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

 

Updated on 14 september 2022