How did life on Earth start? How we will create it in the laboratory? These are the questions with which Un planeta creatiu starts, by Juli Peretó, a researcher on biochemistry and molecular biology.
- Date: 2nd February of 2023
- Hour: 19:00
- Location: Aula Magna. Cultural Centre La Nau - Universitat de València
It is the fifth book of the Urània collection, conducted by Vicent J. Martínez. Moreover, the edition has Manuel Boix’s illustrations and an unpublished poem by Carlos Briones.
In the text, Peretó presents the main scientific explanations about natural emergence and life’s artificial creation, as well as deployment of biological complexity throughout almost four billion years. The author explains not only the current ideas and its historical and philosophical background, but also stories and experiences of more than thirty years studying a key scientific issue such as the origin of earthly life.
The following 2nd February a discussion on Pereto’s book will take place in the Aula Magna of the Cultural Centre La Nau, of the Universitat de València. With the attendance of Vicent J. Martínez, editor of the Urània collection and member of the Astronomical Observatory of the Universitat de València; of Susana Manrubia, research lecturer of the CSIC in the National Biotechnology Centre; and the author himself.
The author
Juli Peretó is part of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Universitat de València and of the Institute of Catalan Studies. Co-founder of Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence SL and member of the Institute of Integrative Biology of Systems (I2SysBio), was secretary and vice-president of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, society which appointed him Fellow in 2014. He collaborates with the UCC+i of the UV and aims to inform new biotechnologists of metabolism. The FEBS Biochemistry Education Committee invited him to share his innovative experience on teaching biochemistry with evolutionary scent.
Source: PCUV
