As part of the PhD programme in Biology, we are pleased to announce the schedule for the oral presentations, which will take place on 14 of July 2026 with online transmission.

Each oral presentation will last 15 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion with the Examination Board.

14h | Student: Pedro Sousa

• Supervisor: Filomena Magalhães

• External Jury: Susanne Tanner

• Area of Specialisation: Ecology and Conservation Biology

• Title: Food web rewiring under climate warming: integrating life history traits with topological network characteristics

• Curricular Unit: Thesis (2nd year)

• Room 2.2.24

15h | Student: João Carreiras

• Supervisor: Bernardo Duarte

• External Jury: Teresa Lino Neto (UMinho), Cristina Cruz

• Area of Specialisation: Physiology and Developmental Biology

• Title: Promoting grapevine systemic resistance to Plasmopara viticola with marine bacteria consortia: physiological and molecular insight

• Curricular Unit: Thesis (3rd year)

• Online

16h | Student: Pedro Miguel Gomes

• Supervisor: Susanne Tanner

• External Jury: Alberto Teodorico Correia (UP)

• Area of Specialisation: Marine Biology and Aquaculture

• Title: Identificação de unidades populacionais de dourada (Sparus aurata) e sargo-safia (Diplodus vulgaris)

• Curricular Unit: Thesis (2nd year)

• Online