Invited talks and courses

• Tutorial on Metabolic Engineering - Methods for in silico strain optimization and elementary modes anaylsis, ISMB/ECCB conference, Stockholm, June 2009.

• Nature Inspired Meta-heuristics for the Optimization of Microbial Strains. 1st Portuguese Forum on Computational Biology, Lisboa, July 2008.

• Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms in Systems Biology. Workshop on Systems Biology, CSIC, Vigo, Spain, May 2008.

• OptGene: a computational tool for metabolic engineering, Dupont Experimental Station, Wilmington, EUA, Maio de 2007.

• Optimization of Neural Network based Models through Evolutionary Computation, Ourense, Espanha, Julho de 2005.

• Bio-inspired Approaches to Time Series Forecasting, presented in the 20th International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF2000), Lisbon, June 2000.

• Viewing the Traveling Salesman Problem Through Genetic Algorithms, Optimization-98, Coimbra, July 1998.