Speakers

Gastroenterology Consultant and Fellow of the European Section and Board of Gastroenterology &Hepatology Competence in Clinical Nutrition Hepatology Subspecialty Clinical Nutrition Committee and Team Coordinator, ULSAlgarve Anorretal Dysfunctions Multidiciplinary Team Coordinator, ULSAlgarve Clinical Reasearch and Translational Medicine PhD Student, University...
Gerd Kempermann, M.D., was born in Cologne, Germany and studied medicine in Cologne and Freiburg. After two years of residency in Neuropathology he became postdoctoral fellow in Fred H. Gage’s group at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. Since then...
João Filipe Oliveira (PhD) graduated as Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2004, at the Faculty of Pharmacy – University of Porto. He obtained his PhD degree in 2009 from the Medicine Faculty – University of Leipzig, in Germany under the supervision of...
João Relvas is a principal investigator at the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Portugal, where he leads a research group that studies glial cells, a set of cells in the nervous system that have essential functions in...
The main scientific interests of Dr. Bernardino’s research group are to identify and develop novel brain repair therapies for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Dr. Bernardino coordinated several projects aiming to investigate the role of several molecules (TNF-alpha, histamine, retinoic acid, microRNAs)...
Liliana Simões Mendonça, Assistant Researcher at Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal, email: liliana.mendonca@cnc.uc.pt, EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology specialty, 2010; Pharm.D., Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2004. WORK EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION...
Marta Nieto López is a principal investigator at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (Madrid, Spain) and the group leader of the ‘Cerebral Cortical Development’ lab. Marta and her team aim to define the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern the...
Monica M Sousa graduated in Biochemistry and holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Porto. During her PhD she studied the biology of an aggregation-prone protein that induces axon degeneration. As a postdoctoral fellow, Monica worked at...