PSE 2025 - GENERAL PROGRAM (Provisional)

22nd October 2025

9:00-12:30

Registration

13:30-14:00

Opening session

Rector of Madeira University

CQM Scientific coordinator

PSE President

14:00-16:00

First session. Chairperson: to be announced

14:00-14-30

KN1 Francisco Macías, University of Cadiz, Spain

Biocommunicators. The natural weapons in the silent war

14:30-15:00

PL1 Søren Bak, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Engineering Plant Defense: Triterpenoid Saponins and the Evolution of Insect Resistance in Barbarea vulgaris

15:00-15:15

OC1

15:15-15:30

OC2

15:30-15:45

OC3

15:45-16:00

OC4

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Second Session. Chairperson: to be announced

16:30-17:00

PL2 Maria Jose U. Ferreira, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lisbon University, Portugal

Therapeutic potential of indole alkaloid derivatives against resistant cancers

17:00-17:15

Sponsor talk

17:15-17:30

OC5

17:30-17:45

OC6

17:45-18:00

OC7

18:30

Bus to city center - Madeira University

 

Welcome reception Madeira de Honra

 

23rd October 2025

9:00-11:00

3rd Session. Chairperson: to be announced

9:00-9:30

PL3 Patrícia Rijo, CBIOS and Lusófona University, Portugal

 Plectranthus Bioactives: A Sustainable Route to One Health Solutions

9:30-10:00

PL4 Isabel Bazzocchi, University of La Laguna, Spain

Withanolides as Nature’s Multi-Tool: expanding their chemical and biological space.

10:00-10:15

OC8

10:15-10:30

OC9

10:30-10:45

OC10

10:45-11:00

OC11

11:00-11:30

Coffee break /poster session

11:30-13:00

4th Session. Chairperson: to be announced

11:30-12:00

KNL2 Franz Bucar, University of Graz, Austria

Bioactive compounds of food and food supplements

12:00-12:30

PL5 Samuel Marques, IFE, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará, Brasil

Studies of enzyme inhibition and chemical characterization in hop flowers and leaves produced in Brazil, applying chromatographic and microscopic techniques

12:30- 12:45

OC12

12:45-13:00

OC13

13:00-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

5th session. Chairperson: to be announced

14:30-16:00

LCMeeting room Funchal 3

14:30-15:00

KN3 Lucia Cassani, University of Vigo, Spain

From technique to bioactivity: How green extraction methods shape the metabolome of Arnica montana flowers

15:00-15:30

PL6 Didem Şöhretoğlu, Hacettepe University, Turkey

Applications of Computational Techniques to Natural Product Research

15:30-15:45

OC14

15:45-16:00

OC15

15:30-15:45

OC16

15:45-16:00

OC17

16:00-17:00

Coffee break and poster session

17:00-18:30

6th session. Chairperson: to be announced

17:00-17:30

PL7 Eulogio Llorent-Martinez, University of Jaen, Spain

Characterization of the chemical profile of underexploited halophyte plants: potential uses as foods and feedstuffs

17:30-18:00

PL8 Simon Vlad Luca, Institute of Organic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Orleans, France

Supercritical Fluid Extraction: Advances and Applications in Natural Product Research

18:00-18:15

OC18

18:15-18:30

OC19

19:45

Bus departure to Dinner

 

 

24th October 2025

9:00-11:00

7th Session. Chairperson: to be announced

9:00-9:30

PL9 Alberto Dias, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Can we use edible and medicinal plants as neuroprotective agents?

9:30-10:00

PL10 Krystyna Skalicka-Wozniak, Department of Chemistry of Natural Products, Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Unlocking the Neuropharmacological Potential of Natural Products

10:00-10:15

OC20

10:15-10:30

OC21

10:30- 10:45

OC22

10:45-11:00

OC23

11:00-12:00

Coffee break and Poster session

12:00-13:00

8th Session. Chairperson: to be announced

12:00-12:30

KNL4 Evelyn Wolfram, ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Managment, Wadenswil, Switzerland

Quality, Safety and Efficacy of natural health Products - the role of science and monographs in the digital age

12:30-12:45

OC24

12:45-13:00

OC25

13:00-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-16:30

9th session. Chairperson: to be announced

14:30-15:00

PL11 Satyajit Sarker, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Guided or not guided, that is the question: An insight into phytochemical research

15:00-15:30

OC26

15:30-15:45

OC27

15:45-16:00

OC28

16:00-16:15

OC29

16:15-16:30

OC30

16:30-17:30

Closing session