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Science Close Up – Celebrating 40 years of the Biozentrum
Two weeks packed with festivities for 40 Years of the Biozentrum have been a complete success. Now the celebrations involving the public and representatives from politics and industry are coming to a close. With more than 4000 visitors, the concept of experiencing the Biozentrum close up during the Open House Days – Biozentrum Live! proved successful all around. The Opening Event and the scientific Jubilee Symposium with leading scientists from around the world, provided furthermore a forum for lively scientific discussion and exchange.
At “Biozentrum Live!”, the Open House Days, 4000 visitors took advantage of the possibility to experience the Biozentrum and its scientists and staff close up. In particular many families attended and dived with their children into the invisible world of cells, molecules and proteins. Whether they were pipetting, catching worms, making viruses or trying on lab coats, the children enjoyed themselves immensely. With a variety of guided tours, lectures, many research presentation stands or the science show, there was a multifaceted program provided for visitors of every age along with the chance to get to know the Biozentrum, its research and the Biozentrum employees better.
The festivities celebrating 40 years of the Biozentrum, was kicked-off with the Opening Event for guests from the areas of politics, industry and science. Under the motto «Das Biozentrum auf dem Weg in die Zukunft» - The Biozentrum on the way to the future - Prof. Erich Nigg, the Director of the Biozentrum, showed the importance of this institute in providing interdisciplinary, fundamental science, where the research is as highly relevant today as it was at the Biozentrum’s establishment in 1971.
At the end of the festivities, the two-day Jubilee Symposium, the scientific highlight, took place at the Congress Center in Basel. Leading scientists from around the world met to report on the latest developments in the field of molecular biology. Among them the four Nobel Prize laureates: Peter Agre, Paul Nurse, Phillip A. Sharp and Eric F. Wieschaus.
Last Friday, the Jubilee festivities came to a close with a special evening for the personnel of the Biozentrum. With its new logo “Biozentrum – The Center for Molecular Life Sciences“ and modern website presentation, the Biozentrum is moving its focus of attention back to the future.
Contact: Communications