INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME

Gunnar von Heijne, Chairman of the Program Committee
Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Vice-Chancellor, Stockholm University
PRESENTATION OF THE KNUT AND ALICE WALLENBERG FOUNDATION
Marcus Wallenberg and Göran Sandberg, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science

FROM PERIPHERAL PROTEINS TO MEMBRANE MOTORS–MASS SPECTROMETRY COMES OF AGE

Head Speaker: Professor Carol Robinson, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford

THE CELL ATLAS AND CITIZEN SCIENCE

Speaker: Associate Professor Emma Lundberg, Cell Profiling facility, KTH Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm

THE ROLE OF TRAAK K+ CHANNELS IN NERVE CONDUCTION

Head Speaker: Professor Rod MacKinnon, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology
and Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller Universit

THE WONDERS OF SMALL MOLECULE TRANSPORT

Speaker: Ph.D. David Drew, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Stockholm University

NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL

Head Speaker: Professor Leslie Vosshall, Kavli Neural Systems Institute,
Rockefeller Universit

CIRCUIT DECONSTRUCTION OF COGNITION

Speaker: Associate Professor Marie Carlén, Department of Neuroscience,
Karolinska Institutet

ARCHAIC GENOMICS

Head Speaker: Professor Dr. Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig

ON THE GENOMES OF THE FIRST PIONEERING PEOPLE OF SCANDINAVIA

Speaker: Professor Mattias Jakobsson, Department of Organismal Biology,
Uppsala University

CLOSING

Sigbritt Karlsson, Vice-Chancellor, KTH
Ole Petter Ottersen, Vice-Chancellor, Karolinska Institute