Chairperson: Artur Alves & Raquel Aires-Barros
Keynote lecture
Paula Lopes – Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
KL15 – “Nucleic Acid Biosensing Platform for SARS-CoV-2 Detection”

Oral Presentations

OP8.1 “Bioconversion of plastics’ building blocks into bacterial cellulose towards circular economy”

Cátia Gil, Maria Reis, Filomena Freitas, Cristiana Torres

OP8.2 “Unravelling the potential of orange juice side streams: hesperidin-rich extraction and electrospraying for a bio-based ingredient development”

Ana A. Vilas-Boas, Cristina Prieto, Débora A. Campos, Marta Correia, Jose Maria Lagaron, Manuela Pintado

Round table on Career Development

Luuk A.M. van der Wielen – University of Limerick, Ireland
Andre G. Buret – University of Calgary, Canada
Raquel Aires – Barros – IST – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Paula Morais – CEMMPRE – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
P-Bio representative (to be announced)
Diana Gomes – PhD Student, UBI