Years ago I supervised a research project on genome reduction in bacteria, in obligate intracellular parasites and endosymbionts. We (myself, André Mendonça and Renato Alves), after an extensive exercise in genome data analysis and genome evolution modelling, realised that environmental predictability was a major force driving genome reduction. To this day, this is probably the…
Month: April 2019
Genealogia “tech”: recursos digitais e ideias de negócio
Muitos saberão que eu tenho o vício da genealogia. Para os que pública ou discretamente o partilham, deixo uma informação útil. Os 12 volumes da obra Portugal Antigo e Moderno – de Pinho Leal foram digitalizado pela Universidade de Toronto. Também o Portugal Sacro -Profano, de Paulo Dias de Niza foi digitalizado. Estes são catálogos…
Speaker: Big Data & Oncology
If there is one filed of Medicine where AI is already showing greatest impact is Oncology. Last Thursday I was at the Encontros da Primavera, in Évora, discussing the challenges of big data and examples of AI applications in Oncology, sharing the stage with Sofia Rocha. We had a lively discussion with an audience of…
Speaker: Big Dat, AI and Medicine
Last Saturday I was at Culturgest discussing Big Data and Medicine with Joana Sá (NOVA SBE), Elsa Cardoso (ISCTE) in a session organised by Davide Scarso and moderated by Hugo Almeida, both from the Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia. While the panel covered different topics – potentials and pitfalls, what I…
Speaker: Microbiome manipulation
I was yesterday at the annual meeting of the Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição Entérica e Parentérica discussing with an audience largely composed by nutritionists the routes and clinical evidence for microbiome manipulation. It is yet another dimension that we investigate in our attempt to understand our health, one that raises important challenges to he health…