Nobel Laureate

Working at a scientific conference at the EICC this week. It's the joint 19th International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and 11th European Biophysical Societies' Association (EBSA) Congress. It's using the whole of the EICC - first time I've covered an event using the fully configured Lennox suite - room for 2000 delegates. As more than one speaker commented - the seats go a long way back!! Just a half day today, with first registration and welcome lectures and reception. There was a public lecture about Alzheimer's Disease (described as a Twenty-First Century plague, with all that implies - both the threat to live but also the hope that, like previous plagues, humans will find a way to fight back). Presumably because it was meant to be accessible to a potential public audience, I could more or less follow that one, but after that The science was way over my head - note to self, need to Wikipedia the basics of biophysics at some point! This is Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 2009) Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan in the middle of his lecture - "The termination of translation in bacteria and eukaryotes".