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.