ISTA Colloquium speakers
Here you can find a collection of all past ISTA Colloquium speakers sorted by the year their talk took place.
2024
- Edmund Kunji, University of Cambridge – To couple or to uncouple – transport steps in mitochondria that support mammalian life
2023
- Ann McDermott, Columbia University – Signaling in biological systems: Insights from NMR
- Zvonimir Dogic, UC Santa Barbara – Observing the assembly and disassembly of bubbles and vesicles
- Erwin Frey, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – Self-organisation of proteins in cells
- Isil Dillig, University of Texas at Austin – Program synthesis across the software stack
- Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University – Word and graph embeddings for machine learning
- Vanessa Wood, ETH Zurich – Understanding and optimizing solution-processed systems
- Alex Bronstein, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – Learning to see in the Data Age
- Sten Grillner, Karolinska Institute – The brain in action: evolutionarily conserved control strategies
- Gijsje Koenderink, TU Delft – The cell as a material
- Mark Tuckerman, New York University – Topology, molecular simulation, and machine learning as routes to exploring structure, dynamics, and phase behavior in atomic and molecular crystals
- Claudia Pasquero, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca – Effects of land-sea distribution on the mid latitude climatic response to anthropogenic forcing
- Jack Harris, Yale University – Measuring the knots & braids of non-Hermitian oscillators
2022
- Henry Adams, Colorado State University – Topology in machine learning
- Yang Shao-Horn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Scientific challenges towards mitigating climate change
- Jeanne Stachowiak, University of Texas – Disordered protein networks as synergistic drivers of membrane traffic
- Maya Cakmak, University of Washington – Robot programming for all
- Sarah Cohen, UNC at Chapel Hill – Illuminating organelle dynamics and lipid trafficking
- Romana Schirhagl, University of Groningen – Relaxometry for measuring free radical generation in living cells
- Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Generalized page rank applications: From local community detection to graph neural networks
- Zoltan Haiman, Columbia University – The formation and growth of massive black holes
- Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt – Strategies to design quantum materials with exotic properties
- Kristen M. Harris, University of Texas at Austin – Structural synaptic plasticity as a basis for spaced learning
- Gina Turrigiano, Brandeis University – The ups and downs of firing rate homeostasis
- Artur Avila, University of Zurich – Renormalization, fractal geometry, and the Newhouse phenomenon
- Adrian Tompkins, International Centre for Theoretical Physics – Does the Earth have a meso scale water vapor iris?
- Judit Szulágyi, ETH Zurich – How do planets and moons form? Can we observe them with the new generation of telescopes?
- Benny Sudakov, ETH Zurich – Emergence of regularity in large graphs
- Vincent Tassion, ETH Zurich – Robust results in percolation theory
- Marja Timmermans, University of Tübingen – Making a flat leaf: Pre-patterning, morphogenic small RNAs, and Turing reactions
- Shiri Artstein-Avidan, Tel Aviv University – Measure transportation and duality
- Philip Kim, Harvard University – Stacking van der Waals atomic layers: quest for new atomic materials
- Alon Orlitsky, Tel Aviv University – Randomized maximum selection and ranking
- Giulia Galli, University of Chicago – Complex materials from first principles: from sustainable energy sources to quantum information science
2021
- Brad Ramshaw, Cornell University – The Planckian Limit: a Fundamental Bound on Electron Scattering
- Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University – The Quantum Revolution
- Vidya Madhavan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Chiral edge modes in the heavy fermion superconductor
- Lillian Pierce, Duke University – Counting problems: open questions in number theory
- Yang Dan, UC Berkeley – A motor theory of sleep control
- Michel Devoret, Yale University – Correcting decoherence errors in quantum superconducting circuits
- Verena Winiwarter, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences – Mortgaging the future: Cold War and other legacies and sustainable development
- Cristina Marchetti, University of California Santa Barbara – Active topology
- Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University – Multistable structures – from deployable structures to robots
- Irene Miguel-Aliaga, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences – Hungry brains and clever guts
- Wade Regehr, Harvard Medical School – New insights into cell types and circuitry of the cerebellar cortex
- Heike Riel, IBM Research – The future of computing
- Nuno Maulide, University of Vienna – When chemistry asks biological questions
- Asya Rolls, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – The brain as a central regulator of immunity
- Rong Li, Johns Hopkins University and National University of Singapore – Actin-based forces in asymmetric meiotic cell division
- Tom Mrsic-Flogel, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre – Neural correlates of belief updates in the mouse secondary motor cortex
2020
- Elchanan Mossel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Belief-propagation, evolutionary inference, phase transitions, and complexity
- Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University – Parties, doughnuts and coloring: some problems in graph theory
- Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva – The bizarre one-dimensional quantum world
- Amir Yacoby, Harvard University – Quantum sensing of quantum materials
- Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University – Language understanding in computers and in the human brain
- Michael J. Shelley, Simons Foundation – Fluid dynamics of living cells
- Florence Bertails-Descoubes, INRIA – Predictive simulation for films, fashion, and physics
- Andrea Cavalleri, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter – Recent advances in light induced superconductivity
- Anna-Liisa Laine, University of Zurich – Uncovering the determinants of pathogen diversity in nature
- Scott Boyd, Stanford University – Human antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2: Personal and Public
- Manu Prakash, Stanford University – That sinking feeling: Gravity and its role in how life navigates the oceans
- Kim Nasmyth, University of Oxford – The establishment of sister chromatid cohesion is an aspect of the replisome unique to eukaryotic cells
- Markus Arndt, University of Vienna – Universal matter-wave interferometry
- Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania – Learning physics from machine learning
- Stefan Hell, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen & MPI for Medical Research, Heidelberg – MINFLUX nanoscopy and related matters
- Erich Bornberg-Bauer, University of Münster – Breeding new proteins the evolutionary way
- Florence Bertails-Descoubes, INRIA – Predictive simulation for films, fashion, and physics
2019
- Alex Badyaev, University of Arizona – Control theory in evolution
- Subhash Khot, New York University – Hardness of approximation: From the PCP Theorem to the 2-to-2 Games Theorem
- Nir Shavit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Tissue vs silicon: How neurobiology can save machine learning hardware
- Adrian Bird, The University of Edinburgh – Reading DNA methylation in the brain
- Edward Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Tools for Analyzing and Controlling Complex Biological Systems
- Jay T. Groves, University of California, Berkeley – Phase transitions and molecular timing in T cell signaling
- Taekjip Ha, Johns Hopkins University – Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix
- Zeev Rudnick, Tel Aviv University – Quantum chaos, eigenvalue statistics and the Fibonacci sequence
- Eve Marder, Brandeis University – Differential resilience to perturbation of circuits with similar performance
- Richard Murray, California Institute of Technology – Synthetic biology: Building molecular scale machines
- Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University – Computational single-photon imaging
- Josh Sanes, Harvard University – Cell types as building blocks of neural circuits
- Magdalena Götz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair
- Roger Heath-Brown, Oxford University – All about prime numbers
- Andrew Mackenzie, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids – Electrical transport and spectroscopy studies of the delafossite layered metals
- Silke Bühler-Paschen, Vienna University of Technology – Quantum phases and fluctuations driven by strong correlations
- Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University – The second kind of impossible
- Charles Nunn, Duke University – Shining evolutionary light on sleep and health
- Michelle Simmons, University of New South Wales – Atomic qubits in silicon
2018
- Arthur D. Lander, University of California – Control of growth, form and scale in biology
- Molly Przeworski, Columbia University – An evolutionary perspective on meiotic recombination in vertebrates
- Monika Henzinger, University of Vienna – Dynamic graph algorithms: What they are and why they are needed?
- Michel Milinkovitch, University of Geneva – Patterning of the vertebrate skin through mechanical and Turing instabilities
- Immanuel Bloch, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – Realizing Feynman’s dream of a quantum simulator
- Grant Jensen, California Institute of Technology – Electron cryotomography: present capabilities and future potential
- Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research – The cerebral cortex, a substrate for computing in high dimensional dynamic state space
- John O’Keefe, University College London – How rats navigate: Recent studies on hippocampal place and entorhinal grid cells
- Orna Kupferman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Examining classical graph-theory problems from the viewpoint of formal-verification methods
- Gil Kalai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Puzzles about trees, high dimensions, election, computation and noise
- Alysson Muotri, University of California San Diego – Applications of brain model technology: Using brain organoids in neurosciences
- Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – The brain’s positioning system: How do we find our way?
- Walter Fontana, Harvard University – How did that happen?
- Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zurich – Quantum dynamics of systems featuring long sequences of events
- Yukiko Goda, RIKEN Brain Science Institute – Information transmission across synapses: Controlling the efficacy and its diversity
- Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research – Programming with chemical reactions
- Lieven Vandersypen, TU Delft – Quantum computation and simulation – spins inside
- Mark Pauly, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne – Light, matter, form – Computational design of functional geometry
- Adam Summers, University of Washington – #ScanAllFishes – how, why, and whatever will you do with all those data
- Kathryn Hess, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne – Topological vistas in neuroscience
2017
- Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University – Learning to predict with dependent data
- Alexey Kondrashov, University of Michigan – Studying natural selection at the level of genotypes
- Jean-Michel Raimond, Kastler Brossel Laboratory – Quantum measurements and simulation with Rydberg atoms
- Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, University of Geneva – Asymmetric signaling endosomes in asymmetric division
- David Schneider, Stanford University – Defining the resilience of hosts to infections
- Kenneth Birnbaum, New York University – From insult to organization: Regeneration of the plant root meristem
- Tobias Walther, Harvard University – Phase of fat: Mechanisms and physiology of neutral lipid storage
- Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Lattices and cryptography: A match made in heaven
- Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Yale University – How to achieve cellular replication without fail: Lessons from bacterial cells
- Robert Tarjan, Princeton University – Zip trees
- Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute of Science – Local to global, high dimensional expansion, and probabilistically checkable proofs
- Dianne Newman, California Institute of Technology – The importance of growing slowly: Roles for redox-active „antibiotics“ in microbial survival and development
- Konrad Lehnert, University of Colorado Boulder – The sound of quantum mechanics
- L Mahadevan, Harvard University – Shape: Mathematics, physics and biology
- Ottoline Leyser, University of Cambridge – Thinking without a brain: Feedback and feedforward in the bud activation switch
- Claudia Bagni, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Brain wiring and social behaviour: Insights into autism and schizophrenia
- Daniel A. Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley – New perspectives on disease diagnosis: From mobile phones to molecular engineering
- Erik Sahai, The Francis Crick Institute – Cancer cell invasion in complex environments
- Fiona Doetsch, University of Basel – Stem cells in the adult brain: Identity and niches
- Frank Jülicher, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft – Shaping a fly wing
- Elaine Ostrander, National Institutes of Health – Dog genes tell surprising tales: A story of canine morphology, behavior and disease susceptibility
- Patricia Wittkopp, University of Michigan – Evolution of gene expression: from mutation to polymorphism to divergence
- Laure Saint-Raymond, École Normale Supérieure – Propagation of chaos and irreversibility in gas dynamics
2016
- Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research – What will we do with a quantum computer?
- Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University – High-precision physics and chemistry with ultracold diatomic molecules
- Felix Otto, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences – Effective behavior of random media
- Frank Morgan, Williams College – Soap bubbles
- Alfonso Martinez Arias, University of Cambridge – Genetically supervised axial (self) organization in aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells
- Marcel Salathé, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne – Digital epidemiology: opportunities & challenges of an evolving field
- Erik Jorgensen, The University of Utah – Ultrafast synaptic vesicle endocytosis: Revisiting Heuser and Reese in the 21st century
- Ryohei Yasuda, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience – Biochemical computation in single dendritic spines: Implication in synaptic plasticity
- Kenneth S. Suslick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Inside a collapsing bubble: sonochemistry and sonoluminescence
- David Nelson, Harvard University – Population genetics, on land and at sea
- James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute – The logic of cell fate decisions in vertebrate development
- Garret Stuber, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Dissecting the neural circuits that mediate motivated behavior
- Peter Schröder, California Institute of Technology – Schrödinger’s smoke
- Lai-Sang Young, New York University – The visual cortex as a complex dynamical system
- Richard Losick, Harvard University – Stochasticity and cell fate
- Aneil Agrawal, University of Toronto – Theoretical and empirical examination of genetic diversity within a facultatively sexual diploid
- Gloria Corruzi, New York University – The 4th dimension of transcriptional networks: TIME
- Stefan Wolf, Università della Svizzera italiana – Causality, consistency, complexity
- Richard Tsien, New York University – Signaling from synapse to nucleus for synaptic and behavioral plasticity
- David DiVincenzo, Aachen University – Update on the solid state quantum computer
- Ana Maria Rey, University of Colorado – Building with crystals of light and quantum matter: From clocks to computers
- Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science – Expression homeostasis during DNA replication
- David Forsyth, University of Illinois – Relighting pictures
- Eske Willerslev, University of Coppenhagen – What we can learn from past genomics?
- Renato Renner, ETH Zurich – How much work does it cost to process information?
2015
- Daniel Choquet, University of Bordeaux – Interplay between glutamatergic synapse nanoscale organization and function
- Eric van Nimwegen, University of Basel – The role of noise in the evolution of gene regulation
- Andrew Goldberg, Amazon.com Inc. – Hub labeling algorithms
- Harry Swinney, University of Texas at Austin – Collective dynamics, deadly competition, and phenotype switching in bacterial colonies
- Julie Theriot, Stanford University – Cells on the move: Large-scale mechanical coordination in rapid cell motility
- Judith Mank, University College London – The evolution of sexual dimorphism and the effects of sex-specific selection on genome evolution
- Yves Barde, Cardiff University – Neurotrophins in development and disease
- Steve Marschner, Cornell University – Fibers and the appearance of materials
- Daniel Geschwind, University of California Los Angeles – Integrative genomics in human neuropsychiatric disease
- Susan Murphy, University of Michigan – Micro-randomized trials and mobile health
- Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington – Learning and variability in birdsong
- Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna – Partners and rivals: Strategies for reciprocity
- Stanislas Leibler, The Rockefeller University –On the (un)reasonable (in)effectiveness of mathematics in biology
- Mark Estelle, University of California, San Diego – Auxin: Molecular glue that drives plant development
- Pierre Hohenberg, New York University – Do we need so many interpretations of quantum mechanics?
- Rebeca Rosengaus, Northeastern University – The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: emergent properties of insect immunity
- Fred Hamprecht, University of Heidelberg – (Joint) segmentation and tracking with applications in biology
- Jan Born, University of Tübingen – Sleep’s role in memory
- Mark Krasnow, Stanford University – Probing lung stem cells and cancer at single cell resolution
- Sarah Otto, The University of British Columbia – Genomic scope of adaptive mutations in the face of an environmental challenge
- Bill Freeman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – The motion microscope and the world of tiny motions
- Aurélien Roux, University of Geneva – Role of lateral compression of ESCRT spiral springs in membrane remodeling
- Ming C. Lin, The University of North Carolina – Fast visual simulation of complex multiscale phenomena
- Martin Schwab, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich – Fiber growth, formation of new circuits and functional repair after brain and spinal cord injuries
- Felix Randow, University of Cambridge Medical Research Council – How cells use autophagy to defend against bacterial invasion
- Chris De Zeeuw, Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience – It takes two to tango: Differential processing in olivocerebellar modules
2014
- Nathan Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – How to read large graphs?
- Matthieu Piel, Institut Curie – Deforming the nucleus during cell migration: Mechanism, consequences on cell survival and more
- Pascale Ehrenfreund, Austrian Science Fund – Cosmic carbon chemistry and the search for life in the universe
- Anne-Claude Gavin, EMBL Heidelberg – Expanding the cellular interactome: Protein-lipid networks
- Ralf Schneggenburger, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne – Function and specific development of brain synapses
- Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science – The observer and the world: Does science teach us about reality?
- Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute – Physical zero-knowledge
- Jean Dalibard, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel – Ultra-cold atoms: a unique playground for quantum physics
- Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary – Geometry of morphogenesis
- Michael Savageau, The University of California, Davis – Strategy for deconstructing complex systems by phenotypes
- George Zweig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Listening to the ear
- Jonathan Dorfan, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology – OIST Graduate University: A 21st Century Approach to Research and Education
- Lior Pachter, University of California Berkeley – High-throughput analysis for sequencing based molecular biology
- Tom Muir, Princeton University – When bugs talk: virulence regulation in Staphylococci
- Magnus Nordborg, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology – Exploring the genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis
- Tony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden – Liquid-like state of cytoplasm
- Michisuke Yuzaki, Keio University – The more the merrier: Complement family of synaptic organizers
- Monika Ritsch-Marte, Innsbruck Medical University – Shaping up optical imaging and trapping with synthetic holography
- Natasha Raikhel, University of California Riverside – Chemical biology and endomembrane trafficking in plants
- Tobias Meyer, Stanford University – Cell polarization in cell migration
- Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich – Cybergenetics: Real-time control of the dynamics of living cells
- Joachim Spatz, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Stuttgart – Geometric and mechanical material constraints guide collective cell migration
- Ivan Bjerre Damgård, Aarhus University – Secure distributed computing – from theory to practice
- Lotte Søgaard-Andersen, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Marburg – Regulation of dynamic cell polarity in bacteria
- Niloy J. Mitra, University College London – Capturing and encoding shape variations
- Jan Philip Solovej, University of Copenhagen – Stability and instability of matter
- Martin Fussenegger, ETH Zurich – Prosthetic networks: Synthetic biology-inspired treatment strategies for metabolic disorders
- Deborah Gordon, Stanford University – The ecology and evolution of collective behavior
- Tomas Bohr, Technical University of Denmark – The rise and fall of the sap: Mechanisms of fluid flow in trees
- Emo Welzl, ETH Zurich – When conflicting constraints can be resolved — the local lemma and satisfiability
2013
- Silvia Arber, University of Basel – The ups and downs of motor circuit organization
- Thomas Marlovits, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Vienna – Molecular machines in action: architecture, structural plasticity, and rewiring
- Kate Carroll, Scripps Institute – Painting the Cysteine Chapel: New tools to probe oxidation biology
- Tomas Jungwirth, Acacemy of Sciences of the Czech Republic – Physical principles and applications of spintronics
- Spencer Barrett, University of Toronto – Demographic and evolutionary genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in plants
- Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University – Why the life sciences are different
- Howard Eichenbaum, Boston University – The hippocampus in space and time
- Barry Hall, Bellingham Research Institute – Predicting future evolution: Experimental approaches, practical considerations, and applications
- Brian Chait, The Rockefeller University – Hybrid methods for defining the structure and function of cellular machines
- Jos Stam, Autodesk Research – Nucleus: A dynamics solver, from cloth to DNA strands
- Carol A. Barnes, University of Arizona Tucson – Normal brain aging: Impact on circuits critical for memory
- José Manuel Sanchez Ruíz, Universidad de Granada – Protein evolution and protein engineering
- Thierry Emonet, Yale University – Trade-offs and phenotypic diversity in bacterial chemotaxis
- Andrew Murray, Harvard University – Thinking versus drinking: Evolving social interactions in the brewer’s yeast
- Jack Taunton, University of California San Francisco – Electrophilic love: Cellular secrets revealed with covalent kisses
- Didier Stainier, University of California San Francisco – Imaging the development of cardiac form and function in zebrafish
- Martin Feinberg, The Ohio State University – Understanding the behavior of complex chemical reaction networks
- Stephan Sigrist, Freie Universität Berlin – Shedding light on synapse formation
- Steve Smale, City University of Hong Kong – New string kernels for immunology with better predictions for binding
- Niels Birbaumer, University of Tübingen – Brain-Machine-Interface (BMI): Clinic, mechanisms, ethics
- Stephen Kent, The University of Chicago – Through the looking glass – reimagining the natural protein world
- Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre – Constrained Freedom: The evolution and development of phenotypic diversity
- Anne Ridley, King’s College – Rho GTPases: Signalling in cell adhesion and migration
- Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics – Probing and Controlling Ultracold Quantum Matter
- Ruth Lehmann, The Skirball Institute New York University – Making and protecting the germline
- Elad Schneidman, Weizmann Institute of Science – A thesaurus for a neural population code
- Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University Prague – On visual tracking
- Martina Havenith, Ruhr-University Bochum – Solvation: New answers to an old problem
2012
- Ilya Nemenman, Emory University – Of Exactitude in Science Coarse-grained models of cellular signaling
- Virgil Widrich, University of Applied Arts Vienna – tx-transform: Looking at space and time upside down
- Gábor Tamás, University of Szeged – An unorthodox inhibitory neuron in the cerebral cortex: the function of neurogliaform cells
- Brian Charlesworth, The University of Edinburgh – Natural selection and the genome
- Jan Peters, TU Darmstadt – Towards motor skill learning for robotics
- Nicholas Eriksson, 23andMe – Interactive web-based genetic research at 23andMe
- Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania – The maps inside your head: How the brain represents sensory and cognitive spaces
- Jerry Coyne, The University of Chicago – Two flies on an island: speciation in African Drosophila
- David Bannerman, University of Oxford – Everything you ever wanted to know about the hippocampus but were afraid to ask!
- Idan Segev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Design principles for dendritic inhibition
- Karsten Kruse, University of Saarland – Cellular protein self-organization
- Daniel E. Gottschling, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle – Organelle deterioration with age: The limits of an interconnected cellular system
- Terence Hwa, University of California San Diego – Growth laws: Origins and consequences
- Liberato Manna, Italian Institute of Technology – Colloidal nanocrystals: Synthesis, properties, assembly
- Stephanie Wehner, National University of Singapore – Uncertainty determines the non-locality of quantum mechanics
- Barry Dickson, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna – Wired for sex: the neurobiology of Drosophila mating behaviour
- Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna – Dare to be different: Asymmetric cell division and tumorigenesis in fly and mouse neural stem cell lineages
- Maria Leptin, European Molecular Biology Organization – The genetic control of cell shape
- Laurence Hurst, University of Bath – Why there is more to gene evolution than protein function: Splicing, nucleosomes and dual-coding sequence
- Nikos K. Logothetis, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics – In vivo connectivity: Paramagnetic tracers, electrical stimulation & neural-event triggered fMRI
- Thomas J. Silhavy, Princeton University – Outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria
- Thomas Lecuit, Institute of Developmental Biology of Marseille – Biomechanics of tissue morphogenesis: from local to global scales
- Andrew Read, Pennsylvania State University – The evolution of drug resistance and the curious orthodoxy of aggressive chemotherapy
- Ian Osborne, Science Magazine – Physics in Science Magazine: Hot areas, spotting trends, and finding surprises
- Valentina Emiliani, University Paris Descartes – Two-photon optogenetics
- Jacobus J. Boomsma, University of Kopenhagen – Life-time commitment and the evolution of altruism and mutualism‘
- Richard Benton, University of Lausanne – The evolving social network of Drosophila
- Edo Kussell, New York University – Populations in lineage perspective: Ages, phenotypes, and bacteria
2011
- Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna – Information and the foundations of quantum physics
- Lance Davidson, University of Pittsburgh – Reverse engineering the physical mechanics of embryonic morphogenesis
- Dieter Ebert, Basel University – Genetics of antagonistic coevolution
- Markus Gross, ETH Zurich – Modeling and animation for entertainment
- Martin Ackermann, ETH Zurich – Individuality in bacteria: on the biological significance of phenotypic heterogeneity
- Mike Boots, University of Sheffield – The role of ecology in the evolution and maintenance of genetic diversity in hosts and parasites: from red queen to red king
- Pascal Fries, Ernst Strüngmann Institute in cooperation with Max Planck Society – Inter-areal synchronization and attention
- Jean-Francois Raskin, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Hybrid automata: modeling and reachability analysis
- Paul Schmid-Hempel, ETH Zürich – Why are parasites so interesting?
- John Lisman, Brandeis University – An episodic memory buffer organized by grid cells of the entorhinal cortex
- Helmut Pottmann, KAUST Saudi Arabia – Geometric computing for architecture
- Francios Nedelec, EMBL Heidelberg – Dynamic organization of fibers in living cells
- Daniel A. Fletcher, University of California Berkeley – Mechanical regulation of cell shape change: Lessons from in vitro reconstitution
- Michael Turelli, University of California at Davis – How good luck, great collaborators, pretty mathematics and a maternally inherited bacterium (Wolbachia) may stop the spread of dengue fever
- Botond Roska, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research – Seeing with and without photoreceptors
- Alex Mogilner, University of California at Davis – Mechanics of cell crawling: from 2D to 3D
- Frank Schnorrer, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Munich – The making of flight muscle
- Horst Bischof, TU Graz – On-line learning for computer vision
- Jose M.G. Vilar, University of the Basque Country Bilbao – From components to systems: modeling and designing biological interactions at the molecular, cellular, and cell-population levels
