70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 27 June 2021

13:30 - 15:00 Opening Ceremony Opening Ceremony 15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Corona and Emerging Pandemics
Harvey J. Alter, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Richard Neher, Jana Huisman; Moderator: Stefan Kaufmann
16:30 - 17:00 Break Networking
Networking with Brian Malow and guests
17:00 - 17:45 Lecture CRISPR-Cas9: Transforming Life Sciences With Bacteria
Emmanuelle Charpentier; Moderator: Wolfgang Lubitz
17:45 - 18:30 Lecture A 40-Year Journey
Reinhard Genzel
18:30 - 19:15 Lecture Hepatitis C: The End of the Beginning and Possibly the Beginning of the End
Harvey J. Alter; Moderator: Stefan Kaufmann
19:15 - 20:30 Social Event Icebreaker Party
19:15 - 19:45 Social Event Concert: Karl Frierson live

Monday, 28 June 2021

07:15 - 08:30 Partner Event Sustainability Drives BASF. BASF Drives Sustainability.
Partner Event hosted by BASF SE, Germany
07:15 - 08:30 Partner Event New Vaccines Against New (and Old) Threats?
Partner Event hosted by vfa, Verband forschender Pharma-Unternehmen; Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Han Steutel, Stefan Kaufmann, Jyaysi Desai; Moderator: Kai Kupferschmidt
08:30 - 09:15 Workout Workout 09:15 - 10:00 Lecture The Exoplanet Revolution
Didier Queloz
10:00 - 11:00 Agora Talk Next Generation Medicine
Aaron Ciechanover, Ben L. Feringa; Moderator: Klas Kärre
10:00 - 11:00 Agora Talk Innate Immunity
Jules A. Hoffmann; Moderator: Stefan Kaufmann
10:00 - 11:00 Agora Talk Practical Impact of the SI System
Klaus von Klitzing; Moderator: Heiner Linke
11:00 - 12:00 Break Networking
Networking with Brian Malow and guests
12:00 - 13:30 Panel Discussion Gene Editing
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Alena Buyx, Julia Jansing; Moderator: Adam Smith
13:30 - 14:00 Presentation Project Presentation
Lindau Guidelines
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Light, Clean Water and Diseases
Peter Agre, Hiroshi Amano; Moderator: Heiner Linke
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Supramolecular Chemistry
Jean-Marie Lehn; Moderator: Wolfgang Lubitz
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Pushing the Limits of Microscopy
Joachim Frank, Stefan W. Hell; Moderator: Adam Smith
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Harvey J. Alter
Young scientists only; Host: Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Young scientists only; Host: Edith Phalane
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Emmanuelle Charpentier
Young scientists only; Host: Katharina Ehrmann
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Reinhard Genzel
Young scientists only; Host: Ana Alonso-Serrano
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Stefan W. Hell
Young scientists only; Host: José Vedelago
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Jean-Marie Lehn
Young scientists only; Host: Xin Su
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Didier Queloz
Young scientists only; Host: Leïla Haegel
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Peter Agre
Young scientists only; Host: Mary Lopez-Perez
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange Joachim Frank
Young scientists only; Host: Pratik Kumar
15:00 - 16:30 Open Exchange The Joy of Discovery
Ben L. Feringa (young scientists only); Host: Abhishek Banerjee
16:30 - 17:45 Break Networking
Networking with Brian Malow and guests
17:45 - 18:30 Lecture How to Detect Gravitational Waves
Barry C. Barish
18:30 - 19:15 Lecture Storms in Spacetime from Colliding Black Holes
Kip S. Thorne
19:15 - 20:15 Agora Talk Review and Outlook: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
Brian K. Kobilka, Robert J. Lefkowitz; Moderator: Klas Kärre
19:15 - 20:15 Agora Talk New Models to Understand Molecular Dynamics
Arieh Warshel; Moderator: Wolfgang Lubitz
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Barry C. Barish
Young scientists only; Host: Akashrup Banerjee
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Brian K. Kobilka
Young scientists only; Host: Casper de Lichtenberg
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange A Tale of Two Callings
Robert J. Lefkowitz (young scientists only); Host: Nataly Naser Al Deen
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Kip S. Thorne
Young scientists only; Host: Ana Alonso-Serrano
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Multi Scale Simulations of the Action of Complex Biological Systems
Arieh Warshel (young scientists only); Host: Sebastian Wernicke

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

07:15 - 08:30 Partner Event From Science to Practice: Was the Pandemic an Accelerator?
Partner Event hosted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research; Harald zur Hausen, Johanna Gassler; Moderator: Eva Schernhammer
07:15 - 08:30 Partner Event How Can Genomics Help Achieve Global Food Security?
Partner Event hosted by Mars, Incorporated; Ada E. Yonath, María Clara Miserendino, Abigail Stevenson; Moderator: Adam Smith
07:15 - 08:30 Partner Event Excellence in Science for Society
Partner Event hosted by Rolex SA (young scientists only); Konstantin S. Novoselov, Felix Brooks-church, Fatima Enam; Moderator: Faith McLellan
08:30 - 09:15 Break Networking
Networking with Brian Malow and guests
09:15 - 10:00 Conversation A Life of Questions
Edmond H. Fischer; Moderator: Stefano Sandrone
10:00 - 11:00 Agora Talk Structural Biology and Its Key Role in the Life Sciences
Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel, Kurt Wüthrich; Moderator: Wolfgang Lubitz
10:00 - 11:00 Agora Talk Preserving and Controlling Genetic Information
Sir Martin J. Evans, Tomas Lindahl; Moderator: Kai Kupferschmidt
10:00 - 11:00 Agora Talk Infectious Agents and Cancer
Harald zur Hausen, Barry J. Marshall; Moderator: Klas Kärre
11:00 - 12:00 Social Event Inspiration Concert: Max Raabe & Palastorchester from Berlin
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange Sir Martin J. Evans
Young scientists only; Host: Tracy Criswell
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange The New Infectious Agents in Colon, Breast and Prostate Cancer
Harald zur Hausen (young scientists only); Host: Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange Academic Research and Spin-Off, My Experience
Robert Huber (young scientists only); Host: Casper de Lichtenberg
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange How to Deal with Future Crises
Michael Levitt (young scientists only); Host: Sebastian Wernicke
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange Barry J. Marshall
Young scientists only; Host: Mary Lopez-Perez
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange Konstantin S. Novoselov
Young scientists only; Host: Stepan Demchyshyn
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange Kurt Wüthrich
Young scientists only; Host: Henry Reynolds Nana Benyin Enninful
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange History of the Science of Light
Serge Haroche (young scientists only); Host: Sanjukta Roy
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange Takaaki Kajita
Young scientists only; Host: Leïla Haegel
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange Hartmut Michel
Young scientists only; Host: Susannah Bourne-Worster
12:00 - 13:30 Open Exchange Carlo Rubbia
Young scientists only; Host: Merve Sahinsoy Karacasu
13:30 - 14:00 Presentation Project Presentation
Mentoring Hub
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Quantum Science
Serge Haroche, William D. Phillips; Moderator: Rainer Blatt
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Animal Beauty
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard; Moderator: Adam Smith
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Particles Generated on Earth and in the Cosmos
Carlo Rubbia; Moderator: Olaf Reimer
15:00 - 15:45 Lecture Why Can't Time Run Backwards?
Sir Anthony J. Leggett
15:45 - 16:30 Lecture Storage Is Ready to Address Climate Change
M. Stanley Whittingham
16:30 - 17:00 Workout Workout 17:00 - 17:45 Lecture Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in Physiology and Medicine
Gregg L. Semenza
17:45 - 18:30 Lecture The von Hippel-Lindau Hereditary Cancer Syndrome: From Bedside to Bench to Bedside
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
18:30 - 20:15 Presentation Next Gen Science
Presentations by Young Scientists
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Young scientists only; Host: Edith Phalane
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Preclinical Validation of Cancer Drug Targets: The Importance of Experimental Design and Logic
William G. Kaelin, Jr. (young scientists only); Host: Nataly Naser Al Deen
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Quantum Information; The New Quantum Metric System; Laser Cooling; Cold Quantum Gases
William D. Phillips (young scientists only); Host: Margoth Córdova-Castro
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Gregg L. Semenza
Young scientists only; Host: Suzanne Devkota
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Unexpected Results From the Cosmos
Samuel C. C. Ting (young scientists only); Host: Merve Sahinsoy Karacasu
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange M. Stanley Whittingham
Young scientists only; Host: Henry Reynolds Nana Benyin Enninful
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Sir Anthony J. Leggett
Young scientists only; Host: Sanjukta Roy
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Rudolph A. Marcus
Young scientists only; Host: Susannah Bourne-Worster
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Novel Approaches to Scientific Style Critical Thinking Education and Science Research Topics
Saul Perlmutter (young scientists only); Host: Matus Rybak

Wednesday, 30 June 2021

07:00 - 08:30 Panel Discussion Energy and Climate
Steven Chu, Robert B. Laughlin, Hartmut Michel, Brian P. Schmidt, Nadine Mengis, Gerald Haug; Moderator: Jim Skea
08:30 - 09:15 Workout Workout 09:15 - 10:00 Lecture Serendipities of Acquired Immunity
Tasuku Honjo
10:00 - 11:00 Conversation Corona: The Impact on Children in Developing Countries
Kailash Satyarthi
11:00 - 12:00 Break Networking
Networking with Brian Malow and guests
12:00 - 12:45 Lecture 60 Years of Structural Biology, From Myoglobin and X-Ray Crystallography to the Recent Impact of Electron Cryomicroscopy
Richard Henderson
12:45 - 14:15 Presentation Next Gen Science
Presentations by Young Scientists
14:15 - 15:45 Open Exchange Walter Gilbert
Young scientists only; Host: Angela Wagner
14:15 - 15:45 Open Exchange Richard Henderson
Young scientists only; Host: Tracy Criswell
14:15 - 15:45 Open Exchange Lessons From the Discovery of the Ubiquitin System: How to Approach a Problem in Science
Avram Hershko (young scientists only); Host: Pratik Kumar
14:15 - 15:45 Lecture Beyond the ‘Theory of Everything’ Paradigm: Synergetic Patterns and the Order of the Natural World
Brian D. Josephson (young scientists only); Host: Bo Peng
14:15 - 15:45 Open Exchange Neural Network Mechanisms for Space
Edvard I. Moser (young scientists only); Host: Sebastian Klobuch
14:15 - 15:45 Open Exchange Extreme Light and Scientific and Social Applications
Gérard A. Mourou (young scientists only); Host: Rushnan Islam
14:15 - 15:45 Open Exchange Ada E. Yonath
Young scientists only; Host: Stefaan Verbruggen
15:45 - 16:30 Lecture Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: New Insights Into Therapeutic Mechanisms
James P. Allison
16:30 - 17:00 Break Networking
Networking with Brian Malow
17:00 - 18:00 Agora Talk Cell Biology
Martin Chalfie, Randy W. Schekman; Moderator: Stefan Kaufmann
17:00 - 18:00 Agora Talk Application of Laser Technology: From Health to Metrology
John L. Hall, Gérard A. Mourou, Donna Strickland; Moderator: Rainer Blatt
17:00 - 18:00 Agora Talk Science Education
Leland H. Hartwell; Moderator: Karan Khemka
18:00 - 19:30 Panel Discussion Dark and Black
Reinhard Genzel, David J. Gross, Saul Perlmutter, Rainer Weiss, Saskia Plura; Moderator: Sybille Anderl
19:30 - 20:15 Lecture A Golden Decade of Advances in Computing Driven by Deep Learning
Heidelberg Lecture by Jeffrey Dean; Moderator: Rainer Blatt
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Martin Chalfie
Young scientists only; Host: Suzanne Devkota
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange John L. Hall
Young scientists only; Host: Stepan Demchyshyn
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Leland H. Hartwell
Young scientists only; Host: Nataly Naser Al Deen
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Donna Strickland
Young scientists only; Host: Rushnan Islam
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange James P. Allison
Young scientists only; Host: Angela Wagner
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange David J. Gross
Young scientists only; Host: Merve Sahinsoy Karacasu
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Robert B. Laughlin
Young scientists only; Host: Eteri Svanidze
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange ASAP (Aligning Science Across Parkinson's), an Initiative to Advance Basic Research and Value of Collaboration
Randy W. Schekman (young scientists only); Host: Surabhi Kandaswamy
20:15 - 21:45 Open Exchange Gravitational Waves
Rainer Weiss (young scientists only); Host: Ana Alonso-Serrano

Thursday, 1 July 2021

07:00 - 08:30 Panel Discussion Open Science
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Randy W. Schekman, George Datseris, Michal Jex; Moderator: Stephanie Dawson
08:30 - 09:15 Break Networking
Networking with Brian Malow and guests
09:15 - 11:00 Presentation Next Gen Science
Presentations by Young Scientists
11:00 - 12:00 Social Event Bavarian Frühschoppen
11:00 - 12:00 Social Event Concert: Kerber Brother & Bavarian Breakfast
12:00 - 12:45 Lecture Next Generation Antibiotics
Lecture by Ada E. Yonath
12:45 - 13:30 Conversation Science, Politics and the New World Order
Henry A. Kissinger; Moderator: Adam Smith
13:30 - 14:00 Presentation Project Presentation
Lindau Online Sciathon
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Topology of New Materials
F. Duncan M. Haldane, J. Michael Kosterlitz; Moderator: Heiner Linke
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Neutrino Oscillations and Observatories
Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald; Moderator: Adam Smith
14:00 - 15:00 Agora Talk Time and Localization
Edvard I. Moser, Michael M. Rosbash; Moderator: Anna Sjöström Douagi
15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion Artificial Intelligence: Promises and Threats
Vinton G. Cerf, Michael Levitt, Bernhard Schölkopf, Marco Eckhoff, Dina ElHarouni, Eleni Karatza; Moderator: Tarek Besold
16:30 - 17:00 Workout Workout 17:00 - 17:45 Lecture Scientific Achievements Are Nobody’s Intellectual Property
George P. Smith
17:45 - 18:30 Lecture Neuroscience Research in the 21st Century
Thomas C. Südhof; Moderator: Klas Kärre
18:30 - 19:30 Agora Talk New Methods for Biological Imaging
Steven Chu, William E. Moerner; Moderator: Susanne Schultz-Hector
18:30 - 19:30 Agora Talk New Chemical Reactions, Catalysis, Green Chemistry
Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock; Moderator: Wolfgang Lubitz
18:30 - 19:30 Agora Talk Expansion of the Universe
Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess; Moderator: Rainer Blatt
19:30 - 21:00 Open Exchange F. Duncan M. Haldane
Young scientists only; Host: Bo Peng
19:30 - 21:00 Open Exchange On the Importance of Random Noise on the Selection of a Unique Pattern in a Driven Out of Equilibrium System
J. Michael Kosterlitz (young scientists only); Host: Stepan Demchyshyn
19:30 - 21:00 Open Exchange Steven Chu
Young scientists only; Host: Eteri Svanidze
19:30 - 21:00 Open Exchange Robert H. Grubbs
Young scientists only; Host: Jason Palmer
19:30 - 21:00 Open Exchange Adam G. Riess
Young scientists only; Host: Stefanie Unterguggenberger
19:30 - 21:45 Open Exchange Richard R. Schrock
Young scientists only; Host: Katharina Ehrmann
19:30 - 21:00 Open Exchange George P. Smith
Young scientists only; Host: Constantinos Demetriades
19:30 - 21:00 Open Exchange Michael M. Rosbash
Young scientists only; Host: Surabhi Kandaswamy
21:00 - 21:45 Social Event Sunset Party
21:00 - 21:30 Social Event Concert: Hazmat Modine Concert

Friday, 2 July 2021

08:30 - 09:15 Science Walk Welcome from Mainau Island
09:15 - 10:45 Panel Discussion Why Trust Science?
Brian P. Schmidt, Carl-Henrik Heldin, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Balkees Abderrahman; Moderator: Adam Smith
10:45 - 11:00 Farewell Closing