Plenary Lecture

Edward Wood Lecture (PL15)

Sunday, 9th Sept., 11:00-12:00

Speaker:

Bruce Alberts (San Francisco, CA, US)

Workshops

Teaching Molecular Evolution: a Unifying Principle of Biochemistry (W10)

Wednesday, 5th Sept., 15:30-17:00

Speakers:

Juli Peretó (Valencia, ES)
"Teaching on the origin of life or the emergence of biochemical functions"
Peter Schuster (Vienna, AT)

"Molecular evolution as a unifying principle of biochemistry"

Chairpersons:

Keith Elliott (Manchester, UK)

Athel Cornish-Bowden (Marseille, FR)

Timeline: Introduction  (5 min) 2 Talks (70 min, including questions/discussion) General discussion (15 min)

A joint activity of IUBMB Committee on Education, FEBS Education Committee and FEBS Science and Society Committee.

Research into Effective Teaching Strategies: What Biochemistry is Learning from Other Sciences(W11)

Thursday, 6th Sept., 15:30-17:00

Speakers:

Helen Keates (Gatton, AU)
Roy Tasker (Penrith, AU)

Chairpersons:

Susan Hamilton (Brisbane, AU; IUBMB Com. Educ.)

Manuel João Costa (Braga, PT; IUBMB Com. Educ.)

A joint activity of IUBMB Committee on Education and FEBS Education Committee.

Science in School: Biodiversity and Evolution (W09)

Saturday, 8th Sept., 15:30-17:00

Speakers:

Pedro Jordano (Sevilla, ES)

Juli Peretó (Valencia, ES)

Panel Discussion:

Javier Fernández-Portal (Madrid, ES)

Gérard Cobut (Brussels, BE)

Dolores Vega (Sevilla, ES)

Isabel Varela-Nıeto (Madrid, ES)

Miguel Castanho (Lisbon, PT)

Chairpersons:

Isabel Varela-Nıeto (Madrid, ES)

Miguel Castanho (Lisbon, PT)

A joint activity of FEBS Education Committee, FEBS Science and Society Committee and SEBBM

Poster session

#02: Biochemical Education

Thursday, 6th Sept., 13:30-15:30

This session will group all communications in poster form:

• related to Workshop W09, "Science in School: Biodiversity and Evolution"
• related to Workshop W10, "Teaching Molecular Evolution: a Unifying Principle of Biochemistry"
• related to Workshop W11, "Research into Effective Teaching Strategies: What Biochemistry is Learning from Other Sciences"
• related to any topics on education in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (free subject)
• associated to the meeting of the SEBBM Education Group (Spanish Society)

Meeting of the SEBBM Education Group

Wednesday 5th or Thursday 6th Sept., 19:00-21:30 (pending final date confirmation)

• Report and discussion on activities of the Group
• Short presentations selected from the poster communications by members of SEBBM.