The Joan Plaza Auditorium of the Botanical Garden of the Universitat de València (UV) will host on Saturday 7 May, between 9.15 a.m. and 2 p.m., the 23rd edition of the Morning Conference on Evolution. This year, it deals with naturalist contributions and their influence in Spain, the evolution of the human species and the adaptation of mutations in the environment. The event, organised by the Valencian academic institution, is divided into three conferences and a final debate.
You can register for the Morning Conference on Evolution here.
Pilar Domingo, researcher of the ‘Ramón y Cajal’ programme and director of the Environmental and Biomedical Virology group at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, UV-CSIC) will give, at 12.15 p.m., the conference “Biological control and evolution” on the involvement of mutations in the interactions between viruses, bacteria and humans, and how this process leads to a constant biological struggle. For his part, Juli Peretó, full university professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UV, will moderate the final debate of the Morning Conference.
Agustí Camós, graduated in Biology and PhD. from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and author of the book “La huella de Lamarck en España en el siglo XIX”, will give the first lecture of the morning on the figure of Lamarck, at 9.15 a.m. The researcher on natural history in Catalonia and Spain during the 18th and 19th centuries, will discover the naturalist's scientific contributions, his influence in Spain and how certain recent discoveries question orthodox interpretations of the theory of evolution.
Then, at 10.30 a.m., Alba Motes, post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Ecology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, will use the conference “Animal culture” to show that cultural capacity is the secret of the evolutionary success of humans. It will address the differences between human culture and other animal cultures, the study of cultural variation in different species and the evolutionary origin of human cultural dependence.
The Morning Conference is supported by the Principal’s Delegation for University Integration, the UV's Lifelong Learning and Educational Innovation Service, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT), the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (UV). The Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint UV-CSIC centre, the Faculty of Biological Sciences (UV), the Botanical Garden (UV), the scientific journal “Mètode” , the Catalan Society of Biology and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans are also participating.
These morning conferences are an action that is part of the Annual Plan of Activities of the UCC+i of the Universitat de València, which is co-funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
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