Post-Graduate Advanced Course

Opened to all academic staff with priority to students of Applied Biology, Biology-Geology and Environmental Sciences degrees and Master in Ecology. Theoretic sessions in the Biology Department and practical sessions in the Rodovia swimming pool. Final dives for certification will be held in O Grove (Spain).

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Workshop for Health Professionals (6th - 7th June 2014) entitled: “Oncological patient therapy- the role of health professionals”. This workshop aims at making an outline of the oncological therapy and patient care, involving a multidisciplinary team of health professionals such as Pharmacists, Nurses, Oncologists, Nutritionists and Psychiatrist.

Organization of the Workshop:
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Fátima Baltazar - ICVS/3B's

Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology
Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar
4710-054 Braga PORTUGAL
Phone +351 253 601511 
Fax +351 253 678980

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In the scope of the program "The Best students at UMinho", five out of 120 best students of secondary schools of Braga district developed scientific activities at the Department of Biology. The projects entitled: "Proteins Trafficking in cells"; Grape wine - from physiology to biochemistry and biotechnology; "The day-to-day in a molecular biology and plant physiology laboratory" were carried from 7 to 10 of april and were supervised by Professors Sandra Paiva, Hernâni Gerós, Ana Cunha and Manuela Costa.

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The 1st Wildlife Monitoring Seminar – Impacts and Perspectives will be held in Braga, on the 4th and 5th of April. It will address various perspectives regarding the monitoring of different wildlife functional groups, aiming to create a bridge of communication between researchers, students and other professionals, in order to promote the exchange of information and the discussion of different practical experiences.

Registration: http://seminario.socpvs.org/inscricoes/

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“Plantas com Sabores” é um workshop de carácter lúdico-pedagógico, que visa criar pontes de partilha de informação sobre as Plantas Aromáticas e Medicinais (PAM) entre diferentes gerações, despertando a curiosidade dos mais novos para este vasto mundo. Convidamos os participantes a partilharem connosco uma tarde de aromas e sabores, com jogos e receitas com um toque da natureza..

Organização: Sociedade Portuguesa de Vida Selvagem

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Flávio L. Pinheiro, Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos & Jorge M. Pacheco, Origin of Peer Influence in Social Networks, Physical Review Letters, in press (2014).

Recent empirical studies show that our choices and behaviors not only influence (and are influenced) by our friends but also their friends together with their friends’ friends. This has been coined as “the 3-degrees of influence”, a concept that became extremely popular, spawning ramifications in many of the strategies and procedures that are currently employed in web and social media applications. In a recent manuscript in Physical Review Letters, Pacheco and colleagues resort to different models of information spreading and behavioral dynamics that have been developed in the physical, biological and social sciences, to investigate the origin of peer influence, specifically, whether the patterns one obtains depend on the way information or behavior is spread and on the underlying network of contacts that inter-connects individuals. They show that the resulting patterns are essentially independent of the type of information or behaviors, on how it spreads, and, to a large extent, even of the type of social network that inter-connects individuals. Moreover, they also identify the network features necessary to promote deviations from such “3 degrees of influence” paradigm. The authors demonstrate that in medium to large communities, everybody may ultimately influence and be influenced by almost everybody else. Thus, not only our choices, behaviors and opinions are strongly influenced by a large number of people we have never met, but also our influence on them goes well beyond what one would naively expect.

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The MX4Blaster cassette, a genetic tool for marker recycling in baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is now available from EUROSCARF (http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb15/mikro/euroscarf/index.html). The tool was developed by CBMA members Ângela Carvalho, Filipa Pereira & Björn Johansson.

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An updated inventory of the ichthyofauna recorded in Portuguese waters lists up to 230 more species than those listed in Fishbase and previous checklists, consisting in an increase of nearly 30% in the number of fish species recorded in Portuguese territorial waters and the Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ).

 The grand list includes also the recently proposed extension of the continental platform, making up a total of close to 1200 fish species in an area spanning for 4 227 408 Km2, that corresponds to the total land area occupied by the countries of the European Union. The ichthyofauna present in this region comprises about 88% of the marine fish species recorded for European countries.

These findings were a result of a comprehensive literature search and data mining of fish species records available in Museum collections and major public biodiversity databases. The study was led by the researchers Miguel Carneiro and Rogélia Martins (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera - IPMA), with the participation of Filipe Costa and Monica Landi from CBMA, Universidade do Minho.

The study was published in the European Journal of Taxonomy and the access is free (http://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/196).