The Universitat de València is holding the 28th edition of the Evolution Morning Session at the UV Botanical Garden on May 16 (from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., in the Joan Plaça Auditorium).

With this year’s event, the University marks 20 years of organizing these sessions—an anniversary that will feature renowned specialists such as researcher Jaume Pellicer, paleontologist Alba Sánchez, and the well-known scientist and academic Francisco J. M. Mojica.

Registration is now closed. To be added to the waiting list, you must send an email to cdciencia@uv.es

PROGRAMA

09:15–09:30  Welcome

09:30–10:15  Lecture on ‘Large and Small Genomes:¨ Key to Understanding Plant Diversity¨, led by the researcher Jaume Pellicer, specializing in the study of plant genome evolution and biodiversity

10:30–11:15   Lecture on “Amber: An Exceptional Record of Past Life,” presented by the paleontologist and professor from the Universitat de Valéncia Alba Sánchez (Department of Bonaty and Geology)

11:15–12:00  Break

12:00–12:45 Lecture on “CRISPR et al.: ¨The Legacy of the Prokaryotic War,” by scientist and scholar Francisco J. M. Mojica, Professor of Microbiology at the Universitat of Alicante and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Spainles de España

13:00–14:00 Debate

Moderators: Raquel Ortells, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Ecology, and Juli Peretó, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology