Dear Postdoctoral community,

We have the pleasure to invite you to the “Lisbon Area PostDoctoral Meeting” (LAPD meeting) on November 15th 2018, co-organized by the Postdoc Associations of iMM-JLA, Champalimaud Foundation, LAQV & UCIBIO (FCT-NOVA) and ITQB/iBET (FCT-NOVA), that will be held at Museu do Oriente, Lisboa.

This one-day meeting welcomes Postdocs from all fields of research to share their work with the postdoctoral community.

Communicate. Explore. Connect.

This meeting is a great opportunity for professional development and networking within the postdoctoral community.

The goals of this event are for you to:

• Communicate your research
• Explore the diversity of postdoctoral research
• Connect with other postdocs

This event will focus on the diversity of our community and our contribution to research excellency. It will be a great way for you to discover new fields of research, connect with other institutes, promote scientific interactions, knowledge improvement and unexpected future collaborations.

We encourage postdocs to attend and celebrate the fantastic work done across all institutes!

Meeting Program

09:00 - 09:30 Arrival and Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Opening Session with Maria João Romão and Cecília Arraiano

10:00 - 10:40 Communication Offices Pedro Garcia da Silva (CR), Teresa Sequeira Carlos (LAQV&UCIBIO), Inês Domingues (iMM), Margarida Trindade (ITQB)

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Session I: 5 pitch presentation (10'+5')

Célia Romão (ITQB) - "Understand how elements are distributed in the cell under stress conditions using X-ray fluorescence nano-imaging"

António Mendes (iMM) - “Clinical safety and protective efficacy after immunization with genetically modified Plasmodium berghei sporozoites expressing P.falciparum –circumsporozoite protein in a first-in-human Phase1/2a trial”

Clara Ferreira (CR) - ”Social modulation of defence behaviors”

Cristiana Torres (UCIBIO) - ”Microbiological Biopolymers”

Mattia Bergomi (CR) - “NeuroAl: theory and applications”

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch at Doca de Santo (https://grupocapricciosa.pt/doca-de-santo/)

14:30 - 15:30 Dynamic Scientific Activity

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session II: 6 pitch presentation (10'+5')

Isaura Martins (iMM) - “Endothelial cells and spinal cord injury”

Manuela Ferreira (CR) - ”How to build up the first-line immune defence in your gut?”

Susana Palma (UCIBIO) -"A machine learning approach to microbial pathogens' volatile signatures"

Marta Marques (iMM) - “Overexpression of osmosensitive Ca2+-activated channel TMEM63B promotes migration in HEK293T cells”

Vanessa Correia (ITQB) - "How to be green & antimicrobial using ionic liquids and plant polymers"

Nuno Basílio (LAQV) - "Shining Light on Synthetic High-Affinity Binding Pairs"

17:30 - 18:00 Closing Session