Young Researcher and Innovator (YRI) Conference Grant

Marta Silva
September 2026
Affiliation: i3s - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal. Task: Poster presentation in the EMBO TB WORKSHOP- The complexity of mycobacterial infections: from research to real world impact. The title of my poster presentation was: TB15.3, a mycobacterial universal stress protein, promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence by limiting macrophage pro inflammatory responses and IFN-γ-mediated control.

March 2026
Affiliation: i3s - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal. Task: Poster presentation at Tuberculosis: Understanding the Disease Across Scales | Keystone Symposia. South Africa.

October 2025
Affiliation: i3s - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal. Task: Oral presentation on host-pathogen interactions at Jornadas MYCOVLC 2025, Valencia, Spain.

June 2025
Affiliation: Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Spain. Task: Pitch and poster at the 45th ANNUAL CONGRESS of the European Society of Mycobacteriology, Lisbon, Portugal. "Studying the transmission of TB involving minors in Madrid"

May 2025
Affiliation: Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana. Task: Poster presentation at HIPS - International Conference on Anti-Infectives (ICA 20525), HIPS, Saarbrücken, Germany. Poster Title: New Direct InhA Inhibitors The work presented included drug design and synthesis, crystal structures of the inhibitors in InhA binding site and the results of biochemical and bacterial testing carried out during her STSM. Nina was also awarded a poster presentation award.

April 2025
Affiliation: i3S/ICBAS, University of Porto, Portugal. Task: Poster presentation at ESCMID Global 2025, Vienna, Austria. Poster number : P0588 Session title: 02a. Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections (incl. epidemiology, clinical, diagnostics, antimycobacterial drugs, susceptibility testing, treatment & prevention) Session date: 13/04/2025 Session time and location: 12:00 - 13:30 in Poster Area in Hall D
