2008/01/23

Antonio García Bellido gives a lecture on the occasion of CIC bioGUNE's third anniversary

To mark the third anniversary of CIC bioGUNE, Professor Antonio García Bellido delivered a lecture in the assembly hall of the Structural Biology building on 22 January. The lecture was on "Cellular and genetic bases of morphogenesis" and was introduced by José María Mato, the research centre's General Director.

Regarded as the Father of the Spanish School of Development Biology, Antonio García Bellido (Madrid, 1936) graduated in Biological Sciences at the Complutense University in 1958. In the same year a scholarship enabled him to join the National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-SCIC).

In 1962 he was awarded a PhD in Science with his thesis "Phenogenetics of the furrowed (fw) locus of Drosophila melanogaster". He went on to broaden his studies at the University of Cambridge, the University of Zürich and the California Institute of Technology. The accolades he has received include the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research (1984), and the Ramón y Cajal National Award for Research (1995). He is currently Non-Tenured Professor ad honorem of the National Research Council (CSIC), and works at the Madrid-based Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology.