Two researchers participate in DNA Day celebrations
Two researchers participate in DNA Day celebrations
Rubén Pío, from CIMA, and Javier Otegui, from department of Zoology and Ecology, gave two lectures on the Human Genome and Biodiversity.
On the occasion of the celebration of DNA Day, researchers from the University of Navarra Rubén Pío (Center for Applied Medical research , CIMA) and Javier Otegui (department of Zoology and Ecology of the School of Sciences) gave lectures on Tuesday April 24 and Wednesday April 25, in an event held at partnership with the Planetarium of Pamplona, with the high school Navarre of the Audiovisual Arts and Cinematography and the production company "El Exilio".
The first of the conferences,"Genes and genome, life in four letters", was given at Spanish and dealt, among other issues, with one of the scientific milestones of recent years, the reading of the 3,000 million letters of the DNA of the human genome.
The second talk,"Biodiversity and what does it matter to me?", was given in Basque, and dealt with the importance of knowing it and conserving it because the human being depends on it in many aspects. The conferences were given from 19.30 hours in the Planetarium of Pamplona.
Researchers
Rubén Pío is Full Professor of Biochemistry and researcher of the CIMA of the University of Navarra, where he teaches subjects in the licentiate degree of Medicine and in the doctoral program of Cell and Molecular Biology. He also directs the laboratory of Biomarkers of the area of Oncology at CIMA, where he carries out his research in the field of molecular and cellular biology of lung cancer. He is the author of numerous scientific papers in this field, a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. In 2004 he received the award to the research Translational in Lung Cancer from the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation.
Javier Otegui is graduate in Environmental Biology by the University of Navarra, where he is developing the thesis doctoral thesis in Computer Science applied to programs of study of Biodiversity.