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Thank you for your participation
Your were over five hundred people who came to the Rolex Learning Center for the Life Science Symposium, to hear and meet international researchers at the forefront of their fields across the life sciences.
Program
- Andy Oates
- Patrick Aebischer
- Martin Vetterli – EPFL Life Sciences yesterday, today and tomorrow: A computer scientist’s viewpoint
- Michael Hengartner
- Martine Clozel
- 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 (remote)
All participants at the conference venue
Moderator of the day: Mirko Bischofberger
- Buzz Baum – Evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes
- Julie Theriot – Mapping variation in the morphological landscape of human cells
- Sophie Martin – Mechanisms of cell-cell fusion
- David van Valen – Everything as code (remote)
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 – The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Mutational processes in normal human tissue
Chair: Giovanni D’Angelo
All participants at the conference venue
- 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
- All participants at the conference venue
- Tony Hyman – Biomolecular condensates and their implications for cell physiology
- 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 – Human organoid development through the lens of single-cell technologies
- Giovanni D’Angelo -The Lipotype hypothesis
- Adria LeBoeuf – Development at the superorganismal scale
Chair: Andy Oates
All participants at the conference venue
- Pascale Vonaesch – The intestinal microbiota in childhood undernutrition
- Eran Elinav – Host microbiome interactions in health and disease
- Lluis Quintana-Murci – Darwin meets Pasteur: evolutionary genetics dissection of human immunity (remote)
Chair: Melanie Blokesch
- Michael Elowitz – Multicellular circuit design: natural and synthetic (remote)
- Ed Boyden – Optical tools for analyzing and controlling biological systems
- Cori Bargmann – Integrating behavior across timescales
Chair: Anne-Florence Bitbol
Program in PDF format
Venue Map
COVID recommendations
Registration deadline: CLOSED
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
The Symposium has been recognized as continuing education for animal experimentation. The attendance of the two scientific days (September 8 and 9) will be certified as one day of continuing education. Attendance of either September 8 or September 9 will be certified as 0.5 days of continuing education.
Certificates will be sent per mail to the participants having duly signed the attendance list at the symposium.
