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08:30 Registration

09:00 Welcome & Opening Session
Andreas Gnesda, President of Österreichischer Gewerbeverein
Hans Sünkel, President of Wilhelm-Exner-Medaillen-Stiftung

09:15 Lecture honoring Emmanuelle Charpentiers
„The transformative CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering technology:
lessons learned from bacteria“
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin

„Applying CRISPR-Cas9 molecular scissors in mammalian cells“
Krzisztof Chylinski, The Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities, Vienna

„Gene therapy approaches for epidermolysis bullosa“
Eva-Maria Murauer, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg

10:30 Coffee & Networking

11:00 Lecture honoring Gero Miesenböck
„Lighting Up the Brain”
Gero Miesenböck, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford

„Synaptic mechanisms of pattern completion: From experiment to model and back”
Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg

„Optogenetics for Cancer Research”
Michael Grusch, Medical University of Vienna

12:15 Lunch Break

13:15 Wilhelm Exner Medal, Ceremony 2016
The Wilhelm Exner Medal
Hans Sünkel, President of Wilhelm-Exner-Medaillen-Stiftung

Laudatio Emmanuelle Charpentier
by Renée Schröder, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna

Laudatio Gero Miesenböck
by Hans Sünkel, Graz University of Technology

Laudatio Johann Eibl
by Hermann Katinger, Polymun Scientific, Klosterneuburg

Laudatio Stefan Hell
by Markus Arndt, University of Vienna

13:50 Coffee & Networking

14:20 Lecture honoring Stefan Hell
„Unlimited sharp: light microscopy in the 21st century“
Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen

„Programmable Microscopy“
Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University of Innsbruck

„Ultramicroscopy: from pure optics to brain research and cancer pathology“
Hans Ulrich Dodt, Vienna University of Technology

15:35 Closing Remarks & Networking

16:30 End of Exner Lecture