COMMITTEE
MEMBERS
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Arsénio Fialho (IST, IBB) • Ascenção Reis (UNL) • Cecília Arraiano (ITQB/UNL)
Cecília Leão (UM, ICVS) • Cecília Roque (UNL) • Didier Cabanes (UP, IBMC)
Eugénio Ferreira (UM, IBB) • Francisco Gírio (LNEG) • Gabriel Monteiro (IST, IBB)
Guilherme Matos Ferreira ( UAlg, IBB) • Helena Santos (ITQB/UNL, ITQB)
Hermínia de Lencastre (ITQB/UNL, ITQB) • Ilda Sanches (FCT/UNL, CREM)
Isabel Sá Correia (IST, IBB) Joaquim Cabral (IST, IBB) • Jorge Pedrosa (UM,ICVS )
Jose Teixeira ( UM , IBB ) • Júlio Novais (IST, IBB) • Luísa Peixe ( UP, FF)
Madalena Alves (UM, IBB) • Manuel Carrondo (FCT/UNL, IBET) • Manuel Coimbra (UA)
Manuel Mota (UM, IBB) Manuel Santos (UA) • Manuel Vilanova (UP, ICBAS)
Margarida Casal (UM, CBMA) • Miguel Prazeres (IST, IBB) • Milton Costa (FCT/UC)
Pedro Fevereiro (UNL) • Pedro Moradas Ferreira (UP, IBMC) • Raquel Aires
Barros (IST, UTL) • Rogério Tenreiro (FC/UL, BioFIG) • Rosário Oliveira (UM, IBB)
Rui L Reis (UM, 3B’s) • Tim Hogg (UCP, ESB) • Virgílio do Rosário (IHMT/UNL,
CMDT-LA)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jorge Pedrosa (UM, ICVS) Co-Chair • Joana Azeredo (UM, IBB-CEB) Co-Chair
Fernando Rodrigues (UM, ICVS) • Isabel Belo (UM, IBB-CEB) • Lucília Domingues
(UM, IBB-CEB) • Mark Sturme (UM, ICVS)• Nuno Cerca (UM, IBB-CEB)
Paula Ludovico (UM, ICVS)
The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate
in the Microbiotec11 Congress to be held in Braga, Portugal, December
1 - 3, 2011.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts which will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee and
published on a flash drive.
The deadline for extended abstracts submission is September 10th, 2011.
Information on the abstracts acceptance by the Scientific Committee will be sent to
the authors before the end of October, 2011, together with their final topic and
oral / poster allocation.
All presenting authors must register for the Conference before November 07th, 2011.
CONTACTS
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +351 253 604 823
Fax: +351 253 604 862
ADDRESS
MicroBiotec11 (a/c Madalena Branco)
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS),
School of Health Sciences
University of Minho - Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga - Portugal
www.microbiotec11.org
VENUE
ICVS, University of Minho,
Campus de Gualtar, 4710-57 Braga
MICROBIOTEC’11
The Portuguese Society for Microbiology and The Portuguese Society for
TOPICS
Biocatalysis and Biotransformation
Biotechnology have the great pleasure to announce the re-edition of the
Bioinformatics
National Congress MicroBiotec11 scheduled to take place in Braga, 1-3
Bionanotechnology
December 2011.
Bioprocess Engineering
Cell culture, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering
INVITED
LECTURERS
Prof. Heinz D. Osiewacz
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Prof. John D. McKinney
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
With this initiative the two scientific societies aim to provide a forum where
Clinical Microbiology
advances in R&D in the broad areas of Microbiology and Biotechnology are
Comparative Genomics and Evolution
disseminated and discussed highlighting the transversality and interdisci-
Downstream Processing
plinarity among the areas of knowledge they represent.
Drug Resistance Targets and Biotechnology
Prof. Merja Penttilä
Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Microbiotec11 will take place at the University of Minho, Gualtar Campus,
Epidemiology
in Braga, an ancient city in the heart of the green and fertile region known
Epigenomics
as the Costa Verde in the North of Portugal. It is the capital of the province
Food Microbiology & Biotechnology
of Minho , originally named Bracara Augusta, and was established as a trade
Functional Genomics
centre to permit fruitful commercial and industrial exchange with the Roman
Health Biotechnology
Empire. Over the centuries that followed Braga adapted to new invasions
Host-Pathogen Interactions
by Suebics, Visigoths and Arabs before eventually becoming the “city
Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
of archbishops” that was recognized as a religious and cultural centre
Microbial Ecology
with a rich and diverse heritage. The historical background of the city and
Microbial Pathogenesis
the province of Minho contribute to a rich tapestry which offers modern
Microbial Physiology
tourists a surprising variety of activities, from stimulating visits to the many
Molecular Microbiology
museums, monuments, castles and palaces, gastronomic exploration of the
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
characteristic Portuguese cuisine or to the discovery of the natural parks of
Renewables, Biofuels and Bioenergy
Gerês to the east or Soajo to the north.
Synthetic Biology
Systems Biology
The Organizing Committee invites all to participate in this congress. We are
looking forward to welcome you in Braga for MicroBiotec11.
Prof. Luuk A.M. van der Wielen
Department of Biotechnology, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Prof. Philippe J. Sansonetti
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Prof. Steve Cramer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA