Mireia Coscollá and Juli Peretó.  

The University of Valencia (UV) and the Espai Ciència del Octubre Center de Cultura Contemporània (OCCC) celebrate Darwin Day with two conferences this Wednesday, February 8. At 1 p.m., Mireia Coscollá, researcher of the Ramon y Cajal program at the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, joint center of the University of Valencia and the CSIC) and expert will discuss the coevolution between pathogens and hosts, in the Charles Darwin room on the Burjassot-Paterna campus.

life” . This science bar will be moderated by the journalist Reis Juan and will feature Juli Peretó, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UV and member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the I²SysBio. Peretó is also the author of the book Un planeta creatiu. How life will begin on Earth and how we will manufacture it in the laboratory (Alfonso the Magnanimous Institution, 2022). text-align:justify">Darwin Day is celebrated annually on February 12 to mark the birth of the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882), with outreach and commemoration activities held around the world and to reflect and act on the advancement of science and disseminate his scientific legacy on the evolution.

This activity has the support of the following institutions: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Catalan Society of Biology, Acció Cultural del País Valencià, Octubre Center de Contemporary Culture (OCCC) and Chair of Science Dissemination-Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation of the University of Valencia. Also, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT), Ministry of Science and Innovation, Mètode magazine, Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Faculty of Biological Sciences (UV), Museum of Natural History (UV), Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (UV), Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I²SysBio, UV-CSIC) and Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) class="m1">

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