55th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 26 June 2005

08:00 - 16:00 Opening Ceremony Arrival and Registration at the Congress Hall (Inselhalle)
16:00 - 17:30 Opening Ceremony Opening of the meeting by the President Countess Sonja Bernadotte and the Mayor of Lindau Petra Meier to Bernd-Seidl. Welcoming addresses

Monday, 27 June 2005

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Aaron Ciechanover
Why proteins have to die, so we shall live
09:30 - 11:00 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
Round Table Discussion: Evolution of Matter, Universe and Life (Prof. Werner Arber, Prof. Christian de Duve, Prof. Manfred Eigen, Prof. John B. Fenn, Prof. Masatoshi Koshiba, Prof. Rudolph Marcus and Prof. Martinus Veltman)
11:00 - 11:30 Break Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Robert Richardson
Examples of some Multi-Disciplinary Research
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Kurt Wüthrich
From Genome to Proteome-Impact on Biological and Biomedical Research
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break Break
13:45 - 15:00 Break Guided tour for participants with "student-ticket"; Meeting place Inselhalle
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Werner Arber
Molecular Mechanism of Biological Evolution
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Christian de Duve
Singularities in the Origin and Evolution of Life
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Ivar Giaever
A Biosensor using Living Cells
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Sir Aaron Klug
From the Laboratory to the Clinic: Towards Therapeutic Applications of Engineered Zinc Finger Protein
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Masatoshi Koshiba
The Neutrinos; what we Know about them and what they Tell us in Future
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Alan MacDiarmid
The World is Becoming Smaller
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Martinus Veltman
A Century of Particle Physics
19:00 - 23:30 Break Social get-together for all participants in the Inselhalle, discussions, dancing. The young researchers are invited for a buffet. Join all participants for a relaxed dinner, chat and dance with Laureates and student colleagues.

Tuesday, 28 June 2005

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture David Gross
The Future of Physics
09:30 - 11:00 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
Round Table Discussion: Biology in the Post-Genomic Era (Prof. Günter Blobel, Prof. Sir Aaron Klug, Prof. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Prof. Hamilton O. Smith and Prof. Kurt Wüthrich; Chair: Prof. Hans Jörnvall and Prof. Helmut Sies)
11:00 - 11:30 Break Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Riccardo Giacconi
Basic and Applied Research
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Sir Peter Mansfield
Real-Time MRI: Echo-Planar Imaging
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Manfred Eigen
What is Life - Now?
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Break
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Richard Ernst
Academic Opportunities for Conceiving and Shaping our Future
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Robert Huber
Immunreceptors-Antibody Interactions, a Structural Basis
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Kary Mullis
Altermune: Chemically Programmable Immunity
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Douglas Osheroff
Global Warming and The Energy Prospects for the Future
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Norman Ramsey
Contributing to other Sciences by Lucky Accidents
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Hamilton Smith
Towards Constructing a Minimal Synthetic Organism
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Eric Wieschaus
Are there Common Genetic Principles that Govern Embryonic Development of all Organisms?

Wednesday, 29 June 2005

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Frank Wilczek
The Universe is a Strange Place
09:30 - 11:00 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
Round Table Discussion: Energy Shortfall and Global Warming (Prof. Nicolaas Bloembergen, Prof. Paul Crutzen, Prof. David Gross, Prof. Sir Harold Kroto and Prof. Sherwood F. Rowland;Chair: Prof. Astrid Gräslund and Prof. Wolfgang Lubitz)
11:00 - 11:30 Break Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Günter Blobel
Transport into the Nucleus
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Sir Harold Kroto
2010 - a Nanospace Odyssey
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break Break
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Paul Crutzen
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Robert Curl Jr.
The Strange Chemistry of Elemental Carbon
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Yuan Lee
Dynamics of Molecular Dissociation
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture William Lipscomb
Molecular Dynamics in Yeast Chorismate Mutase
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Richard Roberts
The Genomics of Restriction and Modification
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture F. Sherwood Rowland
The changing Atmosphere (Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming and Climate Change)
20:00 - 21:30 Break Special Concert in the City Theater

Thursday, 30 June 2005

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Peter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Paul Lauterbur
From Molecules to Mice to Men and back again
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Marshall Nirenberg
The Initial Strategy for Constructing Part of the Nervous System of Drosophila
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Roderick MacKinnon
Ion Channels: Life's Electronic Hardware
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Walter Kohn
Nearsightedness of Electronic Structure
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Klaus von Klitzing
Einstein's Nobel Prize and Modern Nanoelectronics
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break Break
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Alan Heeger
Conjugated Polymers as Light Harvesting Materials for Biosensors: Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and the "FRET Gate"
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Brian Josephson
The relationship between physics and biology
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Jerome Karle
Kernel Energy Method for Quantum Cristallography
15:00 - 17:00 Lecture Charles Townes
How the Laser Happened - Sociology of Scientific Developments

Friday, 1 July 2005

08:00 - 18:00 Boat Trip Boat-Trip to the Isle of Mainau for Laureates and students. Welcome by Countess Sonja Bernadotte and visit to the park. At 12.00 o'clock noon farewell ceremony and conclusion of the meeting at the castle by Countess Sonja Bernadotte.