Started in 2006, Molecular Frontiers operates as a non-profit organization, hosted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Its Scientific Advisory Board, a group of eminent scientists including many Nobel Prize laureates, represent expertise from a wide range of molecular science disciplines
For the third time, a Molecular Frontiers Symposium was held at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
About 200 high school students from Sweden and Denmark participated in the symposium
Lectures, in chronological order:
Links to video recording provided where available.
Ageing from an immortal point of view: Lessons from non-senescent Hydra |
Thomas Bosch, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Protein damage control in aging and age-related diseases: Lessons from worms | (Video not available)
Ellen Nollen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Aging and rejuvenation at the cellular level |
Thomas Nyström, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
DNA Instability and the Role of TREX1 |
Tomas Lindahl, 2015 Nobel laurate in Chemistry, Sweden
Manipulating nutrient-sensing signalling to improve health during ageing |
Linda Partridge, Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, United Kingdom
Transforming Healthcare through Scientific Wellness |
Leroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, United States
Nutrition, Fasting mimicking diets, Regeneration and Longevity |
Valter Longo, University of Southern California, United States
Healthy ageing elderly: On nature and nurture |
Eline Slagboom, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
From dying yeast to longevity drugs | (Video not available)
Frank Madeo, University of Graz, Austria
Moderator: Mene Pangalos, Executive VP of AstraZeneca's Innovative Medicines and Early Development Biotech Unit.
Co-organizers: Chalmers University of Technology, through the Area of Advance Life Science Engineering, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and AstraZeneca.
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