On behalf of the NOMIS Foundation, we are pleased to invite you to exciting lectures by pioneering researchers and recipients of the 2024 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award.
On Wednesday, October 16th 2024, recipients of the 2024 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award will share their exciting research insights at the Kunsthaus Zürich. The Swiss Study Foundation is happy to offer its beneficiaries the opportunity to listen to these existing lectures by pioneering researchers.
Speakers
Andrea Ablasser is full professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Ablasser’s research has revolutionized our understanding of innate immunity, playing a significant role in elucidating how cells respond to intracellular DNA as a signal of infection via the cGAS-STING pathway, a fundamental mechanism of immunity.
Elena Conti is director of the Department of Structural Cell Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, and honorary professor for the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.Conti and her research group have determined the structures and mechanisms of approximately 100 macromolecular proteins and complexes. Conti’s research represents a major breakthrough in the field, as a paradigm for the direct coordination of distinct macromolecular machines in gene expression.
Whitney Davis is professor of the Graduate School in the History of Art department at the University of California, Berkeley, US, and honorary professor of art history at the University of York, UK. Davis has vastly contributed to our knowledge of prehistoric and ancient arts, including worldwide rock art, ancient Egyptian and Greco–Roman arts, the Classical tradition in Western art (especially in Britain), and the development of modern art history in relation to archaeology, anthropology and philosophy.
Programme
16:00 – 16:30 | Reception
16:30 – 17:00 | Keynote by Svante Pääbo
17:00 – 17:30 | Lecture by Elena Conti
18:00 – 18:30 | Lecture by Andrea Ablasser
18:30 – 19:00 | Lecture by Whitney Davis
19:00 – 20:00 | Museum tour or networking reception
20:00 – 21:15 | Light dinner
Registration
Seats are limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register via the link provided and mention “Swiss Study Foundation” as your organization.
