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Title: Frontiers of Molecular Sciences
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Venue: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Venue: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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A Molecular Frontiers Symposium took place at Chalmers University of Technology, in conjunction with a three day Nobel Workshop. In total, some 40 world leading scientists, many of them Nobel laureates, gave lectures and took part in panel debates during a science week that was spectacular.
200 high school students from all over Sweden participated in the symposium, and asked many great questions to the speakers. The winners of the 2015 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize were announced, see www.moleclues.org for more information.
PROGRAM
May 7
08:40-08:45 Welcome note: Prof Bengt Nordén, Chair of Molecular Frontiers Foundation
08:45-09:25 Nobel Laureate AHMED ZEWAIL, California Institute of Technology, United States
Seeing with Electrons in Four Dimensions
09:25-10:05 Prof GEORGE WHITESIDES, Harvard University, United States
Origin of life, and cell-surface biochemistry
10:05-10:35 Coffee break
10:35-11:15 Nobel Laureate ARVID CARLSSON, with Prof ELIAS ERIKSSON, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Small molecules for signaling in the brain
11:15-11:55 Prof JACQUELINE BARTON, California Institute of Technology, United States
DNA mediated signaling
11:55-12:55 Lunch break
12:55-13:35 Prof DAVID BUCKINGHAM, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Chiral discrimination in NMR spectroscopy
13:35-14:15 Prof PETER DERVAN, California Institute of Technology, United States
Transcription Factor Antagonists: From Discovery to Oncology
14:15-14:55 Prof SUSAN LINDQUIST, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Lamarck was right: better living through chemistry.
14:55-15:25 Coffee break
15:25-16:40 Youth Forum (Moderators Prof. Magdalena Eriksson and Dr Per Thoren)
16:40-17:00 Let’s all talk about science (Dr Per Thoren and Dr Elizabeth Ball)
May 8
08:30-09:10 Prof FRANCES ARNOLD, California Institute of Technology, United States
Evolution to expand the enzyme universe
09:10-09:50 Prof CHRIS DOBSON, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mechanisms of misfolding proteins
09:50-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:00 Prof RICHARD ZARE, Stanford University, United States
Understanding chemical reactions at the molecular level
11:00-11:40 Prof. DINSHAW PATEL, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
Cutting-edge RNA slicers
11:40-12:40 Lunch break
12:40-13:20 Prof. WAH CHIU, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Electron Cryo-Microscopy of Molecular Machines
13:20-14:00 Nobel Laureate SHUJI NAKAMURA, University of California Santa Barbara, United States Invention of Blue LED, Laser and Solid State Light
14:00-14:20 Coffee break
14:20-15.30 Panel discussion: Science and engineering in and outside of the classroom
(Moderators: Bengt Norden and Dina Petranovic)
15:30-16:00 Announcement of the winners of the 2015 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize
(Moderators Dr Per Thoren and Deborah Donnelly McLay)
16:00-16:15 Conclusion: Prof. BARBARA CANNON, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
16:15-16:30 Closure: Prof. BENGT NORDEN, Founding Chairman of the Molecular Frontiers Foundation
