2021 Course on Host-Microbe Interactions for PhD students
SymbNET course
Host-Microbe Interactions
Part of the FCG-IGC PhD program in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine.
Open to PhD students from the groups associated with SymbNET. For more information, please contact symbnet@igc.gulbenkian.pt.
22nd to 26th November 2021
Programme:
(all times in Lisbon time)
MONDAY | 22 NOV.
9.30 – 10.15 am Mechanisms of interaction between Wolbachia and Drosophila
Catarina Carmo
10.30 – 11.15 am Nutrition and gut microbiota evolution
Tanja Dapa
11.30 am – 12.15pm Short- and long-term bacterial adaptation to the mammalian gut
Nelson Frazão
2.00 – 4.30 pm Statistics and data analysis
Tiago Paixão e Nelson Martins
TUESDAY | 23 NOV.
9.30 – 11.30 am Endosymbiosis
Luis Teixeira
12.00 – 1.00 pm IGC Tuesday Seminar
2.00 – 3.30 pm Diversity in the gut
Philipp Engel (online)
4.00 -5.00 pm Project part I
all groups
WEDNESDAY | 24 NOV.
9.30 – 11.30 am Inter-microbial communication
Karina Xavier
1.00 – 2.30 pm Systems-based approaches in microbiome research
Nassos Typas (online)
THURSDAY | 25 NOV.
9.30 – 11.30 am Coral Symbioses
Waldan Kwong
1.00 -2.30 pm Projects part II
Groups 1 and 2 presentations, Luis Teixeira, Isabel Gordo
3.00 – 4.00 pm SymbNET online seminars
Metabolomics
Julijana Ivanisevic
Microbe – xenobiotics interactions: from single species to communities
Sarela Garcia-Santamarina
4.15 – 5.15 pm Discussion on microbe – xenobiotics interactions
Sarela Garcia-Santamarina
FRIDAY | 26 NOV.
9.30 – 11.30 am Spore-forming intestinal pathogens
Adriano Henriques
2.00 -3.00 pm IGC Friday Seminar and SymbNET online seminar
Bacteria and their mobile elements: how networks of shifting interactions drive genome evolution
Eduardo Rocha
3.15 – 4.15 pm Discussion on bacteria and their mobile elements
Eduardo Rocha (online)
4.30 – 6.00 pm Projects part III
Groups 3 and 4 presentations, Waldan Kwong, Karina Xavier
Coordinator: Luís Teixeira
External Faculty:
Philipp Engel
University of Lausanne
MICROBIAL SYMBIOSIS
SymbNET team member
Adriano Henriques
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica NOVA
MICROBIAL DEVELOPMENT
SymbNET team member
Sarela Garcia-Santamarina
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica NOVA
HUMAN MICROBIOTA – XENOBIOTICS INTERACTIONS
SymbNET team member
Eduardo Rocha
Institut Pasteur
MICROBIAL EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS
SymbNET advisory board member
Nasso Typas
EMBL
SYSTEMS MICROBIOLOGY
SymbNET team member
IGC Faculty:
Catarina Carmo
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
HOST-MICROORGANISM INTERACTIONS
Tanja Dapa
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
BATERIAL SIGNALLING
Nelson Frazão
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Isabel Gordo
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
SymbNET team member
Waldan Kwong
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Nelson Martins
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
HOST-MICROORGANISM INTERACTIONS
Tiago Paixão
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY & DIGITAL SCIENCE SERVICE
Luís Teixeira
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
HOST-MICROORGANISM INTERACTIONS
SymbNET team member
Karina Xavier
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
BATERIAL SIGNALLING
SymbNET team member