Scientific Program



Tuesday, 15th


Eric Drexler (Oxford, UK)
From Molecular Devices to Molecular Systems Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together

Darryl J. Bornhop (Nashville, TN, USA)
Is Back-scattering Interferometry a Universal Molecular Interaction Platform?

Eiichi Nakamura (Tokyo, Japan)
New Horizons in Single Molecule TEM Imaging

David A. Winkler (Clayton, Australia)
Molecular Control of Stem Cell Fate

     Lunch

Nediljko Budisa (Berlin, Germany)
Towards the Genetic Code with a Maximum Degree of Chemical Liberty

Frank Schulz (Dortmund, Germany)
Manipulations of Polyketide and Terpenoid Biosynthesis Pathways

Andreas Kirschning (Hannover, Germany)
Messages from Nature - How Chemical Synthetic Biology Could Look Like?

Peter Leadlay (Cambridge, UK)
Engineering Assembly-line Catalysis in Natural Product Biosynthesis


Wednesday, 16th


Jean-Marie Lehn (Strasbourg, France)
Steps Towards Self-Organization: From Supramolecular Chemistry to Adaptive Chemistry

Paul S. Weiss (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Controlling Functional Molecules and Precise Assemblies: Cooperativity and Interference

Robert MacFarlane (Evanston, IL, USA)
Nanoparticle Superlattice Engineering with DNA

Guillaume Salbreux (Dresden, Germany)
Physics of the Actin Cortex

     Lunch

     Excursion


Thursday, 17th


Dean Astumian (Orono, ME, USA)
Microscopic Reversibility: The Organizing Principle for Design, Characterization, and Operation of Molecular Machines

Tibor Kudernac (Enschede, The Netherlands)
Propelled Motion of Single Molecules on Surfaces

Michael Huth (Frankfurt, Germany)
Organic Charge Transfer Systems: The Next Step in Organic Electronics?

Timothy Clark (Erlangen, Germany)
Simulating Devices such as Self-Assembled Monolayer Field-Effect Transistors (SAMFETs)

     Lunch

Lee Cronin (Glasgow, UK)
Non Equilibrium Structure Polynuclear-metal-oxide Assemblies

Armin Gölzhäuser (Bielefeld, Germany)
1 nm Thick Functional Carbon Nanomembranes (CNMs): New Opportunities for Nanotechnology

Thomas Schimmel (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Template-guided Self-assembly: Controlling Nanoscale Pattern Formation by Molecular Interaction

Thomas A. Jung (Villigen, Switzerland)
Cooperative Behaviour of Molecules and Supramolecules at Surfaces: Chemo, Mechano, Electronic and Spin Switching - Towards Future Nanoscale Devices