Seeing with Electrons in Four Dimensions
Ahmed Zewail, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999, was an Egyptian-American scientist, known as the ”father of femtochemistry”. In this talk, he explains his work in a way we can all understand.
Frontiers of Molecular Sciences
Several fantastic lectures were given, on topics ranging from soft robots to blue LEDs, as 200 high school students from all over Sweden joined some 250 scientists in Gothenburg.
This symposium was part of a birthday event at Chalmers University of Technology that also included a three day Nobel Workshop. In total, some 40 world leading scientists, many of them Nobel laureates, gave lectures and took part in panel debates during a science week that was spectacular! Most of the lectures are available on YouTube – scroll down to watch!
Time: May 7, 2015 - May 8, 2015 Location: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
Soft Robots
We have all heard of robots, but what are soft robots? They can do amazing things that hard robots cannot. This is a fascinating talk by the extremely versatile chemist George Whitesides.
Molecular recognition of DNA and potential cancer drugs
Transcription factors – proteins that regulate the transcription of DNA to RNA – that malfunction can cause several types of disease, including cancer. In Peter Dervan’s lab, they synthesize small, cell permeable molecules that can be programmed to recognize given sequences and disrupt transcription factor-DNA interfaces
Protein folding and evolution
Proteins have to fold into very precise structures in a very ”crowded” space – inside living cells. Changes in the internal and external environment cause all sorts of challenges for protein folding. This can cause disease – but also lead to evolution. Susan Lindquist was a leading expert in this field – you can learn a lot by listening to her!
Innovation by Evolution
Frances Arnold, who received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, talks about her ground-breaking approach to make new enzymes that can be useful to mankind by using the principles of Evolution in the lab.
Blue LEDs - lighting the future
Shuki Nakamura was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes (LEDs). Thanks to this invention, white light sources can be made in new ways, saving energy and resources.
Ahmed Zewail: Seeing with Electrons in Four Dimensions
George Whitesides: Soft Robots
Peter Dervan: Transcription Factor Antagonists: From Discovery to Oncology
Susan Lindquist: Lamarck was right: better living through chemistry
Frances Arnold: Innovation by Evolution: The Expanding Enzyme Universe
Shuki Nakamura: Invention of Blue LED, Laser and Solid State Light
Lectures from the three day Nobel workshop
Stefan Hell: Nanoscopy with focused light
William E. Moerner: Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, Blinking, and Photocontrol
Tom Brown: Extending the Boundaries of Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Richard Henderson: Structure of membrane proteins involved in signal transduction
Paul Alivisatos: Colloidal nanocrystals
James Barber: From natural to artificial photosynthesis for renewable fuels
Yahli Lorch: Chromatin remodeling
David Lilley: How does RNA act like an enzyme?
Andrew McCammon: Molecular Dynamics and Drug discovery
Arieh Warshel: Evaluating and using free energy landscapes for biological functions
Richard Lerner: Selecting Antibodies from Combinatorial Libraries for the Treatment of Cancer
Michael Levitt: Solving Large & Difficult Structures with Less Experimental Data
Toshio Yanagida: Role of fluctuations for driving bio-molecular machines
Peter von Hippel: binding of genome-regulatory proteins to DNA in vitro and in vivo
Harry Gray: The Currents of Life: Electron Flow through Proteins
Josef Michl: Unconventional solar energy – singlet fission
Barry Sharpless: Exploring the Sulfate World
Sir John Meurig Thomas: Some of Tomorrow's Catalysts: Actual and Desired
Roger Kornberg: Metal nanoparticles: atomic structures and applications in cryo-electron microscopy
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