Origin of Life: Public lecture by Jack Szostak at San Telmo Museoa

Donostia, Zientzia Hiria

Participant

Jack Szostak
University of Chicago

When

2025/10/16
19:00

Place

San Telmo Museoa

Organizers

DIPC, San Telmo Museoa

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The Donostia, Zientzia Hiria programme, organised by the Donostia International Physics Centre (DIPC) and San Telmo Museum as part of its Challenges series, returns to connect science and society from a multidisciplinary perspective. This new edition will be dedicated to the problem of the ‘Origin of Life’ in an attempt to answer, through science and philosophy, the big question of how the transition from an inert world to a living one took place.

On Thursday 16 October at 7 pm, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology and Medicine Jack Szostak (University of Chicago) will deliver a public lecture at the San Telmo Museoa. He obtained the Nobel Prize for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the structure and function of telomeres, as well as the role of telomere maintenance in preventing cellular senescence. From 2000 to the present, his research interests have focused on the laboratory synthesis of self-replicating systems and the origin of life, topics he will address in his lecture.

The lecture will be delivered in English, with simultaneous translation into Basque and Spanish.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.