ECTS POSTDOC TRAINING 16-17 May 2013

16 May 2013 - 17 May 2013

Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon
Hosted by the ECTS Lisbon 2013 Congress Local Organising Committee

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Thank you to all who participated in our first ECTS PostDoc Training Course

Many thanks to Inês Perpetuo and Joana Lopes for their invaluable hel

Speaker slides available soon

Thursday 16th May
16:00 – 16:40		Welcome drinks

16:40 – 17:00		Opening Remarks
		Bente Langdahl (Denmark)
17:00 – 18:00		Plenary Lecture – Advances, challenges and considerations in treating bone diseases
		Graham Russell (UK)

18:00 – 19:00		To be or not to be a Principal Investigator – that is the question!
		Peter Croucher (Australia)

Friday 17th May
09:00 – 09:45		ECTS/IBMS Session: How to publish in high impact factor journals
		Serge Ferrari (Switzerland)

09:45 – 10:30		The Investigation of Research Fraud and Misconduct
		Peter Jay (UK)

10:30 – 11:00		Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45		How to manage your research time
		Open forum discussion chaired by a panel of PostDocs

11:45 – 12:30		How to apply to a grant (EU grants or Horizon 2020)
		Tim Spector (UK)

12:30 – 13:30		Lunch

13:30 – 14:15		Journal Club: Paper or method of the year (Participants will be asked to submit their choices and best articles to present).

14:15 – 15:15		How to start your own group
		Bruno Silva-Santos (Portugal) & Eric Hesse (Germany)

15:15 – 15:45		Coffee break

15:45 – 16:30		Rules for selecting a senior postdoctoral position
		Miep Helfrich (Scotland)

16:30 – 17:15		Translational research – what is it, how can I do it and will it help my research career?
		Stuart Ralston (UK)

17:15 – 18:00		How to handle media and public relations
		Lorenz Hofbauer (Germany)

18:00		Closing remarks