Prof. Botond Roska: Restoring vision with Optogenetic Methods

In honor of the 125th anniversary a of the birth of Nobel Prize-Winning professor Dennis Gabor

The Dennis Gabor Society in Berlin, the Ministry of Culture and Innovation Hungary and the Embassy of Hungary in Berlin cordially invite you to the symposium

Restoring vision with Optogenetic Methods

Registration: trade.ber@mfa.gov.hu

The presentation will be held in English.

Program

15:00 

Welcome note 

Dr. Péter Györkös Ambassador, Embassy of Hungary 

László Bódis Deputy state secretary, Ministry of Culture and Innovation Hungary 

Prof. Dr. Zsuzsanna Izsvák President of the Dennis-Gabor-Society, Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

15:20 

Prof. Dr. Botond Roska 

World-renowned mathematician-neurobiologist professor 

Recipient of the 2024 Wolf Prize in Medicine 

Sole winner of the 2020 Körber Prize for European Science 

Member of the Academy of Sciences of Europe Foreign 

Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

Founding Director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel 

Head of the neurobiology research group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute Biomedical Research in Basel

One of the founders of Brain Vision Center Budapest 

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Zsuzsanna Izsvák 

President of the Dennis Gabor Society, Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

17:00 

Questions / Answers 

17:30 

Reception

Organizers