ISP Dialogues: “Microbes, those great puppeteers!” with Célia Manaia

The 3rd conference of the Autumn Semester will be held on 25 October at 11am and will feature Célia Manaia, lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Biotechnology, on the theme "Microbes, those great puppeteers!".

With a variety of invitees from different personal and professional backgrounds, the ISP Dialogues will foster and encourage critical thinking, interdisciplinary contexts, and a comprehensive and humanistic approach of both International and European Law and International Relations.

The invitee of the next Dialogue is Célia Manaia – Associate Professor of Biotechnology - within the theme “Microbes, those great puppeteers!”.

Célia M. Manaia is Associate Professor at the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (ESB/UCP). Her teaching and research activities focus on microbiology and genetics. Over the last decades, she has been dedicated to the study of antibiotic resistance and its spread in the environment, mainly through the urban water cycle. In this context, her research activity has been characterised by integration in multidisciplinary international teams where microbiology, chemistry and engineering interact around the problem of water pollution, also with association to business and public bodies (e.g. WHO, FAO, JRC-EU). She is currently President of the Committee of Ethics in Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities at the UCP, Vice President of the Portuguese Society of Microbiology, Vice President of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes and member of the editorial boards of scientific journals.