The Live Science Center of Lagos promotes, on Saturday, March 14th, at 15 pm, another Science Café, this time with the theme “A Flu in the Laboratory”.
Maria João Amorim will talk about her research in Portugal in the area of the flu virus, what it's like to research in Portugal and how this research has an impact on everyone's lives.
“We are going to find out what the flu virus is like, but this time when it is in a laboratory”, challenges the CCV of Lagos. The initiative is free to enter.
On the same day, the Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos will reveal the results of the Contest on Micronarratives about the flu, launched with schools in the Algarve. Jury members will be present to reveal the three winning Micronarratives and deliver the prizes.
This action is part of the Health at 4 Times Project, supported by a prize from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which the Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos is implementing throughout 2015.
The project includes activities aimed at disseminating and fostering enlightened debate on various areas of Health, addressing four themes linked to the four seasons of the year: in Spring, Allergies, in Summer, Skin, in Autumn, Seasonal Affective Disorder, and in Winter, the flu.
This Saturday's guest, Maria João Amorim, is Principal Investigator at Instituto Gulbenkian de
Science in Portugal. His group is dedicated to the study of the influenza A virus, an important virus for human public health, which causes annual epidemics and recurrent pandemics.
The interest in the interaction between the virus and cells was already the topic of his doctoral thesis, which he carried out at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
In addition to this specialization, he worked in other scientific areas and supervised several students, having a special interest in transmitting knowledge and training new scientists.
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