The Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia (UV) has opened registration for the XXV Matinal de l'evolució, which will be held on May 18 at the Auditori Joan Plaça del Jardí Botànic of the academic institution, with the objective of updating the knowledge on human evolution. The act, with presentations, a debate and the cloenda conference at the direction of the professor of biotechnology of the Universitat Politècnica de València José Miguel Mulet, s'adreça a professorat de secundària y batxillerat, and the registration for the activity is free and can be carried out on weekends December 14 maig at https://ir.uv.es/Uidji6y.

A l’acte coordinated by Juli Peretó, professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the UV and which will be presented by Mulet, with the participation of Daniel Tamarit, microbiòleg evolutiu specializing in genomic and phylogenetic sciences, and assistant professor at the University of Utrecht, with the conference “Els nostres avantpassats, déus d’Asgard: l’origin de la cèl·lula eukariota”.

Carmen Agustín Pavón, for her band, will participate in the conference “Cervell de mare, cervell de pare”. Agustín is a doctor in Neuroscience and a professor in the Department of Cellular Biology, Functional Biology and Physical Anthropology at the UV. His research interest includes the neurobiology of the olfaction, emotional behavior, and socio-sexual and maternal behavior, both in animals themselves and in animal models of malalties of the nervous system.

After the coffee break (11-11.30 am), Josabel Belliure Ferrer, professor of Ecology at the University of Alcalá and researcher in the evolutionary ecology of terrestrial vertebrates, especially reptiles, will speak at the conference “Qui "surviu and why?" At 12:15 p.m., Olga Mayoral García-Berlanga, professor of the Department of Didactics of Experimental and Social Sciences of the Faculty of Teaching and deputy director and researcher of the UV Botanical Garden, will speak at the presentation “Plants in the shadows: the obligatory evolution of plant.”

In this XXV Matinal de l’evolució you will also be able to find out the contribution of Hèctor Escrivà, who participated in this session, “Coming when our soul will appear.” cap?”, will analyze this structure, one of the most important of the vertebrates, which the evolutionary ancestors of humans do not possess. Escrivà is research director of the CNRS and director of the BIOM research unit (Biologie integrative des organismes marins) in Banyuls. The current lines of research focus on studies on the evolution of development (EvoDevo), in particular on the appearance of vertebrates. There will be a debate with the speakers of the morning that will be moderated by Raquel Ortells, professor of the Department of Microbiology and Ecology of the UV and there will be a ceremony of gratitude to the mestratge. Mulet's final conference was titled “Per què mengem el que mengem”. J. M. Mulet is the author of various books such as Transgenics without fear (2014), What is healthy eating? (2018) and We Eat What We Are: How Culture and Society Have Changed Food (2023).

This act is supported by the following entities: on the part of the UV, the Rector's Delegation for Incorporation into the University, the Permanent Training and Educational Innovation Service, the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit, the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, l’Institut de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemes I2SysBio (UV-CSIC), the Faculty of Biological Sciences, the Botanical Garden and the Publications Service. They have also donated support to the Fundació Espanyola per a la Ciència i la Tecnologia (FECyT), the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universitats, the magazine Mètode, Acció Cultural del País Valencià, the Catalan Society of Biology and the Institute of Catalan Studies.

More information and registration: https://ir.uv.es/Uidji6y