Plenary lectures
Topic #1 - Microbiotech in Health & Disease
João Paulo Gomes
Researcher and Head of the Bioinformatics Unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases, National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge – INSA, Portugal.
Catarina Brito
Topic #2 - Microbiotech for a Sustainable Future
Eriko Takano
Professor of Synthetic Biology, University of Manchester, UK.
Sunil Chandran
SVP and Head of R&D, Amyris Biotechnologies, US.
Topic #3: Food and Environmental Microbiotech
Yong-Guan Zhu
Professor of Soil Environmental Sciences and Environmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Director General of the Institute of Urban Environment, China.
Topic #4 - Impact of Microbiotech in Society
Cristián Hernández-Cuevas
General Partner at Zentynel Frontier Investments and Director at Fundacion Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile
Topic #5 - Cool tools in Microbiotech
Ciara O'Sullivan
ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Engineering Sciences, Spain.
Jean-Marie Pagès
Senior Director of Research (DR1) INSERM2012, Head of UMR-MD1 Research Unit Membrane Transporters, Chemoresistance and Drug design, France.
Keynote lectures
Marta Alenquer
Researcher, Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Portugal.
Gorben Pijlman
Associate Professor, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Fani Sousa
Associate Professor, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal.
Jörg Overmann
Professor, Leibniz Institute DSMZ–German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Germany.
Mafalda Quintas
Science Officer at COST Office UE, Portugal.
Pedro Fevereiro
Principal Investigator, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.
Moritz von Stosch
Chief innovation Officer, DataHow AG. Switzerland.
Lígia Rodrigues
Associate Professor with Habilitation, Universidade do Minho, Portugal.
Marcel Ottens
Associate Professor, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands.
Maria Miragaia
Auxiliary Researcher, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.
Maria Michela Corsaro
Carlos Gonçalo das Neves
Susana P. Gaudêncio
Head of the Blue Biotechnology and Biomedicine Lab, UCIBIO, NOVA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | FCT NOVA, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.
Joana Fradinho
Assistant Researcher, UCIBIO, NOVA School of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal.
Jodi Lindsay
Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, St George’s University of London, UK.
Kenneth N. Timmis
Professor, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.
Martin J. Blaser
Professor, Director of Centre for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), CABM, Rutgers, US.
Ana Maria Rebelo Barreto Xavier
Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Constança Pomba
Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Resistance to Antibiotics and Biocides, FMV-ULisboa, Portugal.
Paula Teixeira
Associate Professor in Food Microbiology at ESB-UCP, Portugal.
Laurent Debarbieux
Research Director, Institut Pasteur, France.
Cecília Maria Arraiano
Coordinating Investigator, Head of the Control of Gene Expression Laboratory, ITQB NOVA, Portugal.
Marta Silvestre
Assistant Professor, NOVA Medical School, Nutrition & Metabolism, Portugal.