Professor Capelo Martinez – guest lecture

27.01.2023

Professor José Luis Capelo Martinez from NOVA University of Lisbon will give an open lecture Prescriptomics on 9 February 2023 at 10:00 a.m. The meeting will be held in a hybrid format in the seminar room of the Division of Oral Microbiology, MUG (25 Debowa Street, 80-204 Gdańsk) and online via the Zoom platform (link to meeting). No advance registration is required for the event.

The lecture and the visit of Prof José Luis Capelo Martinez are the results of a scientific collaboration between the Professor’s team and a group of researchers from the Department of Medical Microbiology, the Department of Physiopathology, and the Department of Experimental Rheumatology of the Medical University of Gdańsk. The collaboration aims to develop innovative diagnostics for urinary tract infections.

During the lecture, Prof Capelo Martinez will present the concept of prescriptomics driven by analytical chemistry, advances in sample processing, mass spectrometry, chromatography, and bioinformatics in the context of personalised treatment. The specialist will mainly focus on the application of urinary proteomic analysis in the diagnosis of bladder cancer.

Speaker’s profile: Prof. José Luis Capelo Martinez obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Vigo, UVIGO (Spain, 2002 Best Dissertation Award), and his Post-Doc at the Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (Portugal). His academic career includes assistant and lecturer at UVIGO, a researcher at the Faculty of Chemistry of the New University of Lisbon, CD-FCT-UNL, a researcher at CD-UVIGO, and an assistant professor at CD-FCT-UNL. He is currently an associate professor at CD-FCT-UNL. Prof Capelo is co-director of the bioscope group. He has chaired 40 international conferences and is currently involved in directing 7. He was a member of Talant’s advisory board from 2006 to 2014 and has been editor-in-chief of the online Journal JIOMICS since its inception in 2011. His current research interests are in the development of new methodological approaches in personalised medicine using novel proteomics approaches, as well as the discovery of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a fellow of the American Chemical Society, and a member of the Portuguese Society of Chemistry. He has a Hirsch index of 37 and a citation count of around 6,000 and is ranked among the top 2% of researchers in the world by Stanford University.

Professor Capelo Martinez is also involved in helping war refugees from Ukraine and will therefore attend a meeting at the centre for orphaned Ukrainian children in Runów during his visit to Gdansk.

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