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A conference on the formation of new species remembers the figure of the scientist Mario Fares
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A conference on the formation of new species remembers the figure of the scientist Mario Fares
The assembly hall of the main building of the Science Park of the University of Valencia (UV) will host, This Tuesday, April 12 at 12:30 p.m., the conference Emerging through fusion: genomic and evolutionary implications of hybridization, given by Toni Gabaldón within the framework of the Mario Fares Memorial. The presentation can be attended either in person or online.
Toni Gabaldón, research professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), will give the conference with the aim of presenting the implications of hybridization in the formation of new species based on real examples. Through this process, defined as the crossing between two varieties or breeds of one or several species, hybrids originate from the mating of two divergent organisms, a fact that causes species with chimeric genomes and that present phenotypic traits – genotype adapted to a certain environment – that allow them to thrive in new ecosystems.
Recent research has shown that the hybridization process appears in various lineages of eukaryotes. Although hybrids were considered a rarity because they were studied in plants and animals, for some organisms such as unicellular fungi, the origin of key traits and entire lineages depends on hybridization.
Mario Fares was a scientist who developed his career between the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the University of Dublin. He developed 84 publications and 9 posthumous works on genetic duplication, evolution of species and analysis of biological factors. For his work, he received around 3 million euros in Project Grants and awards such as the Young Researcher Award from the President of Ireland (2004); the Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (2010) and the FulBright Fellowship (2003).
The Mario Fares Memorial is organized by the I2SysBio, the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (ICBiBE) and the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia (UCC+i). Also collaborating are the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain, the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the UV and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT). class="titol">Images:
