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Scientific Advances Track

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Environment  
Nutrition  
Business in Science Track    
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Sunday March 27th 2011
14:00 Opening plenary session

Health , a right for all human being, at any price?

15:30

15:45 Brain, emotions and
social behavior

Talk1 - Brain Science: a societal perspective. What is possible and what is desirable?
Philip Campbell

Talk 2 - The social impact of stress
Carmen Sandi

Talk 3 - The social brain in adolescence
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh


Round Table
When Biology meets Psychology and Social Sciences

Can we "cure" ageing?
 

Talk 1 - A retirement home for bacteria: study and understanding of ageing
François Taddei

Talk 2 - System Biology and ageing
Thomas Kirkwood

Talk 3 - Robustness of life defying disease and death
Miroslav Radman


Round Table
Extending life : what consequences for all of us ?

Environment and CO²
 

Talk 1 - Carbon capture by forests
Simon Lewis

Talk 2 - Ocean acidification and consequences on plancton ecosystems
Maria Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez

Talk 3 - Reduction of greenhouse gas effect through adapted agricultural practices
Sylvie Recous


Round Table
Mitigating CO²: bio or non-bio solutions ?

18:15
18:30 Plenary session

Drugs and developing countries
20:00

 

Monday March 28th 2011
9:00 From systems biology to personalized medicine

Talk 1 - Combining Eastern and Western approaches of biology into systems medicine
Zhu Chen

Talk 2 - Catalyzing the transition from reactive to proactive (P4) medicine through systems biology
Leroy Hood

Talk 3 - Enabling biobanking, systems biology, and other research data to be used for personalised medicine
Anthony J. Brookes


Round Table

"Defining a roadmap for systems of medicine"

Biofuels from Biomass
  

Talk 1 - Algae, fuel or feed
Jonathan Gressel

Talk 2 - Enzymatic conversion of biomass to biofuels
Liisa Viikari

Talk 3 - Plant biomass utilisation
Keith Waldron


Round Table

"What are the
realistic options?"

Health, Nutrition and bacteria 

Talk 1 - Pro and pre-biotics
Bob Rastall

Talk 2 - Interface between nutrition and signalling
Walter Wahli

Talk 3 - Microflora and resistance to insulin
Rémy Burcelin


Round Table

"Neutraceuticals : luxury niche or new hope for gobal nutrition?"

 

 

 

 

9:30 - 11:15

"How to address the growing challenge of chronic diseases in emerging countries?"

 

 
 
 

11:30 - 13:15

"How can technology innovation transform healthcare delivery?"

11:45
12:00 Plenary session

"Reconstructing life : Which biology for the future ?"
13:15
  Lunch
       

 

 

14:15 - 16:00

"How to solve R&D's challenge with Open collaborative Innovation?

 

 

14:30

 

 

 

Comprehending human brain function in the future

Talk 1 - Visualizing the impact of education on the brain
Stanislas Dehaene

Talk 2 - Predicting brain responses: The blue brain project
Richard Frackowiak

Talk 3 - Industrial scale image analysis – the future of neuroradiology
John C. Mazziotta


Round Table

"Understanding brain function: implication for society and the future"

Turn Green into Gold
 
 

Talk 1 - State of the art for biorefineries
Manfred Kircher

Talk 2 - Carbohydrates for chemistry: a sweet future?
Yves Queneau

Talk 3 - White biotechnologies
Mickael O'Donohue


Round Table

"The role of Biorefinery in
the Biobased Economy"

More food and
better food

 

Talk 1 - Outline the challenges facing the world in increasing crop yields and biomass
Donald Ort

Talk 2 - Sustainable agriculture and global food security: what can we wait from research?
Hervé Guyomard

Talk 3 - Nutritional quality of food and effects on health
Cathie Martin


Round Table

"Which new agronomy for a sustainable and productive agriculture possible? "

16:15 - 18:00

"Boston,Mumbai, Nairobi..?
What is the geographic new deal for boosting innovation in infectious diseases?"

17:15
Plenary session

"How will we be fed in 2020?"
17:30
19:00  

 

Tuesday March 29th 2011
9:00 "Cancer research for personalized patient treatment"
Talk 1 - New technologies for diagnosis and treatment of cancer: imaging, robotics, etc.
Roger Tsien


Talk 2 - Targeted therapeutics, links with the genomic
Jean-Yves Blay


Talk 3 - Changing the paradigms for cancer treatment
Olga Georgina Martínez Montañez



Round Table

"Do we implement the scientific achievements into patient treatment and pharmaceutical innovation ?"
"How to deal with emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases?"
Talk 1 - Flu, a striking example of emerging disease
Leo Lit Man Poon


Talk 2 - Predisposition, genetic resistance to some infectious diseases
Laurent Abel


Talk 3 - New method to develop antibiotics
Julian Davies



Round Table

"Have we considered
all parameters ?"
"Cell therapy: scientific, therapeutic and ethical challenges"
Talk 1 - The new gene therapy: a new hope
Luigi Naldini


Talk 2 - Gene therapy : the first steps toward efficacy
Alain Fischer


Talk 3 -Stem cell research and regenerative medicine: a new therapy for chronic disease
Alan Trounson



Round Table

"Societal and Ethical key issues: the citizen's rights"
11:45
12:00 Plenary session

"Would Pasteur and Fleming have survived the precautionary principle?"
13:15
  Lunch
 
14:30 Closing plenary session

"Preparing for healthcare 3.0: thinking outside the box"
16:00