65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 28 June 2015

10:00 - 20:00 Break BreakRegistration
15:00 - 16:30 Lecture LectureOpening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Break BreakConcert
18:30 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 21:30 Break BreakDinner at various locations

Monday, 29 June 2015

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 Lecture LectureStefan W. Hell
Optical Microscopy: the Resolution Revolution
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureFrançois Englert
The Origin of Elementary Particle Masses
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureEric Betzig
Working Where Others Aren't
10:30 - 11:00 Lecture LectureVenkatraman Ramakrishnan
Seeing is Believing - A Hundred Years of Visualizing Molecules
11:00 - 11:45 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 Lecture LectureJ. Michael Bishop
A Virus, a Gene and Cancer: An Anatomy of Discovery
12:15 - 12:45 Lecture LectureHarold E. Varmus
From Proto-oncogenes to Precision Oncology
12:45 - 13:15 Lecture LectureSaul Perlmutter
What We Learn When We Learn that the Universe is Accelerating
13:15 - 15:00 Break BreakLunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel DiscussionPanel Discussion
The Quest for Interdisciplinarity: Inspiration or Distraction? (Panelists Betzig, Chalfie, Chu, Hell, Moerner; Moderator: Sibylle Anderl)
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionAlbert Fert
Master Class: Spintronics, Nanomagnetism and Magnetic Skyrmions
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionJules A. Hoffmann, Co-Chair Bruce Beutler
Master Class: Antimicrobial Defenses
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionAfternoon Discussion
Discussions with Betzig, Bishop, Englert, Hell, Josephson, Perlmutter, Ramakrishnan, Varmus
18:30 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 00:00 Break BreakInternational Get-Together
Hosted by the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research, France

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

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 Lecture LectureFrançoise Barré-Sinoussi
Translational Science on Viral Infectious Diseases: From Louis Pasteur to Today
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureBruce Beutler
Finding Mutations that Affect Immunity
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureSir Richard J. Roberts
A Crime against Humanity
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureWerner Arber
Insight into the Laws of Nature for Biological Evolution
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LecturePeter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels – From Atomic Structure to Malaria
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureHartmut Michel
Membrane Proteins: Importance, Functions, Mechanisms
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureJean-Marie Lehn
Towards Adaptive Chemistry
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureRyoji Noyori
Where am I From? Where Are You Going?
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureClaude Cohen-Tannoudji
The Adventure of Cold Atoms. From Optical Pumping to Quantum Gases
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureTheodor W. Hänsch
Science with Combs of Light
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureWilliam D. Phillips
Quantum Information: a Scientific and Technological Revolution for the 21st Century
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureRoy J. Glauber
Light Quanta, and Their Idiosyncrasies
10:30 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureErwin Neher
Ion Channels: Their Discovery, their Function and their Role in Diseases
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureJack W. Szostak
The Origins of Cellular Life
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureEdmond H. Fischer
The Origin of Reversible Protein Phosphorylation as a Regulatory Mechanism
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureHarald zur Hausen
Colon- and Breast Cancers and Specific Neurological Disorders as Zoonoses?
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureGerhard Ertl
Catalysis at Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureRobert Huber
Structural Aspects of Protease Control in Health and Disease and my Experience with Translation into Practice and Business
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureAvram Hershko
Roles of the Ubiquitin System in Health and Disease
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureArieh Warshel
How to Model the Action of Complex Biological Systems on a Molecular Level
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureSerge Haroche
The International Year of Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of Laser Revolution in Physics
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureGeorge F. Smoot
Gamma Ray Bursts: Windows on the Universe
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureCarlo Rubbia
Future Accelerators for Astro-Particle Physics
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureMartinus J. G. Veltman
Discovery of the Higgs Particle
13:00 - 15:00 Break BreakLunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionAfternoon Discussion
Discussions with Agre, Arber, Barré-Sinoussi, Beutler, Cohen-Tannoudji, Glauber, Hänsch, Lehn, Michel, Noyori, Phillips, Roberts
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionAaron Ciechanover
Master Class: Cellular Quality Control – Mechanisms and Clinical Implications
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionAfternoon Discussion
Discussions with Ertl, Fischer, Haroche, Hershko, Huber, Neher, Rubbia, Smoot, Szostak, Veltman, Warshel, zur Hausen
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionBrian P. Schmidt, Co-Chair Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Master Class: A 21st Century Career in Research: A Discussion About Thriving in the Face of Career Uncertainty
18:30 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 23:00 Break BreakGrill & Chill
19:30 - 23:00 Break BreakAcademic Dinners at various locations

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

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 Lecture LectureSteven Chu
A Random Walk in Science
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureHamilton O. Smith
Minimizing a Bacterial Genome by Global Design and Synthesis
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureSusumu Tonegawa
Memory Engram Cells Have Come of Age
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureDan Shechtman
Quasi-Periodic Crystals, a Paradigm Shift in Crystallography
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureKurt Wüthrich
NMR in Biology, Chemistry and Medicine
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureAaron Ciechanover
The Revolution of Personalized Medicine: Are We Going to Cure all Diseases and at What Price?
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureDavid J. Gross
The Future of Particle Physics
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureRobert W. Wilson
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and its Role in Cosmology
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureJohn L. Hall
What About Redefining Time Using a Stable Laser?
10:30 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureFerid Murad
Role of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP in Cell Signaling and Drug Development
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureRoger Y. Tsien
Molecules Against Cancer or for Long-Term Memory Storage
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture 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 Lecture LectureEi-ichi Negishi
How to Synthesize a Wide Variety of Optically Active Organic and Bioorganic Compounds of >99% Optical Purity
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LecturePeter C. Doherty
The Killer Defence
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureMartin Chalfie
Tickling Worms: Suprises from Basic Research
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureIvar Giaever
Global Warming Revisited
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureBrian P. Schmidt
The State of the Universe
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureKlaus von Klitzing
A New Kilogram in 2018: The Biggest Revolution in Metrology Since the French Revolution
13:00 - 15:00 Break BreakLunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionAfternoon Discussion
Discussions with Chu, Ciechanover, Gross, Hall, Montagnier, Shechtman, Smith, Tonegawa, Wilson, Wüthrich
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionWilliam D. Phillips
Master Class: Applications of the Mechanical Effects of Light
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionAfternoon Discussion
Discussions with Chalfie, Doherty, Giaever, Marcus, Murad, Negishi, Schmidt, Tsien, von Klitzing
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionJean-Marie Lehn
Master Class: Supramolecular and Adaptive Chemistry: From Materials Science to Medicine
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionHarold E. Varmus, Co-Chairs J. Michael Bishop and Steven Chu
Master Class: What are the Big Questions in Cancer Research and Which Scientific Disciplines are Needed to Answer Them?
18:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 20:00 Lecture LectureWole Soyinka
When Survival Seems Learning Enough

Thursday, 2 July 2015

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 Lecture LectureWilliam Moerner
Fun with Light and Single Molecules
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureElizabeth H. Blackburn
Telomeres: Telling Tails
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureJ. Robin Warren
The Discovery of Helicobacter
10:30 - 11:00 Lecture LectureAda E. Yonath
Species-Specific Antibiotics and the Microbiome
11:00 - 11:45 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 Lecture 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 Lecture LectureOliver Smithies
Ideas Come from Many Places
12:45 - 13:15 Lecture LectureKailash Satyarthi
Education Needs to be Equitable and Inclusive for All
13:30 - 15:00 Break BreakLunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionAfternoon Discussion
Discussions with Blackburn, Kroto, Moerner, Smithies, Warren, Yonath
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
18:30 - 19:30 Break Break
19:30 - 22:30 Break BreakBavarian Evening
Hosted by Elite Network of Bavaria & Free State of Bavaria

Friday, 3 July 2015

07:15 - 10:30 Boat Trip Boat TripBaden-Württemberg Boat Trip to Mainau Island hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg
11:00 - 13:00 Panel Discussion Panel DiscussionClosing Panel Discussion
Science Education (Panelists Godino, Kroto, Satyarthi, Schütte; Moderator: Alok Jha)
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch BreakPicnic on the Castle Meadow
Hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg
15:30 - 16:00 Farewell Farewell
16:00 - 16:30 Break Break
16:30 - 19:00 Boat Trip Boat TripBaden-Württemberg Boat Trip to Lindau hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg