Programa
(versão para impressão disponível AQUI)
Sexta-feira, 15 de Junho
9.30 Recepção e entrega de documentação
10.45 Café
11.15 Sessão de Abertura
Fernando Santana (Director da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia)
Isabel Sá Nogueira (Representante do Centro de Recursos Microbiológicos)
Álvaro Fonseca (Comissão Organizadora)
Helena Rodrigues de Sousa (Comissão Organizadora)
11.30 Conferência “Professor Nicolau van Uden”
Moderador: Cecília Leão
Secrets of life imprinted in the death of yeast
Paula Ludovico
12.30 - 14.00 Almoço na sala Ágora
Sessão I – Yeast Physiology and Genetics
Moderadores: Maria C. Loureiro Dias /José M. Peinado
14.00 -14.15 Extrinsic factors influencing cell viability in chronological aging yeast
Júlia Santos
14.15 -14.30 Autophagy and aged yeast cells response to proteotoxic stress
Belém Sampaio-Marques
14.30 - 14.45 CgQdr2 drug:H+ antiporter from the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata: role and regulation in azole drug resistance
Catarina Costa
14.45 - 15.00 Evolution of the 12-spanner drug:H+ antiporters of family 1 (DHA1) in the pathogenic Candida species: phylogenetic analysis of Mdr1 and Flu1 proteins
Paulo Jorge Dias
15.00 - 15.15 Gene expression regulation in yeast mediated by the transcription factor Haa1p: identification of residues required for functional Haa1-DNA associations and role of copper in DNA-binding
Sílvia Henriques
15.15 - 15.30 Role of the DHH1 gene in the regulation of monocarboxylic acids transporters expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Sandra Mota
15.30 - 15.4514.00 - 14.15 A genetic strategy for selection for simultaneous pentose and glucose transport
Filipa Pereira
15.45 - 16.00 The MX4 blaster cassette for clean removal
of MX4 deletion cassettes
Ângela Carvalho
16.00 - 16.30 Café
16.30 - 16.45 Screening for the presence of new Ffz-like
hexose transporters in yeasts
Sara Cabral
16.45 - 17.00 Characterization of xylanases-producing yeasts isolated from Brazilian ecosystems
Carla Lara
17.00 - 17.15 Diversity and physiological characterization of D-xylose fermenting yeasts isolated from Brazilian Amazonian forest
Raquel M. Cadete
Sessão II- Yeast Ecology and Genetics of Reproduction
Moderadores: Fernando Rodrigues / Álvaro Fonseca
17.30 - 17.45 Diversity of yeasts in beech forest soils
Andrey Yurkov
17.45 - 18-00 A first glimpse on the genetic diversity of Saccharomyces uvarum
Carla Gonçalves
18.00 - 18-15 Complex population structure of
Saccharomyces paradoxus in Eurasia
Pedro Miguel Almeida
18.15 - 18.30 Molecular evidence for a tetrapolar mating system and genetic heterogeneity in the basidiomycetous yeast Kwoniella mangroviensis
Marco A. Guerreiro
18.30 - 18.45 Identification and functional analysis of mating genes of the dimorphic fungal pathogen Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Jéssica Rezende Gomes
20.00 Jantar das Leveduras
Solar dos Zagalos (Sobreda)
Sábado, 16 de Junho
Sessão III– Yeasts in Fermentation Processes
Moderadores: Manuel Malfeito-Ferreira / César Fonseca
9.00 - 9.15 Screening yeast deletion strains for their performance during wine fermentation
Tiago Viana
9.15 - 9.30 Influence of non-Saccharomyces yeasts on the sensorial profiles of Touriga Nacional wines
Andreia Teixeira
9.30 - 9.45 Survival rate of wine-related yeasts during alcoholic fermentation assessed by direct live/dead staining combined with fluorescence in situ hybridization
Patrícia Branco
9.45 - 10-00 Impact of assimilable nitrogen availability in glucose uptake kinetics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during alcoholic fermentation
Margarida Palma
10.00 - 10.15 Isolation and screening of novel inulinase producing yeasts
Pedro D. Teixeira
10.15 - 10.30 Production of bioethanol from carob pulp: integration of 1st and 2nd generation
Francisco Mendes
10.30 - 11.00 Café
Sessão IV– Yeast as Model Organism
Moderadores: Manuela Côrte-Real / Miguel Teixeira
11.00 - 11.15 Evaluation of coumarins effect in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Dora Pinto
11.15 - 11.30 Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an expression host and experimental model system for the functional analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana putative multidrug transporters: role of ScTpo1 homolog AtZifl1 in herbicide resistance and auxin transport
Tânia R. Cabrito
11.30 - 11.45 Plk2 mediated phosphorylation on Ser-129 induces α-synuclein aggregation
Pedro Antas
11.45 - 12.00 Using microfluidics for alpha-synuclein controled expression and inclusions formation monitorization in a Parkinson's disease yeast model
Sandra Tenreiro
12.00 - 12.15 Preventing S129 alpha-synuclein phosphorylation increases toxicity, inclusion formation and decreases protein turnover in a yeast model of Parkinson´s disease
Madalena M. Reimão-Pinto
12.15 - 12.30 A new inhibitor of p53-MDM2 interaction discovered using a yeast target-based screening approach
Joana Soares
12.30 - 12.45 Discovery of potent small-molecule caspase-7 activators using yeast target-based screening assays
Clara Pereira
12.45 - 13.00 Using yeast to study the regulation of mammalian protein kinase C isoforms by the ceramide pathway
Cláudia Bessa
13.00 - 14.30 Almoço na sala Ágora
Sessão V– Yeasts and the Health Sciences
Moderadores: Teresa Gonçalves / Sandra Tenreiro
14.30 - 14.45 Characterization of cisplatin-induced cell death in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Susana R. Chaves
14.45 - 15.00 C2-phytoceramide induces cell wall defects and sensitivity to osmotic stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Maria João Sousa
15.00 - 15.15 Unveiling the conserved yeast recovery pathway to amphotericin B action
Rita Teixeira-Santos
15.15 - 15.30 Impact of CUG ambiguous decoding on Candida albicans adhesion and surface diversity
Ana Silva-Dias
15.30 - 15.45 Impact of caffeine in the internalization of Candida albicans by human keratinocytes
Marta Mota
15.45 - 16.00 Impact of A2A receptors in macrophage
recognition of Candida albicans
Lisa Rodrigues
16.00 - 16.15 Molecular typing of Portuguese Cryptococcus neoformans isolates using the phospholipase (PLB1) gene and assessment of antifungal resistance
Carina Máximo
16.15 - 16.30 Paracoccidioides brasiliensis virulence is affected by the negative regulator of inorganic sulfur assimilation SconC
João Menino
16.30 - 17.00 Café
Conferência “Jovem Investigador” – Tributo à Professora Isabel Spencer Martins
Moderadora: Isabel Sá Correia
17.00 - 17.30 Quantitative- and phospho-proteomic analysis of the yeast response to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor IM
Sandra C. dos Santos
17.30 - 18.00 Evolution and maintenance of sex in red yeasts: moving from genes to genomes
Marco A. Coelho