Living Borders Symposium Basel

Program of “Living Borders” with a small accompanying display of exhibits from MicroPop, an exhibition
developed by the Cluster of Excellence Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections, Research Center for
Science Communication, University of Tübingen, and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

Thursday, May 21
14.00-14.30 Welcome and Introduction
14.30-15.30 Micro-Pop - Design, Science and the World of Microbes
Leon Kokkoliadis, Davina Höll, Michael Pelzer
(University of Tübingen, Cluster of Excellence Controlling Microbes to Fight Infection)
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.00 Plant waxes as time capsules
Sarah Nemiah Ladd
(Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel)
18.00-19.00 Evening Lecture: DeepForest
Claudia Pasquero
(Department of Urban Design, University of Innsbruck / ecoLogicStudio London)
Apéro

Friday, May 22
09.30-10.00 Coffee
10.00-11.00 Hairy-Furry Borders: A Keratinous History of Knowledge, Materiality, and Beings, c. 1650-
1800
Sarah-Maria Schober
(SNF Starting Grant: “Matter of Distinction: Early Modern Hair, Race, Trade and Multispecies
History, 1650-1820”, University of Lucerne)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 Handling Animal Skins
Alwin Probst
(Head of Taxidermy, Natural History Museum Basel) in conversation with Christine Kleiter
(Department of Art History, University of Basel) und Janina Wellmann (NOMIS Fellow)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.30 Building life layer by layer: are Bio3D-Printed living tissues the future or still a utopia?
Valentina Basoli
(Department of Biomedical Engineering, Universität Basel)
17.00-18.30 Visit to Schaulager, Münchenstein
(not open to the public; for speakers only)

Saturday, May 23
09.30-10.00 Coffee
10.00-11.00 SkincAlr: Al-driven detection of skin-related neglected tropical diseases
Gil Sharvit
(iHome Lab, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
11.00-12.00 Painting the Blush
Larissa Dätwyler
(Department of Art History, University of Basel)
12.00-13.00 Roundtable, Conclusion and Future Plans with Participants