Researcher and Head of the Bioinformatics Unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases, National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge – INSA, Portugal.
Catarina Brito
Principal Investigator, iBET & ITQB-NOVA, Portugal.
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.