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Bassem Hassan is a world-renowned neuroscientist whose work has the potential to shed invaluable light on mechanisms of brain development and evolution. He uses fruit sly "Drosophila" as a model system to deconstruct the genetic code of neurons.
The driving motivation of his research is... poetry! At the beginning of his career, he asked himself whether he should rather become a poet than a scientist. Luckily he decided for science and for poetry. He always wanted to decipher the language in which nature writes her poems. "There is poetry in biology in both its form and content, and the pursuit of that beauty is both rigorously rational and emotionally uplifting", says Hassan.
Join Bassem Hassan on his stunning tour through the neurodevelopment basis of individuality and discover the connection between poetry and biology.
This event will be moderated by Dr Herbert Grieshop. Herbert Grieshop is Director of the Center for International Cooperation at the freie Universität Berlin. He regularly publishes the video blog "Herbert liest" with an own You Tube-Fanpage.
Bassem Hassan is head of the "Brain Development" team at the ICM Brain & Spine Institute in Paris. After obtaining his PhD in molecular genetics at Ohio University in 1996, he completed his post-doctorate at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. From 2001 to 2015, he was senior group leader at "VIB Center for the Biology of Disease" and Professor at the "Center for Human Genetics" at the University of Leuven in Belgium. In 2016 he was named Allen Distinguished Investigator by the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group. Since 2016 he also has been "Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow" at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Information on participating / attending:
Diese Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen des Literaturfestivals statt.
Date:
09/16/2016 19:30 - 09/16/2016 22:00
Registration deadline:
09/16/2016
Event venue:
Literaturhaus Berlin
Kaminzimmer
Fasanenstraße 23
10719 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Biology, Language / literature, Philosophy / ethics
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
09/01/2016
Sender/author:
Christian Martin
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event55221
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