Microbiome research has grown substantially and produced massive data over the past decade in terms of the range of biomes sampled, facing challenges in terms of data findability, accessibility, interoperability and reuse.

ELIXIR, the European Infrastructure for Biological Data, is addressing these topics via domain-specific communities, namely via its Microbiome Community.

BioData.pt, as the Portuguese Node of ELIXIR, is assembling its National Community to engage Portuguese researchers on this topic in this European effort.

The Portuguese Microbiome Community, led by Isabel Gordo, from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, is organizing its first National Summit to raise awareness and gather scientists addressing microbiome research in Portugal.

If you are one of these, join us in the Summit and in this new community.

Important Dates

Abstract submission date (posters): 5th January

Registration (free but mandatory, limited places): 28th January

Contact

info@biodata.pt

Programme

9h00 - 9h50: Opening Session + Keynote

Rob Finn (EMBL-EBI) - Can microbiome analysis be FAIR?

9h50 - 11h15: Microbiomes of Humans and other Mammals

Constança Pomba (CIISA - FMV) - Microbiome in Veterinary Healthcare

Karina Xavier (IGC) - Discovery of Keystone Microbiota Member Providing Colonization Resistance to Pathogens in the Mammalian Gut

Susana Solá (iMed.ULisboa - FFUL) - Impact of Gut Microbiome on Adult Neurogenesis

11h15 - 11h30: Coffee Break

11h30 - 13h00: Microbiome Communities in the Sea and other Aquatic Environments

Catarina Magalhães (CIIMAR) - Monitoring Arctic Ocean Microbiome to Link Taxonomy with Functional Capacity in a Rapidly Changing Environment

Francisco Coelho (CESAM - UA) - From Marine Ecology to Biotechnological Entrepreneurship

Rodrigo Costa (Técnico ULisboa) - The Microbiome of Marine Sponges: Diversity, Function, and Biotechnology

13h00 - 14h00: Lunch Break

14h - 15h15: Microbiomes of Plants

Ana Ribeiro (ISA) - Mining the Microbiome of African Legume Trees from the Miombo and Mopane Ecossystems

Juan Ignacio Vilchez (ITQB-NOVA) - A call for Interactions: Beneficial Plant-Bacteria Relationships from Root to Apex (and more?)

Maria Margarida Oliveira (ITQB-NOVA) - The plant Microbiome for Biofortification - Maize as Case Study

15h15 - 15h30: Coffee Break

15h30 - 16h30: Microbiomes of Invertebrates

Luis Teixeira (IGC) - Functional genomics of the antiviral endosymbiont Wolbachia

Waldan Kwong (University of British Columbia, soon IGC) - Bees & Corals: Microbial Insights from Non-model Systems

16h30 - 17h30: Closing Session + Keynote

Nandita Garud (UCLA) - Evolution in the Human Gut Microbiome

Poster sessions

Abstracts

Executive Committee

Marta Silva, ITQB-NOVA | BioData.pt

Rafael Santos, BioData.pt | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Scientific Committee

Ana Portugal Melo, BioData.pt | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Cymon Cox, CCMAR | BioData.pt

Isabel Gordo, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Luis Teixeira, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Maria Margarida Oliveira, ITQB-NOVA | BioData.pt

Code of Conduct

The BioData.pt Code of Conduct has been adapted from ELIXIR Hub Code of Conduct for Events so all participants at BioData.pt events can interact with each other in a respectful and safe environment safeguarding their personal integrity in case they believe there has been a breach to this Code of Conduct.

Please note that the event will be recorded.