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Wednesday:

This year marks 150 years since the publication of The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to sex, by Charles Darwin. Together with The Origin of Species and The Expressions of Men and Animals were the three crucial books that put Darwinian reflection, not only on evolution but on the nature of our species.
On Wednesday 27th at 7pm, David M. Alba from the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont will present "The morphological adaptations that have made us human" at Casa Orlandai as part of the Cafè Científic initiative.
This talk will discuss the many morphological characteristics that humans share with today's great anthropomorphic apes, but also the unique characteristics related to habitual bipedalism, manipulation, cognition, diet, and sociosexual behavior. What was the order of appearance of these human peculiarities?

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Place: Casa Orlandai, Carrer Jaume Piquet, 23 - Sarrià-Barcelona

Date: Wednesday 27, April de 2022 - 19:00h

Promotor: Cristina Junyent - Ciència en Societat

Wednesday:

In this talk organized by the Catalan Coordinator of Foundations and the Technology and Research Commission, we will learn about Anna Navarro's journey and what has led her to be chosen as the most influential woman in the technological world by the North American magazine Analytics Insight in 2020 , and the most admired executive by the business magazine CIO Look in 2021.

The talk will be held in virtual format with the following link

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Place: Online

Date: Thursday 28, April de 2022 - 10:00h

Promotor: Coordinadora Catalana de Fundacions - Comissió de Tecnologia i Recerca

Wednesday:

Plant phenology, such as the timing of bud burst in spring for trees or the timing of flowering in many species, shows strong plastic responses to a warming climate. These phenological traits also often show rapid genetic evolution in the context of a changing climate and there has been discussion about the potential of such adaptive changes to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. In this talk Ophélie Ronce will summarize the findings of several modelling studies conducted in a large collaborative project, which have shed light on this issue by using various theoretical models combining quantitative genetics with ecology to address these questions.

The seminars combine online and onsite formats, but in all cases talks will be always streamed (not recorded), so that they can be followed online.

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This talk is part of the CREAFTalks series. For more information, click here

Place: Sala Graus II, Faculty of Biosciences, UAB

Date: Friday 29, April de 2022 - 12:00h

Promotor: CREAF

Email:: t.rosas@creaf.uab.cat

Wednesday:

This year, the LEAPS-INNOV Annual Meeting will take place in Barcelona. It will be the first project event where all involved partners can meet face to face. A stimulating atmosphere will be created to enable an intensive and fruitful exchange.

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Place: Casa Convalescència

Date: Tuesday 3, May de 2022 - 09:00h

Date: Thursday 5, May de 2022 - 15:00h

Promotor: Sincrotró ALBA

Wednesday:

In this talk, Mar Mezcua presents the black holes of 100 to 100,000 solar masses formed at redshifts of z < 20, which are currently the best candidates to be the seeds of the first supermassive black holes that feed the detected quasars. at z ~ 6–7. Until now, the study of this high redshift population has only been possible by investigating possible local relics of those that did not become supermassive, which can be found in the local Universe as intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in dwarf galaxies. . Mar Mezcua will show how radio interferometric observations have been key to identifying and characterizing IMBHs that are actively accumulating in the local Universe and up to z ~ 3. The next generation of radio telescopes like the SKA will open a new window in black hole detection. seed in birth, probing the formation pathways of the first quasars in the Universe.

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Place: Online

Date: Thursday 5, May de 2022 - 10:00h

Promotor: Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC)

Wednesday:

On May 6^th  and 7^th 2022, the first Bioblitz will take place on the UAB campus. A BioBlitz is a participatory citizen science event that aims to record as many species of living things as possible at a specific site during a given time. Bioblitz provide observations and contribute to enriching biodiversity databases for research. Between all of us we will update the biodiversity data of the UAB. We work and study in a privileged place in the middle of the Vallesana plain, in a space of paramount importance for the conservation of biodiversity and as a connector between the coastal and pre-coastal mountain ranges.

You will be able to register and collaborate in the sampling of different groups of plants and animals with the help of experts and field biologists who will teach us how to study the different types of living beings. At the same time, you may be lucky enough to personally meet other species with which we share the campus.

Stay tuned for when registrations open.

The project is funded by the FAS (Autonomous Solidarity Foundation), in collaboration with the Environment Office of the UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Place: UAB Campus

Date: Friday 6, May de 2022 - 09:00h

Date: Saturday 7, May de 2022 - 20:00h

Promotor: Project Awareness and research to transform by educating and advocating for the improvement of biodiversity and sustainability on the UAB campus

Email:: Sandra.Saura@uab.cat