DAYS
LECTURES
WORKSHOPS
The Semana da Bioengenharia app allows you to have everything you need, right in your pocket! You can consult the event’s schedule and manage your own, read all about the invited speakers and even ask them questions during lectures. Moreover, it has a Piggy Bank, responsible for keeping your biocoins, which may get you a prize at the end of event.
Lectures
The SBE IST brings to you lectures from investigators and companies in the bioengineering area with vast knowledge willing to provide you a great experience!
Field Trip
Are you curious about what happens outside our school? The SBE IST brings to you interesting scientific field trips to relevant investigation or industrial facilities!
Workshops
Are you looking for new experiences? The SBE IST provides to you the opportunity to enlarge your knowledge and your soft skills with several workshops in the bioengineering area and business field!
Alumni
Want to know more about what your graduated colleagues are doing? You can ask them directly any questions you may have!
9h
Opening Session
Opening remarks of V Semana da Bioengenharia from the IST and DBE Presidents and a representative of Ordem dos Engenheiros.
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Eng. Arlindo Oliveira
Prof. Dr. João Conde
Eng. António Gonçalves da Silva
10h
AbracaDATA: Sequencing modern life
The current clinical research goes far beyond the typical mice and cell lab manipulation. The increasing demand for faster, more accurate and personalized solutions and approaches led to the fusion of modern biology and computacional sciences. On the 18th of March come and discover how big data can give personalized prognostics or how the analysis of transcriptomic data and gene sequencing can contribute to the world’s fight against cancer!
Speakers:
11h30m
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Ordem dos Engenheiros, Deloitte & Clube dos Cervejeiros
12h
Workshop
Recording your own ECG!
In this workshop, you will learn more about one of the most famous medical exams, the electrocardiogram (ECG). What’s its origin? How is it measured? What diagnostic indicators does it count on? This workshop consists on three different phases. First, there will be a theoretical introduction so that you know exactly what you are dealing with. Then, it is time for you to get into action: you will capture the ECG of a volunteer with the help of a very useful tool to engineers, Bitalino, so that, finally, you are able to analyse the signal and obtain features of interest, using Matlab.
Speaker:
Rafael Correia
14h30m
Diagnosis: Health Revolution
Medicine is not what it used to be anymore. From incurable diseases which now have become manageable to innovative therapeutics such as ground-breaking drugs or gene and cell therapy, it has suffered an ultimate revolution! If you want the opportunity to evolve as well, in this lecture you can learn from experienced and specialised scientists what it takes to change how health is dealt with!
Speakers:
16h
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Ordem dos Engenheiros, Deloitte & Clube dos Cervejeiros
16h30m
Workshop
3D Printing, what else?
Have you ever had the opportunity to work with a 3D Printer? In this workshop you will get the chance to learn more about 3D printing and prototyping, both applied to the bioengineering field. It will work as a basic training so that one day you will be able to explore this creation process by yourself the right way. During this workshop, you will explore FUSION360, a really useful and intuitive modelling tool as well as CURA, a program more associated with the 3D printer control. This workshop is aimed to deal with the various aspects that one should consider for a successful printing: from the drawing and product image, an explanation of the existent materials in the market, to the correct use of a 3D printer itself.
Speakers:
Mariana Adão da Fonseca
Filipe Almeida
19h
BBQ
9h30m
Mirror, mirror on the wall, Cosmetic Industry for us all
11h
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Clube dos Cervejeiros
11h30m
Research&Development: Discovering our World
This series of lectures will take you on a journey regarding what’s being done to improve public health and quality of life, starting in the lab, with the research of new drugs and therapies, and ending in the pharmaceutical industry.
Speakers:
14h30m
Before the Supermarket: Innovation in the Food Industry
The nowadays Food System is in constant development so as to address challenges like demographic growth, sustainability and climate change. On the one hand, there are millions of malnourished people worldwide. On the other hand, diet-related diseases like obesity and diabetes are becoming epidemics. How can we reach the balance between these two realities while meeting the public’s increasing demand for new products? In addition, you always see the supermarket shelves filled with all kinds of products but have you ever wondered what goes on before they get there? Come to the lecture and take a look inside the craft beer industry and how a Mediterranean diet can prevent human chronic diseases, for instance. Meet us on the 19th of March and discover how experts are innovating the food industry using engineering and lab procedures.
Speakers:
16h
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Clube dos Cervejeiros
16h30m
Biological Engineering Alumni
In this session, former IST students from the Masters in Biological Engineering will share their careers and professional path in the hope of enlightening those who may still have some questions regarding the future prospects in these scientific areas.
9h
Workshop
Patents and Innovation Strategy by JPC
Innovation has been playing an increasingly important role in society, thus originating in consumers and enterprises an increasing interest in the several links in the chain of production and commercialization. Also in Portugal, Innovation has been assuring institutions a differentiating feature. Its importance is understood as an investment, being one of the main orientation guidelines in companies which are more innovative, creative and exporting. The protection of Innovation guarantees a reduction of the risk associated with an investment in Innovation, as it introduces new ways of capitalising innovation and assuring a larger control of its commercialisation. In particular, the patent is the only mechanism that allows protection of an innovative concept, being applicable to technology and its implementation. This workshop will approach the procedures for obtaining a patent, the rights assured by a patent and the ways of capitalising innovation through a patent.
Speaker:
Eng. Tiago Andrade
10h
Artificial Intelligence : a step further in the future of health care
Artificial Intelligence is a tool extensively used across all fields of life nowadays. Particularly in Biomedical Engineering, advanced processing systems and technologies are used for a wide range of purposes. One can name the diagnostic and treatment of diseases, supported by the interpretation of medical images through deep learning algorithms, which appropriately perform an automatic selection of features. As far as the health system is concerned, the aggregation of patient health data derived from multiple resources, and the analysis of that data, results in informed health decisions that achieve improved clinical and financial outcomes. In this panel, we present four speakers whose work is tightly related to Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, be it in research for neurological diseases, applied to Bioinformatics, or as a tool in Public Administration.
Speakers:
11h30m
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Clube dos Cervejeiros & ANEEB
12h
Workshop
Crtl your data, Bioinformatics!
Speakers:
Maria Inês Fonseca
Nelson Monteiro
14h30m
A conscious approach to decision-making
It is often hard for one to think about something both as important as vague as our own Consciousness. Questions like “How does it function exactly?” or “Can it be easily defined?” may arise once you start considering this subject. In this lecture, a neuroscientist, a neurologist, a physicist and a psychologist will discuss questions like these and, more precisely, what decision-making is . Such a diversified group of professionals will not only challenge our assumptions about who we really are, but also provide different eye-opening perspectives on the subject.
Speakers:
16h
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Clube dos Cervejeiros & ANEEB
16h30m
Alumni in Biomedical Engineering
In this session, former IST students from the Masters in Biomedical Engineering will share their careers and professional path in the hope of enlightening those who may still have some questions regarding the future prospects in these scientific areas.
9h30m
A closer look at your genes: wellness, health and therapy
In this lecture you may find an active discussion on how gene therapy contributes to the treatment of cancer, hereditary blindness and neurodegenerative diseases. In the other hand, it will also be explored how a strong knowledge of our genes can contribute positively to a healthier life, improving the quality of our nutrition and sports practicing. We will count on a group of professionals and scientists from all over our country to join the lecture, who will provide an insight on national and international developments and discoveries on the field..
Speakers:
11h
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Infortucano, Clube dos Cervejeiros & ANEEB
11h30m
Heart missed a beat
As you know, the heart is the pump that keeps us alive. In this lecture we present you to how the different fields of biomedical engineering, such as biomechanics, signal processing and tissue engineering, are currently applied to the development of new technologies and processes that aim to study, monitorize and treat several conditions regarding the human heart.
Speakers:
14h30m
Field Trip
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge
MEETING POINT: 14:00 at Instituto Ricardo Jorge’s entrance
The Instituto Ricardo Jorge, through its Department of Human Genetics, develops activities in the field of genetic determinants of health and disease, including through epidemiological nature of approaches, clinical, cytogenetic, biochemical or molecular genetics, and ensures the planning and implementation of the national early detection program. The visit to the Department of Human Genetics will consist on a presentation of the department and its R&D work in course, followed by a tour of three different research units. At the end there will be time for information exchange and debate.
9h30m
Green Future: Bioenergy!
Bioenergy is one of the many alternative resources available to meet our energy demand. It is classified as a form of renewable energy derived from biomass that can be used to produce biopower such heat and electricity, biofuels, and products like plastics or industrial chemicals. Our aim is to explore innovative ways to make a difference in a world dominated by non-renewable resources. Here you may find active discussion on how bioenergy alternatives can contribute to a more secure, sustainable, and economically-sound future, ranging from biofuel topics to microalgae sustainable production, applied to industrial scale and research.
Speakers:
11h
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Infortucano & Clube dos Cervejeiros
11h30m
Lights, camera, Axon: Travel through age!
Translation towards clinics of engineered biomaterials are the answer for the society call for treat, repair or replace a tissue body function. Here are reunite experts on integration of stem cells and biomaterials knowledge into tissue engineering to define innovative strategies to improve the functionality of bone and skin tissue. NeuroStimSpinal project developer will focus on nanostructured materials and graphene biosensors. Cutting-edge technologies developed by Bioceramed, a Biomaterials Research company on interdisciplinary fields of biomaterials synthesis and fabrication for and biomedical applications in clinics are, will bring an industrial approach on this field.
Speakers:
14h30
Biomaterials: Repair your Broken Pieces!
Translation towards clinics of engineered biomaterials are answering to the society call for treat, repair or replace tissue body functions. Here are reuniting experts on integration of stem cells and biomaterials knowledge into tissue engineering, defining innovative strategies to improve the functionality of bone and skin tissue. NeuroStimSpinal project developer will focus on nanostructured materials and graphene biosensors. Also, cutting-edge technologies developed by Bioceramed, a biomaterials research company on interdisciplinary fields of biomaterials synthesis and fabrication for biomedical applications in clinics, will bring an industrial approach on this field.
Speakers:
16h
Coffee Break & Networking Session
Have the opportunity to chat with our speakers under a casual environment! You can enjoy coffee and pastry while getting to know our speakers or our invited companies.
Today’s stands: Infortucano & Clube dos Cervejeiros
16h30m
Biotechnology Alumni
In this session, former IST students from the Masters in Biotechnology will share their careers and professional path in the hope of enlightening those who may still have some questions regarding the future prospects in these scientific areas.
18h
Closing Session
Closing remarks of V Semana da Bioengenharia from the three courses’ Coordinators.Prof. Dr. Eng. Isabel Sá-Correia
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Eng. Miguel Prazeres
Prof. Dr. Eng. João Pedro Conde
Prof. Dr. Arsénio Fialho
Field Trip
21st March
14h30
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge
MEETING POINT: 14:00 at Instituto Ricardo Jorge’s entrance
The Instituto Ricardo Jorge, through its Department of Human Genetics, develops activities in the field of genetic determinants of health and disease, including through epidemiological nature of approaches, clinical, cytogenetic, biochemical or molecular genetics, and ensures the planning and implementation of the national early detection program. The visit to the Department of Human Genetics will consist on a presentation of the department and its R&D work in course, followed by a tour of three different research units. At the end there will be time for information exchange and debate.
Giveaways
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Where to find us
- Centro de Congressos, Pavilhão de Civil, Piso -1 Av. Rovisco Pais 1, Lisboa
- sbe@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
About Us
The Semana da Bioengenharia (Bioengineering Week) at Instituto Superior Técnico (SBE IST) was first developed in 2014 as an initiative of the Bioengineering Department students of the Masters in Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology and Microbiology.
Ever since, our mission has been to enhance the relationship between the academic community and both corporate and scientific world, as well as to disseminate the work carried out in Portugal and the rest of the world in the most diverse fields of bioengineering.
In order to fulfill this goal, we gather, during this week, an interdisciplinary group of students, academics, companies and start-ups, always encouraging the interaction and knowledge sharing between these entities.
Hence, SBE IST is a week full of lectures from investigators and companies in the bioengineering area, scientific field trips to relevant investigation or industrial facilities, workshops and international guests, among others.