Invited Speaker Mariana Fernandes presenting "Merging two facilities: a journey full of challenges and opportunities"

11:30 – 11:45 CET, 5 December 2025 ‐ 15 mins

Session 3 - Lab Infrastructure with Session Chair: Ekaterina Kopitman (Co-chair: Derek Davies)

Due to the merge process between the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM) and the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), a new facility was born: the Flow Cytometry Platform at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine. This talk will focus on the opportunities and challenges that emerged during this process.