59th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Sunday, 28 June 2009

09:00 - 18:00 Opening Ceremony Arrival of participants
15:00 - 16:30 Opening Ceremony Official Opening of the Meeting by the President of the Council, Countess Bettina Bernadotte
17:00 - 18:00 Break Rathaus

Monday, 29 June 2009

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Gerhard Ertl
From Atoms to Complexity: Reactions at Surfaces
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Richard Ernst
Passions and Activities beyond Science
10:10 - 10:45 Lecture Ryoji Noyori
Chemistry: the Key to Our Future
10:45 - 11:15 Break Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Lecture F. Sherwood Rowland
Green House Gases and Climate Change
11:50 - 12:25 Lecture Paul Crutzen
Atmosphere Climate and Chemistry in the Anthropocene
12:25 - 13:00 Lecture Hartmut Michel
Cytochrome c Oxidase: Structure and Mechanism of a Biological Proton Pump
13:00 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers
19:00 - 00:00 Opening Ceremony Get-Together-Evening participated by Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Aaron Ciechanover
Why Our Proteins Have to Die so We Shall Live
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Robert Huber
Molecular Machines for Protein Degradation Inside Cells
10:10 - 10:45 Lecture Erwin Neher
Chemistry helps Neuroscience: The Use of caged Compounds and Indicator Dyes for the Study of Neurotransmitter Release
10:45 - 11:15 Break Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:25 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
12:25 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers
19:00 - 22:00 Opening Ceremony Dinners for Laureates and Young Researchers (given by Academic Partners of the Lindau Meetings in various restaurants, on invitation only)

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Rudolph Marcus
From 'On Water' and Enzyme Catalysis to Single Molecules and Quantum Dots, Theory and Experiment
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Kurt Wüthrich
Structural Genomics - Exploring the Protein Universe
10:10 - 10:45 Lecture Sir Harold Kroto
Science, Society & Sustainability
10:15 - 10:45 Break Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Lecture Mario Molina
Energy and Climate Change - Is There a Solution?
11:50 - 12:25 Lecture Walter Kohn
An Earth Powered Predominantly by Solar and Wind Energy
12:25 - 13:00 Lecture Peter Agre
Canoeing in the Arctic, a Scientist´s Perspective
13:00 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers
20:00 - 21:00 Opening Ceremony Concert at Stadttheater

Thursday, 2 July 2009

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Osamu Shimomura
Chemistry of Bioluminescence
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Martin Chalfie
GFP and After
10:10 - 10:45 Lecture Roger Tsien
Building and Breeding Molecules to Spy on Cells, Tumors, and Organisms
10:45 - 11:15 Break Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Lecture Richard Schrock
Recent Advances in Olefin Metathesis Catalyzed by Molybdenum and Tungsten Alkylidene Complexes
11:50 - 12:25 Lecture Werner Arber
Molecular Darwinism
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers
17:30 - 20:30 Opening Ceremony Traditional Bavarian Get-Together on invitation of the Elite Network of Bavaria

Friday, 3 July 2009

08:00 - 10:20 Boat Trip Boat Trip to the Isle of Mainau
11:00 - 13:00 Lecture
Panel Discussion “Global Warming and Sustainability”
13:00 - 13:30 Opening Ceremony Opening of the Exhibition "Entdeckungen/Discoveries"
13:30 - 15:15 Break Lunch Break
15:15 - 16:00 Farewell Farewell Ceremony/ Conclusion of the Meeting at Mainau Castle
17:00 - 19:30 Boat Trip Boat Trip back to Lindau