CMS – Macao and the World Seminar Series – LIFE EVERYWHERE: a few ideas about science, universities, research centres, museums, scientific literacy, and some others…presented by Prof. Nuno Ferrand de Almeida

澳門研究中心 “澳門與世界講座系列” – Nuno Ferrand de Almeida 教授主講 "生命無處不在：有關科學、大學、研究中心、博物館、科學素養等的一些想法"

Invitation

Date: 1 November 2023

Venue: E34-G011, Cultural Building

Language: English

Topic of seminar:

LIFE EVERYWHERE: a few ideas about science, universities, research centres,  museums, scientific literacy, and some others…

生命無處不在：有關科學、大學、研究中心、博物館、科學素養等的一些想法

In this presentation, Prof. Nuno Ferrand de Almeida will offer a personal journey through the evolution of life since the very first steps of our understanding of biological diversity to the current capacity of manipulating life using sophisticated technologies. Prof. Almeida will use a model species that everybody knows, the European rabbit, to introduce concepts as speciation, or the transformation of a species into another, domestication, or the transformation of a wild animal into a domesticated counterpart, or the host-parasite coevolution, in which both hosts and parasites evolve in a permanent arms race.

 

Biography of the speaker:

Nuno Ferrand de Almeida is a biologist and Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Biology at the University of Porto, Portugal, and Director of CIBIO, a Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources. He is also the Director of BIOPOLIS, a not-for-profit private association that now runs the biggest research  program in Biodiversity in Europe, having as a major partner the University of Montpellier, France. He has also conceived, implemented and opened to the public the new Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Porto, which develops a new museological approach between art and science. He authored more than 150 scientific papers in international journals, and published several books. His main research interests are related to the  understanding of the origins and Maintenance of biological diversity at ta global level, including current strategies leading to the sustainability of our planet. In addition, he also created the concept of TwinLab, which is a major tool used for longterm scientific collaborations between Portuguese speaking countries in the world, but that was extended to other Geographies. He is the Director of BIODIV, a global PhD program that promotes the Training of a new generation of students from all nationalities. In more recent times,

he has been awarded multiple times, including the Gold and Merit Medals of the Municipalities of Vila do Conde and Porto, the Great Prize Ciência Viva 2022, and the Légion d’Honneur attributed in June 2023 by French President.

 

All are Welcome!