68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting:
600 Young Scientists to Encounter a Record 43 Nobel Laureates
The
selection process for participation at this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate
Meeting has been completed. A
total of 600 outstanding students, doctoral candidates and post-docs under the
age of 35 will come to Lake
Constance from 24 to 29 June. This year’s meeting is dedicated to physiology and medicine and will
set two records: 43 Nobel Laureates – more than ever before at a medicine meeting – will take part,
and the field of participants, with 84 countries of origin, has never been so diverse.
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Young Scientists at the 67th Lindau Nobel
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“This summer we will once again
welcome the next generation of top researchers. I find it remarkable
that we will bring together more than 80 nations in
Lindau and in so doing will not only be able to enjoy an intensive exchange between generations but also one that
crosses national boundaries,” says Countess
Bettina Bernadotte, President of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. “It is particularly
gratifying that 50 percent of the young scientists are women.”
More
than 130 academic partners worldwide – academies, universities and foundations
– nominated the candidates
for participation after internal application procedures. “I have rarely had the pleasure of evaluating such a
diverse and high-quality group, which made the selection difficult,”
says Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, Professor of Microbiology
and Immunology at the Charité in Berlin and Director
at the Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology.
Stefan Kaufmann is a member of the Council and one of
the two scientific chairpersons of the meeting. Along
with the selection process, he is also jointly
responsible for drawing up the programme of the Lindau
Meeting.
After
two years in the temporary venue of the Lindau city theatre, the meetings can
now once again be held in the
Inselhalle. The reconstruction of the Inselhalle has led to the creation of
many new spaces, which also
allow parallel sessions and more intimate formats in one place. Thus, the six-day programme will for the
first time feature so-called ‘Agora Talks’, in which laureates answer the audience’s questions. In poster
flashes and master classes the young scientists will present their
research to the Nobel Laureates and their colleagues.
Three
newly minted Nobel Laureates will come to Lindau in 2018: the two biologists
Michael Rosbash and Michael
Young, who were honoured for their research on the inner clock, have confirmed their participation as
well as the German-American chemist Joachim Frank. Alongside the
inner clock, the key topics of the 68th Lindau Meeting
are the role of science in a ‘post-factual era’, gene
therapy and scientific publishing practices.
Since
their founding in 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings have served to
promote exchange, networking
and inspiration.
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