Program

Coordinator
Ricardo Guerrero
University of Barcelona, Barcelona
Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona
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  Monday, 12 noviembre
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  09.30 h Document delivery
  09.45 h Welcoming remarks
  Raimundo Pérez-Hernández y Torra
  Director of the Fundación Ramón Areces
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza
President of the Scientific Council of the Fundación Ramón Areces
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  Ricardo Guerrero
  Coordinator of the Symposium
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First Session
  10.00 h Inaugural lecture | The moral evolution of Mankind
  Salvador Giner
  President of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona
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  10.40 h The Anthropocene
  Raymond S. Bradley
  Director, UMass Climate System Research Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
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  11.20 h Break
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  11.50 h The future of Mankind
  Sir Crispin Tickell
  Former British Ambassador to the United Nations, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  12.30 h Microbiology for the 21st century
  Rita R. Colwell
  Distinguished professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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  13.10 h Cooperate to compete
  Regina Revilla
  Merck, Sharp & Dohme Spain, S.A., and President of the Spanish Association of Biotech Companies (ASEBIO)
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  14.00 h End of Session
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Second Session
  16.00 h Evolution and symbiosis
  Antonio Lazcano
  National Autonomous University of Mexico, D.F., Mexico
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  16.40 h Chromosomes of Protists: the crucible of evolution
  Marie-Odile Gobillard
  Oceanological Observatory from Banyuls-CNRS, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
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  17.20 h Break
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  18.00 h Life in extreme Earth, and beyond
  Ricardo Amils
  Astrobiology Center (CSIC/INTA), Torrejón de Ardoz, Autonomous University of Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid
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  19.00 h End of session
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  Tuesday, 14 November
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Third Session
  09.30 h Small is beautiful.Keeping the spirit of Academia
  Steve Goodwin
  Dean, College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. USA
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  10.10 h Natural History Museums: producing, conserving and disseminating science
  Anna Omedes
  Director of the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona
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  10.50 h The public understanding of science: the Möbius strip of knowledge
  Mercè Piqueras
  Ex-president of the Catalan Association for Science Communication
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  11.30 h Break
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  12.00 h The HistCite collection of the work of Lynn Margulis. A perspective
  Alexander I. Pudovkin
  Institute of Marine Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Vladivostok, Rusia
  In representation of:
  Eugene Garfield
  Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  12.40 h Cellular symbiosis and metabolic evolution
  Juli Peretó
  Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia
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  13.20 h Symbiotic planet: from the Cosmos to microcosmos
  Ricardo Guerrero
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  14.00 h Farewell. Two short documentaries
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A visit to the CosmoCaixa Museum, of Alcobendas (Madrid), has been organized for the afternoon of Tuesday 14 November. The visit will be specially focused on the temporary exhibition MicroVida (MicroLife), dedicated to microscopic organisms, Lynn Margulis’ favorite ‘bugs’. Previous registration is required. Please send an email to Nicole Skinner (nskinner@iec.cat) indicating you want to participate in the visit to CosmoCaixa Madrid.