61st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting - Meeting Programme

SUNDAY, 26 JUNE

10:00 - 20:00	Registration
15:00 - 16:30	Opening Ceremony
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner at various locations upon invitation only

MONDAY, 27 JUNE

07:45 - 08:45	International Breakfast upon invitation only - Supported by the USA - Every young researcher will receive an invitation for one of the breakfasts throughout this week.
09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Elizabeth H. Blackburn Telomeres and Telomerase in Human Health and Disease
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	Oliver Smithies A Toolmaker's Story
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	Harald zur Hausen Infections in the Etiology of Human Cancers
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Lecture	Erwin Neher Signals and Signalling Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Ada E. Yonath Climbing the Everest Beyond the Everest
12:00 - 12:30	Lecture	Hamilton Smith Synthetic Genomics: Working with Whole Bacterial Genomes
12:30 - 15:00	Lunch Break upon invitation of the USA
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Student Discussions (with Nobel Laureates Blackburn, Smithies, zur Hausen, Neher, Yonath, Smith) - Locations will be announced during the meeting.
19:00 - 23:00	International Get-Together upon invitation of the USA

TUESDAY, 28 JUNE

07:45 - 08:45	Science Breakfast upon invitation only - Supported by Mars, Incorporated - Every young researcher will receive an invitation for one of the breakfasts throughout this week.
09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Peter Agre Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Malaria
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	Sir Harold Kroto Créativité Sans Frontières
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	Ei-ichi Negishi Magical Power of d-Block Transition Metals: Past, Present and Future
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Lecture	Werner Arber Updated Notions on Darwinian Evolution
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Jean-Marie Lehn From Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Adaptive Chemistry
12:00 - 13:15	Panel Discussion	Panel Discussion Panel Discussion "Biomedicine: The Future" (with Nobel Laureates Agre, Ciechanover, Evans and Murad)
13:15 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Student Discussions (with Nobel Laureates Agre, Kroto, Negishi, Arber, Lehn, Fischer) - "Master Class" with Nobel Laureates Ciechanover and Tsien (only limited attendance possible) - Locations will be announced during the meeting.
15:00 - 16:30	Lecture	Edmond Fischer Protein Cross Talk in Cell Signaling
19:00 - 23:00	All participants will attend either a dinner given by their Academic Partner OR the "Grill & Chill: Connecting Cultures"-event upon invitation of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and the Lindau citizens.

WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE

07:45 - 08:45	Science Breakfast upon invitation only - Every young researcher will receive an invitation for one of the breakfasts throughout this week.
09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Roger Tsien Engineering Molecules for Fun, Profit, and Clinical Relevance
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	Sir Martin J. Evans The Lability of the Differentiated State
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	Avram Hershko Roles of the Ubiquitin System in Health and Disease
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Lecture	Aaron Ciechanover The Ubiquitin Proteolytic System as a Novel Drug Development Platform
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Bert Sakmann Cortical Column - If You Don't Understand The Function, Do The Structure
12:00 - 12:30	Lecture	Hartmut Michel Proton Pumping by Cytochrome c oxidases
12:30 - 13:00	Lecture	Ferid Murad Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP in Cell Signalling and their Role in Drug Development
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Student Discussions (with Nobel Laureates Evans, Hershko, Ciechanover, Sakmann, Michel and Murad) - Masterclass with Nobel Laureate Tsien - Turning the Tables
20:00 - 21:00	Concert at the Stadttheater Lindau

THURSDAY, 30 JUNE

07:45 - 08:45	Science Breakfast upon invitation only - Every young researcher will receive an invitation for one of the breakfasts throughout this week.
09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Thomas A. Steitz From the Structure of the Ribosome to the Design of New Antibiotics
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	Robert Huber Proteasome and DegP Protease, Mechanisms and Drug Design
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00	Lecture	Christian de Duve The Future of Life
11:00 - 12:15	Discussion	Panel Discussion Panel Discussion "Being a (Responsible) Scientist" (with Nobel Laureates Kroto, Fischer, Steitz and Negishi)
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Student Discussions (with Nobel Laureates Steitz, Chalfie, Montagnier, de Duve, Huber) - Locations will be announced during the meeting.
18:00 - 22:00	Bavarian Evening upon invitation of the Elite Network of Bavaria

FRIDAY, 1 JULY

07:15 - 10:30	Boat Trip to Isle of Mainau with informal discussions on the boat
11:00 - 13:00	Discussion	Panel Discussion Closing Panel Discussion "Global Health" (with H. Rosling, Nobel Laureate H. zur Hausen, U. Karunakara, G. Schütte and J. W. Vaupel)
13:00 - 16:00	Lunch Break and Guided Tours through exhibition "Discoveries 2011: Health" on the Isle of Mainau (check www.mainau-discoveries.de)
16:00 - 16:30	Farewell Ceremony in front of the Mainau castle
17:00 - 19:30	Return Boat Trip to Lindau (Certificates of Participation will be handed out on this boat trip)