The NOVA Rectorate Building welcomed 100 participants to the first NOVA Biophysica International Conference, which took place between the 4th and 6th of September, 2019.
This multidisciplinary scientific event was organized by researchers from UCIBIO (Alice S. Pereira and Pedro Tavares, co-leaders of the Molecular Biophysics Lab) and CEFITEC (Paulo Limão-Vieira) R&D Units, along with students from the International Radiation Biology and Biophysics Doctoral Programme (RaBBiT), which is coordinated by both units.
The main scope of NOVA Biophysica was to present the most recent developments and advanced topics in modern Biophysics to the scientific community. The three-day conference involved Keynote Sessions and Master Classes, delivered by researchers and experts in advanced techniques, from several European institutions as well as an Industry Life panel where the worlds of Academia and Industry were bridged through personal testimonies of knowledgeable international speakers. Additionally, between these lectures there were also shorter presentations from the younger Biophysics community which together with the two Poster Sessions allowed numerous PhD Students and Post-Docs to showcase their work.
NOVA Biophysica brought together researchers and students from different national and international universities and institutes which enhanced the opportunity to establish new collaborations, discuss current topics and spark new research ideas.
The Thermo Unicam Best Poster Award was given to Catarina Pinto from the Centro para Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares (C2TN) - Instituto Superior Técnico.
The Springer-Nature Best Talk Award was given to Tomás Fernandes from UCIBIO’s Biochemistry and Bioenergetics of Heme Proteins Lab at UCIBIO - FCT NOVA. Tomás received a copy of the book “Radiation in Bioanalysis - Spectroscopic Techniques and Theoretical Methods”, edited by Alice S. Pereira, Pedro Tavares and Paulo Limão-Vieira, scheduled to be released in November 2019.
NOVABiophysica Website: www.eventos.fct.unl.pt/novabiophysica