Ciências Research Day

The event will be held remotely

Scientific achievements, contributions to fight COVID-19, speed dates and posters...

A melhor Ciência faz-se em CIÊNCIAS!
The best Science is @ Ciências

 

An opportunity for faculty researchers to share their work with the in and out community. Spark your curiosity and your imagination.

Online registration

 

The event will be held remotely
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHl8K-LnzeU&feature=emb_title).

 

PROGRAMME

9:30-09:45 Welcome words (L. Carriço, Dean)
9:45-10:00 2020 Research highlights @ CIÊNCIAS (M Santos-Reis, Vice Dean for Research)

10:00 I 11:00 SESSION I - Top Notch Science
10:00-10:15 Biological research in Psychiatry: from molecule to behaviour (Diana Prata, IBEB)
10:15-10:30 Development and application of biochemical tools for tracking marine commercial products (Bernardo Duarte, MARE)
10:30-10:45 From the modelling of future climate to its impacts (Pedro Matos Soares, IDL)
10:45-11:00 Linked science: how computational semantics can bridge scientific disciplines (Cátia Pesquita, LASIGE)

11:00-11:15 Coffee-break

11:15-12:15 SESSION II – Science and Societal Recognition
11:15-11:30 Shedding Light on the Dark Universe - ‘Euclid STAR Prize 2020 Team Award’ (Ismael Tereno, IA)
11:30-11:45 Studying the mechanisms that trigger congenital muscular dystrophy - ‘Women in Science’ L’Óréal Award (Ana Rita Carlos, cE3c)
11:45-12:00 Driving your amazing science into a successful business @CIÊNCIAS (Rita Tomé, TEC LABS)
12:00-12:15 Biomimetx: from the sea to our daily life (Gonçalo Costa, Biomimetx)

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 SESSION III – CIÊNCIAS in the path for sustainability
13:30-13:45 CIÊNCIAS Living Lab for Sustainability: today and perspectives for the future (Jorge Maia Alves, Faculty Board)
13:45-14:00 + Biodiversity @ CIÊNCIAS: Mobilizing CIÊNCIAS community for the improvement of the campus biodiversity and livelihood - Sustainability Living Lab 2020 Award (Patricia Tiago e Sergio Chozas, cE3c)

14:00-16:45 SESSION IV - Science for Society: Fighting COVID-19 Together
14:00-14:30 CIÊNCIAS and the COVID-19 pandemia (Manuel Carmo Gomes, DBV)
14:30-14:45 COVID 19 incidence and mortality in Europe and worldwide (Carlos Antunes, IDL)
14:45-15:00 Portugal through the eyes of a virus (Nuno Araújo, CFTC)
15:00-15:15 Maths of the pandemic in Portugal: early days and current situation (Jorge Buescu, CMAFcIO)

15:15-15:30 Coffee-break

15:30-15:45 SAFE Coating: Fighting global virus threats with mass spectrometry (Carlos Cordeiro, DQB)
15:45-16:00 REUSE: from science to technology to product to people (Fernando Antunes, CQE)
16:00-16:15 COVIDETECT - Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater (Mónica Cunha, cE3c)
16:15-16:45 CT @ CIÊNCIAS: an integrated multidisciplinary response to the next Disease X (Ricardo Dias, BioISI)

16:45-17:00 Closing remarks (Pedro Almeida, Vice Dean for Internationalization, External and Interior Relations and Image)

 

FINISH YOUR DAY WITH A SPEED DATE or LOOKING AT A POSTER

 

 

Programme Ciências Research Day

Programme available here