Bridging the Gaps
Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Sciences
19th EMBL PhD Symposium
19th–21st October, 2017
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

 

About the Symposium

Since its conception in 2000, the annual EMBL PhD Symposium has grown into a well-respected meeting of early-career scientists and high-profile speakers. It is organized entirely by predoctoral fellows at EMBL, and the aim of this year's symposium is to highlight the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in the Life Sciences.

During the past decades, rapidly progressing research and technological breakthroughs in the Life Sciences have produced unparalleled biological knowledge and provided valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms that govern living systems. Despite these remarkable advancements, there are still many gaps in our understanding of biology. It is often by pushing the limits surrounding conventional biological approaches and creating connections with other fields, that new bridges are built to successfully answer scientific questions.

This symposium aims to depict a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches that are used in the Life Sciences. Such approaches bear a great potential in explicitly defining and successfully resolving complex biological problems. By bringing together accomplished scientists and young researchers from diverse backgrounds, we aim to build bridges between disciplines and also people, and to highlight the value of diversity in the scientific process.

Confirmed speakers

Photo of Franziska Badenschier

society Franziska Badenschier - (website)
Thursday 19th – 13:45-14:30

Science Media Center Germany

Franziska Badenschier is a science editor at SMC. Her specialties are neglected (tropical) diseases, health systems in developing countries and global health. Her previous work as a freelance science journalist for radio and online media took her all over the world, be it Nodding Syndrome in Uganda, Ebola outbreak detection in Guinea, Cholera in Haiti or Mental Health in Madagascar. She has won several awards, including the Peter Hans Hofschneider Research Award and the Media Award of the German AIDS Foundation. In 2014, Franziska was ranked amongst the top ten science journalists by medium magazin. She studied science journalism in Dortmund and Strasbourg and trained with Spiegel Online.

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The EMBO Keynote Lecture

chemistry Dr. Jason Chin - (website)
Thursday 19th – 09:30-10:30

MRC - Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

Professor Chin did his undergraduate studies at Oxford University and went on to obtain his PhD at Yale University, where he worked with Professor Alanna Schepartz on the design of miniature proteins. During his postdoctoral studies at the Scripps Research Institute in the group of Professor Peter G. Schultz he developed the first approach for genetic code expansion in eukaryotic cells.
In 2003 he set up his own lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) in Cambridge further focussing on genetic code expansion techniques. Currently, he heads the Center for Chemical and Synthetic Biology at the MRC-LMB and is a Professor for Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cambridge University. Professor Chin was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2010 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science in 2016.

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EMBO Women in Science Talk

society Prof. Carla Fehr - (website)
Fri. 20th – 13:45-14:30 and Sat. 21st – 16:00-16:30

University of Waterloo, Canada

Prof. Carla Fehr did her undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Biology at the University of Saskatchewan where she obtained a B.Sc. in 1993. She then completed a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Duke University under supervision of Dr. Robert Brandon. Between 1999-2011, she was affiliated with the Iowa State University as, originally Affiliate Faculty, and later as Assistant Professor, and finally Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Her scientific interests are orientated around philosophy of science and feminist epistemology. While studying the social nature of scientific research, she argues that “diversity promotes excellence”.Currently Dr. Fehr is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo and she holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy. She also leads a Feminism and Science Research Group which focuses on “research (…) unified by attention to justice and the social nature of scientific, technological and medical research” as she describes. Moreover, Dr. Fehr is a Director of the Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies (FEMMSS) and an Associate Director of the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women Site Visit Program and an editor of the Feminist Philosophy Quarterly.

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chemistry Prof. Dorothea Fiedler - (website)
Friday 20th – 09:45-10:45

FMP Berlin, Germany

Dr. Fiedler did her undergraduate studies at the University of Wuerzburg and went to UC Berkeley for her thesis work. Subsequently, she did her PhD work at the UC Berkeley in the Raymond and Bergman labs studying host guest systems and working on utilizing them for catalysis. After finishing her PhD she joined the Shokat lab at UC San Francisco focusing on signal transduction pathways.
In 2010 Dr. Fiedler set up her own lab at Princeton University, where she studied regulatory functions of phosphate containing compounds. In particular her lab focused on inositol pyrophosphates, which are important in a multitude of signaling pathways. In 2015 Dr. Fiedler moved her lab to the FMP Berlin, where she is continuing her work on inositol pyrophosphate signaling.

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engineering Dr. Mikaël Garcia - (website)
Friday 20th – 11:15-12:00

Poietis, France

Mikaël Garcia obtained a MSc in neuropharmacology from Bordeaux University. He then did his PhD in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (CNRS Bordeaux, France) and CYTOO, a biotechnology company specialized in the development of cellular models. He developed innovative micropatterned substrates to study neurogenesis. He continued his project as a post-doc at CNRS Bordeaux where he studied the synaptogenesis using super-resolution microscopy.
He is currently R&D project manager in the start-up company Poietis, a biotechnology company developing 4D bioprinting. Poietis' two step-approach comprises laser-assisted 3D bioprinting with single-cell resolution precision, followed by the maturation of the bioprinted tissue. This technique allows the study and control of the self-organisation of cells in a tissue and offers promising perspectives in both biomedical research and regenerative medicine. One of Mikaël Garcia’s projects is to develop the bioprinting of hair follicles in partnership with L’Oréal.

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chemistry Prof. Arnaud Gautier - (website)
Saturday 21st – 11:15-12:00

École Normale Supérieure, France

Dr. Gautier obtained his Bachelor and Master degree from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, working with Dr. Dutasta and Dr. Crassous on the design of biomimetic supramolecular calaysts. He stayed in Lyon to work on his PhD in the group of Prof. Hasserodt, where he worked on enzyme inhibitors based on the transition state of proteolysis reactions. Subsequently, he joined Prof. Johnsson’s lab at the EPF Lausanne to work on multiplexed covalent labeling of proteins in living cells.
Afterwards, he worked on the genetic incorporation of photoactivatable unnatural amino acids in the lab of Jason Chin at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
In 2010 Dr. Gautier set up his own lab at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris focussing on the development of novel biomolecular imaging tools suitable for improved live cell imaging.

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society Dr. Fiammetta Ghedini - (website)
Saturday 21st – 13:45-14:30

ERCcOMICS, France

Dr Ghedini studied Modern Literature and Art History at the University of Pisa, Italy and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. Subsequently, she continued her studies ate the Université Paris to obtain her DEA. She worked in EU project management and event organization for Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. In 2009 she joined the Wellcome Lab of Neurobiology as a fellow researcher working with Prof. Semir Zeki, and obtained her PhD in Innovative Technologies from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2011 working on perceptual robotics.
Afterwards, she moved to Paris, starting her work in science communication. She worked for Sony CSL and wrote for ERCcOMICS, which she now manages. ERCcOMICS is an initiative funded by the European Research Council mixing science and comics to increase public interest and awareness. Currently, she works as a science communicator for the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab.

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mathematics Dr. Janet Kelso - (website)
Thursday 19th – 14:30-15:15

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Janet Kelso is a computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. After completing MSc studies in medical biochemistry and chemical pathology at the University of Cape Town, she received her PhD in bioinformatics from the University of Western Cape, South Africa. Her research interests now focus on comparative primate genomics. She has contributed importantly to various genome projects, including that of orangutan, bonobo, Neanderthal, as well as other archaic and modern humans. In parallel, Dr. Kelso serves as an Executive Editor of the journal Bioinformatics, and as a Vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Finally, Dr. Kelso has received a number of awards and honors, including a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2004, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the most outstanding paper in Science in 2010, while she was also nominated as an ISCB fellow in 2016 for her contributions to the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology.

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physics Prof. Suliana Manley - (website)
Saturday 21st – 09:00-09:45

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof. Manley started her career with a bachelor in Physics & Mathematics at the Rice University, Houston, TX. After obtaining her PhD at the Harvard University, MA in 2004 she joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge for her postdoctoral research. She continued her research as a Post-Doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD until 2009. She then joined the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a Tenure-track assistant professor. At the EPFL Prof. Manley main focus lies on the dynamics of protein assembly and their coordination. Due to the fact that current fluorescence microscopy techniques are typically limited in their spatial resolution or only give access to few molecules, our understanding of how proteins form mesoscale structures is limited. To overcome these limitations, Prof. Manley develops novel microscopy techniques based on super-resolution fluorescence microscopy as well as live cell imaging and single molecule tracking to study the dynamics of protein assembly.

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engineering Dr. Christoph Merten - (website)
Friday 20th – 09:00-09:45

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

In 2004 Dr. Merten obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Frankfurt, working at the Paul Ehrlich Institute on the directed evolution of retroviral proteins. For his postdoctoral work, he moved on to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.
Subsequently, he joined the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires in Strasbourg, France, where he became a junior group leader in 2007, focussing his work on droplet based microfluidic devices.
In 2010 he joined the EMBL faculty in Heidelberg as an independent group leader continuing his work on the development of microfluidic platforms for biochemical and cell based assays.

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EMBO Young Investigator Lecture

physics Dr. Lori Passmore - (website)
Saturday 21st – 15:15-16:00

MRC - Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

Lori A. Passmore, PhD is originally from Canada and studied Biochemistry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Afterwards, she moved to the UK for her PhD studies at the Institute of Cancer Research. She worked on structural and functional studies of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome (APC/C). After finishing her PhD, Lori moved to Cambridge where she became a Career Development Fellow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, funded by a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research. In 2009, she became a Group Leader at the MRC-LMB and is a fellow of Clare Hall. Furthermore, Lori was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2011 and was chosen to be part of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme in 2015.

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mathematics Dr. Angela Relógio - (website)
Thursday 19th – 11:15-12:00

Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Angela Relógio is a Research Group leader at the Charité Medical University of Berlin, Germany, since September 2014. The research projects in her group focus on Systems Biology of Cancer. An important goal is to understand the correlation between the cell circadian clock and tumorigenesis, by combining experimental molecular biology techniques and computational methods.
Dr. Relógio's educational background spans across various disciplines, from Technological-Physics to Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (University of Lisbon, Portugal). She has also completed her PhD and Post-doctoral research in Biomedical Sciences at the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. Since then, she has served as a Research Scientist and as a Rachel-Hirsch fellow at the Charit´ Medical University of Berlin. She has received a number of awards, including a Female Independency Award (FIA) from the Berlin School of Integrative Oncology (BSIO), and a Young Investigator's Group Grant from the BMBF, Germany.

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physics Prof. Michael Rosen - (website)
Saturday 21st – 09:45-10:45

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Dr. Rosen obtained his bachelor degree from the University of Michigan and afterwards spent a year at the University of Cambridge in the lab of Alan Battersby. For his PhD he joined the lab of Stuart Schreiber at Harvard University, where he studied FKBP12, the FK506 binding protein. Subsequently, he did his postdoctoral studies at the University of Toronto in the labs of Tony Pawson and Lewis Kay, studying the signaling adaptor protein Crk and developing methods for methyl group labeling of proteins for NMR spectroscopy.
Dr. Rosen started his own lab at Cornell University and the Sloan-Kettering Institute before joining the UT Southwestern in 2002. Currently, Dr. Rosen is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Chair of the Department of Biophysics at UT Southwestern. His lab focuses on understanding the chemical and physical mechanisms, which are responsible for the organization of cells.

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physics Prof. Ernst H.K. Stelzer - (website)
Friday 20th – 16:30-17:15

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

During his Ph.D. at the EMBL (1983-1987) Prof. Stelzer worked on confocal microscopy. He remained at the EMBL for his postdoctoral studies (1986 - 1987) and later as a project leader (1987 - 1989). He then went on to become a scientific group leader at the EMBL (1989 - 2011). Prof. Stelzer developed the confocal 4Pi fluorescence microscope, introduced orthogonal and multi-lens detection/illumination schemes and therefore triggered the development of light-sheet fluorescence microscopy. His other contributions include optical tweezers, photonic force microscopy, and laser based cutting devices. Additionally, he has worked extensively on image processing, theoretical aspects of image formation, optical levitation, and biophysical properties of microtubules. His work lead to more than 200 papers and to about 20 patent applications. Currently, his focus lies on three-dimensional cell biology. Therefore he employs and develops various techniques to grow, maintain, observe and manipulate cell clusters in 3D. Light-sheet microscopy as well as data processing pipelines and mathematical modeling remain important parts of his research.

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chemistry Prof. Barbara di Ventura - (website)
Thursday 19th – 17:00-17:45

Freiburg University, Germany

Prof. Dr. Di Ventura gained her degree in Computer Science from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” after which she carried out her PhD in the group of Luis Serrano at the EMBL, Heidelberg, where she worked in the fields of systems and synthetic biology, combining experiments with mathematical modeling. After finishing her PhD she joined the Sourjik lab at the ZMBH, where she studied the bacterial Min system.
In 2011, Dr Di Ventura joined the department of Roland Eils, in the BioQuant, Heidelberg as the head of the Synthetic Biology group. In 2016 she became an independent group leader there, her lab, the Molecular and Cellular Engineering group is interested in understanding the mechanisms used by cells to control processes in space and time using an interdisciplinary approach that combines molecular and cellular biology with synthetic biology and mathematical modeling. A special focus of the lab is optogenetics, that is, the use of light to externally control protein function and localization in individual living cells. In September 2017 her lab will move to the Centre For Biological Signaling Studies at the University of Freiburg.

Franziska Badenschier Franziska Badenschier Jason Chin Jason Chin Carla Fehr Carla Fehr Dorothea Fiedler Dorothea Fiedler Mikaël Garcia Mikaël Garcia Arnaud Gautier Arnaud Gautier Fiammetta Ghedini Fiammetta Ghedini Janet Kelso Janet Kelso Suliana Manley Suliana Manley Christoph Merten Christoph Merten Lori Passmore Lori Passmore Angela Relógio Angela Relógio Michael Rosen Michael Rosen Ernst H.K. Stelzer Ernst H.K. Stelzer Barbara di Ventura Barbara di Ventura

Programme

Day 1, Thursday, October 19th

Evolving Life

08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Symposium Opening & Welcome
Symposium Organizers & Iain Mattaj
09:30-10:30 T1 The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Jason Chin
Reprogramming the Genetic Code
10:30-10:45 T2 Short Talk: Vinita Deshpande
Good and bad fat: discovering key distinguishing features with proteomics
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 T3 Lecture: Angela Relógio
Circadian Systems Biology: When time matters
12:00-12:15 T4 Short Talk: Rukeia El-Athman
The Ink4a/Arf locus operates as a regulator of the circadian clock modulating RAS activity
12:15-13:45 Lunch
12:15-12:45 Blackboard Session: Jason Chin
13:45-14:30 T5 Science & Society Talk: Franziska Badenschier
Talking to journalists: why, when and how.
14:30-15:15 T6 Lecture: Janet Kelso
Functional implications of admixture between archaic and modern humans
15:15-15:30 Flash talks
15:30-17:00 Poster session 1: Odd numbers
17:00-17:45 T7 Lecture: Barbara di Ventura
A matter of dynamics
17:45-18:00 T8 Short Talk: Ana Monserrat-Martínez
The enteropathogenic E. coli effectors: Swiss-army knives and pathway hijackers
18:00-18:15 T9 Short Talk: Marian Weiss
Sequential Bottom-up Assembly of Synthetic Cell-Like Compartments using Microfluidics
18:15-18:30 Thank the Speakers & Introduction Blackboard Discussions
18:30-19:15 Blackboard Sessions
Dorothea Fiedler: Detection of inositol phosphate species - current and future challenges
Franziska Badenschier: What is a Public Issue? How to select which scientific topic is newsworthy
Barbara di Ventura: Optogenetics: Can I use it, too?
Eva Haenssler (QIAGEN): Semi-automated low-throughput workflow for microbial analyses of human stool from young and old individuals
19:15-20:15 Dinner
20:15 Evening Programme

Day 2, Friday, October 20th

Modifying Life

09:00-09:45 T10 Lecture: Christoph Merten
Living droplets - biomedical discovery at very high throughput
09:45-10:45 T11 Keynote Lecture: Dorothea Fiedler
Elucidating the functions of inositol pyrophosphate messengers with chemical tools
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 T12 Lecture: Mikaël Garcia
4D bioprinting of a skin model
12:00-12:15 T13 Short Talk: Melanie Heinlein
The histone acetylase, HBO1, is necessary for the expression of peripheral antigens in the thymus and for self-tolerance
12:15-12:30 T14 Short Talk: Haruko Miura
Live cell imaging of stress signaling dynamics in a life-death decision
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 T15 EMBO Women in Science Talk: Carla Fehr
Women in Stem: Exploitation or Flourishing
14:30-14:45 T16 Short Talk: Irma Querques
The second life of Sleeping Beauty: Deciphering the mechanism of a synthetic DNA transposon for genome engineering
14:45-15:00 Flash Talks
15:00-16:30 Poster session 2: Even numbers
16:30-17:15 T17 Lecture: Ernst H.K. Stelzer
Improve your four-dimensional image: The impact of light sheet microscopy on the life sciences
17:15-17:30 T18 Short Talk: Philipp Walch
Bioprinted Thrombosis-On-A-Chip
17:30-17:45 T19 Short Talk: Chieh Yu
Turning bone into brain: The key may be in the matrix
17:45-18:30 Panel Discussion: Career perspectives
19:00-20:15 Dinner
20:15 Evening Programme

Day 3, Saturday, October 21st

Visualizing Life

09:00-09:45 T20 Lecture: Suliana Manley
Automated super-resolution microscopy for sub-cellular structure and dynamics
09:45-10:45 T21 Keynote Lecture: Michael Rosen
Physical Mechanisms of Cell Organization on Micron Length Scales
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 T22 Lecture: Arnaud Gautier
Labeling proteins on-demand with fluorogenic probes
12:00-12:15 T23 Short Talk: Shannon Das
Nox4 plays a role in TGFß-induced EMT leading to cataract
12:15-12:30 T24 Short Talk: Samuel Mills
The contribution of microglia to early vascular dysfunction in diabetic retinopathy
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 T25 Science & Society Talk: Fiametta Ghedini
Communicating Science through Comics
14:30-14:45 T26 Short Talk: Celia Vandestadt
Making do and making new: how zebrafish rapidly regenerates CNS injury
14:45-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-16:00 T27 EMBO Young Investigator Lecture: Lori Passmore
Biochemical reconstitution and structures of the eukaryotic polyA tail machinery
16:00-16:30 T28 Science & Society Talk: Carla Fehr
Undisciplined Biology: The pleasures and perils of researching across disciplinary boundaries
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:45 Blackboard Sessions
Arnaud Gautier: Tricks to switch on fluorescence
Michael Rosen: How to think about coupled sol-gel and liquid demixing phase transitions
Fiammetta Ghedini: Science communication
Lori Passmore: Challenges in sample preparation for cryo-EM
17:45-18:00 Thank the Speakers
18:00-18:30 Award Ceremony
18:30-20:00 Dinner
20:30 Conference Party

Travel and Accommodation

How to get to Heidelberg

Heidelberg is easily reached by train, car or plane from any country in the world. The EMBL campus is located in Heidelberg's neighbourhood area of Boxberg which is approximately 10 minutes by car from Heidelberg's city centre.

Reaching us by train, plane, car

During the Symposium

Getting to EMBL

In addition to public transportation we will provide buses from Heidelberg to EMBL. The bus timetable is provided below.
Locations of stops are shown on this map.

On Saturday there is no public bus with a direct connection to EMBL. You will have to use the buses provided by us.

Thursday, October 19th

Bus leaving from Heidelberg to EMBL

Bismarck- platz Crowne Plaza Hans- Böckler-Str. Alois-Link-Platz S-Bf. Weststadt/ Südstadt Rohrbach Süd ISG Hotel Boxberg- ring EMBL
07:30 07:50 07:55 08:00
07:45 07:47 07:49 07:50 07:58 08:07
08:00 08:01 08:03 08:04 08:13 08:22
08:15 08:20 08:30
08:15 08:16 08:18 08:19 08:28 08:37
08:30 08:31 08:33 08:34 08:43 08:52

Bus leaving from EMBL to Heidelberg

EMBL Boxberg- ring ISG Hotel Rohrbach Süd S-Bf. Weststadt/ Südstadt Alois-Link-Platz Hans- Böckler-Str. Crowne Plaza Bismarck- platz
19:20 19:29 19:36 19:39 19:41 19:43
19:51 19:59 20:07 20:09 20:11 20:13
20:15 20:20 20:25 20:45
20:51 20:59 21:07 21:09 21:11 21:13
21:41 21:49 21:57 21:59 22:01 22:03
22:00 22:05 22:10
22:20 22:25 22:45

Friday, October 20th

Bus leaving from Heidelberg to EMBL

Bismarck- platz Crowne Plaza Hans- Böckler-Str. Alois-Link-Platz S-Bf. Weststadt/ Südstadt Rohrbach Süd ISG Hotel Boxberg- ring EMBL
07:45 08:05 08:10 08:15
08:00 08:02 08:04 08:05 08:13 08:22
08:15 08:17 08:19 08:20 08:28 08:37
08:30 08:35 08:40
08:30 08:32 08:34 08:35 08:43 08:52

Bus leaving from EMBL to Heidelberg

EMBL Boxberg- ring ISG Hotel Rohrbach Süd S-Bf. Weststadt/ Südstadt Alois-Link-Platz Hans- Böckler-Str. Crowne Plaza Bismarck- platz
19:20 19:29 19:36 19:39 19:41 19:43
19:51 19:59 20:07 20:09 20:11 20:13
20:15 20:20 20:25 20:45
20:51 20:59 21:07 21:09 21:11 21:13
21:41 21:49 21:57 21:59 22:01 22:03
22:00 22:05 22:10
22:20 22:25 22:45

Saturday, October 21st

Bus leaving from Heidelberg to EMBL

Crowne Plaza ISG Hotel Boxbergring EMBL
07:45 08:05 08:10 08:15
08:30 08:35 08:40

Bus leaving from EMBL to Heidelberg

EMBL Boxbergring ISG Hotel Crowne Plaza
20:15 20:20 20:25 20:45
23:00 23:05 23:10 23:30
01:30 01:35 01:40 02:00

Travel Documents and Visas

Prior to travelling to Germany, some applicants from certain countries may have to acquire special travel documents, such as a visa. Applicants are strongly encouraged to check with the local German Authorities (Embassies or Consulates) about the need of special travelling documents. Since the process may be time consuming, applicants are advised to make such arrangements as soon as possible. Failure to obtain a visa after the deadline for participation in the conference will not result in a refund. Applicants are responsible for providing the right documentation needed for their entry into Germany. However, upon request, the Organizing Committee can issue a formal letter of acceptance to the symposium for the purposes of obtaining a visa. Please be aware that no visa letters will be issued before payment of the registration fee. The organizing committee can not be held responsible in the case of a refusal by German authorities to enter German territory.

Accommodation

The registration fee does not include accommodation, which has to be personally arranged. However, we have reserved a few rooms at the EMBL/ISG Hotel. The costs are 49.50 EUR per person/per night incl. breakfast in a twin or double room. If you are happy to share a twin/double room with a fellow participant, please indicate this when making the booking.

Please call or email the ISG Hotel for your booking and use the code “PhD Symposium 2017” to receive the EMBL special rate.

A shuttle bus will run between EMBL and the ISG Hotel during the conference.

Financial Support

Below you can find a list of other travel or support grants:

Please note that you need to apply independently to these grants.
If you require any assistance please do not hesitate to contact the Symposium Organisers.

Registration

Deadlines
Open until September 22nd
Abstract submission deadline: September 22nd

  Fee Registration
General 150 € Closed
General - Day Passes 70 € Closed
Industry 200 € Closed
EMBL internal   Closed

Abstract submission

All participants are encouraged to submit an abstract. There will be talks selected from the submitted abstracts (if you wish to give a talk, please indicate it during the abstract submission), everyone else will be able to present their work as a poster. Potential topics range from results obtained during your PhD, your Master thesis or a Master research project.

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Sponsors

Sponsorship Information

The EMBL PhD symposium will provide an invaluable networking environment for your company to enhance the profile amongst the molecular biosciences research community, especially towards the young generation. The symposium will offer prime opportunities for your company to promote your new products, latest technology, and services. If you are interested in sponsoring our symposium and would like to have more information, please direct your enquires to us.

EMBL EMBO

Also kindly supported by:

EMBL CPP founder partners

Leica Microsystems Olympus

EMBL CPP corporate partners

BD Boehringer Ingelheim Glaxo Smith Kline Illumina Sartorius ThermoFisher Scientific

EMBL CPP associate partners

Eppendorf Merck New England Biolabs Nikon Sanofi

Sponsors of this symposium

Bayer QIAGEN Takara Bio LUXENDO

Meeting Grants

Galton Institute Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung

Contact

PhD Symposium 2017
phdsymposium2017@embl.de

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