61st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 26 June 2011

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

Monday, 27 June 2011

07:45 - 08:45 Break 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 Break 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 Break 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 Break International Get-Together upon invitation of the USA

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

07:45 - 08:45 Break 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 Break 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
13:15 - 15:00 Break 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 Break 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 2011

07:45 - 08:45 Break 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 Break 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 Break 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 Break Concert at the Stadttheater Lindau

Thursday, 30 June 2011

07:45 - 08:45 Break 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 Break 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 Break 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 Break Bavarian Evening upon invitation of the Elite Network of Bavaria

Friday, 1 July 2011

07:15 - 10:30 Lunch Break 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 Break 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 Farewell Ceremony in front of the Mainau castle
17:00 - 19:30 Boat Trip Return Boat Trip to Lindau (Certificates of Participation will be handed out on this boat trip)