DAY 1 I September 24, 2026.

ELTE Gömb Aula, Lágymányosi Campus

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:30 Welcome, official opening of the event

9:30-11:00 Presentations
– Robert Langer – ‘The Road Not Taken’: My Unusual Path from Chemical Engineering to Nanotechnology to Advances in Biology and Medicine
– Yamuna Krishnan – Exploring the insides of the insides of our insides
– Dinshaw Patel – Structural biology of bacterial antiphage defense

11:00-11:45 Break

11:45-13:00 Presentations
– Daniela Rhodes – An unlikely journey from Chemistry to Structural Biology
– Reiko Kuroda – Micro-Worlds, Mega-Mysteries: What We Can Learn from Freshwater Snails

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

HUN-REN TTK (Research Centre for Natural Sciences)

– Informal discussions with the speakers
– Poster-making session
– Lauder Multiverzum Innovation Space (MIT) – Student Lab
– The World of Magic – an interactive Harry Potter experience with Gábor Lente

DAY 2 I September 25, 2026.

ELTE Gömb Aula, Lágymányosi Campus

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:15 Welcome

9:15-10:45 Presentations
– Jack Szostak – Information at the Dawn of Life
– Csaba Pál – Escape of the Superbugs: How dangerous bacteria evade antibiotics
– Tim Hunt – Following my nose: The abnormality sensor and a secret of cell division

10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 Panel discussion: Curiosity, Discovery & the Unexpected
– Moderators: Péter Hegyi & Lorie Karnath
– Panelists: Yamuna Krishnan, Daniela Rhodes, Reiko Kuroda, Dinshaw Patel & Sir Tim Hunt

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:30 Presentations
– Edit Buzás – Nature’s miniature magic spheres: extracellular vesicles
– Omar Yaghi – Selection Science

14:30-15:15 Panel discussion: Science Shaping Our Future
– Moderators: Lorie Karnath & Tamás Beke-Somfai
– Panelists: Jack Szostak, Omar Yaghi, Csaba Pál, Edit Buzás & Bengt Nordén

15:15-16:00 Conference closing