09.45-10.45

Opening Ceremony
Presentation of the Werner Prize 2006 
Chair: Georg Fráter, President of the Swiss Chemical Society SCS
                                   
Lecture of the Werner Prize Laureate 2006
E. Delamarche, IBM Zürich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon
‘Microcontact Processing for Microtechnology and Biology’

Presentation of the Gramaticakis-Neumann Prize 2006
Chair: Georg Fráter

Lectures of the Gramaticakis-Neumann Prize Laureates 2006

Torsten Fiebig, Eugene F. Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, USA
‘DNA Photonics – Probing Light-Induced Dynamics in DNA on the Femtosecond Time Scale’

Hans-Achim Wagenknecht, Universität Regensburg, Germany
‘Chromophore-Functionalized DNA: From Photoinduced Electron Transfer to Applications in Fluorescent DNA Analytics’

10.45-11.00

Coffe Break

11.00-16.45

parallel sessions in the following research fields:
Analytical Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry
Computational Chemistry
Inorganic and Coordination Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
   Session 1: Synthesis and Synthetic Methodology I
   Session 2 : Organic Structure and Properties II
Physical Chemistry
Polymer Science

13.00-14.15

Joint Poster Session on these topics

14.15-14.45

General Assembly of the Swiss Chemical Society

16.45–17.15

Coffee Break

17.15–17.30

Mettler Toledo Prizes for best oral presentations
SCS prizes for best poster contributions

17.30-18.15

Presentation of the Paracelsus Prize 2006
Chair: Georg Fráter

Lecture of the Paracelsus Prize Laureate 2006
Sir Jack E. Baldwin, University of Oxford, UK
‘Biomimetic Synthesis of Natural Products’