The biologist Margarita Salas, a major Spanish scientist, offers on Wednesday, 16 October, a lecture entitled 'La investigación básica y la economía basada en el conocimiento' ('Basic research and knowledge-based economy'), in the Magna Room of the Cultural Centre La Nau of the University of Valencia in the context of the Claustre Obert debates, and coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM).
The prestigious scientist will be accompanied at the event by José Pío Beltrán institutional coordinator of theCSIC in the Valencian Community, and by the principal of the University of Valencia, Esteban Morcillo.
Margarita Salas (Asturias, 1938) has a degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Science from the Complutense University of Madrid. Disciple of Severo Ochoa, with whom she worked in the U.S., her contributions to Science are many, but her research on the molecular biology of the bacterial virus phi29 stands out. Married to the scientist Eladio Viñuela, both drove the Spanish research in the field of molecular biology.
Throughout her career, Salas has received numerous awards among which the Prize Carlos J. Finley of UNESCO in 1991; the Prize Rey Jaime I for Research in 1994; the National Prize of Investigation Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1999) stand out among many other awards. Furthermore, she is a member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language, of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts among others, and has been the first Spanish woman to join the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (2007). Today she is Professor Ad Honorem at the Center for Molecular Biology "Severo Ochoa", combined research center of the CSIC and the Autonomous University of Madrid.
The talk will be held in the Magna Room of the Cultural Centre La Nau at 18:30. The access is free and will be live broadcast on the Univeristy television (http://mediauni.uv.es/tv).
In NAU XXI, the space for reflection and debating of the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality of the University of Valencia (http://nauxxi.uv.es) and previous to the debate on the 16 October, diverse information about Margarita Salas can be consulted.
The lecture is part of the Claustre Obert programmingthe space for discussion created by the University of Valencia, through the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality, and the newspaper El Pais, to analyse the most important issues in social, cultural and economical news.
In addition, from the 16 October until the 11 de November, the Claustre of La Nau hosts the exhibition “Mujeres en Bioquímica. Galería de retratos” ("Women in Biochemistry. Gallery of Portraits").
More information: http://links.uv.es/IXv3v1i
Last update: 15 de october de 2013 10:43.
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