A Nobel Laureate, the Astronomer Royal, a Science Minister, an evolutionary anthropologist and the President of the European Research Council will provoke participants to think beyond their lab benches.

Kenneth C Holmes - Saturday 29 August, 18:30 - 19:15 - Auditorium

Harald zur Hausen - Saturday 29 August, 19:15 - 20:15 - Auditorium

• Winner of The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2008
• Gairdner International Awardee 2008
• Professor Emeritus, recent Chairman and Scientific Director at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ)
• William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology in 2006
• Virchow Medal from the University of Wurzburg in 2000

Svante Pääbo - Sunday 30 August, 10:30 - 12:45 (part of the plenary lecture) - Auditorium

• Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Evolutionary anthropologist

Fotis Kafatos - Monday 31 August, 13:30 - 15:30 - Room C-D

• European Research Council President and Chairman of its Scientific Council
• Former Director-General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) 1993 - 2005

Martin Rees - Monday 31 August, 18:15 - 19:30 - Auditorium

• President of the Royal Society
• Master of Trinity College and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at Cambridge University, UK
• Visiting Professor at Leicester University and Imperial College London
• Astronomer Royal since 1995
• Nominated to the House of Lords in 2005 as a cross-bench peer
• Member of the Order of Merit in 2007

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