Nobel Centennial Symposia, 2001

Beyond Genes

(2001, NCS 2001-3)
Bertil Daneholt, et al.
December 6-8
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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December 6

Welcome Address

Speech by Bertil Daneholt, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Chairman of the Organizing Committee

Introductory Comments
Speech by James D. Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

 

Session I: The Cell

Chairman: Günter Blobel, Rockefeller University, USA

The Eukaryotic Gene Transcription
Lecture by Roger Kornberg, Stanford University, USA

 

How Do Cells Ensure that Sister Chromatids Separate to Opposite Poles of the Cell during Mitosis
Lecture by Kim Nasmyth, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria

 

Cell Signaling Networks and Protein Phosphorylation in the Postgenomic Era
Lecture by Tony Hunter, Salk Institute, USA

 

Imaging Protein Sociology and Cell Signaling
Lecture by Roger Y. Tsien, University of California, USA

 

Session II: Development

Chairman: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany

Patterning the Early Mouse Embryo
Lecture by Elisabeth Robertson, Harvard University, USA

 

Meta-Gene Regulation in Development and Evolution
Lecture by Denis Duboule, University of Geneva, Switzerland

 

Towards a Physical Biochemistry of Cell-Cell Recognition in Cell Mediated Immunity
Lecture by Mark M. Davis, Stanford University, USA

 

Genetic Control of Apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans
Lecture by Robert Horvitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

 

December 7

Session III: The Brain

Chairman: Torsten Wiesel, Rockefeller University, USA

The Eloquent Cerebral Cortex
Lecture by Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany

 

The Logic of Smell
Lecture by Linda Buck, Harvard Medical School, USA

 

Molecular Biology of Memory: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses
Lecture by Eric R. Kandel, Columbia University, USA

 

The Human Mirror-Neuron System
Lecture by Riitta Hari, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

 

Session IV: Molecular Medicine

Chairman: Bengt Samuelsson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

How Genes Control Cholesterol
Lecture by Michael S. Brown, University of Texas Southwestern, USA

 

Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine
Lecture by Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins University, USA

 

Shigella Infection of the Intestinal Tract: A Paradigm to Study the Rupture, Invasion and Inflammatory Destruction of Body Barrier
Lecture by Philippe J. Sansonetti, Pasteur Institute, France

 

Genome-Wide Patterns of Gene Expression in Cancer
Lecture by David Botstein, Stanford University, USA

 

December 8

Session V: Evolution

Chairman: Phillip Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Genomic Informatics: Reading Evolution's Lab Notebooks
Lecture by Eric Lander, Whitehead Institute, USA

 

Comparative Genomics as a Means to Study Human Origins
Lecture by Svante Pääbo, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany

 

Concluding Lecture

Chairman: David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology, USA

Biomedicine in the 21st Century 
Lecture by Harold Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA