SymbNET Kick-off Meeting Programme
15th March
Scientific Meeting Day 1 (open to all participants)
Lisbon time (WET)
12h30-13h00 Welcome Session
Moderator: Luís Teixeira (FCG-IGC)
12h30 - Monica Bettencourt-Dias (FCG-IGC Director)
12h35 - Philipp Engel (UNIL Spokesperson)
12h40 - Nassos Typas (EMBL Spokesperson)
12h45 - Hinrich Schulenburg (CAU Spokesperson)
12h50 - Adriano Henriques (ITQB NOVA Spokesperson)
12h55 - Luís Teixeira (Project Coordinator, FCG-IGC Spokesperson)
13h00-14h00 Scientific research talks
Moderator: Miguel Soares (FCG-IGC)
13h00 - Karina Xavier (Xavier Lab, FCG-IGC)
13h15 - Adriano Henriques (Henriques Lab, ITQB NOVA)
13h30 - Silvia Brochet (Engel Lab, UNIL)
13h45 - Alexandre Almeida (Finn Lab, EMBL)
14h00-14h15 BREAK
14h15-15h30 Scientific research talks
Moderator: Tal Dagan (CAU)
14h15 - Lucia Pita (CAU)
14h30 - Nelson Frazão (Gordo Lab, FCG-IGC)
14h45 - André Mateus (Savitski Lab, EMBL)
15h00 - Sumnima Singh (Soares Lab, FCG-IGC)
15h15 - Hinrich Schulenburg (Schulenburg Lab, CAU)
15h30-15h45 BREAK
15h45-16h50 Research facilities/services presentations
Moderator: Mikhail Savitski (EMBL)
15h45 - Ricardo Leite (Genomics Unit, FCG-IGC)
15h52 - Jingtao Lilue (Bioinformatics Unit, FCG-IGC)
16h00 - Philip Rosenstiel (CCGA, CAU)
16h07 - Ana Guerreiro (UNIMS, ITQB NOVA)
16h15 - Vladimir Benes (Gene core Facility, EMBL)
16h22 - Mandy Mettel (Proteomics core Facility, EMBL)
16h30 - Rob Finn (Microbiome Informatics, EMBL)
16h37 - Julijana Ivanisevic (Metabolomics Unit, UNIL)
16th March
Scientific Meeting Day 2 (open to all participants)
Lisbon time (WET)
12h30-13h30 Scientific research talks
Moderator: Élio Sucena (FCG-IGC)
12h30 - Sarela Garcia (Typas Lab, EMBL)
12h45 - André Barros (Moita Lab, FCG-IGC)
13h00 - Michael Zimmerman (Zimmerman Lab, EMBL)
13h15 - Thomas Bosch (Bosch Lab, CAU)
13h30-13h45 BREAK
13h45-14h30 Scientific research talks
Moderator: Philipp Engel (UNIL)
13h45 - Gonçalo Matos (Teixeira Lab, FCG-IGC)
14h00 - Malte Rühlemann (CAU)
14h15 - Niclas Lyndby (Meibom Lab, UNIL)
14h30-15h00 BREAK
15h00-16h15 Networking session (students and postdocs)
16h30-17h00 Summary / discussion (with all participants)
Steering and Management Meetings (open to members of these boards)
14h45-16h00 Management meeting (WP leaders, Task leaders, Task contributors, Advisory Board)
Moderator: Luís Teixeira (FCG-IGC)
14h45 - WP1 SymbNET Project Management (Mariana Simões, FCG-IGC)
14h55 - WP5 Capacitation of the Center for International Collaboration (Luís Valente, FCG-IGC)
15h05 - WP6 Dissemination and Communication (Ana Morais, FCG-IGC)
15h15 - WP2 Establish a collaborative research network (Isabel Gordo, FCG-IGC)
15h30 - WP3 Increase IGC and ITQB technical capacity in genomics and metabolomics (Hinrich
Schulenburg, CAU)
15h45 - WP4 Capacitating early-stage researchers in host-microbe symbiosis (Karina Xavier,
FCG-IGC)
16h00-16h30 Steering Board meeting (Steering Board, Advisory Board, WP leaders)
16h30-17h00 Summary / discussion (with all participants)