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