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Why you should Join Event
We will celebrate our 20 years of existence. The Symposium will honor life sciences in the context of a technical university; reflect on the key developments in the last 20 years in life sciences; and look out to the next two decades of opportunities of multidisciplinary life sciences, bioengineering and the impact of our work on society.
Great Speakers
Networking
Visionary Science
Have Fun
Preliminary Program
- Andy Oates
- Patrick Aebischer
- Martin Vetterli – EPFL Life Sciences yesterday, today and tomorrow: A computer scientist’s viewpoint
- Michael Hengartner
- Ana Marija Jaksic
- Gioele La Manno
- Martin Weigert
- Can Aztekin
- Milena Schumacher
- Caroline Uhler – The biomedical sciences and machine learning: a 2-way street
- Ron Vale – Open science education
Sean Carroll – The Thrill of Discovery: Science and Storytelling
Moderator of the day: Mirko Bischofberger
- Buzz Baum – Evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes
- Julie Theriot – Mechanics of cell migration
- Sophie Martin – Mechanisms of cell-cell fusion
- David van Valen – Everything as code
Chair: Alex Persat
- Fiona Doetsch – Stem cells in the adult brain: Regulation and diversity
- Michelle Monje – Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease: From cognition to cancer
- Mike Stratton – Mutational processes in normal human tissue
Chair: Giovanni D’Angelo
- Moi Expósito-Alonso – The genomics of climate adaptation (and extinction)
- Leslie Vosshall – Neurobiology of the world’s most dangerous animal
- Manu Prakash
- Ken Oye – Governing risks and benefits of biotechnology: Exemplary cases and cautionary tales
Chair: Pavan Ramdya
Nicole King – A history of hypotheses on the origin of animals
Caroline Uhler – Causality, perturbations, gene regulation, and drug repurposing
- Rafael Yuste – Can you see a thought? Neuronal ensembles as emergent units of cortical function
Chair: Brian McCabe
- Jorge Cham – The power of procrastination
- Tony Hyman – Biomolecular condensates and their implications for cell physiology (remote tbc)
- Gaia Pigino – Structural cell biology of cilia and eukaryotic flagella
- Ron Vale – Structure of the sperm axoneme
- Melina Schuh – Illuminating the beginning of life (remote)
Chair: Pierre Gönczy
- Barbara Treutlein
- Pavel Tomancak – Evolution of morphogenesis
- Sean Carroll – Butterfly Spots and Rattlesnake Tales: The Evolution of Novelty
Chair: Andy Oates
- Lluis Quintana-Murci – Darwin meets Pasteur: evolutionary genetics dissection of human immunity
- Joel Doré – Host-Microbes symbiosis in human nutrition and medicine
- Eran Elinav – Host microbiome interactions in health and disease
Chair: Melanie Blokesch
- Ed Boyden – Optical tools for analyzing and controlling biological systems
- Cori Bargmann – Integrating behavior across timescales (remote)
- Michael Elowitz – Multicellular circuit design: natural and synthetic
Chair: Anne-Florence Bitbol
Registration deadline: Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Students/Postdocs - 3 days
CHF 150
1/300
- Includes coffee breaks, lunches and standing dinners
EPFL and Alumni - 3 days
CHF 200
1/300
- Includes coffee breaks, lunches and standing dinners
Other Participants - 3 days
CHF 300
1/300
- Includes coffee breaks, lunches and standing dinners
