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Title: Search for New Knowledge in Science
Date:Nov 20-22, 2020 Sep 2-4 2022 To be decided
Venue: The European Center, Chengdu, China
Registration: Not open yet
Date:
Venue: The European Center, Chengdu, China
Registration: Not open yet
For the first time, a Molecular Frontiers Symposium will take place in China. Lead organizers are Bengt Nordén, Zhang Bowen, and Zhang Shuguang.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to the worldwide virus outbreak, the symposium has again been postponed, and the exact date for the symposium is currently undecided. We will decide the future dates only after the current situation significantly improves. We thank sponsors: Sci-Link, ABclonal, ScioBio, Solid Fermentation Innovation Center, Avalon-GloboCare, Pagoda Tree Partners
Preliminary Program
Day 1
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:10 Opening remarks
Bengt Nordén, Founding Patron, Molecular Frontiers Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
Zhang Shuguang, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
Chair: Bengt Nordén
09:10 - 09:50 Sir Greg Winter, University of Cambridge, UK: Harnessing Evolution to Make New Medicines
09:50 - 10:30 Sir Alan Fersht, University of Cambridge, UK: Protein Engineering of anti-tumour p53 complexes
10:30-10:50 Tea Break
10:50 - 11:30 Bai Chunli, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing (To be confirmed): Recent Advances of Science in China
11:30 - 12:10 Feng Zhang, MIT and Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA: Exploration of Microbial Diversity for Genome Editing and Beyond
12:10-13:30 Lunch
Chair: Magdalena Eriksson
13:30 - 14:10 Jens Nielsen, BioInnovation Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark: Metabolic Engineering
14:10 - 14:50 Philip Ball, Science author, London, UK: Curiosity and Patterns in Nature
14:50 - 15:30 Reiko Kuroda, Chubu University, Japan: Snail Coiling: CRISPR Editing of A Single Gene Turns Righties Into Lefties
15:30 - 15:50 Tea Break
15:50 - 16:30 Yang Huanming, BGI and Chinese Academy of Sciences: What Can We Learn from A Million Human Genomes?
16:30 - 17:10 [Speaker to be announced]
17:10-18:10 Panel Discussions and Questions from Students
Day 2
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:10 Remarks
Karin Markides, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Lorie Karnath, Chair of Strategic Board, Molecular Frontiers Foundation
Zhang Bowen, Science-Link Tech Co, Zenmindes Ltd
Chair: Karin Markides
09:10 - 09:50 Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel: Molecular Basis of Antibiotic Actions on Ribosomes
09:50 - 10:30 David Julius, University of California, San Francisco: The Amazing Neuron Sensory Systems for Navigation
10:30 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:30 William DeGrado, University of California, San Francisco: De Novo Protein Design
11:30 - 12:10 Li-Huei Tsai, MIT and Picower Institute: Leveraging Brain Rhythms as A Therapeutic Intervention for Neurodegenerative Disease
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
Chair: Shuguang Zhang
13:30 - 14:10 Saul Griffith, Otherlab, San Francisco, California: Design Remarkable Materials and Devices for Clean Energy
14:10-14:50 Josiah “Jody” Rich, Brown University, USA: Opioid Crisis and How to Overcome It
14:50-15:30 Fu Xiaobing, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing: Wound Healing Using New Materials
15:30 - 15:50 Break
15:50 - 16:30 Zhao Bowen, Quantihealth, Beijing: Human Microbiome: Our Second Genome
16:30- 17:10 [Speaker to be announced]
17:10 - 18:10 Panel Discussions and Questions from Students
Day 3
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:10 Remarks
Magdalena Eriksson, CEO, Molecular Frontiers Foundation
Per Thorén, COO, Molecular Frontiers Foundation
Chair: Lorie Karnath
9:10 - 09:50 Joi Ito, Keio University: Biotech for Climate Change
9:50 - 10:30 Robert Langer, MIT: Recent Excitement in Designer Materials and Sustained Release
10:30 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:30 Luo Zhongli, Chongqing Medical University, China: Chiral Self-assembling Peptide for Accelerated Wound Healing
11:30-12:10 Deborah Donnelly, UPS Pilot, USA: Flying High: How Curiosity Can Lead You to Your Dream Jobs?
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
Chair: Zhang Bowen
13:30 - 14:10 Bengt Nordén, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden: Hydrophobic Catalysis – does it exist and is it then the main player in biology?
14:10-14:50 Andreas Mershin, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms: Asking Questions Are More Important Than Answers
14:50-15:30 Zhang Shuguang, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA: The QTY Code, Always Ask Unusual Questions
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Andreas Mershin, MIT and Liz Ball, Athens, Greece & Chair, Education Board, Molecular Frontiers Foundation:
Announcement of 2020 winners of Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prizes
17:00 - 18:00 Panel Discussions and Questions from Students
Symposium Adjourn
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