Lia Addadi

Jan-E Bäckvall

Helmut Schwarz

SUNDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Jack D Dunitz

Deciphering the structure of biological machines
at the leading edge of motile cells

Ordered assemblies and phase transitions in living systems: the ultimate stress response

SUNDAY Evening Session – Moderator: Steve Weiner

Introduction

Coccolith biomineralization –
morphological complexity from biological modification of anisotropic mineral nucleation and growth

MONDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Jan-E Bäckvall

New metal-promoted reactions and their utility
in organic synthesis

Domino-metathesis and more

MONDAY Evening Session – Moderator: Mike McBride

Bio-inspired approaches to materials science
with nanoscopic objects and chiral motifs

TUESDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Don Hilvert

From new amino acids to new supramolecular architectures

The inorganic chemistry of the cell: mechanisms of the metalloregulatory and metallochaperone proteins

WEDNESDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Jay Siegel

Development of novel methodologies for the efficient synthesis of complex natural products

New methods for the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive compounds

WEDNESDAY Evening Session – Moderator: Andrea Vasella

Problems in asymmetric catalysis:
catalyst discovery, selectivity & practicality

THURSDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Meir Lahav

Materials through self-assembly and templating

Organizing system component domains in composite materials: synthesis, structure, and function

THURSDAY Evening Session – Moderator: Helmut Ringsdorf

Polymers, from plastics to polymer therapeutics?