Advanced Course on Soil Ecology
Calendar: 9th to 13th January 2017
Duration: 36 hours
Schedule: 9h - 13h to 17h00
The course SoilEco - Soil Ecology and Ecosystems services aims at introducing attendants to an updated state of the art of diversity of the soil biota and the functional roles played by soil organisms in key ecological processes.
90 seconds of Science
The interview of Cristina Cruz about BioClub project is already in podcast here.
The radio communication program "90s de Ciência", (Daily Emission Antena1 @ 10h58 e 18h58) was launched last year in Portugal by an agreement between ITQB (Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier) and Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa with Antena 1, supported by Novartis.
Photos about the International Microorganism Day (17 September 2017)
https://app.box.com/s/5hpdunwp0k3gjjx7tl9eoomct3vmzipa
News about the International Microorganism Day (17 September 2017)
O Instituto Superior Técnico entrevistou a Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia a propósito do lançamento do DIA Internacional do Microorganismo - 17 de Setembro de 2017, recheado de actividades oferecidas a inúmeros visitantes que ocorreram ao Pavilhão do Conhecimento.
The International Microorganism Day (17 September 2017)
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Follow us on http://www.pavconhecimento.pt/visite-nos/programacao/detalhe.asp?id_obj=4505
Global and long-term effects of nitrogen on ecosystems | Training school in Lisbon, Portugal | (15-26 May 2017)
Fascinating Plant's Day (15-19 May 2017)
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Dissemination of BioClub project in Schools (February-April 2017)
Trabalho desenvolvido por alunos do ensino básico em colaboração com investigadores do BioClub (cE3c) premiado no XII Congresso Nacional de Cientistas em Ação
http://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/outreach/press&events/ver.php?id=789
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STyPyf1fMx0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMl33s8jG44&t=8s
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One week visit (21-25 November)
Prof. Pedro Aparício Tejo, Universidade Pública de Navarra, has been in Lisbon for one week. Long-time collaborator he came to finish some publications revision and to strength the collaboration research partnership he has with Plant-Soil Ecology Group belonging to cE3c.
With him, we go on the program of BioClub interviews. P. Aparicio Tejo.pdf
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Three weeks visit (14-27 October)
Prof. Ajit Varma, from Amity University, New Delhi, has been in Lisbon for three weeks to extend the collaboration with the group in general and the project in particular. He has been the one that has discovered Piriformospora indica, one of the organisms we are working with.
With him we started the project of interviews
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2º Simpósio Nacional de Fertilização e Ambiente: novos fertilizantes, novas tecnologias
Cristina Cruz has been invited as a keynote speaker for the above simpósio hold in Santarém from 27-28 October 2016, in Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém, with the work:
"O uso dos biofertilizantes em agricultura sustentável"
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Le Forum International sur les Changements Climatiques
Cristina Cruz has been invited as a keynote speaker at this Forum International organised within the ATLAS COP, from 18-19 October 2016 at the University of Sultan Moulay Slimane, Morocco, with the work:
"Plants for the future: creating tailored plants for local conditions by engineering their microbiome".
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Nutriplanta
Cristina Cruz has been invited as a keynote speaker at NutriPlanta 2016, hold in Murcia, Spain, 25-28 September 2016, with the work:
“Physiological responses associated with ammonium nutrition in plant”. Programa
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BNI - Biological Nitrification Inhibition Consortium
Cristina Cruz has also been present at BNI, the meeting of the Biological Nitrification Inhibition Consortium, hold in Tsukuba, Japan, 14th September 2016, with the work:
“Possibility of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) function in plant species from Mediterranean region” Program
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Kick-off Meeting
The kickoff meeting took place on the 5th of July at FCUL. Most of the team members were present and the coordinator - Cristina Cruz - made a general presentation of the aims of the project.
The general modus operandis was defined as well as the task leaders and the members of the board of experts.
The time line of the project was revisited in function of the delays in its approval.
Task 0 – Setting up the BioClub project
Achieve a high degree of work quality through the creation of a “BioClub society”, addressing formal requirements in an effective, timely and responsible manner.
Main outputs of this task:
1- creating the BioClub Society formed by all the team members;
2 - promoting the creation of bridges among the members;
3 - defining working rules and protocols;
4 - creating the board of experts;
5 - promoting the BioClub Society letter.
Task coordinators
C Cruz, A Varennes, M Martins-Loução