Program

Venue: National Museum of Natural Sciences

José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2 Madrid

Confirmed speakers

Meeting

• David Alvarez-Ponce, University of Nevada, USA

• Maria Anisimova, Zurich University of Applied Sciences Switzerland

• Erich Bornberg-Bauer, University of Muenster, Germany

• Joana Carneiro da Silve, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

• Keith Crandall, George Washington University, USA

• Laura Eme, University of Rhode Island, USA

• Rosa Fregel, University of La Laguna, Spain

• Davorka Gulisija, University of New Mexico, USA

• Shudir Kumar, Temple University, USA

• David Liberles, Temple University, USA

• David Posada, University of Vigo, Spain

• Eyal Privman, University of Haifa, Israel

• Christina Toft, University of Valencia, Spain

• Konstantinos Voskarides, University of Nicosia Medical School, Cyprus

• Cara Weisman, Princeton University, USA

• Rafael Zardoya, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

Symposium "Evolutionary intelligence: How coevolution opened the way to the AlphaFold revolution”

• Erik Aurell, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

• Doug Barrick, Johns Hopkins University, USA

• Ugo Bastolla, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), Spain, on site

• Simona Cocco, École Normale Superieure, France, online

• David Juan, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), Spain, on site

• David Jones, University College London, UK

• Ben Lehner, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

• Debra Marks, Harvard Medical School, USA

• José Onuchic, Rice University, USA

• Christine Orengo, University College London, UK

• Modesto Orozco, Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Barcelona, Spain, on site

• Andrea Pagnani, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

• Ana Rojas Mendoza, Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, CSIC, Spain

• Chris Sander, Harvard Division of Medical Sciences, USA

• Jessica Siltberg-Liberles, Florida International University, USA

• David Talavera, University of Manchester, UK

• Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain, on site

• Martin Weigt, Sorbonne Université, France, online

Schedule:

Monday, August 25, 2025
09:00am-09:15am — Welcome from CSIC authority
09:15am-10:30am — Talks
10:30am-11:00am — Coffee
11:00am-12:30pm — Talks
12:30pm-01:30pm — Lunch
01:30pm-03:00pm — Talks
03:00pm-03:30pm — Coffee
04:00pm-05:30pm — Talks
05:30pm-20:30am — Visit to the Museum & welcome cocktail

Tuesday, August 26, 2025
09:00am-10:30am — Talks
10:30am-11:00am — Coffee
11:00am-12:30pm — Talks
12:30pm-01:30pm — Lunch
01:30pm-03:00pm — Talks
03:00pm — Coffee & poster session start
06:30pm — Editorial Board Meeting with Dinner for the Editorial Board (others: dinner on own)

Wednesday, August 27, 2025
09:00am-10:30am — Talks
10:30am-11:00am — Coffee
11:00am-12:30pm — Talks
12:30pm-01:30pm — Lunch
01:30pm-03:30pm — Talks

Symposium "Evolutionary intelligence: How coevolution opened the way to the AlphaFold revolution"

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

04:30pm-05:00pm — Opening (connections CSIC and organizers)
05:00pm-07:00pm — 4 talks

Thursday, August 28, 2025

09:00am-11:00am — 4 talks
11:00am-11:30am — coffee
11:30am-01:30pm — 4 talks
01:30pm-02:30pm — lunch
02:30pm-04:30pm — 4 talks
04:30pm-05:00pm — coffee
05:00pm-06:00pm — Round table