Ecotoxicologia no Século XXI: Perspetivas e Aplicações
Responsável: Fernanda Cássio
Nº de participantes por turno: 15 por turno, previstos 2 turnos
Biografia: Fernanda Cássio
Personal webpage: http://cbma.bio.uminho.pt/fcassio
Current Position
Associate Professor with habilitation, Department of Biology, UMinho
Academic Degrees
PhD in Sciences (1994), University of Minho, Portugal
Graduation in Biology (1983), University of Porto, Portugal
Other activities
-1/3/2014-present: Vice-Director of the Department of Biology, UMinho, Portugal.
-1/7/2007-present: Director of the Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), UMinho, Portugal.
-Coordinator of the MSc in Ecology and Coordination Member of the CBMA-PhD Program of UMinho.
-Associate Editor of Ecology@ and Limnetica.
-Working Group in Skills in Micro and Nanotechnology, UMinho since 2009.
-Created a collection of aquatic fungi (>1000 isolates; 70 species) from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, India and Australia.
-Grants evaluation for National Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the fields of Environmental Sciences (2012), Biological Sciences (2013-14); NWO Division for Earth and Life Sciences (2014); NERC-UK (The Natural Environment Research Council, 2015).
-Scientific Events (last 4 years): Scientific and Organizing Committees and Co-Chair in the XVI Iberian Society of Limnology Congress (2012, UMinho). Organizing Committees: International Barcode of Life conference (ECBOL-2010 UMinho), 2nd Portuguese Nanotoxicology Meeting (E2N-2013, Lisbon); 6th International Oligochaete Taxonomy Meeting (6th IOTM 2013, Palmeira de Faro, Portugal).
Topics of Research
-Biodiversity and freshwater ecosystem functioning
-Aquatic pollution from eutrophication, metals, PAHs and nanoparticles.
-Ecotoxicology
-Biorremediation
-Biodegradation of plastics
-Eco-physiology of aquatic fungi
-Metals and nanoparticles/microbe interactions
-Molecular tools to assess microbial diversity and function in freshwaters
Scientific Production:
- 84 ISI papers
-Coordinator at the University of Minho of 11 projects (>2M€).
-Team member of 10 projects
-Supervision of: 13 PhD students; 16 MSc; 2 Post-Doc fellows; 1 Researcher Programa Ciência (2008-2013), and 1 Marie Curie Actions: European Reintegration Grant (ERG) (2008-2011).
-Communications in meetings orals and posters (>180)
Programa do workshop:
Serão abordadas questões pertinentes sobre os tóxicos e os contaminantes de maior preocupação, como os nanomateriais, os fármacos e os microplásticos, a nível da saúde humana e do ambiente. Será referida a legislação vigente (e a falta dela) para assegurar a inocuidade dos referidos compostos. Serão apresentados casos de estudo e identificadas as principais lacunas do conhecimento para cada composto.
A atividade com cada turno terá a duração de 2h.