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VBC-PhD-Symposium 2009

Android & Eve

Bridging Biology, Medicine and Technology

November 12^th – 13^th 2009

This years VBC-PhD-Symposium “Android and Eve“ was held from the 12^th to the 13^th of November at the Vienna Biocenter. We heard about the exciting but vast field of nanobiotechnology, had memorible talks in the neuronal interfaces session, learned a lot about artifical organs, were amazed about the biological computers and finished with a discussion-sparking talk from and about the “first cyborg“. Not to forget the one and only MolBio Orchestra concert on Thursday evening and the afterparty on Friday evening.

Therefore, we would like to thank all speakers, sponsors, participants, helpers and persons involved during the preparation for their efforts to make this outstanding and interesting event possible. A special thank goes to the whole Vienna Biocenter to support us.

The VBC-PhD-Symposium Organizers

Find out about media impact in various press releases:

APA (German)
http://www.zukunftwissen.at/cms/zukunft-wissen/fti-und-wissenschaft/topnews_einzel.html;jsessionid=a5pL3GaiF885?id=CMS1258117262794


derstandard.at (German)
http://derstandard.at/1256744665145/Android--Eve-Kuenstliche-Lebewesen-werden-keine-Methusalems

http://derstandard.at/1256744471209/Symposium-Aufregende-Entwicklungen-in-der-Cyborg-Forschung

 
Wiener Zeitung (German)
http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4975&Alias=wzo&cob=449609

ORF (German)
http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1631748/

Radio - Ö1 (German)
http://oe1.orf.at/highlights/146728.html

“The real danger is not that machines will begin to think like men,
but that men will begin to think like machines.”  Sydney J. Harris (adapted)

Over the last six years, the Vienna Biocenter PhD Symposium has established itself as an exciting meeting platform for students and senior scientists from all over the world.

With „Android and Eve – Bridging Biology, Medicine, and Technology” we would like to address the questions of how means of engineering and nanobiotechnology have revolutionized and will further influence therapeutic approaches and human life with e.g. prostheses, artificial organs, brain-computer or neuronal interfaces, drug delivery and tissue engineering. Moreover, one session will be dedicated to the use of biological matters in engineering, e.g. DNA computers.