Started in 2006, Molecular Frontiers operates as a non-profit organization, hosted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Its Scientific Advisory Board, a group of eminent scientists including many Nobel Prize laureates, represent expertise from a wide range of molecular science disciplines
This symposium was organized in collaboration with Nanyang Technological University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Some 400 students from Singapore schools attended the symposium!
The symposium highlighted emerging molecular technologies of importance to molecular medicine and biology, including hyperpolarizable NMR, super-resolution imaging, fluorescent probes for RNA, optical methods to activate selected proteins in cells, miniaturized lab on chip, and bioluminescence as a tool for studying transport in animals, and minimal synthetic genome systems.
Lectures, in chronologial order:
Opening address | 
Bertil Andersson, President of Nanyang Technological University and Bengt Nordén, Chairman and Founder of Molecular Frontiers, Sweden
Keynote Lecture |
Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute, United States
Sequencing Technology in Biomedicine |
Huanming Yang, President, Beijing Genomics Institute, China
Q&A: Dr. Craig Venter and Professor Huanming Yang |
Nanocomposite Design of Advanced Biomaterials |
Professor Jackie Y. Ying, Executive Director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
Convergence of Life Sciences with Engineering: A Perspective on this Third Revolution |
Ram Sasisekharan, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, United States
Q&A: Professors Jackie Y. Ying and Ram Sasisekharan |
Nobel Prize and the Advance of Immunological Methods |
Professor Erling Norrby, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
Probing Metabolism in vivo in Real Time |
Arnaud Comment, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland'
Can the Observant Chemist Compete with the Blind Watchmaker? |
Tom Brown, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Q&A: Professors Erling Norrby, Arnaud Comment and Tom Brown |
Nobel Address |
Sir Harold Kroto, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Florida State University, United States
Click Chemistry: Recent Advances Used in Biomedicine |
Karl Barry Sharpless, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, United States
Systems Biology of Metabolism: Impact on Human Health and Industrial Biotechnology |
Jens Nielsen, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Multiscale, Superresolved, Ultrasensitive Optical Molecular Imaging |
Shimon Weiss, University of California at Los Angeles, United States
Q&A: Professors Karl Barry Sharpless, Jens Nielsen and Shimon Weiss |
Nanoscopy with Focused Light |
Stefan Hell, 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Director, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Pushing the Envelope in Biological Fluorescence Microscopy |
Eric Betzig, 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
Cruising Inside Cells - New Fluorescent Probes and New Perspectives in Bioscience |
Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
