68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 24 June 2018

10:00 - 20:00 Social Event Registration
15:00 - 16:00 Social Event Opening Ceremony
with Keynote by Elizabeth H. Blackburn: "Science Policy and Science and Society"
16:30 - 18:00 Social Event Opening Concert
19:00 - 22:00 Social Event Dinners at various locations

Monday, 25 June 2018

07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Breakfast on the International Day dedicated to China: Developing Stronger Science Leadership in Different Cultures - China, US/Europe and Others as Basis for Innovation
Facilitated by McKinsey & Company, Inc.
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Michael M. Rosbash
The Circadian Rhythm Story: Past, Present and Future
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Michael W. Young
Circadian Rhythms and Their Impact on Physiology and Behavior
10:00 - 10:20 Break Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Elizabeth H. Blackburn & Martin Chalfie
Thoughts on Improving Science, Individually and More Generally
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Peter C. Doherty
Science Communication
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Tomas Lindahl
Search for Alternative Life Forms on Earth
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Dan Shechtman
Colour of Insects and Colour From Insects
11:40 - 12:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Edvard I. Moser
The Brain’s Codes for Space and Time
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Steven Chu
Recent Advances in Biomolecular and Biomedical Imaging
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Open Exchange
Elizabeth H. Blackburn & Martin Chalfie, Steven Chu, Peter C. Doherty, Tomas Lindahl, Michael Rosbash, Dan Shechtman, Michael W. Young
15:00 - 16:30 Science Walk Science Walks
Martin Chalfie, Louis Ignarro, Robert Lefkowitz, Michael Levitt, Sir Richard J. Roberts, Randy W. Schekman, Thomas A. Steitz
17:00 - 18:30 Poster Flashes Poster Flashes
30 selected young scientists present their research
19:00 - 23:30 Social Event International Get-Together
Dedicated to China

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Breakfast: Crowdsourcing to Drive Medical Advancements
Hosted by Mars, Incorporated
07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Breakfast: Excellence in Science for Society
Hosted by Rolex SA
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Joachim Frank
Single-Particle Cryo-EM of Biological Molecules – the Sky Is the Limit
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Bruce A. Beutler
Detecting and Solving Mammalian Phenotypes in Real Time
10:00 - 10:20 Break Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Peter Agre
Opening Doors Worldwide Through Medical Science
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Sir Richard J. Roberts
Nobel Laureate Campaign Supporting GMOs
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Erwin Neher
Ion channels: Past, Present and Future
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Sir John Ernest Walker
Microbial Drug Resistance
11:40 - 12:00 Break Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Robert J. Lefkowitz
G Protein Coupled Receptors
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Louis J. Ignarro
The Road to Stockholm - A Nobel Mission
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45 Laureate Lunch Laureate Lunches
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session Poster Session
10 poster authors will be present at their posters
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Open Exchange Open Exchange
Peter Agre, Bruce Beutler, Joachim Frank, Louis Joseph Ignarro, Robert Lefkowitz, Erwin Neher, Sir Richard J. Roberts, Sir John E. Walker
17:00 - 18:30 Master Class Master Classes
Peter C. Doherty & Rolf Martin Zinkernagel, Aaron Ciechanover & Tim Hunt
18:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 22:00 Social Event Academic Dinners at various locations
Hosted by Academic Partners
19:00 - 22:30 Social Event Grill & Chill
Hosted by Council & Foundation

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

07:00 - 08:30 Discussion Science Breakfast: Gene Modification
Hosted by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Yoshinori Ohsumi
Lessons From Yeast - Autophagy: Intracellular Recycling System
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Michael Levitt
The Future of Basic Science Research
10:00 - 10:20 Break Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Hartmut Michel
Membrane Proteins: Importance, Functions, Mechanisms
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Bert Sakmann
Lovely Lindau for Laureates and Scholars
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Robert Huber
The Proteasome, Structure, Mechanism, Ligand-Binding, and Application in Drug Design and Development
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Rolf Zinkernagel
How to Measure Immunological Specificity
11:40 - 12:00 Break Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Harald zur Hausen
Specific Infections as Trigger of Random Mutations - Their Role in Human Colon and Breast Cancers
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Randy W. Schekman
Sorting of Small RNAs Into EVs Secreted by Human Cells
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45 Laureate Lunch Laureate Lunches
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session Poster Session
10 poster authors will be present at their posters
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Open Exchange Open Exchange
Robert Huber & Michael Levitt, Hartmut Michel, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Bert Sakmann, Randy W. Schekman, Rolf Martin Zinkernagel, Harald zur Hausen
17:00 - 18:30 Master Class Master Classes
J. Michael Bishop & Harold E. Varmus, Bruce Beutler & Jules A. Hoffmann
18:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 20:00 Lecture Heidelberg Lecture: Leslie G. Valiant, recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award 2010
Biology as Computation
20:00 - 21:30 Social Event Dinner

Thursday, 28 June 2018

07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Breakfast: Precision Immunotherapy to Fight Infections, Inflammation (and Cancer)
Hosted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Breakfast: Science Meets Social Entrepreneurship
Hosted by Boehringer Ingelheim
07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Breakfast: Health Innovation in Africa: The Way Forward
Hosted by Global Perspectives Initiative
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Thomas A. Steitz
Toward an Understanding of the Structural Basis of Crick’s Central Dogma
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Ada E. Yonath
Next Generation Species Specific Eco Friendly Antibiotics and Thoughts About Origin of Life
10:00 - 10:20 Break Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk J. Michael Bishop & Harold E. Varmus
Can Scientific Careers Be Planned?
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Aaron Ciechanover
The Revolution of Personalised Medicine: Its Promises and Obstacles
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Avram Hershko
Lessons From the Discovery of the Ubiquitin System
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Ferid Murad
Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP in Cell Signaling and Drug Development
11:40 - 12:00 Break Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Kurt Wüthrich
Drug Design, Structural Dynamics and Physiological Functions of G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs)
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Torsten Nils Wiesel
Exploration of the Visual Cortex
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45 Laureate Lunch Laureate Lunches
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session Poster Session
10 poster authors will be present at their posters
15:00 - 16:30 Science Walk Science Walks
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Martin Chalfie, Steven Chu, Joachim Frank, Tim Hunt, Dan Shechtman, Michael W. Young
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Open Exchange
J. Michael Bishop & Harold E. Varmus, Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Ferid Murad, Thomas A. Steitz, Torsten Nils Wiesel, Kurt Wüthrich, Ada E. Yonath
16:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 22:30 Social Event Bavarian Evening
Hosted by Elite Network of Bavaria & Free State of Bavaria

Friday, 29 June 2018

07:00 - 10:30 Social Event Baden-Württemberg Boat Trip to Mainau Island
Hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg
11:00 - 13:00 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
13:00 - 15:30 Social Event Science Picnic on the Aboretum Lawn
Hosted by the Ministry of Science, Education and the Arts, State of Baden-Württemberg
15:30 - 16:00 Farewell Farewell Ceremony
16:30 - 19:00 Social Event Baden-Württemberg Boat-Trip to Lindau
Hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg

Friday, 27 July 2018

18:30 - 19:00 Break Break