Horizons Conference History

Speakers 2023
Keynote Speaker
Peter Walter
Biochemistry
Nick Lane, Marius Lemberg, Yifat Merbl, Markus Ralser
Cell Biology
Ramanujan Hegde, Yamuna Krishnan, Naomi Moris, Jonathon Pines
Molecular Biology
Katrin Karbstein, Hansong Ma, Michal Minczuk, Dimple Notani, Joanna Rorbach
Neuroscience
Hiyaa Gosh, Pascal Kaeser
Structural Biology
Taekjip Ha, Hauke Hillen, Eva Kummer, Z. Hong Zhou

Speakers
Keynote Speaker:
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Bioinformatics:
Casey Greene
Biotechnology:
Pamela Ronald, Joshua Rosenthal
Cell Biology:
Anna Akhmanova, Buzz Baum, Thomas Helleday, Anthony Hyman, Thomas Langer, Ravi Manjithaya, Thomas Schwarz, Iva Tolić
Developmental Biology:
Andrea Pauli, Jessica Whited
Epigenetics:
Ana Pombo, Oded Rechavi, Vidita Vaidya
Structural Biology:
Ron Diskin, Benjamin Engel, Kalina Hristova, Grant Jensen

Speakers
Keynote Speaker:
Richard Henderson
Bioinformatics:
Eugene Koonin, Adi Stern
Biophysics:
Claire Deo, Karissa Sanbonmatsu
Cell Biology:
Jan-Michael Peters, Kikue Tachibana, Sara Wickström
Developmental Biology:
Kristina Haase, Maximina Yun
Evolutionary Biology:
Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Donate Weghorn
Membrane Biology:
Pedro Carvalho, Abdou Rachid Thiam
Molecular Genetics:
Rachel Green, Samie Jaffrey, Jay Mellies, Jane Mellor
Structural Biology:
Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego, Argyris Politis

Speakers
Keynote Speaker:
Michael Rosbash
Bioinformatics:
Naama Barkai, Leonie Ringrose, Christopher Vollmers
Cell Biology:
Needhi Bhalla, Leo James
Developmental Biology:
Miki Ebisuya, Michael Levine, Margaret McCarthy
Imaging:
Suliana Manley, Pavel Tomancak
Membrane Biology:
Robert Ernst, Randy Hampton
Molecular Genetics:
Asifa Akhtar, Zoya Ignatova, Argyris Papantonis, James Williamson
Structural Biology:
Gaia Pigino, Sjors Scheres, Max Cryle, Jen Heemstra

Speakers
Bioinformatics:
Florian Jug, Neville Sanjana, Juliane Liepe
Biotechnology:
Andrew Heron, Katherina Pappas
Cell Biology:
Daniel Gerlich, Ulrike Kutay
Developmental Biology:
Roeland Nusse, Peter Lenart
Immunology:
Polly Matzinger
Neuroscience:
Bianxiao Cui, Mara Dierssen, Michael Sheehan
Spectroscopy:
Anne-Claude Gavin, Danielle Laurencin
Structural Biology:
Osamu Nureki, Anna Marie Pyle, Elizabeth Villa
Synthetic Biology:
Yamuna Krishnan, Floyd Romesberg

Speakers
Opening talks:
Kathy Niakan, Vivek Malhotra
Biomedicine:
Ileana Cristea, Martin Fussenegger, David Jones, Maria Grazia Roncarolo
Biotechnology:
Deniz Dalkara, Shawn Douglas, Hiroaki Suga
Neuroscience:
Ed Boyden, Saul Kato, Benjamin Simons
Nucleus:
Jean Beggs, Irene Chiolo, Cigall Kadoch, Juri Rappsilber, Detlef Weigel
Structural Biology:
Martin Beck, Saeko Yanaka

Speakers
Biotechnology:
Hendrik Dietz
Cell Biology:
Gloria Brar, David Morgan, Amy Pasquinelli, Melina Schuh
Developmental Biology:
Mariann Bienz, Valerie Horsley
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry:
Maria Barna, Pietro De Camilli, Ramanujan Hegde, Linda Hsieh-Wilson, Jue D. Wang
Neuroscience:
Gloria Choi, Karl Deisseroth, Iiris Hovatta, Carolyn McBride, Bernardo Sabatini
Structural Biology:
Nenad Ban, Yifan Cheng, Harry Noller

Speakers
Biochemistry & Cell Biology:
Scott Emr, Kathleen Green, Fumiyo Ikeda, Christian Mandl, Tom Rapoport, Maya Schuldiner, Carola Vinuesa
Developmental Biology:
Kimberly Mowry, Karuna Sampath, Didier Stainier
Neuroscience:
Axel Brunger, Martin Chalfie, Erika Holzbaur, Ivan Manzini, King-Wai Yau
Structural Biology & Biophysics:
Pamela Bjorkman, Adam Frost, Charalampos Kalodimos, Manuel Mayr, Alice Ting

Speakers
Nobel Lectures:
Sir John Walker, Ada Yonath
Circles of Life:
Sara Zanivan, Ingo Potrykus, Linda Partridge, Gero Miesenböck, Ian Chambers, Steffen Lemke
Journey through Life:
Patrick Cramer, Vinzenz Unger, Anne Spang, Margaret Liu
Messages in Life:
Jeff Lichtman, Jason Chin, Linda van Aelst, Frances Ashcroft, Sir Adrian Bird
Small Wonders of Life:
Gabriel Lander, Mei Hong

Speakers
Building Blocks of Life:
Peter Seeberger, Karissa Sanbonmatsu, Andreas Plückthun, Janet Thornton
Cellular Communication:
Anthony Hunter, Erkki Ruoslahti, Erik Jorgensen, Nina Tandon, Erin Schuman, Doreen Cantrell, Kartik Chandran, Hollis Cline
From Genes to Function:
Edith Heard, Arthur Horwich, Susan Gottesman, Jill Barber
From Techniques to Discovery:
John Rubinstein, Dinshaw Patel, Albert Heck, Angela Gronenborn, Maria Garcia Parajo

Speakers:
Opening Talk:
Ron Laskey
Cellular Communication:
Maria Pia Cosma, Joshua Kaplan, Dieter Oesterheldt, Jeremy Reiter, Thomas Südhof
From Genes to Function:
Dominique Bergmann, Ronald Breaker, Drew Endy, Joannes Krause, Harmit Malik, Maria Elena Torres-Padilla
Molecules of Life:
Wah Chiu, Judith Frydman, Anne Marie Pyle, Matthias Selbach, Kurt Wüthrich
Organizing the Cell:
Andrew Carter, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Hidde Ploegh, Tom Rapoport, Romeo Ricci, Sharon Tooze

Speakers
Molecular Level:
Scott Blanchard, Matthias Rief, Carol Robinson, Sriram Subramaniam
Cellular Level:
Jan Ellenberg, Achilleas Frangakis, Jan-Michael Peters, Petra Schwille, Maria Vartiainen, Yosef Yarden
Organismal Level:
Ana P. Costa-Pereira, Alexander Gottschalk, Mikhail Lebedev, Harvey Lodish, Jon Yewdell
Systems Level:
Andrew Berry, Ben Hankamer, Bernhard Küster, Kristala Prather, Jonathan Weissman

Speakers
Cell Biology:
Facundo Batista, Wendy Bickmore, Ari Helenius, Peter Walter
Developmental Biology:
Andrew Dillin, Maria Leptin, Erez Raz, Ernst H.K. Stelzer
Neuroscience:
Amparo Acker-Palmer, Winfried Denk, Florian Engert, Isabelle Mansuy
Structural Biology:
Christopher Dobson, Rachel Green, Marin van Heel, Annalisa Pastore, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Future of Biology:
Hendrik Dietz, Luis Serrano, Pamela Silver

Speakers
Cell Biology:
Jean Gruenberg, Ramanujan Hegde, Matthias Mann, Sandra Schmid, Suzanne Pfeffer
Developmental Biology:
Denis Duboule, Oliver Hobert, Janet Rossant
Neuroscience:
Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Pietro De Camilli, Ana Maria Cuervo, Britta Qualmann
Structural Biology:
Elspeth Garman, Irmgard Sinning, Alfred Wittinghofer
Biomedicine:
Christian Buchholz, Brian Coombes, Marc Mareel, Tobias Spielmann

Speakers
Cell Biology:
Susan Gasser, Markus Hochstrasser, Clare Waterman-Storer, Marino Zerial
Computational Biology:
Cedric Notredame, Andrej Sali, Arne Skerra, Gunnar von Heijne
Developmental Biology
Christian Klämbt, Jürgen Knoblich, Wolf Reik
Neuroscience:
John Heuser, Oleg Shupliakov
Structural Biology:
Tom Blundell, Karolin Luger, Daniela Rhodes, Peter Wright

Speakers
Cell Biology:
Jiri Bartek, Bernd Bukau, Tim Hunt, Stefan Müller, Phillip Zamore
Developmental Biology:
Markus Affolter, John Gurdon, Andrew McMahon, Claudio Stern
Neuroscience:
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Joachim Herz, Larry Zipursky
Structural Biology:
Hashim Al-Hashimi, Nenad Ban, Roland Beckmann, Kevin Gardner
Systems Biology:
Patrick Cramer, Friedrich Lottspeich, Michael Yaffe

Speakers
Cell Biology:
Sir Philip Cohen, Ron Hay, Michael Rosenfeld, Joan Steitz
Developmental Biology:
Philip Ingham, Ruth Lehmann, Alex Schier, Cliff Tabin
Neuroscience:
Adriano Aguzzi, Barry Dickson, Oliver Hobert, Paul Sternberg
Stem Cell Research:
Gerald Schatten, Hans Schöler, Ian Wilmut
Structural Biology:
Wolfgang Baumeister, Elena Conti, Louise Johnson, Nigel Unwin

Speakers
William J. Betz
Pascale Cossart
Stephen Cusack
Walter Gehring
Anthony Hyman
Rolf Kemler
Baljit Khakh
Peter Krammer
Hartmut Michel
Michael Sattler
Eric Westhof
Lewis Wolpert

Speakers
Cell Biology:
William Earnshaw, Ludger Johannes, Jürg Müller
Developmental Biology:
Renato Paro, Davor Solter
Neuroscience:
Nils Brose, Arthur Konnerth
Structural Biology:
Pascal Auffinger, Udo Heinemann, Karin Schleinkofer