The neurobiologist Mara Dierssen, from the Center for Genomic Regulation of Barcelona, will be in charge of the first Curie Colloquium of 2025. The appointment is on Thursday, February 6 at 12 noon in the central Assembly Hall of the CSIC.
Paraphrasing Emilio Lledó, "To be is, esentially, to be memory; It is finding a form of coherence, a link between what we have been, what we are and what we want to be." It is fascinating the inmense amount and variety of "memories" that we can store: things as diverse as the shopping list, how we ride the bike, the way to work or our childhood friends. But they all have one thing in common: the registration of information in the nervous tissue. What is a memory? Who knew that a memory has a physical representation? It seems something intangible, immaterial. But we know that without a brain, there are no memories; this is indisputable. One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand how, from this physical substrate, the nervous system, apparently intangible phenomena such as the mind, consciousness, or memory can emerge. How can a brain with a limited number of neurons store so much information? How are these memories physically recorded? What biological substrate can sustain them for decades?
Seminar Speaker: Mara Dierssen
Seminar Date: 06/02/2025 12:00
Seminar Location: Salón de Actos Edificio Central CSIC
