Exner Lecture 2016

TheWilhelm Exner MedalFoundation (Wilhelm Exner Medaillen Stiftung) was founded in 1921 by theAustrian Trade Association(ÖGV), named after the Austrian economic and technical sponsor. In these more than100 years 245 scientists and inventors, including25 Nobel laureates, have been awarded this prestigious honor.

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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

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