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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)










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