65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

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Sunday, 28 June 2015

10:00 - 20:00 Break Registration
15:00 - 16:30 Lecture Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Break Concert
18:30 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 21:30 Break Dinner at various locations

Monday, 29 June 2015

07:00 - 09:00 Discussion Science Breakfast: Science and Ethics
Hosted by the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research, France
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Stefan W. Hell
Optical Microscopy: the Resolution Revolution
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture François Englert
The Origin of Elementary Particle Masses
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Eric Betzig
Working Where Others Aren't
10:30 - 11:00 Lecture Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Seeing is Believing - A Hundred Years of Visualizing Molecules
11:00 - 11:45 Break Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 Lecture J. Michael Bishop
A Virus, a Gene and Cancer: An Anatomy of Discovery
12:15 - 12:45 Lecture Harold E. Varmus
From Proto-oncogenes to Precision Oncology
12:45 - 13:15 Lecture Saul Perlmutter
What We Learn When We Learn that the Universe is Accelerating
13:15 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
The Quest for Interdisciplinarity: Inspiration or Distraction? (Panelists Betzig, Chalfie, Chu, Hell, Moerner; Moderator: Sibylle Anderl)
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Albert Fert
Master Class: Spintronics, Nanomagnetism and Magnetic Skyrmions
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Jules A. Hoffmann, Co-Chair Bruce Beutler
Master Class: Antimicrobial Defenses
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Afternoon Discussion
Discussions with Betzig, Bishop, Englert, Hell, Josephson, Perlmutter, Ramakrishnan, Varmus
18:30 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 00:00 Break International Get-Together
Hosted by the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research, France

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

07:00 - 09:00 Discussion Science Breakfast: Feeding the 9.6 Billion
Hosted by Mars, Incorporated
07:00 - 09:00 Discussion Science Breakfast: Decoding Science Leadership: What Matters in Leading Innovative Labs, Leading Great People, Leading Self
Hosted by McKinsey & Company, Inc.
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Translational Science on Viral Infectious Diseases: From Louis Pasteur to Today
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Bruce Beutler
Finding Mutations that Affect Immunity
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Sir Richard J. Roberts
A Crime against Humanity
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Werner Arber
Insight into the Laws of Nature for Biological Evolution
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Peter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels – From Atomic Structure to Malaria
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Hartmut Michel
Membrane Proteins: Importance, Functions, Mechanisms
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Jean-Marie Lehn
Towards Adaptive Chemistry
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Ryoji Noyori
Where am I From? Where Are You Going?
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
The Adventure of Cold Atoms. From Optical Pumping to Quantum Gases
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Theodor W. Hänsch
Science with Combs of Light
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture William D. Phillips
Quantum Information: a Scientific and Technological Revolution for the 21st Century
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Roy J. Glauber
Light Quanta, and Their Idiosyncrasies
10:30 - 11:30 Break Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Erwin Neher
Ion Channels: Their Discovery, their Function and their Role in Diseases
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Jack W. Szostak
The Origins of Cellular Life
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Edmond H. Fischer
The Origin of Reversible Protein Phosphorylation as a Regulatory Mechanism
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Harald zur Hausen
Colon- and Breast Cancers and Specific Neurological Disorders as Zoonoses?
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Gerhard Ertl
Catalysis at Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Robert Huber
Structural Aspects of Protease Control in Health and Disease and my Experience with Translation into Practice and Business
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Avram Hershko
Roles of the Ubiquitin System in Health and Disease
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Arieh Warshel
How to Model the Action of Complex Biological Systems on a Molecular Level
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Serge Haroche
The International Year of Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of Laser Revolution in Physics
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture George F. Smoot
Gamma Ray Bursts: Windows on the Universe
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Carlo Rubbia
Future Accelerators for Astro-Particle Physics
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Martinus J. G. Veltman
Discovery of the Higgs Particle
13:00 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion Afternoon Discussion
Discussions with Agre, Arber, Barré-Sinoussi, Beutler, Cohen-Tannoudji, Glauber, Hänsch, Lehn, Michel, Noyori, Phillips, Roberts
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion Aaron Ciechanover
Master Class: Cellular Quality Control – Mechanisms and Clinical Implications
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Afternoon Discussion
Discussions with Ertl, Fischer, Haroche, Hershko, Huber, Neher, Rubbia, Smoot, Szostak, Veltman, Warshel, zur Hausen
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Brian P. Schmidt, Co-Chair Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Master Class: A 21st Century Career in Research: A Discussion About Thriving in the Face of Career Uncertainty
18:30 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 23:00 Break Grill & Chill
19:30 - 23:00 Break Academic Dinners at various locations

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

07:00 - 08:30 Discussion Science Breakfast: Genes, Nutrition and the Environment
Hosted by Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Steven Chu
A Random Walk in Science
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Hamilton O. Smith
Minimizing a Bacterial Genome by Global Design and Synthesis
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Susumu Tonegawa
Memory Engram Cells Have Come of Age
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Dan Shechtman
Quasi-Periodic Crystals, a Paradigm Shift in Crystallography
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Kurt Wüthrich
NMR in Biology, Chemistry and Medicine
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Aaron Ciechanover
The Revolution of Personalized Medicine: Are We Going to Cure all Diseases and at What Price?
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture David J. Gross
The Future of Particle Physics
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Robert W. Wilson
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and its Role in Cosmology
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture John L. Hall
What About Redefining Time Using a Stable Laser?
10:30 - 11:30 Break Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Ferid Murad
Role of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP in Cell Signaling and Drug Development
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Roger Y. Tsien
Molecules Against Cancer or for Long-Term Memory Storage
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Rudolph A. Marcus
Electron Transfer Theory in Single Molecule Studies of Intermittent Fluorescence of Quantum Dots and in Initial Steps in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Ei-ichi Negishi
How to Synthesize a Wide Variety of Optically Active Organic and Bioorganic Compounds of >99% Optical Purity
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Peter C. Doherty
The Killer Defence
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Martin Chalfie
Tickling Worms: Suprises from Basic Research
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Ivar Giaever
Global Warming Revisited
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Brian P. Schmidt
The State of the Universe
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Klaus von Klitzing
A New Kilogram in 2018: The Biggest Revolution in Metrology Since the French Revolution
13:00 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion Afternoon Discussion
Discussions with Chu, Ciechanover, Gross, Hall, Montagnier, Shechtman, Smith, Tonegawa, Wilson, Wüthrich
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion William D. Phillips
Master Class: Applications of the Mechanical Effects of Light
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Afternoon Discussion
Discussions with Chalfie, Doherty, Giaever, Marcus, Murad, Negishi, Schmidt, Tsien, von Klitzing
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Jean-Marie Lehn
Master Class: Supramolecular and Adaptive Chemistry: From Materials Science to Medicine
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Harold E. Varmus, Co-Chairs J. Michael Bishop and Steven Chu
Master Class: What are the Big Questions in Cancer Research and Which Scientific Disciplines are Needed to Answer Them?
18:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 20:00 Lecture Wole Soyinka
When Survival Seems Learning Enough

Thursday, 2 July 2015

07:00 - 09:00 Discussion Science Breakfast: The Maze of Science: Which Path Should Research Follow?
Hosted by Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture William Moerner
Fun with Light and Single Molecules
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Telomeres: Telling Tails
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture J. Robin Warren
The Discovery of Helicobacter
10:30 - 11:00 Lecture Ada E. Yonath
Species-Specific Antibiotics and the Microbiome
11:00 - 11:45 Break Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 Lecture Sir Harold W. Kroto
After Nearly 100 Years the Hunt May Be Up for the Carrier of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands
12:15 - 12:45 Lecture Oliver Smithies
Ideas Come from Many Places
12:45 - 13:15 Lecture Kailash Satyarthi
Education Needs to be Equitable and Inclusive for All
13:30 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Afternoon Discussion
Discussions with Blackburn, Kroto, Moerner, Smithies, Warren, Yonath
17:00 - 18:30 Lecture Kurt Wüthrich
Master Class: NMR Spectroscopy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, from Physics to Medical Diagnosis
17:00 - 18:30 Lecture Peter C. Doherty
Master Class: How the Immune System Works
18:30 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 22:30 Break Bavarian Evening
Hosted by Elite Network of Bavaria & Free State of Bavaria

Friday, 3 July 2015

07:15 - 10:30 Boat Trip Baden-Württemberg Boat Trip to Mainau Island hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg
11:00 - 13:00 Panel Discussion Closing Panel Discussion
Science Education (Panelists Godino, Kroto, Satyarthi, Schütte; Moderator: Alok Jha)
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Picnic on the Castle Meadow
Hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg
15:30 - 16:00 Farewell Farewell
16:00 - 16:30 Break Break
16:30 - 19:00 Boat Trip Baden-Württemberg Boat Trip to Lindau hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg