It was with great sadness that the world learned of the passing of Martin Karplus in December last year. Pioneer in the field of molecular modelling simulations, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013, Martin Karplus funded a school in Strasbourg that has welcomed and trained dozens of scientists, now professors and researchers across Europe. The gathering in Strasbourg on April 4 aims at providing a tribute to a really beautiful mind endowed with exceptional intelligence in bringing people together despite ethnic and cultural diversity to create a school of thought. The symposium will include contributions from former and current members of the Karplus school in Strasbourg as well as eminent friends and collaborators in Europe.
Date: April 4, 2025 at 2pm
Link to registration: https://forms.gle/HfhUANrasyQSv7Yr7
Programme
Special guest: Marci Karplus
14h00 - 14h30 Welcome words
- Jean-François Lutz, Director of ISIS
- Géraud Delorme, Regional Director of the CNRS
- Frédérique Berrod, President of the University of Strasbourg
- Andreas Lins, General Consul of Austria in Strasbourg
- Jean-Marie Lehn, Emeritus Professor, University of Strasbourg
- Marco Cecchini, Associate Professor, Institut de Chimie, University of Strasbourg
Martin Karplus' influence in Europe
14h30 - 15h00 Jean-Pierre Changeux, Institut Pasteur, Collège de France (plenary)
15h00 - 15h30 Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge (plenary)
15h30 - 15h45 Coffee break
Martin Karplus' school in Europe and in Strasbourg
15h45 - 16h15 Thomas Simonson, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale de la Cellule, Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS
16h15 - 16h45 Roland Stote & Annick Dejaegere, Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS
16h45 - 17h15 Marco Cecchini, Institut de Chimie, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS
Conclusion & Reception
17h15 - 17h20 Marci Karplus
17h20 - 18h15 Wine & bretzels
