Schedule

Day

  • Day 1

    March 19, 2026

    9:30 am

  • #ORGANIZATIONAL

    Registration & Light Refreshments

    Room: Main Hall

    • Registration
  • 9:45 am

  • #ORGANIZATIONAL

    Opening Ceremony

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Opening
  • 10:00 am

  • #KEYNOTE

    How do you build a wall? Using super-resolution microscopy to understand how molecular machines remodel the bacterial cell envelope

    Séamus Holden

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Séamus Holden
    • Keynote
    • Bacterial Biology
    • Super-resolution
  • 10:45 am

  • #INVITED

    Illuminating the Staphylococcus aureus cell cycle with super-resolution microscopy

    Mariana Pinho

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Mariana Pinho
    • Bacterial Biology
    • Super-resolution
  • 11:05 am

  • #INVITED

    Breaking Trypanosomes' Vascular Grip

    Sara Silva Pereira

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Sara Silva Pereira
    • Parasitology
    • Organ on chip
  • 11:25 am

  • #FLASH

    Flash Talks Session

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Flash Talks
    • Early Career
  • 12:15 pm

  • #NETWORKING

    Lunch Break & Poster Session

    Room: Main Hall & Poster Area

    • Posters
  • 2:15 pm

  • #KEYNOTE

    Building the spore's armor: A cryo-FIB-tomography exploration of macromolecular assemblies

    Cécile Morlot

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Cécile Morlot
    • Keynote
    • Bacterial Biology
    • Cryo-ET
  • 3:00 pm

  • #INVITED

    How dividing cells adapt to karyotypic evolution

    Hélder Maiato

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Hélder Maiato
    • Cell Division
    • Super-resolution
  • 3:20 pm

  • #INVITED

    Imaging reconstructed cell microenvironments in disease and therapeutic response

    Catarina Brito

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Catarina Brito
    • 3D Microenvironments
    • Cancer
    • Neuroscience
  • 3:40 pm

  • #NETWORKING

    Coffee Break

    Room: Main Hall

    • Networking
  • 3:55 pm

  • #LOCAL

    Seeing more with less: Towards the gentle gaze of molecules with AI-enhanced Microscopy

    Ricardo Henriques

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Ricardo Henriques
    • Cell Biology
    • Super-resolution
    • AI
  • 4:15 pm

  • #KEYNOTE

    Studying cancer cell metastasis in the era of deep learning for microscopy

    Guillaume Jacquemet

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Guillaume Jacquemet
    • Keynote
    • Live-cell Imaging
    • Cancer
    • AI
  • Day 2

    March 20, 2026

    10:00 am

  • #WORKSHOP

    Workshop Overview Session

    Room: Main Auditorium

    • Workshop
    • Overview
  • 11:00 am

  • #WORKSHOP

    3D Printing and Microfabrication - Session 1

    Jorge Carvalho

    Room: Biological Engineering Lab (ITQB NOVA 7th floor)

    • Jorge Carvalho
    • Workshop
    • 3D Printing
    • Microfabrication
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Deep-Learning for Microscopy - Session 1

    Estibaliz Gomez-de-Mariscal

    Room: Conference Rooms (ITQB NOVA 8th floor)

    • Estibaliz Gomez-de-Mariscal
    • Workshop
    • Deep Learning
    • AI
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Expansion Microscopy - Session 1

    Mario Del Rosario Daria Aristova

    Room: Lab de Ensino (ITQB NOVA 3rd floor)

    • Mario Del Rosario
    • Daria Aristova
    • Workshop
    • Expansion Microscopy
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Fluorescence-lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) - Session 1

    Room: BIC (ITQB NOVA 5th floor)

    • Workshop
    • FLIM
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Image Analysis for Microscopy - Session 1

    Bruno Saraiva

    Room: Conference Rooms (ITQB NOVA 8th floor)

    • Bruno Saraiva
    • Workshop
    • Image Analysis
    • Computational
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Structured Illumination Microscopy - Session 1

    Pedro Matos Pereira

    Room: BIC (ITQB NOVA 5th floor)

    • Pedro Matos Pereira
    • Workshop
    • SIM
    • Super-resolution
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Super-resolution through Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy (SMLM) - Session 1

    Leonor Morgado Damian Martinez-Reyes

    Room: Experimental Optics Lab (ITQB NOVA 1st floor)

    • Leonor Morgado
    • Damian Martinez-Reyes
    • Workshop
    • SMLM
    • Super-resolution
    • Hands-on
  • 1:00 pm

  • #NETWORKING

    Lunch Break

    Room: Main Hall

    • Lunch
    • Break
  • 2:00 pm

  • #WORKSHOP

    3D Printing and Microfabrication - Session 2

    Jorge Carvalho

    Room: Biological Engineering Lab (ITQB NOVA 7th floor)

    • Jorge Carvalho
    • Workshop
    • 3D Printing
    • Microfabrication
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Deep-Learning for Microscopy - Session 2

    Estibaliz Gomez-de-Mariscal

    Room: Conference Rooms (ITQB NOVA 8th floor)

    • Estibaliz Gomez-de-Mariscal
    • Workshop
    • Deep Learning
    • AI
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Expansion Microscopy - Session 2

    Mario Del Rosario Daria Aristova

    Room: Lab de Ensino (ITQB NOVA 3rd floor)

    • Mario Del Rosario
    • Daria Aristova
    • Workshop
    • Expansion Microscopy
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Fluorescence-lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) - Session 2

    Room: BIC (ITQB NOVA 5th floor)

    • Workshop
    • FLIM
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Image Analysis for Microscopy - Session 2

    Bruno Saraiva

    Room: Conference Rooms (ITQB NOVA 8th floor)

    • Bruno Saraiva
    • Workshop
    • Image Analysis
    • Computational
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Structured Illumination Microscopy - Session 2

    Pedro Matos Pereira

    Room: BIC (ITQB NOVA 5th floor)

    • Pedro Matos Pereira
    • Workshop
    • SIM
    • Super-resolution
    • Hands-on
  • #WORKSHOP

    Super-resolution through Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy (SMLM) - Session 2

    Leonor Morgado Damian Martinez-Reyes

    Room: Experimental Optics Lab (ITQB NOVA 1st floor)

    • Leonor Morgado
    • Damian Martinez-Reyes
    • Workshop
    • SMLM
    • Super-resolution
    • Hands-on
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