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Resumos do Ciclo de Debates 2025

Co-creation and multidisciplinary education as a learning framework for develop...

Perspective chapter: age is not just a number: understanding ageism and its hea...

Demographic changes present both benefits, such as the increased longevity of older individuals, and potential concerns, including ageist expressions. Ageism is a complex phenomenon, deeply rooted in modern societies, encompassing stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination that affect billions of older adults globally. The stereotypes surrounding older people combine both positive and negative traits, with nega...

Bioprospection of antibiotics and biofilm inhibitors from under-exploited filam...

In the past century, millions of lives were saved by antibiotics, which treat some of the historically more deadly diseases. However, bacteria may quickly develop antibiotic resistance and the speed of development of new drugs has decreased significantly in the last decades. Filamentous fungi have a great potential for novel antibiotic discovery, given their vast, largely unexplored metabolome. The One Strain M...

The challenges of a small culture collection toward accreditation

Culture collections (CCs) provide authentic biological materials, having a public service role dedicated to support a variety of microbiological work, providing solid assurance of continuity through preservation and delivery of strains described or cited in publications. Moreover, CCs often maintain novel microorganisms awaiting future exploitation by biotechnology, guaranteeing an active role in R&D activities...

Isolation of filamentous fungi from different food matrices from Angola and Moz...

Agriculture remains the main economic activity in most African countries. However, crops are often contaminated with fungi that can cause diseases or produce mycotoxins, which is a major concern to food safety and security. Little is known about the mycotoxigenic fungi contaminating the most relevant staples in Mozambique and Angola. The aim of this work was to isolate and identify fungi from three food commodi...

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art

New media has been gaining importance in the academic world as well as the artistic world through the concept of new media art. As the connections between art and communication technologies grow and further embrace a wide range of concepts, interpretations, and applications, the number of disciplines that will be touched will likewise continue to expand. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art is a coll...

Pt-mBRCN/MIRRI-PT: Aims and benefits for the portuguese culture collections

Microbial Culture Collections (CCs) are biobanks that preserve and provide microorganisms to the user communities. In the Portuguese landscape, CCs differ considerably regarding size, taxonomic target group, level of organization and implemented quality management systems. Since 2017, the CCs have been working together in the Portuguese microbiological Resource Centre Network (Pt-mBRCN), which was recognised as...

Gongronella eborensis sp. nov., from vineyard soil of Alentejo (Portugal)

This study describes a novel fungal species belonging to the genus Gongronella. During a previous work focusing on metalaxyl degradation by Mucorales strains, two isolates from vineyard soil samples collected in the Alentejo region, south Portugal, were identified as a putative novel species based on combined molecular and MALDI-TOF MS data. This new species is described here using a polyphasic approach that co...

Micoteca da Universidade do Minho - Celebrating 25 Years of Continuous Operation

Micoteca da Universidade do Minho (MUM) was founded in 1996 and throughout its years managed to evolve and adapt to the challenges ahead. The main objective of MUM is to maintain and provide quality and authentic fungal strains for biotechnological and life sciences research as well as acting as a centre for knowledge, information and training in the field of mycology. It has implemented since 2011 a Quality Ma...