Thanos Halazonetis

Director of the Department of Molecular Biology

Welcome Remarks

09:00 - 09:10

Werner Arber

Biozentrum, Basel

Looking back to the roots of Molecular Biology and to the discovery of restriction enzymes and their impact on Genomics

09:10 - 09:45

Jack Greenblatt

Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, Toronto

Transcription factor interaction networks and human disease

09:45 - 10:15

Mitsuhiro Yanagida

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa

Human blood metabolome profiling: Identification of individually-variable and age-implicated compounds

10:15 - 10:45

Gordon Hager

Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Washington

Profiling the Chromatin Landscape; Complexity of Factor/Template Dynamics on Multiple Time Scales

11:15 - 11:45

Susan Gasser

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel

The dynamics of nuclear organization

11:45 - 12:15

Harry Noller

Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, UCSC, Santa Cruz

Structural Dynamics of the Ribosome During Translation

14:00 - 14:30

Erich Nigg

Biozentrum, Basel

Cell Cycle Control: Focus on Chromosomes and Centrosomes

14:30 - 15:00

Elisa Izaurralde

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen

Micro RNA-mediated gene silencing

15:00 - 15:30

Costa Georgopoulos

University of Utah, Salt Lake City

The emergence of the molecular chaperone machines

16:15 - 16:45

Emi Nagoshi

Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva

New insights into mechanisms of neurodegeneration

16:45 - 17:15

Bruce Alberts

Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF, San Francisco

How biology has changed in 50 years, and the many challenges for the future

17:15 - 17:45

Société Académique de Genève

Swiss Committee for Molecular Biology (SKMB)

Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMW)