65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

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 11:45 - 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 15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
The Quest for Interdisciplinarity: Inspiration or Distraction? (Panelists Betzig, Chalfie, Chu, Hell, Moerner; Moderator: Sibylle Anderl) 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 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 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? 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 15:00 - 16:30 Discussion William D. Phillips
Master Class: Applications of the Mechanical Effects of Light 19:00 - 20:00 Lecture Wole Soyinka
When Survival Seems Learning Enough 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 11:45 - 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 15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion 11:00 - 13:00 Panel Discussion Closing Panel Discussion
Science Education (Panelists Godino, Kroto, Satyarthi, Schütte; Moderator: Alok Jha)