Program

The program will include different themes, Insights by light, Smallest Constituents of life, Life as a scientist, Looking at life, Healthy life and Looking for Life. Each theme will be followed by a 30-minutes Q&A where high school students have the chance to ask questions. The symposium takes place at Chalmers in RunAn, campus Johanneberg. 

Monday 2 December 

08.30 - 09.15 Registration for everyone, coffee 

09.15 - 09.35 Welcome by moderator Emma Frans and Martin Nilsson Jacobi, president of Chalmers university of technology  

09.35 - 09.55 Lecture with Catrin Lindberg, alumni -  The thing about Chalmers 
 

Insight by light - Advanced measurements and simulations of electron behavior enlighten our understanding of nature at the smallest level.   

10.00 - 10.30 Lecture with Anne L'Huillier, Lund University, Nobel Laureate - Attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics  

10.30 - 11.00 Lecture with Eberhard K. U. Gross, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics - Electrons dancing to the rhythm of light, visualized by computer simulations  

11.00 - 11.30 Q&A with Anne L'Huillier and Eberhard K. U. Gross 

11.30 - 13.30 Lunch and campus tour for high school students 
 

Smallest constituents of life - Resolved with diffraction-unlimited microscopy 

13.30 - 14.00 Lecture with Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute, Nobel Laureate - Molecule-scale resolution and dynamics in fluorescence microscopy
 

Life as a scientistFrom the lab to the Nobel prize; the importance of a scientific approach and creative thinking. 

14.00 - 14.30 Lecture with Emma Frans, Karolinska Institutet - How to think like a scientist  

14.30 - 15.00 Q&A with Stefan Hell and Emma Frans  

15.00 - 15.45 Fika  
 

Looking at life - From photochemistry to genome understanding. 

15.45 - 16.15 Lecture with Richard Zare, Standford University - Casting a New Light on Nonlife to Life 

16.15 - 16.45 Lecture with Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University - Illuminate life at the nanoscale and genome scale by imaging  

16.45 - 17.15 Q&A with Richard Zare and Xiaowei Zhuang 

17.30 - 19.30 Dinner for high school students, teachers and student ambassadors in Kårrestaurangen 

17.15 - 19.15 Poster session  

 

Tuesday 3 December  

8.00- 09.45 Tour of different labs at Chalmers for high school students 

08.30-10.00 Coffee and registration  

Looking for Life - How did life begin, and can we find signatures of life beyond Earth?   

10.00-10.30 Morgan Cable, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Ocean Worlds: Searching for Evidence of Life in our Cosmic Backyard   

10.30 -11.00 Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow - We Don’t Know What Life is… or do we?   

11.00-11.30 Q&A with Morgan Cable and Lee Cronin 

11.30 - 12.45 Lunch  
 

Healthy Life - Unraveling Molecular Insights for Personalized Precision Medicine through Nanomedicine Innovations 

12.45 -13.15 Lecture with Kristina Friis, Astra Zeneca - Mimicking Nature - Creating Next Generation Therapeutics 

13.15 -13.45 Lecture with Angela Grommet, Chalmers University of Technology -  Molecular boxes as artificial enzymes

  

13.45 -14.15 Fika  

14.15 -14.45 Lecture with Samir El-Andaloussi, Karolinska Institutet - New delivery tools for gene editors inspired by similarities between viruses and intracellular communication vehicles  

14.45 -15.15 Lecture with Margaret Holme, Chalmers university – Using X-rays and neutrons to look inside therapeutic nanoscale carriers 

15.15 - 16.15 Q&A with Samir El-Andaloussi, Margaret Holme, Kristina Friis and Angela Grommet 

16.15 Conclusion  

Scientific committee 

Per Hyldgaard  

Fredrik Höök 

Bengt Nordén 

Martin Rahm 

Janine Splettstößer 

Marcus Wilhelmsson