ECTS POSTDOC TRAINING 16-17 May 2013
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon
Hosted by the ECTS Lisbon 2013 Congress Local Organising Committee
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
Programme
| 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 | |