Bio-breakthroughs: the life sciences revolution

Описание: What are the biggest new breakthroughs in the life sciences – biomembranes, protein folding, fluidics, technology? What is the next big discovery waiting to be made? How will this research impact medicine? What are the risks in developing these technologies? A panel of leading researchers weigh in.

Panellists:

Gunnar von Heijne, Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University, Head of the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research at Stockholm University and Scientific Director at the Science for Life Laboratory.

Jochen Schwenk, Associate Professor in Translational Proteomics at the School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Wouter van der Wijngaart, Leading the bio-, micro- and nanofluidics research at the KTH Microsystem Technology Lab

Susan Lindquist, Professor of Biology at MIT, Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and pioneer in the study of protein folding

Crosstalks is an academic web talk show with researchers from two of Sweden’s top universities, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. An international academic forum on global topics and leading research from the two universities. During three years 117 recognized researchers participated on a variety of topics.

Recorded 2013