Agenda of Nobel days in Yerevan

April 11, 2016 20:14

Yerevan State Medical University will host five Nobel Laureates under one roof in the frames of a unique scientific event “Nobel days in Yerevan” which is aimed at discovering facts about the scientific achievements worth sharing the Nobel heritage.

Here's the agenda of Nobel days in Yerevan:

12 April (Day 1) Venue: K. Demirchyan Sport and Concert Complex
08.30 – 09.50	Participant Registration
10.00 – 10.55	Opening Ceremony	Konstantin Yenkoyan, Organizing Committee Head Mikael Narimanyan, Host Rector Hovik Abrahamyan, RA Prime Minister Levon Mkrtchyan, Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan, President of YSMU Board of Trustees
10.00 – 10.55	FAMILY PHOTO
11.00 – 11.40	The Revolution of Personalized Medicine: Are We Going to Cure All Diseases and at What Price? (public lecture)	Speaker: Aaron Ciechanover
11.40 – 12.00	Q&A	Speaker: Aaron Ciechanover
12.00 – 12.30	Coffee Break
12.30 – 13.10	Pursuit of My Dreams for Half-a-Century (public lecture)	Speaker: Ei-ichiNegishi
13.10 – 13.30	Q&A	Speaker: Ei-ichiNegishi
13.30 – 14.10	Fostering Scientific Education (public lecture)	Speaker: Dan Shechtman
14.10 – 14.30	Q&A	Speaker: Dan Shechtman
14.30 – 15.30	Lunch Break
15.30 – 16.10	From basic science to advances in contemporary medicine (public lecture)	Speaker: Ada Yonath
16.10 – 16.30	Q&A Conclusion	Speaker: Ada Yonath
13 April (Day 2) Venue: Session Hall, YSMU Administrative Building
09.00 – 09.50	Participant Registration
10.00 – 11.00	Discovering Helicobacter (specialized lecture)	Speaker: J. Robin Warren
11.00 – 11.30	Q&A	Speaker: J. Robin Warren
11.30 – 12.00	Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00	Quasi-Periodic Crystals, a Paradigm Shift in Crystallography (specialized lecture)	Speaker: Dan Shechtman
13.00 – 13.30	Q&A	Speaker: Dan Shechtman
13.30 – 14.30	Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.30	Transition Metal Catalysis for a Sustainable and Prosperous World (specialized lecture)	Speaker: Ei-ichi Negishi
15.30 – 16.00	Q&A Conclusion	Speaker: Ei-ichi Negishi
14 April (Day 3) Venue: Session Hall, YSMU Administrative Building
09.00 – 09.50	Participant Registration
10.00 – 11.00	The Ubiquitin System for Intracellular Proteolysis: From Basic Mechanisms thru Human Diseases and on to Drug Targeting (specialized lecture)	Speaker: Aaron Ciechanover
11.00 – 11.30	Q&A	Speaker: Aaron Ciechanover
11.30 – 12.00	Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00	Species-specific antibiotics and microbiome preservation (specialized lecture)	Speaker: Ada Yonath
13.00 – 13.15	Q&A Conclusion	Speaker: Ada Yonath
13.15 – 14.00	Scientific Lunch Break
14.00 – 19.00	Meeting with high school children Venue: UWC Dilijan College
15 April (Day 4)
19.00	GALA DINNER