Programme Committee

Dr. Beatrix Rubin

“Die Spezialisten, die Experten mehren sich, die Denker bleiben aus“.
(Ingeborg Bachmann)

"Our scientific knowledge increases at an awesome pace. It is transformed ever more rapidly in technological applications, which are the basis of industrial activity. As a consequence of the continuous and unbalanced economic growth which results from these activities worldwide a diverse set of socioeconomic and ecological problems arise. I think it is very important to reflect upon these problems and to take an integrative and interdisciplinary approach to seek possible solutions. I have involved myself in Engelberg, because I am convinced that expert knowledge by itself will not show us the way. Instead all of us have to look across the boundaries of our specific fields and try to think and argue in a more comprehensive manner. In this respect I regard Engelberg as a beautiful and inspiring trainingplace. “

Since 2001 working on the „Isolation and Application of Human stem cells: Scientific and Ethical issues” with a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Institute for Applied and Medical Ethics at the University of Basel, headed by Stella Reiter-Theil (www.unibas.ch/aeme)

Born 1964, childhood spent in Italy. Gymnasium in Freiburg im Breisgau (D). 1983-1988 studies in Biology at the University of Konstanz (D) and at the University of Eugene, Oregon (USA, fellowship). 1988-1989 research for diploma thesis on axonal transport in the laboratory of Dieter G. Weiss at the Technical University of Munich (D), and at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts (USA), in the laboratory of G. M. Langford and D. G. Weiss. 1990-1995 PhD and postdoctoral work on the regeneration of the central nervous system in the laboratory of Martin E. Schwab at the Institute for Brain Research, University of Zürich (CH). 1996-2001 postdoctoral research on the development of the nervous system, in the laboratory of Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann at the Friedrich Miescher-Institute in Basel (CH, scholarship from the German National Science Foundation 1996-1998).