55th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

SUNDAY, 26 JUNE

08:00 - 16:00	Arrival and Registration at the Congress Hall (Inselhalle)
16:00 - 17:30	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

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
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	Break
13:45 - 15:00	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	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

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
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	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

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
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	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	Special Concert in the City Theater

THURSDAY, 30 JUNE

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
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	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

08:00 - 18:00

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.