Events

Academic jubilee of professor Manuel Prieto

Técnico - Alameda campus

Professor Manuel Prieto’s academic jubilee will take place on 28th June 2019, at 9.30 a.m., in Salão Nobre.

Programme

    • 9.30 a.m.
      Opening Session
      • President of Instituto Superior Técnico, professor Arlindo Oliveira
      • President of Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (iBB), professor Joaquim Sampaio Cabral
    • 9.40 a.m. – Speech by former PhD students
      • Luís Loura (FFUC), Recollections of a better time
      • Miguel Castanho (FMUL), The celtic tree legacy
    • 10.40 a.m. – Speech by graduate students I
      • Tiago Palmeira (CQFM/iBB), Fullerenes and the trail for the maximum TADF efficiency
      • Diogo Mendonça (iMM Lisbon), Game of Peptide Thrones: the battle against viruses across membranes
    • 11.10 a.m. — Coffee break
    • 11.30 a.m. – Speech by graduate students II
      • Clara Garcia (CQFM/iBB), Using homo-FRET to map the conformational changes of KcsA
      • Luís Araújo (CQFM/iBB), Membrane order of calcium-induced PI(4,5)P2 nanodomains
      • Ana Martins (iMM), Flavivirus capsid proteins and their ability to interact with host lipid systems and viral RNA
      • Tânia Santos (iMED.ULisbon), The study of atypical sphingolipids and life in general with Prof. Manuel Prieto
    • 12.30 p.m. — Lunch break
    • 2.00 p.m.
      Opening session

      • President of IST Scientific Council, professor Luís Oliveira e Silva
      • President of the Department of Chemical Engineering (DEQ), professor Teresa Duarte
      • President of Centro de Química-Física Molecular (CQFM), professor Mário Berberan-Santos
    • 2.30 p.m. – Speech by
      • Anthony Watts (Oxford University), Fluorescence matters
    • 3.10 p.m. – Speech by
      • Martin Hof (HIPC, Rep.Checa), Lipid driven nanodomains are fluid and interleaflet coupled
    • 3.50 p.m. – Speech by
      • Ole G. Mouritsen (UCPH, Denmark), What is gastrophysics?
    • 4.30 p.m. Coffee break
    • 5.00 p.m.
      Piano and Singing recital
      • Félix M. Goñi (UPV/EHU, Spain) – Baritone
      • Ales Larrazabal – Piano
      will play Schubert, Fauré, Falla, Lopes-Graça, etc.
    • 6.00 p.m.
      Closing session.

A dinner (registrations until 13th June) will take place at 8 p.m., in Sintra , Colares (praia da Adraga).

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