NOBEL JUBILEE SYMPOSIUM

"BEYOND GENES"

Karolinska Institutet, December 6-8, 2001
 
 

PROGRAM
December 6
09.00-09.10 Welcome Address 
Bertil Daneholt (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Chairman of the Organizing Committee
09.10-09.30 Introductory Comments
James D. Watson (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
SESSION I: THE CELL
Chairman: Günter Blobel (Rockefeller University, USA)
09.30-10.10  Roger Kornberg (Stanford University, USA) 
The Eukaryotic Gene Transcription 
10.10-10.50 Kim Nasmyth (Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria)
How Do Cells Ensure that Sister Chromatids Separate to Opposite Poles of the Cell during Mitosis 
10.50-11.20 COFFEE
11.20-12.00 Tony Hunter (Salk Institute, USA)
Cell Signalling Networks and Protein Phosphorylation in the Postgenomic Era
12.00-12.40 Roger Y. Tsien (University of California, USA)
Imaging Protein Sociology and Cell Signaling
12.40-14.00 LUNCH
SESSION II: DEVELOPMENT
Chairman: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany) 
14.00-14.40 Elisabeth Robertson (Harvard University, USA)
Patterning the Early Mouse Embryo
14.40-15.20  Denis Duboule (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 
Meta-Gene Regulation in Development and Evolution
15.20-15.50 REFRESHMENTS
15.50-16.30  Mark M. Davis (Stanford University, USA)
Towards a Physical Biochemistry of Cell-Cell Recognition  in Cell Mediated Immunity
16.30-17.10  Robert Horvitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 
Genetic Control of Apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans
December 7 
SESSION III: THE BRAIN
Chairman: Torsten Wiesel (Rockefeller University, USA)
09.00-09.45 Bert Sakmann (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany)
The Eloquent Cerebral Cortex
09.45-10.30 Linda Buck (Harvard Medical School, USA)
The Logic of Smell
10.30-11.00  COFFEE
11.00-11.45 Eric R. Kandel (Columbia University, USA) 
Molecular Biology of Memory 
11.45-12.30 Riitta Hari (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) 
The Human Mirror-Neuron System
12.30-14.00 LUNCH 
SESSION IV: MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Chairman: Bengt Samuelsson (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
14.00-14.45 Michael S. Brown (University of Texas Southwestern, USA)
How Genes Control Cholesterol
14.45-15.30 Peter Agre (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine
15.30-16.00 REFRESHMENTS
16.00-16.45 Philippe J. Sansonetti (Pasteur Institute, France)
Shigella Infection of the Intestinal Tract: A Paradigm to Study the Rupture, Invasion and Inflammatory Destruction of Body Barrier
16.45-17.30 David Botstein (Stanford University, USA) 
Genome-Wide Patterns of Gene Expression in Cancer 
December 8
SESSION V: EVOLUTION
Chairman: Phillip Sharp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
09.00-09.45 Eric Lander (Whitehead Institute, USA)
Genomic Informatics: Reading Evolution’s Lab Notebooks
09.45-10.30  Svante Pääbo (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany)
Comparative Genomics as a Means to Study Human Origins
10.30-11.00 REFRESHMENTS
Concluding lecture
Chairman: David Baltimore (California Institute of Technology, USA)
11.00-11.30 Harold Varmus (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA) 
Biomedicine in the 21st Century 
11.30-12.00  Discussion
  END OF SYMPOSIUM

 Bengt Persson, bpn@mbb.ki.se
Last updated 15 November 2001