Conference on the 2024 Nobel Prize laureates in science and bioscience

The UAB Faculty of Science and Faculty of Biosciences organise this event to explore the discoveries awarded in the 2024 Nobel Prizes. The event will take place in the conference hall of Building C at 3:00 p.m. with the opening speech given by Juan Jesús Donaire, Dean of the Faculty of Science.

Isidre Gibert, Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, will also speak, followed by the introduction of the conference givers by Lluís Casas Duocastella, Vice-Dean of Alumni and Promotion of the Faculty of Science.

The lectures will be given by renowned researchers of the University:

• Contribucions fundacionals de la Física a la Intel·ligència Artificial, by Maria Vanrell, professor of the Department of Computer Science at the School of Engineering.

• Per què el descobriment dels microARNs per Victor Ambros i Gary Ruvkun ha merescut el premi Nobel de Medicina 2024?, by Armand Sánchez, emeritus professor of the Department of Animal and Food Science at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

• XNobel Prize in Chemistry 2024: A.I. in protein structure, by Òscar Conchillo, lecturer and technician of the “Vicent Villar Palasi” Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, and Jean-Didier Pierre Marechal, professor of the Department of Chemistry.

The event will end with a Q&A session conducted by Dean Juan Jesús Donaire. 

The event will also be streamed live here.