Café des sciences - Chirality, are molecules right or left? - Thursday 12 February at 8.30pm, restaurant Françoise

Guests

• Damien Hérault, Senior Lecturer, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille (ISM2), Ecole Centrale Méditerranée

• Alexis Filippi, Doctoral student, Marseille Institute of Molecular Sciences, Aix-Marseille University

The chirality is a geometric property present in living beings, among others.
Objects are said to be chiral when their image in a mirror cannot be superimposed, like our left and right hands.

• But what is chirality?
• What is its role and importance in the construction of living molecules?
• Does this also apply to objects?
• Why do we say that life is chiral?

Here's a surprising and little-known theme to discover at this Café des Sciences.

Quote from René Descartes :

«Anyone who doesn't burst out laughing when he bends over to look at his bare feet has either no sense of humour or no sense of symmetry.»
René Descartes (1596-1650) 

                 Whether you're a specialist or a novice,
lhe Cafés des Sciences are open to anyone with an interest in science.