Career Day "Academia"
October 20th, 2017
DKFZ Communication Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg
PROGRAM
REGISTER via acadcd17.eventbrite.com
08:30 Registration
08:45-09:15 VISIONS IN ACADEMIA
- Prof. Dr. Michael Boutros (DKFZ)
- Prof. Ursula Klingmüller (DKFZ Executive Women)
- Dr. Brian Cahill (MCAA)
09:15-10:15 ACADEMIA 4.0 - Industry and Academia: Friends not foes
- Dr. Ruth Wellenreuther & Dr. Stefan Pusch (Strategic Alliance DKFZ Bayer)
- Dr. Tim Waterboer (From Boehringer and Hoffmann-La Roche to DKFZ)
- Prof. Dr. Katharina Schindowski-Zimmermann (University of Applied Sciences Biberach)
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klemens Gintner (University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe)
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break & Open Networking
10:30-11:30 FUNDING - Impulse Talks and Panel Discussion
- Dr. Holger Finken (DAAD)
- Dr. Juliane Sauer (MCAA - Marie Curie Alumni Association) & Dr. François Willekens (MSCA - Marie Curie Sklodowska Actions)
- Dr. Frauke Leitner (EMBL, representing Euro-Bioimaging and CORBEL)
11:30-12:30 ROUND TABLES & FUNDING WORKSHOPS
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:15 ALL ROADS LEAD TO ACADEMIA - Personal Experience from Academics who made it
Moderation: Dr. Maïwen Caudron-Herger (DKFZ)
- Dr. Jerome Korzelius (Postdoc FLI-Leibniz Institute on Aging) - successful DFG application
- Dr. Sevin Turcan (Max-Eder Junior Research Group; Deutsche Krebshilfe, NCT Heidelberg) - from US to EU
- Prof. Dr. Mohamed (Momo) Bentires-Alj (Head Tumor Heterogeneity, Metastasis and Resistance, University Hospital Basel) - ERC Advanced Grant 2016
- Prof. Dr. Fabian Kiessling (Director of ExMI, Aachen) - from Group Leader to Director
14:15-14:45 ROUND TABLES & Coffee Break
14:45-16:00 MENTORSHIP - Standing on the shoulders of giants
Moderation: Paula Codó (DKFZ)
- Dr. Jose Ordónez-Mena (Medical Statistician and Epidemiologist, University of Oxford) - experiences from a mentee in three different countries
- Dr. Judith Zaugg (Group Leader EMBL Heidelberg) - from mentee to mentor
- Dr. Brian Cahill (MCAA Mentoring)
- Dr. Lorenza D’Alessandro (DKFZ Equal Opportunities)
16:00-17:00 KEYNOTE NOBEL LAUREATE LECTURE
Prof Dr. Stefan Hell (Max Planck institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen)
Get-together