ICVS

ICVS Student Seminar “c-MET Signaling in Innate Immune Responses to Aspergillus fumigatus Infection”
2026-03-16 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
March 16th at 1 pm, don’t miss Beatriz Machado‘s “c-MET Signaling in Innate Immune Responses to Aspergillus fumigatus Infection” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “On the role of neutrophils for stroke and its aftermath”
2026-03-19 13:00 - 14:00
March 19th at 1 pm, don’t miss Matthias Gunzer‘s “On the role of neutrophils for stroke and its aftermath”” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Student Seminar “Dissecting the role of Nucleus Accumbens neurons in anxiety-like behavior and behavioral preference”
2026-03-23 13:00 - 14:00
March 23rd at 1 pm, don’t miss Raquel Correia’s “Dissecting the role of Nucleus Accumbens neurons in anxiety-like behavior and behavioral preference” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Hippocampal Circuit Dysfunction in Aging”
2026-03-26 13:00 - 14:00
March 26th at 1 pm, don’t miss Luisa Lopes‘s “Hippocampal Circuit Dysfunction in Aging”” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Student Seminar “Tissue-engineered 3D cellular models of human dopaminergic neurodegeneration for Parkinson’s disease”
2026-03-30 13:00 - 14:00
March 30th at 1 pm, don’t miss Anabela Moreira’s “Tissue-engineered 3D cellular models of human dopaminergic neurodegeneration for Parkinson’s disease” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Student Seminar “Deciphering the Role of Galectin-3 in Innate Immune Responses to Fungal Infections”
2026-04-13 13:00 - 14:00
April 13th at 1 pm, don’t miss Inês Pereira’s “Deciphering the Role of Galectin-3 in Innate Immune Responses to Fungal Infections” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Susceptibility and resilience to chronic pain”
2026-04-16 13:00 - 14:00
April 16th at 1 pm, don’t miss Hugo Leite-Almeida’s “Susceptibility and resilience to chronic pain” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Student Seminar “Genetic engineering of the CD81 large extracellular loop for targeted delivery of mesenchymal stem cell derived vesicles for spinal cord injury repair"
2026-04-20 13:00 - 14:00
April 20th at 1 pm, don’t miss Diogo Santos’s “Genetic engineering of the CD81 large extracellular loop for targeted delivery of mesenchymal stem cell derived vesicles for spinal cord injury repair” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Tauopathy in Alzheimer´s disease and Frontotemporal dementia”
2026-04-27 12:00 - 13:00
April 27th at 12 pm, don’t miss Karen Duff’s “Tauopathy in Alzheimer´s disease and Frontotemporal dementia” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Professor Duff is the Centre Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London and Professor Emerita, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.
She received her PhD from Sydney Brenner’s department at the University of Cambridge. She undertook postdoc positions in London with Alison Goate and John Hardy at the University of South Florida. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, Associate Professor at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, and Professor at the New York University Nathan Kline Institute. Deputy director of the Taub Institute at Columbia University from 2006 – 2019.
Professor Duff explores disease mechanisms and test therapeutic approaches to Alzheimer’s disease, FTD and other dementias. Her current interests are exploring the mechanisms involved in the spread of pathogenic proteins within the brain, understanding the basis of selective cellular vulnerability and resilience to tauopathy and developing new mouse and cell models to understand the earliest stages in tau pathogenesis.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Individual reward preference in isogenic mouse populations”
2026-04-30 13:00 - 14:00
April 30th at 13 pm, don’t miss Christian Lüscher’s “Individual reward preference in isogenic mouse populations” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Christian Lüscher is a Full Professor and group leader at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences from Geneva University Neurocenter. His lab is interested in the cellular mechanisms that underlie drug reinforcement, dependence and addiction, particularly focusing on neuroadaptive changes and pathological synaptic plasticity at the mesolimbic dopamine system. Professor Lüscher has received many grants and awards recognizing his impressive contribution to his research field, namely two ERC Advanced grants and the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation Award in Translational Neuroscience. He is also part of the Board of Reviewing Editors of the prestigious journal Science.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Nose to brain delivery a narrow shortcut to the CNS”
2026-05-04 13:00 - 14:00
May 4th at 1 pm, don’t miss Fabio Sonvico’s “Nose to brain delivery a narrow shortcut to the CNS” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Connecting the Motors: How Adaptor Proteins Control Microtubule-Based Transport”
2026-05-07 13:00 - 14:00
May 7th at 1 pm, don’t miss Reto Gassmann’s “Connecting the Motors: How Adaptor Proteins Control Microtubule-Based Transport” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Reto Gassmann studied biochemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and carried out PhD research at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh with Bill Earnshaw, focusing on mitotic chromosome segregation. After postdoctoral work with Arshad Desai at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in San Diego, where he studied interactions between mitotic spindle microtubules and chromosomes, he joined IBMC (now i3S) in 2012 as a principal investigator. His group investigates how the activities of the opposing microtubule motors dynein and kinesin are coordinated by cargo adaptor proteins. They use a multidisciplinary approach combining live-cell fluorescence microscopy, genome editing in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans and cultured human cells, and biochemical reconstitution of molecular interactions. Beyond uncovering fundamental mechanisms of intracellular transport, this work aims to illuminate disease mechanisms associated with defective motor regulation.

ICVS Student Seminar "Tau ASOs: novel compounds for the treatment of Down Syndrome"
2026-05-11 13:00 - 14:00
May 11th at 1 pm, don’t miss Carlos Marques’s “Tau ASOs: novel compounds for the treatment of Down Syndrome” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Student Seminar “IDO1 as an Immunometabolic Checkpoint of Granuloma Formation in Sarcoidosis”
2026-05-18 13:00 - 14:00
May 18th at 1 pm, don’t miss Marcela Oliveira’s “IDO1 as an Immunometabolic Checkpoint of Granuloma Formation in Sarcoidosis” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Occupational exposure to ionizing radiation and incident measures of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease among Ontario nuclear power plant”
2026-05-21 13:00 - 14:00
May 21st at 1 pm, don’t miss Paul Villeneuve’s “Occupational exposure to ionizing radiation and incident measures of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease among Ontario nuclear power plant” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Occupational exposure to ionizing radiation and incident measures of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease among Ontario nuclear power plant
Bio: Dr. Villeneuve is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University. He completed his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Toronto in Canada, and following graduation was research scientist at Health Canada in the Air Health Effects group for nearly a decade. His expertise is in environmental and occupational health, and he has evaluated radiation health risks in Ontario electric utility workers, the Newfoundland Fluorspar Cohort, and the Canadian National Dose Registry. He is also leading a CIHR funded study on patterns of cancer incidence among Canadians who live near nuclear power plants, and also exploring how occupational exposure to radiation increases the risk of dementia, and ocular disorders. He is the former chair of the Technical Advisory Group on Occupational Burden of Disease Estimation for the World Health Organization.

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Microbiome profiling from FIT residual samples for biomarker discovery in colorectal cancer screenin”
2026-05-25 13:00 - 14:00
May 25th at 1 pm, don’t miss Mariana Bisarro dos Reis’s “Microbiome profiling from FIT residual samples for biomarker discovery in colorectal cancer screenin” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Mariana Bisarro dos Reis, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Brazil. Her research focuses on the identification of microbiome-derived biomarkers for colorectal cancer screening using residual material from fecal immunochemical tests (FIT).

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Sustainability in action: the ICVS GreenLab initiative”
2026-05-28 13:00 - 14:00
May 28th at 1 pm, don’t miss Green Lab’s “Sustainability in action: the ICVS GreenLab initiative” at the A0.03 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
