IBE at Barcelona Science Festival
Science is full of SHEroes whose passion, work and creativity inspired Evolutionary Biologists of today.
As part of our commitment with society, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF) wants to give credit and visibility to the achievements of female scientists in evolution.
To that aim, we launched the campaign #WhoisyourSHEro to share stories of women who had an impact in our researchers' scientific career through our social media and website.
The campaign keeps on moving as more and more women in evolution are inspiring the IBE community.
You can join the conversation through social media under the hashtag #WhoisyourSHEro.
With the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology - Ministry of Science and Innovation.
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IBE at Barcelona Science Festival
One more year the IBE participates in the Barcelona Science Festival. This year, it does it with a tree-scape activity (Discover the secrets of the tree of life) and participating in a debate about Planetary Wellbeing with other PRBB centers.
On October 26 and 27, a new meeting with science, technology, knowledge and culture awaits you at the moll de la fusta. The 13th edition of the Science Festival will take almost 200 activities distributed in 26 spaces to bring the research done in Barcelona and its area of influence.
This year, IBE participates on Saturday and Sunday with activities related to evolutionary biology and planetary wellbeing. Here is a list of the activities:
Discover the secrets of the tree of life
Did you know that humans share more than 70% of our genome with fungi? Can you imagine what our closest evolutionary relatives are? Find out how much you know about evolution and diversity by playing to complete the tree of life and discovering some of our evolutionary relatives.
Activity Type: Demonstration, Game
Recommended age: +8 years
Space: 18. Research
Scope: Health
Participants:
Núria Ros i Rocher, Pau Balart, Bernat Burriel, Aleksandra Kozyczkowska, Michelle Leger and Pilar Rodríguez, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, UPF-CSIC), and Aurora García-Berro, studying for a Master in Bioinformatics (UAB).
Duration: 30 min
Date and time
Sunday
11:00, 11:35, 12:10
https://www.barcelona.cat/barcelonaciencia/ca/activitat/descobreix-els-secrets-de-larbre-de-la-vida?edicionode=3402
Planetary Wellbeing
Debate. +16 years. 45 min
We cannot understand human, animal and planetary well-being separately. The one depends on the other; if we ignore a part of it, we will be neglecting the rest. That is why we must face current threats and challenges from a collective point of view, embracing the different scientific disciplines.
With Gabriel Rech (IBE, UPF-CSIC), Liudmila Liutsko (ISGlobal) and Raúl Montañez (DCEXS-UPF, IBE).
Date and time
Saturday: 5pm
This weekend, come to the Science Party to have fun, experiment, debate and discover that all people are geniuses!