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II Symposium

PORTUGUESE GLIAL NETWORK

GLIAL CELLS:

MUCH MORE THAN GLUE

May 24, 2017

Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS)

School of Medicine, University of Minho

Braga, Portugal

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Welcome to the

II Symposium of the PORTUGUESE GLIAL NETWORK

The Portuguese Glial Network gathers portuguese researchers, as well as foreign researchers

working in Portugal, who are interested in the role of glial cells in the function of the nervous

system, in health and disease conditions.

The main goals of the Portuguese Glial Network are:

- To gather and share information about portuguese researchers (or foreign working in Portugal)

that study glial cells, their approaches: techniques and models used;

- To potentiate the collaboration among research groups to make the most of human, technical

and scientific resources, in order to promote the generation of knowledge with greater impact and

attraction of competitive funding;

- To foster mobility and diversify the training of researchers;

- To disseminate research focused on glial cells both in scientific channels and for the society.

Web: http://redeglial.weebly.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rede-Glial-Portuguesa-180135812442805/

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GLIAL NETWORK BOARD

João Filipe Oliveira joaooliveira@med.uminho.pt

Dora Brites dbrites@ff.ul.pt

António Francisco Ambrósio afambrosio@fmed.uc.pt

João Bettencourt Relvas jrelvas@ibmc.up.pt

PARTICIPANTS

Adelaide Fernandes amaf@ff.ulisboa.pt

Ana Costa anawelwit@gmail.com

Ana G Mestre almestre@ualg.pt

Ana Isabel Silva isabelgouveiasilva@gmail.com

Ana Raquel Santiago asantiago@fmed.uc.pt

Ana Rita Ribeiro ar.ribeiro@campus.fct.unl.pt

Ana Rita Silva Rita_silva_cv@hotmail.com

Ana Rita Vaz armvaz@ff.ulisboa.pt

Ana Rita Santos anarsantos@med.uminho.pt

Ana Seixas aseixas@ibmc.up.pt

Andrea Cruz andrea.cruz@inl.int

António Salgado asalgado@med.uminho.pt

Artur Santos Rodrigues artursantos1@live.com.pt

Camila Portugal camilacportugal@gmail.com

Carla Henriques carlafshenriques@gmail.com

Carolina Cunha jcarolinacunha@ff.ulisboa.pt

Catarina Ezequiel catarinaezequiel@campus.ul.pt

Catarina Ferreira catarina.ferreira@fm.ul.pt

Catarina Neves catarinaneves.fctuc@gmail.com

Clara Quintas claraquintas@ff.up.pt

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Cláudia Antunes claudiafilipaantunes@gmail.com

Cláudia Filipa Afonso claudia.afonso89@hotmail.com

Cláudia Nunes dos Santos csantos@itqb.unl.pt

Cristina Teves cristina.teves@enzifarma.pt

Diana Amorim dianaamorim@med.uminho.pt

Diogo Lobo-Silva diogosilva@med.uminho.pt

Eduardo Loureiro-Campos eduardolc@med.uminho.pt

Elisabete Costa elis91@live.com.pt

Fábio Sousa fabio.fdti@hotmail.com

Federico Herrera fherrera@itqb.unl.pt

Fernanda Marques fmarques@med.uminho.pt

Filipa Baptista filipaisabaptista@gmail.com

Filippo Calzolari fcalzola@uni-mainz.de

Frank Kirchhoff frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu

Gabriela Tavares gabriela2tavares@gmail.com

Glória Queiroz gloria@ff.up.pt

Haíssa de Castro Haissa.DeCastroAbrantes@unil.ch

Inês Almeida ines_almeida1994@hotmail.com

Inês Araújo

imaraujo@ualg.pt

Inês Caetano inescaetano@med.uminho.pt

Inês Dinis Aires inesaires9@gmail.com

Inês Figueira inesf@itqb.unl.pt

Inês Martins Laranjeira inesmartinslaranjeira@gmail.com

Ioannis Sotiropoulos ioannis@med.uminho.pt

Joana Bravo joana.bravo@ibmc.up.pt

Joana Carvalheiro joana.rita.carvalheiro@gmail.com

Joana Correia joanacorreia@med.uminho.pt

Joana Fernandes Henriques joana.henriques@i3s.up.pt

Joana Gonçalves jgoncalves@fmed.uc.pt

Joana Margarida Martins jmcsmart@gmail.com

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Joana Paes de Faria joana.paesdefaria@ibmc.up.pt

Joana Ribeiro joana.ribeiro@ibmc.up.pt

João Magalhães joao.magalhaes@ibmc.up.pt

João Martins

joao.martins@nms.unl.pt

João Oliveira Viana a75094@alunos.uminho.pt

João Sá joaos2@campus.ul.pt

Ligia Tavares ligia.tavares@ibmc.up.pt

Luisa Pinto luisapinto@med.uminho.pt

Maria Madeira mariah.madeira@gmail.com

Maria Manuela Azevedo maria.azevedo@ibmc.up.pt

Mariana Gomes marianagomes147@gmail.com

Marlene C. Pereira marlenecfp@gmail.com

Marta Barbosa mbarbosa@ff.ulisboa.pt

Marta D. Costa martacosta@med.uminho.pt

Mélanie Ferreira melanie.ferreira@i3s.up.pt

Mónica Morais monicamorais@med.uminho.pt

Nídia Macedo nidiamacedo274@gmail.com

Patrícia Patrício patriciapatricio@med.uminho.pt

Paula Agostinho pmgagostinho@gmail.com; pagostinho@fmed.uc.pt

Paula M Canas canas.paula@gmail.com

Pedro Dionísio pdionisio@ff.ul.pt

Rafael J. M. Carecho r6carecho@gmail.com

Raquel Boia

raquelfboia@gmail.com

Raquel Vale Silva rssilva16@hotmail.com

Renato Socodato renato.socodato@ibmc.up.pt

Rita Gaspar ritagaspar87@gmail.com

Rosa Fernandes rcfernandes@fmed.uc.pt

Sandra Tenreiro stenreiro@nms.unl.pt

Sandra Vaz svaz@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Sandro Da Mesquita sd8tf@virginia.edu

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Sara Duarte-Silva sarasilva@med.uminho.pt

Sofia A.D. Viana sofia_viana@estescoimbra.pt

Sofia Domingues sofia.domingues@inl.int

Sofia Grade sofia.grade@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Sofia Neves id6930@alunos.uminho.pt

Sofia Tavares sofiatavares1@hotmail.com

Sónia Guerra-Gomes id5942@alunos.uminho.pt

Susana M Silva ssilva@med.up.pt

Tatiana Morais tatianapintomorais@gmail.com

Teresa Canedo teresa.canedo@ibmc.up.pt

Teresa Summavielle tsummavi@ibmc.up.pt

Tiago Almeida tiago_almeida_123@hotmail.com

Vanessa Coelho-Santos vanessa.fc.santos@gmail.com

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LIFE AND HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ICVS)

The Life and Health Sciences Research Institute

(ICVS) was created in 2003 and aims at improving

human health through outstanding life-science

research, cutting-edge medical innovation and

delivery of specialized services. The ICVS is a R&D

Unit incorporated in the School of Medicine (MED)

- University of Minho, strategically located in the

Northern region of Portugal within a fast growing

Cluster of Biomedical Science, Technology and

Healthcare institutions, being organized around three interdisciplinary Research Domains:

Microbiology and Infection, Neurosciences and Surgical Sciences.

The strategy for the ICVS development has been centred in: i) establishing a research unit within an

innovative Medical School guided by international standards of excellence; ii) fostering a strategic

partnership with the affiliated Health Care Institutions and; iii) establishing a consortium with the

research group 3B’s - Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics - a leading research group in

Health Technology. In the framework of the national R&D network, the ICVS has been consecutively

evaluated by international panels with the maximum rank of “Excellent” and benefits from the

guidance of a panel of renowned international scientific advisors.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

The School of Medicine is a recent organic unit of the University of Minho, created to ensure graduate

and postgraduate education, research and other specialized services within the Health Sciences

domain. The central project of the School is the Medical Degree, which has an innovative curriculum

design. This curriculum, that covers all the major topics in Medicine, follows a bio-psycho-social

integrated perspective, according to the recommendations of the majority of National and

International medical education committees. The School also ensures postgraduate education and

training in the area of Health Sciences, as well as, an innovative modular organization in advanced

courses, bearing in mind a lifelong training, allowing the accumulation of credits for obtaining a formal

degree.

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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH DOMAIN (NERD)

The Neuroscience Research Domain (NeRD) at ICVS aims to create the conditions to produce high

quality research in the field of neuroscience and to generate the best environment for the training

of its research students. We cover the full spectrum of research (from basic to clinic) with a high

degree of inter-disciplinarity. We are focused on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms

implicated in several neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, as well as in evaluating

the interplay between the nervous and the immune systems. This approach relies on the continuous

effort to find the best compromise between individual interests and independence of each

researcher, with the investment in the areas of common interest through internal collaborations.

We benefit from a great logistic (labs and equipment) infrastructure and a vast team that guarantees

expertise in a vast technical platform; in this way we foster multimodal approach to the research

questions under study.

The close interplay with the Clinical Academic Center allows to bridge, within the same

infrastructure, from the molecular and cellular approaches to the clinical applications. In this way,

we hope to take part of the fantastic challenge of contributing to better understanding the Nervous

System in health and in disease to improve its functioning.

The Neuroscience Research domain is presently organized in three research lines.

I) Neurodevelopment

II) Neurodegeneration

III) Neuroimmunology

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UNIVERSITY OF MINHO (UMinho)

The University of Minho (UMinho) is currently

among the most prestigious institutions of

higher education in the country, and it has also

gradually come to assert itself on the

international scene. Founded in 1973, the

UMinho received its first students in the

academic year of 1975/76. Today the

University is renowned for the competence and

quality of its teachers and for the level of excellence in research as well as the wide range of

undergraduate and graduate courses offered and the remarkable degree of interaction with other

institutions. Located in the north of Portugal, the University has a campus in the city of Braga and

another in the city of Guimarães.

The teaching and research units - Schools and Institutes - are the basic structures of the University:

School of Architecture, Sciences, Health Sciences, Law, Economics and Management, Engineering,

Psychology and School of Nursing, and Institutes of Social Sciences, Education and Arts and

Humanities. UMinho is a research university, committed to the valorization of knowledge: Research,

Development and Innovation.

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CITY OF BRAGA

Braga, or Bracara Augusta, as the Romans baptized it, was

founded by the Celts in 300 AC and was a roman administrative

centre in 27 AC. It was destroyed by the Moors and was

afterwards rebuilt by the Portuguese people during the centuries,

holding nowadays a Baroque splendour not easy to find.

City of the Minho Province and District capital, the region is a

plain of fertile soil, protected from winds by the hills, crossed by

rivers Homem and Cávado, fixing itself on the west bottom of

Serra da Falperra.

The city is also known as the “Portuguese Rome” or the “City of

the Archbishops”, for its concentration of religious architecture and for having two archbishops.

Braga is probably the biggest religious centre of the country, known for its Baroque churches, for

the splendorous houses from the XVIII century and for its elaborated gardens and parks. But

Braga has succeeded in combining its religious importance with today's commercial and

industrial prosperity. In socio-economical terms, the development of Braga is intimately

connected to the creation of Universidade do Minho, which has itself imposed a new dynamic in

terms of hotelier offers. It is a big commercial and industrial centre in expansion.

Braga is one of the youngest cities in Europe (it was considered the youngest city in Europe in

1989), turning it into a dynamic and energetic city. In the last 30 years the population of the

District has grown more than 25%. With its 150.000 inhabitants it is each time plus a pleasant

city, heading the future. The District of Braga presents development and quality of life parameters

above the national average, only surpassed by the regions of big Porto and big Lisbon.

Sightseeing

Sé (the Cathedral), the oldest in Portugal (picture above);

Largo do Paço, former Archbishops Palace, actually, the Rectorate of Universidade do Minho;

Sameiro and Bom Jesus Sanctuaries;

Tibães Monastery;

Raio Palace;

“Torre de Menagem” (the Keep);

“Casa dos Crivos” (Mediaeval House).

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