Of Molecules and Minds – The Machinery of Our Senses and Emotions
The first Molecular Frontiers Symposium to deal with the brain – how does the mind and our senses work, from a molecular perspective? Nobel Prize winner Roderick MacKinnon was among the speakers. He later joined the Scientific Advisory Board of Molecular Frontiers.
The symposium was attended by Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Sweden, Victoria. During the symposium, she tested a demo version of the new MoleClues website, which was to be released later that year. Countess Bettina Bernadotte were also among the particpants.
Lectures, in chronological order:
The Molecular Basis of Mechano-Sensitivity
Ching Kung, University of Wisconsin, United States | Homepage
Common Sense About Taste – From the Tongue to the Brain
Charles Zuker, Colombia University, United States | Homepage
Molecules of Vision and Their Evolution
Trevor D. Lamb, Australian National University, Australia | Homepage
Sex Battles in the Brain
Catherine Dulac, Harvard University, United States | Homepage
Fifty Years of Solitude: Deconstructing an Olfactory Circuit for Social Behavior
Cornelia Bargmann, Rockefeller University, United States | Homepage
From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway
David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, United States | Homepage
Molecular fMRI – Seeing Emotions
Raymond Dolan, University College London, United Kingdom | Homepage
Structure and biophysics of nerve impulse propagation
Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University, United States | Homepage
Molecular memories and protein conformation cascades
Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, United States
Temporal and spatial measurements of single exocytosis events
Andrew Ewing, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | Homepage
Running for your mind…
Rolf Ekman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Homepage
Time: June 4, 2009 - June 5, 2009 Location: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
