Special Sessions
Free Public Panel Discussion: A Transdisciplinary Panel on CRISPR/Cas9
A "FEBS Science & Society"-funded Science Policy Session
13.02.2018, 10:30-12:30
The CRISPR/Cas9 revolution is widely being talked about these days. Apart from being a major scientific breakthrough, it also reveals how different fears and hopes are being handled by science, society, economy, and policy makers. The CRISPR/Cas9 system thus represents an ideal case to discuss the different implications of modern biomedical research, from economical, legal and ethical implications, to aspects of scientific impact and careers. The transdisciplinary panel will give the stage to experts from different fields to then discuss all these aspects around one technology.
with:
Martin Jinek (University of Zurich)
Bruno Lemaitre (EPF Lausanne)
Effy Vayena (Chair of Bioethics, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich)
Heinz Müller (Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern)
Moderation: Nik Walter (Tages-Anzeiger/SonntagsZeitung)
Attendance to the panel only is free.
Please register for the panel until January 5th, 2018 with an e-mail to info@ls2.ch
Full meeting attendance requires registration until January 7th, 2018 via www.annual-meeting.ls2.ch/registration
Science Crowdfunding Session
12.02.2018, 5:30-6:30 pm
"Candies, LSD and Crowdfunding", February 12th, 5.30-6.30 pm:
Featuring the incredible LSD research story of Robert Carhart-Harris and David Nutt and more successful projects from the first Swiss science crowdfunding channel, science.wemakeit.com:
Introduction
Mirko Bischofberger and Luc Henry, science.wemakeit.com
Keynote lecture
Natalie Jonk (CEO at CrowdScience, London, UK)
The viral LSD crowdfunding campaign
2 Short project presentations from science.wemakeit.com
1. HORAO
Prof. Ph. Schucht, Inselspital Bern, https://wemakeit.com/projects/horao
The HORAO project puts the most brilliant minds to work on improving technologies that visualize the exact border between brain tumor and healthy brain through a global prize-based competition!
2. At The Heart of Congo Kids
Prof. H. Abriel und P. Teixidor, Universität Bern, https://wemakeit.com/projects/at-the-heart-of-congo-kids
A pediatric doctor from the University Clinics of Kinshasa (DR Congo) needs to purchase scientific equipment to do his research and get advice from Swiss cardiologists.
