Sumários
S8
6 Novembro 2025, 11:00 • Lélia Chambel
A New Era in Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Surveillance: Application
of Next-Generation Sequencing
Whole-genome
sequencing (WGS) as the gold standard typing method
Why Bioinformatics is Essential in Infectious Disease Control?
Current
NGS/Bioinformatics applications at INSA
New era of virus surveillance targeting the whole-genome
Response to
Emerging Public Health Threats
New era of bacterial genomics informed diagnosis, surveillance and
outbreak investigation
Genomics informed laboratory surveillance of
pathogenic bacteria
One Health WGS FWD surveillance system
Portugal
Genomics-informed
pathogen surveillance and outbreak investigation
New era of diagnostics using Metagenomics approaches
Clinical Metagenomics and Bioinformatics| From Complex Data to Meaningful Diagnosis
Palestrante: Vítor Borges (INSA)
S7
30 Outubro 2025, 11:00 • Lélia Chambel
Um Universo de vida bacteriana
Esporos de
bactérias.
Porquê, para
quê, esporular.
Formadores
de esporos no trato gastrointestinal.
Formadores
de esporos como probióticos para animais e plantas.
O Planeta Bactéria.
Bactérias:
pequenas e grandes.
Bactérias
com organelos diversos e “magníficos”.
A vida tal
como a conhecemos e a vida noutros planetas.
Palestrante: Adriano Henriques (ITQB-NOVA)
S6
23 Outubro 2025, 11:00 • Lélia Chambel
Bacteriophages: from in silico to the bench
Finding prophages: Bioinformatic analysis; Proteins
identification
Lysins production
Lysin structure and activity
In vivo assays
Palestrante: Ana Carolina Pimentel (FCUL)
S5
16 Outubro 2025, 11:00 • Lélia Chambel
The Octocoral
Microbiome: From Diversity and Function to Blue Biotech Opportunities
- Octocorals and their microbial symbionts
- The prokaryotic community of the octocoral Eunicella labiata
- Metagenomic insights into diversity, function and
dysbiosis of the microbiome of octocorals
- Presumed niche partitioning and metabolic interaction
in bacterial symbionts of octocorals
- Biotechnological Applications of Chitin, Chitinases and
Chitin-derived products
- Drug discovery - Octocorals are a great source of novel
natural products
- Octocoral holobiont response to and mitigation of
climate change stress
Segurança & Resiliência Biológica
9 Outubro 2025, 11:00 • Ricardo Pedro Moreira Dias
1. Conceitos em Biossegurança e Bioproteção
2. Mecanismos de Resiliência
4. Casos Portugueses
5. Ciclo da Bioproteção
6. Cenário e aplicação prática dos conhecimentos adquiridos