Programme and speakers current as of 8 April 2011 but may be subject to change. Click on the names to see more information and affiliations.

Opening Address

• Helga Nowotny, President of European Research Council
  Saturday 10 September, 17:40 Session chair: Maria Leptin DE
  

Keynote Lectures

• Susan Lindquist - MIT, US - Sunday 11 September, 09:00 to 09:45
  Session chair: Jane Langdale UK
• Louis-Jeantet Prize Lectures: May-Britt Moser & Stefan Jentsch - Monday 12 September, 09:00 to 10:00
  Session chair: Bernard Rossier CH
  
• Richard Axel - Columbia University, US - Tuesday 13 September, 09:00 to 09:45
  Session chair: Barry Dickson AT

Special Lectures

• Mark Pagel, University of Reading, UK - Sunday 11 September, 17:45 - 18:45
  Session chair: Anton Berns NL
  
• Giacomo Rizzolatti, University of Parma, IT - Science & Society - Sunday 11 September, 18:45 - 20:00
  Session chair: Michele Garfinkel DE
  

Plenary Lectures

• Hosts & microbes - Saturday 10 September, 18:00 - 20:00
  Session chair: Pascale Cossart FR
  
  • Paul Schulze-Lefert - Max Planck Institute, Cologne, DE
  • Lucy Shapiro - Stanford University, US
  • Bonnie Bassler - Princeton University, US
  • B. Brett Finlay - University of British Columbia, CA
• Genome evolution - Sunday 11 September, 10:15 - 12:15
  Session chair: Jane Langdale UK
  
  • Evan Eichler - University of Washington, US
  • Jeffrey Bennetzen - University of Washington, US
  • Paul Rainey - Massey University, NZ
  • Michael Stratton - Sanger Centre, UK
• Brain & behaviour - Tuesday 13 September, 10:15 to 12:15
  Session chair: Barry Dickson AT
  
  • Cori Bargmann, The Rockefeller University, US
  • Florian Engert - Harvard University, US
  • David Anderson - California Institute of Technology, US
  • Edvard Moser - Norwegian University of Science & Technology, NO

Concurrent sessions:

There are twenty-one sessions taking place on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. See the topics below. More information can be found on concurrent sessions' page.

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Poster Sessions:

Poster sessions will run on Sunday (16:15 - 17:45) and Monday (17:15 - 18:45) and Tuesday (12:30 - 14:00). Location: Exhibition Hall on Green Level.

Please refer to the abstract book for the scheduling of poster sessions by subject category. Presenters are requested to stand with their posters according to the timetable below:

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Conference Chairs:

• Pascale Cossart - Pasteur Institute, FR
• Barry Dickson - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), AT
• Jane Langdale - University of Oxford, UK

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