Alysson Bessani and Pedro Ferreira are presenting the European project DiSIEM, lead by LASIGE, at the ICT 2018 Exhibition in Viena, Austria, on Dec. 4-6. They have been showcasing the SIEM enhancements produced in the project in stand C30.

The European Project  "XIVT - eXcellence In Variant Testing" (Call: ITEA3 Call 4 – Smart Engineering), of LASIGE is a part of, started this month.

The project is coordinated by Gunnar Widforss from Bombardier, Sweden and includes 24 partners from both european and canadian academia and industry. LASIGE is the only partner to provide expertise in software security and application of Natural Language Processing on software testing.

LASIGE Researchers Carlos Duarte and Tiago Guerreiro are taking the roles of Web4All conference Program Chair and ACM ASSETS 2020 General Chair, respectively.

The 5-year European Project "CIRCLES – Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems" (Call: H2020-SFS-2018-2020 Topic: LC-SFS-03-2018 – Microbiome applications for sustainable food systems – IA Innovation action) starts today. Sara C. Madeira coordinates LASIGE’s team, participating in all tasks in work package “Bioinformatics and systems biology: data storage, data integration and microbiome modelling”, and leading task “Modelling of microbiomes across food chains in relation to covariates and metadata”. The project coordinator is Marco Candela, UNIBO – University of Bologna, there are 30 participans from academia and industry all over Europe. FCiencias/LASIGE is the only Portuguese participant.