Outreach activities

CiênciaViva2022 – Ocupação científica dos jovens nas férias 2022 – Scientific occupation of high school students on vacation 2022

CIFC (coffee leaf rust research center) opens its doors and welcomes young people (ages 16-18) to participate in an interactive laboratory program during summer vacations promoted by Ciência Viva agency. For one week, the high school students had the chance to stay in the laboratory and were guided by researchers into the world of identification of coffee species and pathogenic fungus by DNA barcoding. Coordinator: Dora Batista and Inês Diniz. July 18th-22nd

Peddy paper – PhD students meet ISA’s research centers

School of Agriculture (ISA) of the University of Lisbon promoted a great initiative to bring closer Phd students (enroll in this institute) and researchers. In a very active and fun peddy-paper, ISA's PhD students visited several research centers hosted on the ISA's campus. PhD students had the chance to be introduced to the research centers in ISA and understand more about the research that is being done. CIFC (coffee leaf rust research center) was one of the research centers to participate in this outreach activity. July 1st, 2022

58ª Feira Nacional de Agricultura (FNA) - National agriculture fair - 2022

The school of Agriculture (Instituto Superior de Agronomia) participated on the 58th agriculture fair (58ª Feira Nacional de Agricultura FNA) 2022, in Santarém (Portugal). The ISA's research centers were invited to promote their latest projects. 4th-12nd of June, 2022.

LEAF à descoberta da Tapada da Ajuda – LEAF in Tapada da Ajuda

The Linking Landscape Environment Agriculture and Food (LEAF) Research Center at School of agriculture (ISA) of the University of Lisbon, promoted on July 2, 2021, an action to publicize their investigation on recently improved pedestrian trails and cycle paths in Tapada da Ajuda, where are they based. CIFC (coffee leaf rust research center) was one of the research centers to participate in this outreach activity. Visitors of all ages had the chance to meet a coffee plant for the first time and taste some ripe coffee berries. This outdoor activity was an excellent opportunity to introduce to the general public the most important fungal coffee diseases and explain a little bit more about what is done in the lab. Coordinator: Dora Batista. June 5th, 2022

CiênciaViva2021 – Ocupação científica dos jovens nas férias 2021 – Scientific Occupation of high school on vacation 2021

CIFC (coffee leaf rust research center) opens its doors and welcomes young people (ages 17-18) to participate in an interactive laboratory program during summer vacations promoted by Ciência Viva agency. For one week, the young students had the chance to stay in the laboratory and were guided by researchers into the world of identification of coffee species and pathogenic fungus by DNA barcoding. Coordinator: Dora Batista and Maria Manuel Romeiras

Semana da Ciência e da Tecnologia - The week of Science and Technology

CIFC (coffee leaf rust research center) was one of the participants of the Semana da Ciência e Tecnologia - The week of Science and Technology, promoted by the Ciência Viva Agency. The intention was to make the Portuguese scientists known what they research and their contributions to the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of scientific culture, progress and the well-being of society. The visitors of CIFC's stand have the chance to learn more about the diversity of the coffee plants, which have economic importance, and the major diseases that threaten the coffee crop production. November 25th, 2021

Coordinator: Vitor Várzea

6th edition of the Annual Meeting of the cE3c - Best Flash Talk Award

João Afonso Birg, from the Computational Biology & Population Genomics group – CoBig2 of the cE3c, was distinguished with the Best Flash Talk Award, by a vote of the participants in the 6th edition of the Annual Meeting of the cE3c – which took place on the 1st and 2nd of October 2020, online – for the flash talk (three-minute presentation) entitled High-throughput transcriptome profiling of contrasting pathotypes of the coffee rust Hemileia vastatrix.

6th edition of Annual meeting of cE3c, October 1st-2sd, 2020

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