Inauguration of the virtual exhibition "Model beings. Between nature and the laboratory"

A virtual exhibition dedicated to the organisms that have become habitual in the laboratory. These are seven of the species most commonly used as models of living creatures: a type of bacteria from the human intestine, beer bran, a tiny earthworm, an everyday species of grass and a goldfish from an aquarium, not forgetting the vinegar fly and the mouse. The exhibition explains how these species live in the natural world, how and when they were introduced into the laboratory, and some of the most important investigations currently being carried out. The event is an initiative devised by the Scientific Culture Unit of the Delegation of CSIC in Catalonia, in collaboration with several CSIC institutes: the Andalusia Centre for Development Biology (CSIC-UPO), the Centre for Agrogenomic Research (CSIC-IRTA-UAB), the Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CSIC-ICCC), the National Centre for Biotechnology, the Institute for Environmental Diagnostics and Water Studies, the Barcelona Institute of Molecular Biology and the Milà y Fontanals Institute; also including special collaboration from the Barcelona Science Park and the Centre for Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The event will feature talks from two of the exhibition's scientific consultants:

Model beings. Between nature and the laboratory
Inauguration
Presented by: Lluís Calvo. Institutional Coordinator of CSIC in Catalonia and Laura Valls. The Scientific Culture Unit of the Delegation of CSIC in Catalonia

When will there be a synthetic E.coli?
Miguel Vicente. CSIC Research Professor at the National Centre for Biotechnology-CSIC

What can we learn from the vinegar fly?
Jordi Casanova. CSIC Research Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology-CSIC

Screening of the documentary: The dream life of rats. France. 2007. 52'. Directed by Florence Tran.


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