Schrödinger at 75—The Future of Biology
Tickets
Conference registration is €100. We also welcome requests to attend from accredited members of the media.
date
Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th September, 2018
The National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland
about
In 1943, Erwin Schrödinger, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, then Director of Theoretical Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), gave three public lectures entitled 'What is Life?' at Trinity College Dublin. Following their publication in 1944 as a book of the same name, these lectures had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology. We will mark the 75th anniversary of these lectures with an unprecedented gathering of some of the most brilliant minds working in biology today.
When Schrödinger gave his original lectures in 1943, the basis for heredity was the urgent unsolved question. Our speakers will address the current burning issues in biology—including the basis of the mind and consciousness, ageing, gene editing, synthetic biology, bioenergetics and the origin of life—and will recapture the spirit of Schrödinger’s lectures by exploring the future of biology.
Speakers
- Daniel Dennett Tufts University, USA, “The Future of Life”
- Danielle Bassett University of Pennsylvania, USA, "The Future of Complex Systems"
- Linda Buck Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA—2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,"The Future of Perception"
- Philip Campbell Springer Nature, UK, "The Future of Scientific Publishing"
- Karl Deisseroth Stanford University, USA, "The Future of Brain Editing"
- Bernard Feringa University of Groningen, Netherlands—2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "The Future of Chemistry"
- Michael Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, "The Future of Cognitive Neuroscience"
- Kathryn Holt University of Melbourne, Australia, "The Future of Infectious Diseases"
- Leroy Hood Institute for Systems Biology, USA, "The Future of Healthcare"
- Saul Kato University of California, San Francisco, USA, "The Future of Computational Biology"
- Christof Koch Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA, "The Future of Consciousness"
- Nick Lane University College London, UK, "The Future of Bioenergetics"
- Ottoline Leyser University of Cambridge, UK, "The Future of Plant Life"
- Lydia Lynch Trinity College Dublin, Ireland "The Future of Immunology"
- John O Keefe University College London, UK— 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, "The Future of Systems Neuroscience"
- Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany, "The Future of Ancient DNA"
- Linda Partridge Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Germany & Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, UK, "The Future of Ageing"
- Michael Rosbash UBrandeis University, USA — 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “The Future of Fruit Fly and Circadian Biology”
- Murray Shanahan Google Deepmind and Imperial College London, UK, "The Future of Artificial Intelligence"
- Beth Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, "The Future of Extinction"
- Susumu Tonegawa Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA— 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, "The Future of Learning and Memory"
- Kay Tye Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, "The Future of Emotion"
- Ada Yonath Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel—2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "The Future of Structural Biology"
- Feng Zhang Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Broad Institute, USA, "The Future of Gene Editing"