All-time speakers
2024-2025
- Tatiana Piotrowski
- Heidi McBride
- Stacy Horner
- Liz Miller
- Sarah Teichmann
- Amy Gladfelter
- Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen (Prix Schlaefli)
- John Briggs
- Anne Grapin Botton
- Stefan Mundlos
- Olivier Pertz
- Ted Turlings
- Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
- Claudia Koehler
- Susana Coelho
- Andreas Janshoff
- Adele Marston
2023-2024
- Sergio Grinstein
- David Parichy
- Michalis Averof
- Gunter Wagner
- Philip Kranzusch
- Antonina Roll Mecak
- John Hammer
- Andreas Strasser
- SaraH Zanders
- Cheryl Kerfeld
- Edward Boyden
- Patrik Verstreken
- Déborah Bourc'his
- Marie Delattre
- Patricia Bassereau
- Joel Bloch (Prix Schläfli lecture)
2022-2023
- Barbara Mellone
- Tim Clausen
- Philip Zamore
- Etienne Patin
- Molly Przeworski
- Ying-Hui FU
- Pierre-François Lenne
- Paola Picotti
- Martin Beck
- Andrea Ablasser
- Doris Wagner
- Yanlan Mao
- Geneviève Almouzni
- Sara Wickstrom
- Buzz Baum
2021-2022
- Siobhan Brady
- Nick Talbot
- Andrea Mc Clatchey
- Mathieu Piel
- Geneviève Almouzni
- Jean-Paul Vincent
- Sara Buonomo
- Oded Rechavi
- Ben Black
2020-2021
- Xavier Trepat
- Mary Gehring
- Keren Kinneret
- Daniel Riveline
- Alpha Yap
- Mikhail Savitski
- Helen Saibil
2019-2020
- Keiko Sugimoto
- Ivan Dikic
- Melina Schuh
- Chris Amemiya
- Maya Schuldiner
- Johan Auwerx
- Edward Farmer
- Alexander Aulehla
- Frank Julicher
- Keiko Torii
2018-2019
- Pamela Ronald
- David Agard
- Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
- Manajit Hayer-Hartl
- Carien Niessen
- Thomas Jentsch
- Henrik Kaessmann
- David Stern
- Francesc Posas
- Laura Machesky
- Susan Mango
- Manuel Thery
- Adam Frost
- Maya Schuldiner
2017-2018
- Nikolaus Pfanner
- Silvia Vignolini
- Alison G. Smith
- Satyajit Mayor
- Blanche Schwappach
- Jane Langdale
- Maria Elena Torres-Padilla
- Vivian Siegel
- Suzanne Eaton
- Iva Tolic
- Elly Tanaka
- Gia Voeltz
- Eva Nogales
- Ulrike Kutay
2016-2017
- James Briscoe
- Rob Martienssen
- Jan Hoeijmakers
- Kaspar Locher
- Niko Geldner
- Ralf Sommer
- Michel Georges
- William Martin
- Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
- Michel Steinmetz
- Mike White
- Gillian Griffiths
- Charles Weitz
- Jonathan Jones
- Marileen Dogterom
- Mike Sheetz
- Dominique Bergmann
- Petra Schwille
- Kun-Liang Guan
- Anne Osbourn
2015-2016
- Steve Henikoff
- Pierre Leopold
- John Lis
- James Casteilli-Gair Hombría
- Andrea Ballabio
- Felix Randow
- Stefan Raunser
- Richard Youle
- Johannes Kornhuber
- Cayetano Gonzalez
- Miltos Tsiantis
- Andrew Millar
- Kris Niyogi
- Rick Morimoto
- Melina Schuh
- Georg Halder
- Jim Hurley
2014-2015
- Tom Pollard
- Gunter Wagner
- Thomas Laux
- Reinhard Lührmann
- Julia Bailey-Serres
- Andrea Musacchio
- Rolf Zeller
- Silvia Arber
- Frank Uhlmann
- Catherine Dulac
- Max Telford
- Mike Hall
- Pierre Gönczy
- Alex Gould
- Sergio Grinstein
- Asaph Aharoni
- Yves van de Peer
- Job Dekker
2013-2014
- Grahame Hardie
- John Mattick
- Martin Parniske
- John Diffley
- Reinhard Luhrmann
- Ron Breaker
- Angela Nieto
- Shigeru Kondo
- Jennifer Doudna
- Jürg Müller
- Stefano Piccolo
- Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
- Sandy Schmid
- Bernhard Herrmann
- Ian Small
2012-2013
- Ulla Bonas
- Andreas Wagner
- Ramanujan Hegde
- Philipp Holliger
- David Drubin
- Jim Haber
- Karla Neugebauer
- David Ron
- Julius Brennecke
- Chris Bowler
- Frank Sicheri
- Jerry Turner
- Marino Zerial
- Guido Kroemer
2011-2012
- John Mattick
- Robert A. Martienssen
- Howy Jacobs
- Bruno Amati
- Jürgen Knoblich
- Enrico Coen
- Jonathan Weissman
- Jacques Prost
- Naama Barkai
- Patrick Cramer
- Benjamin Geiger
- Peter Walter
- Nicole King
2010-2011
- Joseph Takahashi
- Jonathan Widom
- Sharon Tooze
- Ana Maria Cuervo
- Thomas Lecuit
- Helen Saibil
- Mario Capecchi
- Enrico Coen
- Geneviève Almouzni
- Jen Sheen
- Angelika Amon
- Jonathan Weissman
- Scott Emr
2009-2010
- Alan Hinnebusch
- Juan Bonifacino
- Wolfhard Almers
- Gero Miesenboeck
- Bertrand Seraphin
- Matthias Peter
- Ueli Grossniklaus
- Nils Larson
- Andrew Fire
- Joan Steitz
- Elisabetta Dejana
2008-2009
- Vivek Malhotra
- Ingrid Grummt
- Vicki Chandler
- Tony Hyman
- Katia Georgopoulos
- Bruno Lemaitre
- Gero Miesenboeck
- Ottoline Leyser
- Detlev Arendt
- Lalita Ramakrishnan
- Fiona Watt
- Anne Ephrussi
- Johan Auwerx
2007-2008
- Raphael Kopan
- Venki Ramakrishnan
- Armand-Marie Leroi
- David Russell
- Witold Filipowicz
- Claude Desplan
- Klaus Apel
- Peter Fraser
- George Coupland
- François Schweisguth
- Paul Schulze-Lefert
- Robb Krumlauf
- María A. Blasco
- Ramin Shiekhattar
2006-2007
- W. James Nelson
- Nenad Ban
- Art Johnson
- Michael Kastan
- Giulio Superti-Furga
- Jacques Pouyssegur
- Asifa Akhtar
- Jane Mellor
- Walter Gehring
- David Holden
- Jiri Bartek
- Suzanne Pfeffer
2005-2006
- Danesh Moazed
- Randy Schekman
- Davor Solter
- Jim Barber
- Adrian Bird
- Jean-Paul Vincent
- David Holden
- Franz-Ulrich Hartl
- Matthias Hentze
- Uptal Banerjee
- Fotis Kafatos
2004-2005
- Nicholas Proudfoot
- Pier Paolo Di Fiore
- Caroline Dean
- Phil Ingham
- Peter Sorger
- Cliff Tabin
- Denise Barlow
- Pam Silver
- Jürg Tschopp
- Graham Warren
- Gary Ruvkun
2003-2004
- Sandra Baldauf
- Andreas Engel
- Pascale Cossart
- Rob Singer
- Stephen Cohen
- Nori Satoh
- Detlef Weigel
- Barbara Meyer
- Jim Kadonaga
- Jean-Pierre Changeux
2002-2003
- Alain Prochiantz
- William Martin
- Alex van der Bliek
- Ted Farmer
- Andrew Clark
- Martin Raff
- Alan Weiner
- Tom Rapoport
- Meinrad Busslinger
- James Spudich
2001-2002
- Titia de Lange
- Ian Mattaj
- Dan Goodenough
- Gunnar von Heijne
- David Baulcombe
- Adriano Aguzzi
- Alan Colman
- Daniel St. Johnston
- Paul Schimmel
- Richard Treisman
- Hugh Pelham
- Steve Harrison
- Mariann Bienz
- Jeannie Lee
- Nick Hastie