Leading scientists line up for The EMBO Meeting 2011

• Susan Lindquist, 2010 winner of the US National Medal of Science – Lamarck redux: Prions, Hsp90 and the inheritance of environmentally acquired trait
• Giacomo Rizzolatti, discoverer of mirror neurons – Understanding actions, intentions and emotions of others
• Richard Axel, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology – Representations of olfactory information in higher cortical centres
• Mark Pagel, evolutionary theorist – Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator
• Austria Center Vienna, 10 – 13 September 2011
  
  

HEIDELBERG,  Germany, 5 September 2011 – Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council, will open The EMBO Meeting 2011 this coming Saturday 10 September at the Austria Center Vienna. The annual conference is set to highlight the latest life science advances made in the laboratories of more than 120 of the worldʼs leading researchers.

Now in its third year, the conference attracts around 1,500 participants from Europe and worldwide to its diverse programme that covers the full range of life science subject areas. Scientific participants include principle investigators, postdoctoral researchers and students. Policy makers, editors, career advisors, journalists, science bloggers and industry representatives figure strongly among the participant list.

David Anderson, Richard Axel, Cori Bargmann, Bonnie Bassler, Jeffrey Bennetzen, Simon Boulton, Evan Eichler, Florian Engert, B. Brett Finlay, Stefan Jentsch, Susan Lindquist, Edvard Moser, May- Britt Moser, Mark Pagel, Paul Rainey, Giacomo Rizzolati, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Lucy Shapiro and Michael Stratton are some of the leading researchers at the conference who will present in keynote, plenary and special lectures. Twenty-one concurrent sessions and more than 600 posters will generate discussion around recent research results. ....more

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Novel & Newsworthy at The EMBO Meeting 2011

HEIDELBERG, Germany, 20 July 2011 – More than 120 leading life scientists will present their latest research findings at The EMBO Meeting 2011 – the annual life sciences conference to be held in Vienna from 10-13 September 2011. Over 500 abstracts together with keynote speeches, special lectures and concurrent sessions sum up to a vast selection of news that can be told from various perspectives.

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Susan Lindquist and Giacomo Rizzolatti to speak at The EMBO Meeting 2011