Chairperson: Arsénio Fialho & Nuno Cerca
Keynote lecture
Arsénio Fialho – IST – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
KL6 – “Adhesins in opportunistic respiratory pathogens: from seeing to determining their biological function”

Oral Presentations

OP5.1 “The unique ability of Staphylococcus epidermidis phage SEP1 activating dormant cells”

Maria Daniela Silva, Graça Pinto, Ângela França, Joana Azeredo, Luís Melo

OP5.2 “Unravelling Mechanisms of Pneumococcal Intra-Species Interactions”

Carina Valente, Ana Raquel Cruz, Adriano Oliveira Henriques, Raquel Sá-Leão

OP5.3 “Genome mining and biochemical characterization of polyhydroxyalkanoates produced by bacterial isolates from UCCCB”

Paula V. Morais, Diogo Vicente, Diogo Neves Proença

OP5.4 “Exploring the functional and structural aspects of the citrate transporter CexA from Aspergillus niger”

João Alves, Maria Sousa-Silva, Pedro Soares, Michael Sauer, Margarida Casal, Isabel Soares-Silva

OP5.5 “Exploring Genomic Plasticity in Candida glabrata and its Impact on Biofilm Evolution in Clinical Environments”

Inês Vieira Costa, Maria Zolotareva, Mafalda Cavalheiro, Mónica Galocha, Miguel Cacho Teixeira