Program – XXIII Jornadas de Biologia de Leveduras Professor Nicolau van Uden

Guidelines

Friday, October 9, 2026

09:00

Registration

10:00

Welcome coffee

10:30

Welcome Session<br>Professor Nicolau van Uden

: On behalf of the Organizing Committee — Isabel Miranda

: Yeast Diversity for Circular Bioeconomy and Environmental Sustainability — Isabel Sá Correia

11:10

Plenary lecture I

Moderators: Nuno Mira

11:50: Keynote Lecture - Endohyphal Bacterial Symbionts in Aspergillus fumigatus: Expanding the Biology of a Pathogen — Cristina Pereira (ITQB)

12:15: Oral Communications

: A New Pipeline for Meta Transcriptomic Data Integration in the Metabolic Model Yeast9.0.2 for Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Ethanol Production Optimization as a Case-Study — Diogo Couceiro

: Mechanistic Insights into Citrate Export by the CexA Transporter from Aspergillus niger — Francisca Ferreira

: Coupling Computational Design with Yeast Display: a High-Throughput Pipeline for Antiviral Discovery — Andreia Pedras

12:45

Lunch

14:00

MIA Portugal lecture

Speakers: Jeffrey Smith (University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA)

Moderators: Paula Ludovico

14:40

Session II | Adaptation, Cell Death and Ageing

Moderators: Vitor Teixeira, Susana Chaves

14:40: Keynote Lecture - Living, Dying and Ageing in Yeast — Paula Ludovico (UM, Portugal)

15:05: Oral Communications

: A New Pipeline for Meta Transcriptomic Data Integration in the Metabolic Model Yeast9.0.2 for Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Ethanol Production Optimization as a Case-Study — Diogo Couceiro

: Mechanistic Insights into Citrate Export by the CexA Transporter from Aspergillus niger — Francisca Ferreira

: Coupling Computational Design with Yeast Display: a High-Throughput Pipeline for Antiviral Discovery — Andreia Pedras

15:25

Session III | Health

Moderators: Teresa Gonçalves, Paula Sampaio

15:25: Keynote Lecture - Host Endotypes in Aspergillosis: Bridging Immune Mechanisms to Actionable Biomarkers and Therapies — Agostinho Carvalho (UM, Portugal)

15:50: Oral Communications

: Iron Compromises Fluconazole Activity in Candida glabrata — Carolina Mariano

: Characterization and Immunomodulatory Effect of Alternaria alternata Extracellular Vesicles in Host-Pathogen Interactions — Daniela Calheiros

: Chitosan-Coated Alginate Capsules for Delivery of 2’-O-MethylRNA EFG1 Oligomers Targeting Candida albicans Filamentation — Joana Costa

: Obesity-Associated Gut Candida and Aspergillus Dysbiosis is Linked to Purinergic Receptor Polymorphisms — Lisa Rodrigues

: MycoSifter - A Consensus-Driven, Multi-Threshold Pipeline for Species-Level Environmental Contamination Removal in Clinical Mycobiome Studies — Mariana Fernandes

: Proteomic and Ultrastructural Dissection of N88S Seipin Inclusion Bodies Reveals Conserved Chaperone Defenses Against Motor Neuron Diseases — Isabel Oliveira

: Production and Evaluation of a Novel Yeast-Derived Recombinant Iduronate-2-Sulfatase as a Potential Therapeutic Alternative for Hunter Syndrome — Natalia Novakowski