Tuesday 6 June

14.00 - 14.15   Welcome

  • António M. Feijó, President of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
  • Elvira Fortunato, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal

14.15 - 15.00   10 years of EU-LIFE: Joining forces for strong voices in science

  • Host: Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of IGC
  • Luis Serrano (CRG) & Jo Bury (VIB), Founding chairs of EU-LIFE
  • Marta Agostinho, Executive Director of EU-LIFE
  • Manuel Aleixo, Head of Unit for ERA Governance & Implementation, European Commission

15.00 - 16.30   The future of science (I)

  • Chair: Giulio Superti-Furga, Co-Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of CeMM
  • Stefano Boeri, Architect & Professor of Urban Planning at Milan Politecnico
  • Alex Jordan, Group Leader at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour
  • Jack Leeming, Editor at Nature
  • Frances Brodsky, Novelist and Group Leader at University College London
  • Emmy Verschuren, Group Leader & Strategic Research Coordinator, FiMM
  • Awardees of the EU-LIFE/Nature Essay Contest: Utopia Institute of Research

- Coffee break -

17.00 - 17.45   The future of science (II)

  • Chair: Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of IGC
  • Maria Leptin, President of ERC
  • André Rendeiro, Principal Investigator at CeMM

17.45 - 19.00   The role of creativity in science

  • Moderator: Anders Lund, Director of BRIC
  • Edith Heard, Director EMBL
  • Alex Jordan, Group Leader at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour
  • Jona Shkurti, Medical Doctor & PhD student at NKI
  • Andrzej Dziembowski, Head of Laboratory at IIMCB

19.00 - 19.40   Poster session

- Conference dinner -

 

Wednesday 7 June

9.00 - 10.45   The role of collaboration & multidisciplinarity in science

  • Henrique Leitao, Senior Researcher & Provost of the University of Lisbon
  • Moderator: Electra Gizeli, IMBB Deputy Director and Group Leader
  • Wolf Reik, Scientific Director of Altos Labs
  • Hana Svozilova, PhD Student at CEITEC
  • Tanja Florin, Science manager at MDC
  • Jan Steyaert, Scientific Director of the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology and Founder of ConfoTerapeutics

- Coffee break -

11.15 - 12.30   The role of  proactivity in science

  • Moderator: Giorgia Guglielmi, Science Writer and Communications Manager at FMI
  • Caroline Giuglaris, PhD Student at Institut Curie
  • Navneet Vasistha, Assistant Professor at BRIC
  • Silvia Gomez-Recio, Secretary General Yerun
  • Amos Abolaji, Director & Founder of Drosophila Research & Training Centre in Nigeria
  • Janusz Bujnicki, Project Leader at IIMCB

12.30 - 13.15   Legacy of EU-LIFE and vision for the future

  • Monica Bettencourt-Dias, Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of IGC
  • Giulio Superti-Furga, Co-Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of CeMM

- Conference lunch -

 

* Please note all times are local (GMT)