III CBMA OPEN DAY & IV PhD | Bio SYMPOSIUM
We are pleased to announce the upcoming III CBMA Open Day & IV PhD | Bio Symposium – a gathering of researchers, students, and professionals dedicated to advancing knowledge and fostering collaboration in molecular and environmental biology.
Event Details:
Date: 9th June 2026
Location: B1 Auditorium, CPII – Campus de Gualtar, University of Minho
Detailed Programme (here):
09h00 Registration and Opening session
Session I – Bio-inspired systems and biotechnological solutions
09h30 Invited Speaker – Richard Breia
Unravelling Grapevine Sugar Transporter Networks for Novel Biopesticipes Strategies.
09h50 Bruna Oliveira – Enhancing Torulaspora delbrueckii fermentative capacity through glucose transporter manipulation.
10h00 Alexandra Gomes-Gonçalves – The uptake of iron in Candida albicans is mediated by the presence of lactate.
10h10 Pop-up Talks
Gonçalo Nogueira Marques – Native yeasts from European vineyards as potential biocontrol agents against grapevine fungal pathogens
Patrícia Fernandes – Nutrient signalling regulates Ato protein dynamics and pH modulation in Candida albicans.
Session II – Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning under global change
10h20 Invited Speaker – Sara Rodrigues
Freshwater ecosystems under pressure: biodiversity, pollutants, and climate-driven stressors
10h40 Rui Carvalho – Projected climate impacts on soil nematode distributions in the North of Portugal.
10h50 Pedro Costa – Leaving the sphere: a reproducible method for producing more realistic microplastics for aquatic toxicity testing
11h00 Pop-up Talks:
Henrique Alves – Riparian LULC in the river Ave Basin (NW Portugal): Linking Sentinel-2 Imagery and InVEST to Support Ecosystem Services Mapping
Hugo Afonso – Disruptions to the norm: Insights on the molecular mechanisms of oak floral diversity and plasticity
11h10 Coffee break
Session III – Living systems unraveled by computational or integrative approaches
11h40 Invited Speaker – Susana Chaves
What Model Organisms Reveal About Agrochemical Mode of Action: From Efficacy to Health Risk
12h00 João Almeida – Tracking the “First Age of Globalisation” From Bronze Age to Medieval Eurasia
12h10 Ana Rita Bragança – Comparative Analysis of Marine and Terrestrial Antimicrobial Peptides for the Rational Design of Salt-Stable Variants
12h20 Pop-up Talks:
Fábio Pereira – When Mobile DNA Meets Wine Fermentation: Transposable Elements in Non-Saccharomyces Yeasts
Francisca Ferreira – Functional characterisation of a new substrate binding domain in the Aspergillus niger citrate transporter CexA
12h30 Lunch
14h30 CBMA In & Out
15h00 Student poster corner & quiz
16h00 Video Contest “O meu doutoramento dava um filme”
16h30 Award session and closing ceremony
17H00 CBMA Sunset
Important information and dates:
All students and junior fellows are invited to submit an Abstract with their work ( until 22nd May 2026 ). Presenters and attendants must register until 28th May 2026 .
Click here to register in the event and submit your abstract (if applicable). If you are a PhD student, check out the rules for the video contest “O meu doutoramento dava um filme”
For more information or inquiries, please contact cbmaphdsymposium@gmail.com.
We look forward to your participation.