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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
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 (remote)
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 – 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
- 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
- Pavel Tomancak – Evolution of morphogenesis
Chair: Andy Oates
- Lluis Quintana-Murci – Darwin meets Pasteur: evolutionary genetics dissection of human immunity
- Pascale Vonaesch – The intestinal microbiota in childhood undernutrition
- 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
- Michael Elowitz – Multicellular circuit design: natural and synthetic
Chair: Anne-Florence Bitbol
Program in PDF format
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
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.
