Scientific Committee Dr. Carlos Lodeiro Espiño UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) Dr. José Luís Capelo Martínez UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) Dr. Hugo Miguel Santos FCT-UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, University NOVA of Lisbon (Portugal) Dr. Gilberto Igrejas University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, ECVA-DGB | UCIBIO-REQUIMTE (Portugal) Dr. Elisabete Oliveira FCT-UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, University NOVA of Lisbon (Portugal) Dr. Javier Fernández Lodeiro FCT-UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, University NOVA of Lisbon (Portugal) Dr. Patricia A. Curado Q. Dinis Poeta Veterinary Science Department, CEVAC, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Dr. Marco Zezzi Arruda Universidade de Campinas, Campinas (Brazil) Dr. Alcindo A. Dos Santos Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) Dr. Emilia Bertolo School of Human and Life Sciences,Canterbury Christ Church University,Canterbury (United Kingdom) Dr. Elena Ionescu Université de Technologie de Troyes, Institut Charles Delaunay – UMR CNRS, Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d’Instrumentation Optique (France) Dr. Erika Kothe Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Microbiology, Jena (Germany)