68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 24 June 2018

10:00 - 20:00 Social Event Social EventRegistration
15:00 - 16:00 Social Event Social EventOpening Ceremony
with Keynote by Elizabeth H. Blackburn: "Science Policy and Science and Society"
16:30 - 18:00 Social Event Social EventOpening Concert
19:00 - 22:00 Social Event Social EventDinners at various locations

Monday, 25 June 2018

07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Partner EventBreakfast on the International Day dedicated to China: Developing Stronger Science Leadership in Different Cultures - China, US/Europe and Others as Basis for Innovation
Facilitated by McKinsey & Company, Inc.
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureMichael M. Rosbash
The Circadian Rhythm Story: Past, Present and Future
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureMichael W. Young
Circadian Rhythms and Their Impact on Physiology and Behavior
10:00 - 10:20 Break BreakCoffee Break
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Agora TalkElizabeth H. Blackburn & Martin Chalfie
Thoughts on Improving Science, Individually and More Generally
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Agora TalkPeter C. Doherty
Science Communication
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Agora TalkTomas Lindahl
Search for Alternative Life Forms on Earth
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Agora TalkDan Shechtman
Colour of Insects and Colour From Insects
11:40 - 12:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureEdvard I. Moser
The Brain’s Codes for Space and Time
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureSteven Chu
Recent Advances in Biomolecular and Biomedical Imaging
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Open Exchange
15:00 - 16:30 Science Walk Science WalkScience Walks
Martin Chalfie, Louis Ignarro, Robert Lefkowitz, Michael Levitt, Sir Richard J. Roberts, Randy W. Schekman, Thomas A. Steitz
17:00 - 18:30 Poster Flashes Poster Flashes
19:00 - 23:30 Social Event Social EventInternational Get-Together
Dedicated to China

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Partner EventBreakfast: Crowdsourcing to Drive Medical Advancements
Hosted by Mars, Incorporated
07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Partner EventBreakfast: Excellence in Science for Society
Hosted by Rolex SA
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureJoachim Frank
Single-Particle Cryo-EM of Biological Molecules – the Sky Is the Limit
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureBruce A. Beutler
Detecting and Solving Mammalian Phenotypes in Real Time
10:00 - 10:20 Break BreakCoffee Break
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Agora TalkPeter Agre
Opening Doors Worldwide Through Medical Science
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Agora TalkSir Richard J. Roberts
Nobel Laureate Campaign Supporting GMOs
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Agora TalkErwin Neher
Ion channels: Past, Present and Future
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Agora TalkSir John Ernest Walker
Microbial Drug Resistance
11:40 - 12:00 Break BreakCoffee Break
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureRobert J. Lefkowitz
G Protein Coupled Receptors
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureLouis J. Ignarro
The Road to Stockholm - A Nobel Mission
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45 Laureate Lunch Laureate LunchLaureate Lunches
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session Poster Session
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Open Exchange Open Exchange
17:00 - 18:30 Master Class Master ClassMaster Classes
Peter C. Doherty & Rolf Martin Zinkernagel, Aaron Ciechanover & Tim Hunt
18:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 22:00 Social Event Social EventAcademic Dinners at various locations
Hosted by Academic Partners
19:00 - 22:30 Social Event Social EventGrill & Chill
Hosted by Council & Foundation

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

07:00 - 08:30 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Gene Modification
Hosted by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureYoshinori Ohsumi
Lessons From Yeast - Autophagy: Intracellular Recycling System
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureMichael Levitt
The Future of Basic Science Research
10:00 - 10:20 Break BreakCoffee Break
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Agora TalkHartmut Michel
Membrane Proteins: Importance, Functions, Mechanisms
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Agora TalkBert Sakmann
Lovely Lindau for Laureates and Scholars
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Agora TalkRobert Huber
The Proteasome, Structure, Mechanism, Ligand-Binding, and Application in Drug Design and Development
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Agora TalkRolf Zinkernagel
How to Measure Immunological Specificity
11:40 - 12:00 Break BreakCoffee Break
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureHarald zur Hausen
Specific Infections as Trigger of Random Mutations - Their Role in Human Colon and Breast Cancers
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureRandy W. Schekman
Sorting of Small RNAs Into EVs Secreted by Human Cells
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45 Laureate Lunch Laureate LunchLaureate Lunches
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session Poster Session
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Break Break
17:00 - 18:30 Open Exchange Open Exchange
17:00 - 18:30 Master Class Master ClassMaster Classes
J. Michael Bishop & Harold E. Varmus, Bruce Beutler & Jules A. Hoffmann
18:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 20:00 Lecture LectureHeidelberg Lecture: Leslie G. Valiant, recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award 2010
Biology as Computation
20:00 - 21:30 Social Event Social EventDinner

Thursday, 28 June 2018

07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Partner EventBreakfast: Precision Immunotherapy to Fight Infections, Inflammation (and Cancer)
Hosted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Partner EventBreakfast: Science Meets Social Entrepreneurship
Hosted by Boehringer Ingelheim
07:00 - 08:30 Partner Event Partner EventBreakfast: Health Innovation in Africa: The Way Forward
Hosted by Global Perspectives Initiative
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureThomas A. Steitz
Toward an Understanding of the Structural Basis of Crick’s Central Dogma
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureAda E. Yonath
Next Generation Species Specific Eco Friendly Antibiotics and Thoughts About Origin of Life
10:00 - 10:20 Break BreakCoffee Break
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Agora TalkJ. Michael Bishop & Harold E. Varmus
Can Scientific Careers Be Planned?
10:20 - 11:00 Agora Talk Agora TalkAaron Ciechanover
The Revolution of Personalised Medicine: Its Promises and Obstacles
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Agora TalkAvram Hershko
Lessons From the Discovery of the Ubiquitin System
11:00 - 11:40 Agora Talk Agora TalkFerid Murad
Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP in Cell Signaling and Drug Development
11:40 - 12:00 Break BreakCoffee Break
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureKurt Wüthrich
Drug Design, Structural Dynamics and Physiological Functions of G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs)
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureTorsten Nils Wiesel
Exploration of the Visual Cortex
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45 Laureate Lunch Laureate LunchLaureate Lunches
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session Poster SessionPoster Session
10 poster authors will be present at their posters
15:00 - 16:30 Science Walk Science WalkScience Walks
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Martin Chalfie, Steven Chu, Joachim Frank, Tim Hunt, Dan Shechtman, Michael W. Young
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Open Exchange
16:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 22:30 Social Event Social EventBavarian Evening
Hosted by Elite Network of Bavaria & Free State of Bavaria

Friday, 29 June 2018

07:00 - 10:30 Social Event Social EventBaden-Württemberg Boat Trip to Mainau Island
Hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg
11:00 - 13:00 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
13:00 - 15:30 Social Event Social EventScience Picnic on the Aboretum Lawn
Hosted by the Ministry of Science, Education and the Arts, State of Baden-Württemberg
15:30 - 16:00 Farewell FarewellFarewell Ceremony
16:30 - 19:00 Social Event Social EventBaden-Württemberg Boat-Trip to Lindau
Hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg

Friday, 27 July 2018

18:30 - 19:00 Break Break