64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 29 June 2014

10:00 - 20:00 Opening Ceremony Opening CeremonyRegistration
15:00 - 16:30 Lecture LectureOpening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony of the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
17:00 - 18:30 Opening Ceremony Opening CeremonyReception upon invitation of the Republic of Austria, Concert: Ensemble of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
19:00 - 22:00 Break BreakDinner at various locations

Monday, 30 June 2014

07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast
Women in Science: Fixing the Leaking Pipeline (with Laureates Blackburn and Schmidt) - By invitation only - Upon invitation of Australia
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureRandy Schekman
Genes and Proteins that Control Secretion and Autophagy
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureArieh Warshel
Multiscale Simulations of the Functions of Biological Molecules
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureJules Hoffmann
Innate Immunity: From Flies to Humans
10:30 - 11:00 Lecture LectureBruce Beutler
Deciphering Immunity by Making It Fail
11:00 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureBarry Marshall
Man vs. Helicobacter – The past 50,000 years and the next 50
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureJ. Michael Bishop
Forging a Genetic Paradigm for Cancer
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureSir Martin J. Evans
Inheritance from Teratomas
13:00 - 13:30 Lecture LectureElizabeth H. Blackburn
Adventures at the Ends of Chromosomes
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break
15:30 - 17:00 Discussion Discussion
17:00 - 17:30 Break Break
17:30 - 19:00 Lecture LectureBrian Schmidt
Lecture and Discussion: Cosmology: An Example of the Process of Discovery
17:30 - 19:00 Lecture LectureAaron Ciechanover
Master Class: Biology in the Service of Medicine
17:30 - 19:00 Lecture LectureRolf Zinkernagel
Master Class: Pandemic Threats
19:00 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 23:00 Break BreakInternational Get-Together upon invitation of Australia

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast
Science in Clinical Medicine - By invitation only - Upon invitation of Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureFrançoise Barré-Sinoussi
On The Road Toward an HIV Cure
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureRolf Zinkernagel
Why Do We Not Have a Vaccine Against HIV or Tuberculosis?
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureHarald zur Hausen
Infections Linked to Human Cancers: Mechanisms and Synergisms
10:30 - 11:00 Lecture LectureAda E. Yonath
Towards Control of Species-Specific Antibiotic Resistance
11:00 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureThomas A. Steitz
From the Structure of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureBrian Kobilka
G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Challenges for Drug Discovery
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureAaron Ciechanover
The Revolution of Personalized Medicine: Are We Going to Cure All Diseases and at What Price?
13:00 - 13:30 Lecture LectureSteven Chu
You can see a lot by observing: Optical Microscopy 2.0
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break
15:30 - 17:00 Discussion Discussion
15:30 - 17:00 Lecture LectureEdmond Fischer
Lecture and Afternoon Discussion: Cell Signaling by Protein Phosphorylation
15:30 - 17:00 Lecture LectureTorsten Wiesel
Lecture und Afternoon Discussion: A Homage to David Hubel: Early Days in Our Studies of the Visual Cortex
15:30 - 17:00 Lecture LectureWalter Kohn
Lecture and Afternoon Discussion: Macular Distortion – Diagnosis and Correction
17:00 - 17:30 Break Break
17:30 - 19:00 Lecture Lecture
Presentation offered by the European Commission
17:30 - 19:00 Lecture LectureJean-Marie Lehn
Master Class: Approaches to Molecular Drug Discovery
19:00 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 23:00 Break BreakAcademic Dinners at various locations upon invitation of the Academic Partners
19:30 - 23:00 Break BreakGrill & Chill: Connecting Cultures upon invitation of the Council & Foundation and City of Lindau with the Lindau Citizens

Wednesday, 2 July 2014

07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast‎
Addressing the Challenges of Ageing ‎ Research through Cross‎-‎Disciplinary Collaboration ‎- ‎By ‎ invitation only ‎- ‎Upon invitation of Mars‎, ‎Incorporated‎
07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast
Scientific Leadership in the 21st Century: Running Productive Labs, Leading Great People, Leading Self - By invitation only - Upon invitation of McKinsey & Company, Inc.
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureHamilton Smith
Synthetic Biology for Genetic Engineering in the 21st Century
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureRichard Roberts
Bacterial Methylomes
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LecturePeter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels – From Atomic Structure to Malaria
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureKurt Wüthrich
A Personal View of the History of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine
10:30 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureRoger Tsien
Molecules Against Cancer or for Long-Term Memory Storage
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureJean-Marie Lehn
Towards Adaptive Chemistry
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureErwin Neher
Short-term Synaptic Plasticity
13:00 - 13:30 Lecture LectureBert Sakmann
Cortical Circuit and Decision Making
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break
15:30 - 17:00 Discussion DiscussionPanel Discussion
Large Data and Hypothesis - Driven Science in the Era of Post-Genomic Biology; Panelists Hoffmann, Bishop, Beutler, Schmidt
17:00 - 17:30 Break Break
17:30 - 19:00 Discussion Discussion
19:00 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 20:00 Discussion DiscussionPresentation
Offered by the Global Young Academy
20:00 - 21:30 Break BreakDinner at various locations
21:30 - 23:00 Break BreakFree Evening

Thursday, 3 July 2014

07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast
Predicting Phenotypes from Genotypes - a Brave New World? - By invitation only - Upon invitation of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast
From Cancer Research to Personalized Medicine - By invitation only - Upon invitation of the German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureHartmut Michel
Membrane Proteins: Importance, Functions, Mechanisms
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureJohann Deisenhofer
Structural Studies on Cholesterol Transport
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureRobert Huber
Structural Biology and its Translation into Practice and Business: My Experience
10:30 - 11:00 Lecture LectureFerid Murad
Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP in Cell Signaling and Their Role in Drug Development
11:00 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureWerner Arber
Biological Evolution in the Context of Cosmic Evolution and of Cultural Evolution
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureMartin Chalfie
Tickling Worms: Surprises From Basic Research
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureSir John Walker
Generating the Fuel of Life
13:00 - 13:30 Lecture LectureOliver Smithies
Where Do Ideas Come From?
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break
15:30 - 17:00 Discussion DiscussionPanel Discussion
Academia and Industry – Exploring the Collaborative Landscapes of the Future; Panelists Beutler, Goldman, Gøtzsche, Gomes, Malik, Wang
17:00 - 17:30 Break Break
17:30 - 19:00 Discussion Discussion
19:00 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 22:30 Break BreakBavarian Evening upon invitation of the Elite Network of Bavaria & Free State of Bavaria

Friday, 4 July 2014

07:00 - 10:30 Boat Trip Boat TripBaden-Württemberg Boat Trip to Mainau Island upon invitation of the State of Baden-Württemberg
11:00 - 13:00 Discussion DiscussionPanel Discussion
Closing Panel Discussion: Science for the Benefit of Mankind; Panelists Barré-Sinoussi, Bassioni, Mgone, Schmidt, Schütte
13:00 - 15:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break
15:30 - 16:00 Farewell FarewellFarewell Ceremony
16:30 - 19:00 Boat Trip Boat TripBaden-Württemberg Boat Trip to Lindau upon invitation of the State of Baden-Württemberg