DAY 1

Tuesday, 22nd October 2024

DAY 2

Wednesday, 23rd October 2024

DAY 3

Thursday, 24th October 2024

DAY 4

Friday, 25th October 2024

Public Event

Friday, 25th October 2024

SESSION I: Ecology and Evolution of Microbes and Parasites

2:00 PM — 2:45 PM

Hyper-diversity, strain structure and negative frequency-dependent selection in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Mercedes Pascual

2:45 PM — 3:05 PM

MetaGAM reveals spatial landscape of bacterial association in microscale

Luiz Gustavo dos Anjos Borges

3:05 PM — 3:25 PM

Escherichia coli Colonization Dynamics: Insights from DNA Barcodes and In-Vitro Mini- Gut Models MBRA

Zoya Dixit

3:25 PM — 4:05 PM

Coffee Break

4:05 PM — 4:50 PM

The role of (co)evolution in structuring complex pathogen communities

Anna-Liisa Laine

5:00 PM — 7:00 PM

Beer hour and get together

7:00 PM — 9:00 PM

Dinner @ IGC

SESSION II: INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

9:00 AM — 9:45 AM

Challenges in using Wolbachia microbes for viral disease suppression

Ary Hoffmann

9:45 AM — 10:05 AM

Identification of endosymbiont growth regulators through a Genome Wide Association Study in Wolbachia

Nelson Martins

10:05 AM — 10:25 AM

Evolution of Escherichia coli strains under competent or compromised immunity

Marta Lourenço

10:25 AM — 10:55 AM

Coffee Break

10:55 AM — 11:15 AM

Delineating evolutionary boundaries of intracellular parasites and host cell responses

Franzi Hildebrandt

11:15 AM — 12:00 PM

Into the grey zone: understanding intrinsic and acquired tolerance in human fungal pathogens

Judith Berman

12:00 PM — 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM — 3:00 PM

GIMM External Speaker Seminar: Eduardo A. Groisman (Yale University)

SESSION III: Microbes in Health and Medicine I

3:30 PM — 3:50 PM

Gut microbial diversity and Resistome in healthy humans with distinct fiber consumption.

Hugo Barreto

3:50 PM — 4:10 PM

Within host evolution of Clostridioides difficile

Mónica Serrano

4:10 PM — 4:30 PM

The intricate lives of the microbes of my microbes: inter-host diversity and mobilization of bacteriophages and their satellites

Jorge Moura Sousa

4:30 PM — 5:00 PM

Coffee

5:00 PM — 7:00 PM

Poster & Beer session followed by dinner at IGC

7:00 PM — 9:00 PM

Dinner @ GIMM

SESSION IV: Microbes in Health and Medicine II

9:00 AM — 9:45 PM

Ecology and Evolution of multidrug-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis

Sébastien Gagneux

9:45 AM — 10:05 PM

Conjugative plasmids as biological weapons of donor bacterial cells

Francisco Dionísio

10:05 AM — 10:35 PM

Coffee-Break

10:35 AM — 10:55 PM

Genomic dynamics and evolution of antibiotic resistance in microbial ecosystems

Teresa Nogueira

10:55 AM — 11:15 AM

Evolution and inhibition of the FIKK effector kinase family in P. falciparum

Hugo Belda

11:15 AM — 12:00 PM

Viral genomic epidemiology in the era of million-sequence trees reveals mutagenesis by an antiviral drug

Theo Sanderson

12:00 PM — 1:30 PM

Lunch at GIMM

SESSION V: ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

1:30 PM — 2:15 PM

Transmission bottlenecks, with implications for disease severity

Katia Koelle

2:15 PM — 2:35 PM

Bottling it all up: Using parasite population biology to identify susceptibility pathways in leishmaniasis

Ciara Loughrey

2:35 PM — 2:55 PM

Host and Pathogen Determinants of Tuberculosis Disease and Transmission in Tanzania

Daniela Brites

2:55 PM — 3:25 PM

Coffee- Break

3:25 PM — 4:10 PM

Hybridization, Virulence Shifts and Natural Selection promote the ecology and success of Toxoplasma gondii

Michael Grigg

4:10 PM — 4:30 PM

Why HPV16? Why, now, HPV42? How the discovery of HPV42 in rare cancers provides an opportunity to challenge and update our view of HPV-related carcinogenesis

Ignacio Bravo

4:30 PM — 4:50 PM

Deciphering the horizontal traffic rules of aminoglycoside resistance genes

Stephanie Bedhomme

7:00 PM

Dinner in "A Quinta"

SESSION VI: ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND PLANETARY HEALTH

10:00 AM — 10:45 AM

Responses of microbial communities to climate change: from the global ocean to the human gut

Elena Litchman

10:45 AM — 11:05 AM

Microplastic pollution in oceans: consequences of the uninvited guests on microbial communities

Meril Massot

11:05 AM — 11:35 AM

Coffee-Break

11:35 AM — 11:55 AM

How does competition influence metabolic evolution in phytoplankton?

Charlotte Briddon

11:55 AM — 12:15 PM

Multi-level adaptation to crude oil exposure and biodegradation of an Arctic microbial community

Francisco D. Davila Aleman

12:15 PM — 1:00 PM

Bridging human and planetary health using small bacterial communities

Sara Mitri

1:00 PM

Closure of Meeting

5:00 PM — 7:00 PM

Public Event at the Gulbenkian Foundation (Optional)

Sébastien Gagneux

Katia Koelle

Maria João Amorim

Our unseen Friends and Foes: Humans, microbes and a healthy future

From antibiotics to climate change, microbes are vital to our existence. But our actions influence them!

Join us on October 25^th 5-7pm at the Gulbenkian Foundation for an enlightening journey where leading scientists will give an overview into the intricate relationship between humans and microbes. Explore and engage in the discussion on how we can collaborate for a healthier future for ourselves and our planet.

Speakers: