{"id":10962,"date":"2026-10-20T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=10962"},"modified":"2026-10-20T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:58:48","slug":"new-cycle-of-frontiers-2026-understanding-life","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/event\/new-cycle-of-frontiers-2026-understanding-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New cycle of Frontiers 2026: Understanding life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to invite you to <strong>Frontiers 2026: Understanding Life \u2014 Explanations, Models, and the Limits of Biological Knowledge<\/strong>, organised by the <a href=\"aebarcelona.eu\">Academia Europaea Barcelona Hub.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first session, <strong>\u201cFrontiers I: Is Biology Data Rich and Theory Poor?\u201d<\/strong>, will take place on the, <strong>21 October 2026, from 18:00 to 19:30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion will explore a fundamental question in contemporary biology: despite the growing abundance of biological data, are we developing the theoretical frameworks and explanatory models needed to truly understand living systems?<\/p>\n<p>The session will feature <strong>N\u00faria L\u00f3pez-Bigas<\/strong>, ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), and <strong>Jeremy Gunawardena<\/strong>, Professor at Pompeu Fabra University (MELIS), with <strong>Marta Sales-Pardo<\/strong>, Serra H\u00fanter Full Professor, as moderator.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at the <strong>Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona (RACAB), La Rambla 115, Barcelona<\/strong>, with the option to attend via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission is free, but prior registration is required at: <a href=\"https:\/\/esdeveniments.fcri.cat\/frontiers_1\/\">https:\/\/esdeveniments.fcri.cat\/frontiers_1\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We hope you can join us!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Invitacio-Frontiers-2026-General.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10911\" src=\"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Invitacio-Frontiers-2026-General-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Invitacio-Frontiers-2026-General-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Invitacio-Frontiers-2026-General-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s biology is experiencing a golden age in terms of data accumulation, thanks to the explosion of omics technologies and computational capacity. However, it is often fragmented in its theoretical foundations. With the aim of exploring the theoretical foundations and frontiers of modern biology, the Academia Europaea-Barcelona Knowledge Hub (AE-BKH) has organized \u00abUnderstanding life\u00bb, a cycle of five high-impact debates that will be held from October 21 to November 18. These sessions adopt the communicative format of the AE-BJH Frontiers scientific dialogues, held between two researchers and a third moderator.<br \/>\nThe cycle will take place weekly, every Wednesday from 18.00 to 19.30, and will be developed entirely in English. Coordinated by renowned academics such as Jaume Bertranpetit, emeritus professor of Biology at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and academic director of AE-BHK, and Juli Peret\u00f3, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Valencia and researcher at the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), its programme proposes a philosophical and scientific journey through five key frontiers of biology: data, equations, universality, levels of explanation and evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10911,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[168,152],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-10962","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dialeg-cientific","tag-frontiers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10963,"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10962\/revisions\/10963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10962"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aebarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=10962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}