Open seminars at the 2025 Summer School in Computational Biology

The 2025 Summer School in Computational Biology features a series of seminars by leading scientists in various Computational Biology and related areas. These seminars will take place at room F.42, in the 3^rd floor of the Physics Department and are open to the scientific community at the University of Coimbra.

• Thursday, Sept 4, 14:00: Tracey Weissgerber group (Inês Almeida, Thomas Feliciani, Priya Silverstein) (CNC, U. Coimbra, Portugal), "Good practices for reproducible, reusable and open research"
• Saturday, Sept 6, 14:00: Catarina Santos (Isomorphic Labs, UK), "Computational biology in drug discovery: finding the needle in the haystack"
• Monday, Sept 8, 14:00: Rui Alves (U. Lleida, Spain), "Systems and synthetic biology of terpenoids in cereals: from models to experiments"
• Tuesday, Sept 9, 14:00: Vasileios Vavourakis (BioDynamo, and University of Cyprus, and UCL, UK), "Agent based modeling in personalized cancer biomedicine"
• Wednesday, Sept 10, 14:00: João Barbosa (Institute for Neuromodulation, Paris, France), "Unveiling the cross-region interactions that support cognitive flexibility, and their relation to observed clinical schizophrenia"
• Thursday, Sept 11, 15:00: Luis Almeida (U. Sorbonne, and U. Paris-Cité, France), "Mathematical models for the Sterile Insect Technique and its application to mosquitoand agricultural pest control"