Speakers and Topics

“Lighting Up the Brain“
Professor Gero Miesenböck
Shaw Laureate in Life Science and Medicine 2020
Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

“Optogenetics, Shaping with Light“
Professor Peter Hegemann
Shaw Laureate in Life Science and Medicine 2020
Hertie Professor for Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Biophysics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

“From Biophysics to Optogenetics, A Surprising Journey with Microbial Rhodopsins“
Professor Georg Nagel
Shaw Laureate in Life Science and Medicine 2020
Professor for Molecular Plant-Physiology, Physiological Institute — Department of Neuroscience, University of Würzburg, Germany