Miguel Pais
MARE-ULisboa

Maria da Luz Jeremias Cardinha do Maio Calado apresenta a tese "Marine fungal community associated with standing plants of Spartina maritima (curtis) Fernald".

O programa inclui três apresentações por cientistas convidados – João Rodrigues (Universidade de Stan­ford, EUA), Manuel N. Melo (Universidade de Groningen, Holanda) e Miguel Machuqueiro (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), bem como várias comunicações orais selecionadas pelo comité científico internacional de entre os resumos submetidos pelos participantes. Haverá também a oportunidade de apresentação de posters, que estarão em exposição durante todo o encontro.

 Conferência pública, no âmbito da Conferência Internacional "Biodiversity: Units, Levels, Scales".

Sara Magalhães
Assistant Professor, Evolutionary Ecology Group ‐ cE3c

Bruno Pinto
(MARE-ULisboa)

During recent decades we have witnessed a great development of bioinformatics that has led to the accumulation of a huge amount of biological information. The Bioinformatics and computational Biology aim at dealing with this large volume of data so that biological information can be extracted, generating scientific knowledge. Handling and mining big data is currently a subject of great interest and importance.

With this course, we aim at providing the participants with the basics of lichen biology and ecology, biomonitoring and data analysis methods to allow the use of lichens for the interpretation of the environmental conditions and the development of a responsible scientific-based environmental management.

Phylogeography is one of the recent scientific areas emergent from the dissemination of highthrouput technologies of sequencing starting in the 90’s of the XXth century, with the consequent development of intra-specific genetic variance analysis and its geographic distribution. The analysis of phylogeographic data allows to study the processes of population differentiation and the underlying evolutionary and demographic history. Applications of this body of knowledge go from conservation genetics to the study of the evolution of species and populations.