65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here. 15:00 - 16:30 Lecture LectureOpening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 07:00 - 09:00 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Science and Ethics
Hosted by the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research, France 09:00 - 09:30 LectureStefan W. Hell
Optical Microscopy: the Resolution Revolution 09:30 - 10:00 LectureFrançois Englert
The Origin of Elementary Particle Masses 10:00 - 10:30 LectureEric Betzig
Working Where Others Aren't 10:30 - 11:00 LectureVenkatraman Ramakrishnan
Seeing is Believing - A Hundred Years of Visualizing Molecules 11:45 - 12:15 LectureJ. Michael Bishop
A Virus, a Gene and Cancer: An Anatomy of Discovery 12:15 - 12:45 LectureHarold E. Varmus
From Proto-oncogenes to Precision Oncology 12:45 - 13:15 LectureSaul Perlmutter
What We Learn When We Learn that the Universe is Accelerating 15:00 - 16:30 Panel DiscussionPanel Discussion
The Quest for Interdisciplinarity: Inspiration or Distraction? (Panelists Betzig, Chalfie, Chu, Hell, Moerner; Moderator: Sibylle Anderl) 07:00 - 09:00 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Feeding the 9.6 Billion
Hosted by Mars, Incorporated 07:00 - 09:00 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Decoding Science Leadership: What Matters in Leading Innovative Labs, Leading Great People, Leading Self
Hosted by McKinsey & Company, Inc. 09:00 - 09:30 LectureFrançoise Barré-Sinoussi
Translational Science on Viral Infectious Diseases: From Louis Pasteur to Today 09:00 - 09:30 LectureBruce Beutler
Finding Mutations that Affect Immunity 09:00 - 09:30 LectureSir Richard J. Roberts
A Crime against Humanity 09:00 - 09:30 LectureWerner Arber
Insight into the Laws of Nature for Biological Evolution 09:30 - 10:00 LecturePeter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels – From Atomic Structure to Malaria 09:30 - 10:00 LectureHartmut Michel
Membrane Proteins: Importance, Functions, Mechanisms 09:30 - 10:00 LectureJean-Marie Lehn
Towards Adaptive Chemistry 09:30 - 10:00 LectureRyoji Noyori
Where am I From? Where Are You Going? 10:00 - 10:30 LectureClaude Cohen-Tannoudji
The Adventure of Cold Atoms. From Optical Pumping to Quantum Gases 10:00 - 10:30 LectureTheodor W. Hänsch
Science with Combs of Light 10:00 - 10:30 LectureWilliam D. Phillips
Quantum Information: a Scientific and Technological Revolution for the 21st Century 10:00 - 10:30 LectureRoy J. Glauber
Light Quanta, and Their Idiosyncrasies 11:30 - 12:00 LectureErwin Neher
Ion Channels: Their Discovery, their Function and their Role in Diseases 11:30 - 12:00 LectureJack W. Szostak
The Origins of Cellular Life 11:30 - 12:00 LectureEdmond H. Fischer
The Origin of Reversible Protein Phosphorylation as a Regulatory Mechanism 11:30 - 12:00 LectureHarald zur Hausen
Colon- and Breast Cancers and Specific Neurological Disorders as Zoonoses? 12:00 - 12:30 LectureGerhard Ertl
Catalysis at Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity 12:00 - 12:30 LectureRobert Huber
Structural Aspects of Protease Control in Health and Disease and my Experience with Translation into Practice and Business 12:00 - 12:30 LectureAvram Hershko
Roles of the Ubiquitin System in Health and Disease 12:00 - 12:30 LectureArieh Warshel
How to Model the Action of Complex Biological Systems on a Molecular Level 12:30 - 13:00 LectureSerge Haroche
The International Year of Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of Laser Revolution in Physics 12:30 - 13:00 LectureGeorge F. Smoot
Gamma Ray Bursts: Windows on the Universe 12:30 - 13:00 LectureCarlo Rubbia
Future Accelerators for Astro-Particle Physics 12:30 - 13:00 LectureMartinus J. G. Veltman
Discovery of the Higgs Particle 07:00 - 08:30 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Genes, Nutrition and the Environment
Hosted by Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy 09:00 - 09:30 LectureSteven Chu
A Random Walk in Science 09:00 - 09:30 LectureHamilton O. Smith
Minimizing a Bacterial Genome by Global Design and Synthesis 09:00 - 09:30 LectureSusumu Tonegawa
Memory Engram Cells Have Come of Age 09:30 - 10:00 LectureDan Shechtman
Quasi-Periodic Crystals, a Paradigm Shift in Crystallography 09:30 - 10:00 LectureKurt Wüthrich
NMR in Biology, Chemistry and Medicine 09:30 - 10:00 LectureAaron Ciechanover
The Revolution of Personalized Medicine: Are We Going to Cure all Diseases and at What Price? 10:00 - 10:30 LectureDavid J. Gross
The Future of Particle Physics 10:00 - 10:30 LectureRobert W. Wilson
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and its Role in Cosmology 10:00 - 10:30 LectureJohn L. Hall
What About Redefining Time Using a Stable Laser? 11:30 - 12:00 LectureFerid Murad
Role of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP in Cell Signaling and Drug Development 11:30 - 12:00 LectureRoger Y. Tsien
Molecules Against Cancer or for Long-Term Memory Storage 11:30 - 12:00 LectureRudolph 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 LectureEi-ichi Negishi
How to Synthesize a Wide Variety of Optically Active Organic and Bioorganic Compounds of >99% Optical Purity 12:00 - 12:30 LecturePeter C. Doherty
The Killer Defence 12:00 - 12:30 LectureMartin Chalfie
Tickling Worms: Suprises from Basic Research 12:30 - 13:00 LectureIvar Giaever
Global Warming Revisited 12:30 - 13:00 LectureBrian P. Schmidt
The State of the Universe 12:30 - 13:00 LectureKlaus von Klitzing
A New Kilogram in 2018: The Biggest Revolution in Metrology Since the French Revolution 15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionWilliam D. Phillips
Master Class: Applications of the Mechanical Effects of Light 19:00 - 20:00 LectureWole Soyinka
When Survival Seems Learning Enough 07:00 - 09:00 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: The Maze of Science: Which Path Should Research Follow?
Hosted by Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung 09:00 - 09:30 LectureWilliam Moerner
Fun with Light and Single Molecules 09:30 - 10:00 LectureElizabeth H. Blackburn
Telomeres: Telling Tails 10:00 - 10:30 LectureJ. Robin Warren
The Discovery of Helicobacter 10:30 - 11:00 LectureAda E. Yonath
Species-Specific Antibiotics and the Microbiome 11:45 - 12:15 LectureSir Harold W. Kroto
After Nearly 100 Years the Hunt May Be Up for the Carrier of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands 12:15 - 12:45 LectureOliver Smithies
Ideas Come from Many Places 12:45 - 13:15 LectureKailash Satyarthi
Education Needs to be Equitable and Inclusive for All 15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion 17:00 - 18:30 Lecture LectureKurt Wüthrich
Master Class: NMR Spectroscopy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, from Physics to Medical Diagnosis 17:00 - 18:30 Lecture LecturePeter C. Doherty
Master Class: How the Immune System Works 11:00 - 13:00 Panel DiscussionClosing Panel Discussion
Science Education (Panelists Godino, Kroto, Satyarthi, Schütte; Moderator: Alok Jha)