Nobel Prize 2008 in Chemistry: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

13.00 – 13.10

Ole Thastrup, 2cureX: Introduction.

13.10 – 14.00

Nobel lecture: Martin Chalfie, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 1012 Fairchild Center, New York, USA.: Discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.

14.00 – 14.30

Claudia Lukas, Institute of Cancer Biology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark: Visualization of the DNA Damage Response in Living Cells.

14.30 – 15.00

Tullio Pozzan, Department of Biomedical Sciences and CNR Institute of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Italy: Mitochondria-endoplasmic reticulum choreography: calcium signaling dynamics in regulation of cell life and death.

15.00 – 15.30

Refreshments

15.30 – 16.00

Mikhail V. Matz, Integrative Biology Section, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA: GFP-like proteins illuminate general principles of diversity and complexity evolution

16.00 – 16.30

Mikala Egeblad, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA: Dynamic imaging of tumor progression and elimination in live mice

16.30 – 17.00

Anthony Campbell, Darwin Centre Department of Medical Biochemistry and Immunology Wales College of Medicine Cardiff University, UK: Fluorescence that sparkles - bioluminescence in evolution.