You are invited to attend the Portuguese Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology (MicroBiotec’13) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, from 6 to 8 December 2013. The scientific program is supervised by the Portuguese Society for Microbiology (SPM) and the Portuguese Society for Biotechnology (SPBT). Portuguese Society for Microbiology Portuguese Society for Biotechnology On behalf of the organizing committee, António Correia & Manuel A Coimbra Information: [email protected] http://microbiotec13.web.ua.pt/ Registration: Click here Abstract submission: Click here ORGANISING COMMITTEE SPEAKERS TOPICS Chairs: António CM Correia | Manuel A. Coimbra Plenary: Biocatalysis and Biotransformation | Bioinformatics | Bionanotechnology | Bioprocess Engineering | Cell Sylvie Dequin (INRA, Montpellier, France) Other members: Anabela Pereira | Ângela Cunha | Artur Alves | Cláudia Nunes | Cláudia Passos | Dulce Helena Teixeira | Elisabete Coelho | Sónia Mendo Ed Feil (Univ of Bath, UK) Henk Haagsman (Univ of Utrecht, NL) Alois Jungbauer (BOKU, Vienna, Austria) Maria Mota (Fac Medicina, UL, Portugal) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Alfons Stams (Wageningen Univ, NL) culture, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering | Clinical Microbiology | Comparative Genomics and Evolution | Downstream Processing | Drug Resistance Targets and Biotechnology | Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology | Epidemiology | Epigenomics | Food Microbiology | Functional Genomics | Health Biotechnology | Host-Pathogen Interactions | Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology | Microbial Ecology | António Correia (UA) | Arsénio Fialho (IST) | Ascensão Reis (UNL) | Cecília Arraiano (ITQB) | Keynotes: Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Physiology | Cecília Leão (UM) | Cecília Roque (UNL) | Célia Manaia Giovanna Ferrari (Univ. Salerno, Italy) Molecular Microbiology | Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (UCP) | Elsa Anes (FFUL) | Eugénio Ferreira (UM) | Gustavo Goldman (USP, Brasil) | Renewables, Biofuels and Bioenergy | Synthetic Francisco Gírio (LNEG) | Gabriel Monteiro (IST) | Isabel Gordo (IGC) Biology | Systems Biology Guilherme Matos Ferreira (UAlg) | Helena Gil (UC) | Jorge Leitão (IST) Helena Santos (ITQB) | Hermínia de Lencastre (ITQB) | Paula Ludovico (ICVS/UM) Ilda Sanches (UNL) | Isabel Sá Correia (IST) | Ivonne Manuel Santos (DBio, UA) Delgadillo (UA) | João Coutinho (UA) | João Mano Jorge Saraiva (DQ, UA) (UM) | João Queiroz (UBI) | Joaquim Cabral (IST) | David Smith (CABI, UK) 120 € if until 15 September Jorge Pedrosa (UM) | José Teixeira (UM) | Luísa Peixe Marta Aires Sousa (ESSCVP) 150 € late registration (FFUP) | M. Leonor Nunes (IPIMAR) | Madalena Alves Paula Teixeira (ESB/UCP) (UM) | Manuel Carrondo (UNL) | Manuel Mota (UM) | António Vicente (UM) Tim Hogg (UCP) Members of SPBT and SPM: 350 € late registration Prazeres (IST) | Milton Costa (UC) | Nelson Lima (UM) | (IST) | Rogério Tenreiro (UL) | Rosário Oliveira (UM) | Students (undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students): 200 € if until 15 September Manuel Santos (UA) | Margarida Casal (UM) | Miguel Pedro Moradas Ferreira (IBMC) | Raquel Aires Barros REGISTRATION FEES IMPORTANT DATES Registration: September 15, 2013 Abstract submission: September 15, 2013 Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 30, 2013 Others: 300 € if until 15 September 400 € late registration Accompanying persons (program will be available): 70 €