Thursday 5 September

Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium 2024

10:00: Rector Tor Grande, NTNU

Welcome to NTNU and NTNU Kavli Nanoscience Symposium 2024

10:05: Vice president Terje Lohndal, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, NTNU

Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Lectures by the Kavli Laureates in Nanoscience

10:10: Professor Robert Langer, Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, MIT

A Scientific Road not Taken: My Path from Chemical Engineering to Nanotechnology and Biology and Medicine, Read the abstract

10:50: Professor Armand Paul Alivisatos, University of Chicago

Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Biomedical Imaging, Health, and Sustainability, Read the abstract

11:30: Professor Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University

Repurposing the Blueprint of Life through Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs): Opening the Field of Structural Nanomedicine, Read the abstract

12:10: Lunch for invited guests

13:00: Dean and chairman of NTNU NanoLab Øyvind Gregersen, Faculty of Natural Sciences, NTNU

NTNU NanoLab as a Cross Disciplinary Infrastructure

13:05: Professor Dame Molly Stevens, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford

Innovating Nanomaterials Design for Healthcare Applications

13:45: Professor Berit Løkensgard Strand, Dept of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU

Fibrosis Free Polysaccharide Microbeads Relevant for Cell Therapy

14:20: Dr. Sofie Snipstad, Dept of Physics, NTNU

Localized Delivery of Nanoparticles by Ultrasound and Microbubbles for Treatment of Cancer and Brain Diseases

14:40: Associate professor Sulalit Bandyopadhyay, Dept of Chemical Engineering, NTNU

Our Journey with Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles in Diagnostics and Therapeutics

15:00: Professor Erika Eiser, Dept of Physics NTNU

Whole Genome Detection Using Multivalent DNA-Coated Colloids

15:20: Professor Bjørn Torger Stokke, Dept of Physics, NTNU

Kavli Prize Nanoscience Symposium 2024

10:00: Opening remarks by Bjarne Foss, Adm. Director, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience (KISN)

10:10: Greetings from Lise Øvreås, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 

10:15: Laureate lecture: Nancy Kanwisher: The FFA as a Portal into Architecture of the Human Mind, Read the abstract 

Followed by Q&A session

11:20: Laureate lecture: Doris Tsao: How the brain represents the world: Insights from the macaque face patch system, Read the abstract

Followed by Q&A session

12:15: Lunch in the canteen at the Fred Kavli building for invited guests

13:10: Re-opening of the symosium: Tor Grande, Rector, NTNU

13:20: Laureate lecture: Winrich Freiwald: Life, Face and Brain, Read the abstract

Followed by Q&A session

14:10: Concluding remarks, round-up disucssion & end of symposium: Jonathan Whitlock, Professor, KISN

14:20: Lab tour at the Animal Facility for Kavli Prize laureated and invited guests

Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Kristine B. Walhovd, introduces the Neuroscience prize laureates  

The Q&A session will be led by Assosiated Professor Maryam Ziaei, KISN

Photos 2024 laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience:

Nils Lund / Kavli Prize

Friday 9 September

Kavli Prize Symposium for Nanoscience

Auditorium R5, The Natural Science Building, NTNU

10:00: Welcome, Øyvind Gregersen, NTNU

Session 1 - The Kavli Prize Laureates in nanoscience 2020

Chair: Bodil Holst, University of Bergen, Norway

10:05: Introduction of 2020 Laureate Harald Rose

10:10: Harald Rose, Ulm University and Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany 

10:45: Introduction of 2020 Laureate Maximillan Haider

10:50: Maximillan Haider, CEOS GmbH and KIT, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe, Germany

11:40: Introduction of 2020 Laureate Knut Urban

11:45: Knut Urban, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

12:20: Introduction of 2020 Ondrej L. Krivanek

12:25: Ondrej L. Krivanek, Nion Co and Arizona State University, USA, UK and Czechia

13:00: Lunch

Session 2 - The Kavli Prize Laureates in nanoscience 2022

Chair: Naomi Halas, Rice University, USA

14:00: Introduction  of 2022 Laureates George Whitesides, Ralph G. Nuzzo and David L. Allara

14:10: Ralph G. Nuzzo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

15:10: Introduction of 2022 Laureate Jacob Sagiv

15:20: Jacob Sagiv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

15:55: Closing remarks, John de Mello, NTNU Nano 

Kavli Prize Symposium for Neuroscience

Auditorium MTA, in The Medical – Technical Research Centre (MTFS), Campus Øya    

10:00: Welcome

10:02: Introduction of 2020 Laureate David Julius

10:07: Natural products as probes of the pain pathway: from physiology to atomic structure – David Julius, University of California San Fransisco, USA

10:37: Introduction of 2020 Laureate Ardem Patapoutian

10:44: How Do You Feel? The Molecules That Sense Touch – Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, Lebanon and USA

11:14: Questions for the 2020 Laureates

11:24: Lunch

12:00: Introduction of 2022 Laureate Jean-Louis Mandel

12:07: From Fragile X to a thousand + monogenic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders; impact on patients and families? – Jean-Louis Mandel, University of Strasbourg, France

12:37: Introduction of 2022 Laureate Christopher A. Walsh

12:44: Genetics of Human Cerebral Cortical Development – Christopher A. Walsh, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA

13:14: Introduction of 2022 Laureate Huda Y. Zoghbi and 2022 Laureate Harry T. Orr

13:21: From the clinic to the bench and back: adventures in the genetics of neurological disorders – Huda Y. Zoghbi, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, USA and Lebanon

A collaborative research journey to understand a neurodegenerative disease  – Harry T. Orr, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA

14:28: Questions for the 2022 Laureates

14:38: Closing remarks

Photos 2022 laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience:

Nils Lund / Kavli Prize

The 2020 Kavli Prize Events was cancelled due to the COVID19 pandemic.

The events in 2022 included both the Kavli Prize Laureates from 2020 and 2022. 

Photos 2020 laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience:

Nils Lund / Kavli Prize

Thursday, 6 September

09:00-12:00: The Kavli Prize, Laureate Lectures 2018

Auditorium R1 in The Natural Science Building at Gløshaugen.

09:00: Photo session

09:45: Pro-Rector Bjarne Foss, Welcome

9:50: Ole M. Sejersted, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 

9:55: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas , Introduction of the Nanoscience prize winner, Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany

10:00: Nanoscience prize lecture: Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, CRISPR-Cas9: a transformative genome engineering technology originating from a bacterial immune system

10:15: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, Introduction of the Nanoscience prize winner, Jennifer A. Doudna

10:20: Nanoscience prize lecture: Jennifer A. Doudna, CRISPR Biology Guides the Future of Genome Editing

10:35: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, Introduction of Nanoscience prize winner, Virginijus Šikšnys, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

10:40: Nanoscience prize lecture: Virginijus Šikšnys, From antiviral defense towards genome editing

10:55: Scientific director at the Kavli Institute, NTNU, Edvard Moser, Introduction of the Neuroscience prize winner, James Hudspeth, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

11:00: Neuroscience prize lecture: James Hudspeth, How hearing happens: the ear's biological hearing aid

11:15: Professor Edvard Moser, Introduction of the Neuroscience prize winner, Robert Fettiplace, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

11:20: Neuroscience prize lecture: Robert Fettiplace, The twin roles of auditory hair cells in hearing

11:35: Professor Edvard Moser, Introducion of the Neuroscience prize winner, Christine Petit, Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, Paris, France

11:40: Neuroscience prize lecture: Christine Petit, Understanding hearing mechanisms based on genetic readout from disorders

11:55: Concluding remarks by Pro-Rector Bjarne Foss

13:30-16:30: Kavli Prize Symposium for Neuroscience

Auditorium MTA, in The Medical - Technical Research Centre (MTFS), Campus Øya    

13:30: Christian Doeller, Opening remarks

13:35: Christine Petit, The hidden face of hereditary deafness: an emerging genetic roadmap for the central auditory system?

14:15: Coffee break

14:30: A. James Hudspeth, Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by ion channels and myosin molecules in hair cells of the inner ear

15:10: Coffee break

15:30: Robert Fettiplace, The contribution of transmembrane channel-like protein (TMC1) to mechano-electrical transduction in cochlear hair cells

16:10: Round-up discussion and end of symposium

13:30-16:30: Kavli Prize Symposium on Nanoscience

Auditorium R7, Natural Sciences Building, Gløshaugen

13:30: Øyvind Gregersen, Opening Remarks

13:40: Albert Fert, Physics of condensed matter and topology: magnetic skyrmions, topological phases of matter and applications

14:30: Chris Palmstrøm, Epitaxy by Design: Epitaxial Growth of Dissimilar Materials

15:00: Coffee Break

15:20: Kristina Edström, Batteries for a Better Environment

15:50: Albert van den Berg, Labs, Cells and Organs on chip

16:20: John De Mello, Closing Remarks

Photos 2018 laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience:

Peter Bagde / Kavli Prize

Thursday 8 September

09.45–12.00: The Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures

09:45: Rector Gunnar Bovim, Welcome

President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Ole M. Sejerstad, Greetings From the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Nanoscience Prize Winner Calvin Quate, Short Statement Given on Behalf of Calvin Quate by Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas

Nanoscience Prize Winner Gerd Binnig, Atomic Force Microscopy for Nano-Medicine and in General for Nanotechnology

Nanoscience Prize Winner Christoph Gerber, The Impact of AFM on a Global Scale

Neuroscience Prize Winner Eve Marder, The Neuroscience of Animal Variability and Robust Behaviour in the Face of Environmental Challenge

Neroscience Prize Winner Michael M. Merzenich, Brain Plasticity-Based Therapeutics

Neuroscience Prize Winner Carla J. Shatz, New Synapses in Old Brains?

11:45: Rector Gunnar Bovim, Concluding Remarks

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14.00–17.00  The Kavli Prize Symposia in Nanoscience

14:00: Anne Borg, Opening Remarks

14:10: Shuji Nakamura, The Invention of Blue LED and Future Solid State Lighting

15:00: Stacey Bent, Layer-by-Layer Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Energy Applications

15:50: Krijn de Jong, Nanoscale Effects in Catalysis for More Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals

16:25: Dimos Poulikakos, How to Arrest, Interrogate and Transport Viruses in Liquids, One at a Time

16:55: Erik Wahlström, Closing Remarks

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Nanoscience at NTNU

14.00–17.00  The Kavli Prize Symposia in Neuroscience

14:00: Emre Yaksi, Opening Remars

14:05: Vivek Jayaraman, Dissecting the Workings of a Neural Compass

14:50: Leslie Vosshall, Building a Mosquito Sensory System to Hunt Humans

16:00: Botond Roska, The First Steps in Vision: Cell Types, Circuits and Repair

16:45: Round-up Discussions

Photos 2016 laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience:

Peter Bagde / Kavli Prize

Wednesday 10 September

16:00 MTFS, meeting room 5th floor at Campus Øya

Marty Saggese: SfN: Creating Compelling Value for Members… and How This Relates to Roald Amundsen?

18:30: Kavli Popular Lecture

The Students Society Building (Studentersamfundet)

Stanislas Dehaene: The matter of education: Literacy, numeracy and the developing brain

Thursday 11 September

0915–1200: Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures, Auditorium R1, Natural Sciences Building (Realfagbygget), Gløshaugen

9:15: Welcome remarks – Rector Gunnar Bovim, NTNU

9:20: Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters – Nils Christian Stenseth, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

9:25: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Thomas W. Ebbesen

9:30: Nanoscience prize lecture: Thomas Ebbesen: Small things – Big consequences

9:45: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Stefan W. Hell

9:50: Nanoscience prize lecture: Stefan W. Hell: Optical microscopy: the resolution revolution

10:05: Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, Arne Brataas, introduces the Nanoscience prize winner, Sir John Pendry

10:10: Nanoscience prize lecture: Sir John Pendry: The science of invisibility

10:25: Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Brenda Milner

10:30: Neuroscience prize lecture: Brenda Milner: Memory: Looking Back and Looking Forward

10:45: Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, John O'Keefe

10:50: Neuroscience prize lecture: John O'Keefe: Spatial Cells in the Hippocampal Formation

11:05: Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Marcus E. Raichle

11:10: Neuroscience prize lecture: Marcus E. Raichle: The Brain's Dark Energy

11:25: Concluding remarks by Rector Gunnar Bovim

Kavli Prize Symposium in Nanoscience

Auditorium R2, Natural Sciences Building, Gløshaugen

14:00: Anne Borg, Opening of the Kavli Nanoscience Symposium

14:10: Andre Geim: Van der Waals heterostructures: Assembling designer materials from isolated atomic planes

15:00: Bo Brummerstedt Iversen: Watching nanoparticles form

15:50: Molly Stevens: Designing nanomaterials for biosensing and regenerative medicine

16:25: Ke Lu: Anisotropic nanostructures in materials

Kavli Prize Symposium in Neuroscience

Auditorium KBA in Women- and Childrens Centre

14:00: Haim Sompolinsky: Computational Perspectives on Neural Representations

14:30: Doris Tsao: Mapping object representations

15:00: Nachum Ulanovsky: Neural codes for 2-D and 3-D space in the hippocampal formation of bats

15:30: Break

15:45: Eric Knudsen: Brain Maps Controlling Attention

16:15: Dennis O'Leary: Cortical maps: Regulation of area patterning

16:45: End of symposium

Photos 2014 laureates in Nanoscience:

Kavli Prize

Photos 2014 laureates in Neuroscience:

• Brenda Milner: Owen Egan/McGill, University
• Marcus E. Raichle: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• John O'Keefe: David Bishop, UCL

Wednesday 5 September

18:30–19:30: The Students Society Building (Studentersamfundet)

Public lecture – free:

Richard Morris, D. Phil, the University of Edinburgh: The making, keeping and losing of memory

 
Thursday 6 September

10:00–12:00: The Kavli Prize Lectures

NTNU, Gløshaugen, Auditorium R1

10:15: Welcome remarks – Rector Torbjørn Digernes, NTNU

10:20: Greetings from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters – Nils Christian Stenseth, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

10:25: Arne Skjeltorp, Chairman of the Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience, introduces the Nano prize winner, Mildred Dresselhaus

10:30: Mildred Dresselhaus: Nanoscale Phenomena (broadcasted from the University of Bergen)

11:00: Lily Jan, member of the Kavli Prize Committee, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Cornelia Bargmann

11:05: Cornelia Bargmann: Genes, neurons, and decisions: using fixed circuits to drive flexible behaviours

11:35: Charles Stevens, member of the Kavli Prize Committee, introduces the Neuroscience prize winner, Winfried Denk

11:40: Winfried Denk: Imaging tools to reverse engineering the brain

Kavli Symposia on Neuroscience and Nanoscience – parallel sessions

14:00–18:00

Kavli Symposium on Neuroscience

Location: Centre for Women and Children, Auditorium 1st floor

Moderators: May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

14:55: Opening remarks by Nils Christian Stenseth, president of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

15:00: Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France: How learning to read changes the brain

15:55: Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University: Digging for genes that contribute to behavioural evolution in mammals

16:35: Catherine Dulac, Harvard University: Sex battles in the brain

Kavli Symposium on Nanoscience

Location: NTNU, Gløshaugen, The Natural Science Building, Auditorium R9

Moderators: Bjørn Torger Stokke, NTNU, and Thomas Tybell, NTNU

14:00: Opening remarks by Bjørn Torger Stokke, Chair of NTNU NanoLab Board

14:10: Carlos Bustamante, Univ of California, Berkeley, USA: Discrete Steps and Intersubunit Coordination in a DNA-Packaging Ring ATPase

14:45: Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore, Singapore: Electrospinning – A Means to Innovate for Funding Strapped Researchers

15:45: Jochen Mannhart, Max Planck Stuttgart, Germany: Oxide Interfaces – A Fantastic World for Electrons; From MOSFETs to Novel Electron Systems

16:20: Milena Grifoni, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany: Spin-dependent phenomena in carbon nanotubes

16:55: Closing Remarks by Thomas Tybell, NTNU

Photos 2012 laureates in Nanoscience and Neuroscience:

Knut Falch / Kavli Prize