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
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 scientist – From 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 gene editing 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