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.
Sean Carroll – The Thrill of Discovery: Science and Storytelling (remote)
Moderator of the day: Mirko Bischofberger
Chair: Alex Persat
Chair: Giovanni D’Angelo
Chair: Pavan Ramdya
Nicole King – A history of hypotheses on the origin of animals
Caroline Uhler – Causality, perturbations, gene regulation, and drug repurposing
Chair: Brian McCabe
Chair: Pierre Gönczy
Chair: Andy Oates
Chair: Melanie Blokesch
Chair: Anne-Florence Bitbol
Program in PDF format
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.
EPFL
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Rolex Learning Center
Rte Cantonale
CH-1015 Lausanne