seminars 2023 live sessions continue in the A0.02 auditorium at UMinho’s School of Medicine!
Don´t miss Eduarda Pereira Martins Emerging roles of the critical oncogenic molecule Cadherin-3 in glioblastoma.Eduarda is finishing her PhD in Health Sciences at the ICVS/School of Medicine from the University of Minho, supervised by Dr. Bruno M. Costa and Dr. Pedro Costa. In 2018, she completed her Master’s degree in Health Sciences (School of Medicine, UMinho). Her main interests are focused on the study of brain tumors, namely glioblastoma, trying to identify prognostic biomarkers and mechanisms of aggressiveness. During her PhD, Eduarda has been dedicated on studying the relevance of the adhesion molecule Cadherin-3 in glioblastoma pathophysiology.

ICVS Seminar ''Combinatory use of Gellan Gum hydrogels and Mesenchymal Stem Cells to promote Traumatic Brain Injury regeneration''
2023-09-11 13:00 - 14:00
Next monday at 1 pm, ICVS Seminars 2023 live sessions continue in the A0.02 auditorium at UMinho’s School of Medicine!
Don´t miss Helena Cavaleiro ”Combinatory use of Gellan Gum hydrogels and Mesenchymal Stem Cells to promote Traumatic Brain Injury regeneration”!

Helena is finishing her PhD in Applied Health Sciences at the ICVS/School of Medicine from the University of Minho, supervised by Dr. António Salgado and Dr. Ana Oliveira.In 2018, she completed her Master’s degree in Neurobiology (Faculty of Medicine, UPorto).Her main interests are focused on studying the therapeutic potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells inside Gellan Gum matrices as a therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury. During her PhD, she has been dedicated to implementing a new reliable in vitro model of Traumatic Brain Injury, which allows the study of drugs and therapies.

ICVS Seminar ”Secretome-loaded piezoelectric hydrogels as advanced biomaterials to modulate neuronal and glial activity"
2023-09-18 13:00 - 14:00
Tiffany Pinho is a PhD student at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) of the University of Minho. She completed her MSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Coimbra, where the field of neuroscience caught her attention and interest. She is now an enthusiastic and resilient PhD student doing pre-clinical research in the field of regenerative medicine for the nervous system.

ICVS Seminar "Microbial-derived adjuvants for chemotherapy"
2023-09-25 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss Filipe Cabreiro “Microbial-derived adjuvants for chemotherapy” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Filipe Cabreiro is a Professor at the Univesity of Cologne and a Reader at the Institute of Clinical Sciences (ICS), Imperial College London. Professor Cabreiro is a biochemist from training and obtained his PhD from the Universite Paris Diderot in France. He then joined the laboratory of Prof David Gems at the University College London. His seminal work led to a paradigm shift in the use of C. elegans for studying host-microbe-drug interactions in the context of ageing. His lab combines classical and advanced microbial genetics and high-throughput genomic and chemical approaches, targeted metabolomics and computational approaches to study both host and microbial physiology. His current research aims to gain insight into the gut microbial action of drugs and metabolites in mice and humans. His lab aims at developing pharmacological strategies to target the microbiota improving metabolic disease and aging in humans.

ICVS Seminar "Exosome dynamics in stress-driven brain pathologies: a novel link between depression and Alzheimer’s disease"
2023-10-03 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss Patrícia Amorim Gomes “Exosome dynamics in stress-driven brain pathologies: a novel link between depression and Alzheimer’s disease”at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Patrícia Amorim Gomes is an MD and a PhD student at School of Medicine, University of Minho. During her undergraduate, her research focused on Tau protein and its role on chronic pain and anaesthesia, while also studying the effect of chronic stress on Tau pathology. Her PhD studies have focused on extracellular vesicles (EV), developing a novel method for the isolation of spontaneously released brain vesicles and studying the impact of chronic stress on EV biogenesis and Tau pathology propagation.

ICVS Advanced Seminar "Decoding Neuropeptide Neuromodulation in Motivated Behaviors"
2023-10-04 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss Michael Bruchas “Decoding Neuropeptide Neuromodulation in Motivated Behaviors”at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Michael Bruchas laboratory studies molecular, cellular and system’s level dissection of neuromodulatory circuits in affective behaviors (e.g., reward-aversion, addiction, anxiety-depression, stress, pain). The laboratory uses multidisciplinary approaches including: optogenetic, molecular-biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, in vivo imaging, and computational methods. The lab is actively engaged in bioengineering methods to develop optically-sensitive signaling tools and wireless opto-electronics for detecting-modulating neuronal activity in behaving animals.
Prof Bruchas has an extensive publication record exceeding 100 publications, containg seminal and top-tier contributions to the fields of neuroscience, with a particular focus on addiction, pain, and stress research.

Training Course | Ultrasound Guided Intervention in Pediatrics
2023-10-12 08:30 - 2023-10-13 18:00
Hands-on training course on porcine model, dry lab models, and human models for anatomy identification, in a fully equipped surgical lab.
Link: https://b-acis.pt/workshops/ultrasound-guided-intervention-in-pediatrics/

ICVS Seminar "Secretome of adipose tissue-derived stem cells and electrical epidural stimulation promotes functional gains in spinal cord injury context"
2023-10-16 13:00 - 14:00
Don’t miss Jorge Cibrão “Secretome of adipose tissue-derived stem cells and electrical epidural stimulation promotes functional gains in spinal cord injury context”at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
With six years of experience in wet labs focused on neurotrauma, neurodegenerative diseases, and cell therapies, I am a soon-to-be Life and Health Sciences Ph.D. and a small business owner seeking to transition from academia to industry.

Training Course | Biliary Laparoscopy
2023-10-19 08:00 - 2023-10-20 17:00
Hands-on and theoretical course on the basis of laparoscopic exploration of the common bile duct is the maintenance of the biliary environment. Training includes choledocoscopy, cholangiography, suture, and biliary anastomosis on inanimate, organic, and animal models.
Link: https://b-acis.pt/workshops/biliary-laparoscopy/

ICVS Seminar ”The role of functional connectivity in the treatment of depression: exploring novel neuroimaging techniques”
2023-10-23 13:00 - 14:00
Next Monday at 1 pm, don’t miss Joana Reis ”The role of functional connectivity in the treatment of depression: exploring novel neuroimaging techniques” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Seminar ”Sweet models for personalized therapy development in gastric cancer”
2023-10-30 13:00 - 14:00
Next Monday at 1 pm, don’t miss Filipe Pinto ”Sweet models for personalized therapy development in gastric cancer” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Filipe Pinto holds a degree in Genetics and Biotechnology, an MSc in Biotechnology for Health Sciences from UTAD, and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Minho.
Right after his PhD in 2016, F. Pinto was invited to work at IPATIMUP, Porto, to study the role of glycans in gastric cancer within the scope of Horizon2020.
In 2017, he was awarded a FCT post-doc 6-year individual grant (SFRH/BPD/115730/2016) to demonstrate that aberrant glycosylation patterns can predict cancer cell behavior.
In 2022, he received an Assistant Researcher position through a highly competitive international call (2022.02109.CEECIND).

ICVS Seminar "Dynamic representation of appetitive and aversive stimuli in nucleus accumbens neurons"
2023-11-06 13:00 - 14:00
Next monday at 1 pm, ICVS Seminars 2023 live sessions continue in the A0.03 auditorium at UMinho’s School of Medicine!
Don´t miss Ana Verónica Domingues “Dynamic representation of appetitive and aversive stimuli in nucleus accumbens neurons. “.Ana Verónica Domingues is a PhD student at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) of the University of Minho.
Her PhD studies have focused on understanding neural basis of motivation, in particular on identifying and characterizing the neuronal ensembles representing reward and aversion, ranging from exposure to natural rewards to aversive stimuli (foot-shock).

ICVS Seminar "Genetic targeting of CD147 suppresses tumor growth by modulating the tumor immune landscape"
2023-11-13 13:00 - 14:00
Next monday at 1 pm, ICVS Seminars 2023 live sessions continue in the A0.03 auditorium at UMinho’s School of Medicine!
Don´t miss Andreia Pereira Nunes ”Genetic targeting of CD147 suppresses tumor growth by modulating the tumor immune landscape”!

Andreia Pereira Nunes is a PhD student at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) of the University of Minho. She graduated in Biochemistry and holds a Master’s degree in Health Sciences from the University of Minho. Her scientific research is focused on the study of potential therapeutic targets for cancer therapy. She has been investigating the role of cell metabolism and tumor immunity in cancer development and progression. During her PhD, she went on a research abroad program at the Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis, integrated into the Center for Cancer Biology at VIB-KU Leuven (Belgium), where she also had the opportunity to explore metabolic targets in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Advanced Course | Basic Laparoscopy For Residents
2023-11-16 09:00 - 2023-11-17 16:30
The Basic Laparoscopy for Residents is a training course focused on minimally invasive techniques with hands-on sessions in ex vivo tissues.
Link: https://b-acis.pt/workshops/basic-laparoscopy-for-residents/

Advanced Course | Microsurgical Anastomosis
2023-11-27 08:00 - 2023-11-29 16:00
Hands-on course focused on Microsurgical Anastomosis for orthopedic, plastic, urology and general surgeons, and veterinarians.
Link: https://b-acis.pt/workshops/microsurgical-anastomosis/

Advanced Course | EndoEar Braga
2023-12-01 08:00 - 2023-12-02 18:30
An ENT hands-on course with training sessions on a fully equipped lab and theoretical lessons by experts.
Link: https://b-acis.pt/workshops/endoear-braga/

ICVS Seminar “Development of microfluidic nanobiosensors for early diagnosis and monitoring of minimal residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia”
2024-01-08 13:00 - 14:00
Next Monday at 1 pm, don’t miss Alexandra Teixeira “Development of microfluidic nanobiosensors for early diagnosis and monitoring of minimal residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

Premium Cataract Surgery: All that you want to know
2024-01-14 09:00 - 18:00
The overall aim of the workshop will be to give a broad and practical perspective about premium cataract surgery to ophthalmologists already with experience in premium surgery, or with an interest in developing it.
https://b-acis.pt/workshops/premium-cataract-surgery/

ICVS Seminar “Silicon-based nanostructures as drug delivery systems for biological and medical applications”
2024-01-15 13:00 - 14:00
Next Monday at 1 pm, don’t miss Ana Raquel Bertão “Silicon-based nanostructures as drug delivery systems for biological and medical applications” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Neuroregeneration in a Trauma Hospital Setting”
2024-01-18 11:30 - 12:30
Next thursday at 12 pm, don’t miss an ICVS Advanced Seminar with David Hercher “Neuroregeneration in a Trauma Hospital Setting” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
David Hercher obtained his M.Sc. in Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna and his Dr. scient. med. at the Medical University of Vienna. Since 2017, he is the head of the Neuroregeneration Group at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology, Vienna, Austria, where he is working for 14 years in the field of regenerative medicine. His group focuses its research on the investigation of regenerative processes after injuries to the nervous system and the subequent development of targeted novel treatment options for peripheral and central nervous injuries. Furthermore, the groups interests lie in the elucidation of modes of action of mechanical stimuli on neuronal/glial cells and tissues as well as non-viral gene therapy and novel imaging modalities and their application in the field of regenerative medicine.
