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Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting – Monday’s Storify #lnlm11

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting - Monday's Storify #lnlm11

The first full day of this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting began today with a morning of plenary sessions by six of the Laureates. To capture the live tweeting around these talks, as well as video and blog content, we have created a Storify storyboard. Do check back as we’ll be updating it as more coverage is published, as well as creating additional Storifys for each day of the rest of the conference.  Read more

Lindau Nobel Laureate 2011 – Coverage Roundup

Lindau Nobel Laureate 2011 - Coverage Roundup

Yesterday 500 young scientists and 23 Nobel Laureates gathered at the foot of the Alps on Lake Constance, prepared for a week of top scientific dialogue and debate. It can only mean one thing, the Lindau Nobel Laurette conference has begun!  Read more

Everything you need to know about the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting #lnlm11

Next week, Nature is going to be covering the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting which has been taking place every year for the past 61 years. Set on the idyllic island of Lindau on Lake Constance in Germany, it’s a chance for selected young scientists to meet with Nobel Laureates for a gathering of plenary discussions and informal conversations.  Read more

Lindau Meeting: Some Crucial Interviews

Interviews with Nobel Prize winners can’t fail to be interesting. So although the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and early career scientists finished a couple of weeks ago, we’d still like to bring to your attention a final set of blog posts which came out of that conference.  Read more

Lindau Meeting: On Dinners and scientific dos and don’ts

The Lindau Meeting between Nobel Prize winners and early-career scientists is now over for another year. The official blog is choc-full of insightful posts discussing all aspects of the meeting – from the musings of laureates to the gastronomic highlights of the academic meals.  Read more

Lindau Roundup: Sessions From Monday And Tuesday

We’re on Day 3 of the Lindau Conference, the annual gathering of Nobel laureates and junior scientists. Despite a crammed schedule, with a staggering 20 sessions on the first day alone, several attendees have nevertheless found time to share their experiences on the official Lindau blog.  Read more

Lindau Meeting Begins

The 60th meeting of Nobel laureates and junior scientists on the island of Lindau has now opened. The official English blog is doing a cracking job of reporting all the latest news, views and reflections on this unique meeting. Here’s a roundup of the best posts from the beginning of the conference.  Read more

Lindau 2010: The Culture Of The Nobel Prizes

Lindau 2010: The Culture Of The Nobel Prizes

The Nobel Prizes have long been a stimulus for light-hearted discussion on Nature Network, prompting quips, parodies and even cartoons. Of course, the IgNobel prizes are there to cock a snook at improbabe research, but here we focus on humorous accounts related to the actual Nobels.  Read more

Lindau 2010: The Science Of The Nobel Prizes

Lindau 2010: The Science Of The Nobel Prizes

As a Network full of scientists, it’s small wonder that we regularly get excited by the research behind the Nobel prizes. M. William Lensch, on The Red Pill blog, even devised a Nobel Nostradamus Pool in an attempt to predict the winners. In 2007, he correctly guessed that Oliver Smithies, Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans would scoop the 2007 Physiology or Medicine prize for work leading to mouse knockouts, and was bang on the money two years later in predicting that Szostak, Greider and Blackburn would get the same prize for their work on telomerase and telomeres.  Read more