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Individual Fellow

Marcello Barbieri

Residencies at STIAS
2012 & Earlier

Projects

  • Information and Codes in Biochemistry

    Biochemists traditionally accept the view that life is an extremely complex form of chemistry (the Chemical paradigm), a view which implies that genetic information and the genetic code are but metaphorical concepts because they cannot be described by physical quantities.

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Event

STIAS Lecture Series: Prof Marcello Barbieri - Code Biology: A New Science of Life

Prof. Marcello Barbieri of the Deparment of Morphology and Embryology of the University of Ferrara in Italy will present the seventh lecture of the 2012 STIAS Lecture Series.

Publication

Evolution of the Genetic Code: The Ribosome-Oriented Model

Barbieri, Marcello. 2015. Evolution of the Genetic Code: The Ribosome-Oriented Model. Biological Theory 10 (4): 301–10. doi:10.1007/s13752-015-0225-z.

Publication

Code Biology

Barbieri, Marcello. 2015. Code Biology. Dordrecht: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14535-8.
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