Keynote speaker I: Dr. Maximina Yun
Dr. Maximina Yun is a young research group leader at CRTD, which she joined after a very successful period at University College London, in UK. Her lab’s research focuses on three topics: the mechanisms underlying the plasticity of the differentiated state, the role and regulation of senescence during regeneration and the role of the immune system in regenerative contexts. To investigate these topics, the lab uses the salamander as an animal model, as this animal has the extraordinary ability to regrow many different tissues of its body throughout its entire life.
Dr. Yun will give an overview of the research going on in her lab and talk about how she got into the field of regeneration and which are the challenges she encountered when opening her own lab.
Keynote speaker II: Mike Thompson
Dr. Mike Thompson is the CEO of DyNAbind GmbH, a privately held company using next-generation DNA-Encoded Library technologies for drug discovery and optimization. Originally from the US, Mike began his career working on ligand synthesis before moving on to Germany to do his PhD with Prof. Yixin Zhang, focusing on DNA nanotechnology. In 2015 Mike’s team received a prestigious EXIST-Forschungstransfer grant to develop DyNAbind’s business concept, resulting in foundation in early 2017.
Mike will give an overview on DyNAbind’s development, the path from academia to startup and lessons learned on the way.
Student Talks
In addition to our Keynote Speaker, we invite PhD Students to give a short talk (10 min + 5 min Discussion) about their project. We encourage students from all stages of the PhD to apply to share their work and receive feedback from their peers.
Workshop I: Career plan development & personal strategy
Everybody knows this feeling. It is time to do a next step and you realize that you should have started with something way earlier (reading papers, writing a paper or a thesis, working on your soft skills that are require for your future job or learning German). To avoid or minimize these annoying feelings, it is necessary to work on development of career planning and actively learn how to plan our time effectively. The workshop “Career plan development and personal strategy” is aiming to be the first step on the way of effective planning of our careers.
Workshop II: Postdoctoral fellowships - Where, when and how?
There are so many courses for writing grants. But even if your proposal is fabulous, do you know where to send it? Are you sure that you haven’t missed the deadline already? What should you keep in mind when applying? Join us for our workshop to find out…
Beate Brenner from the European Project Centre at TU Dresden and Nambirajan Govindarajan from the Grant Office at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) will advise you on how to navigate through all the possibilities to increase your chance of success!
Workshop III: How to succeed outside of academia?
There are many possible careers to choose after finishing your Ph.D. We all were or will be there. Being on a finish line of the Ph.D. and standing a front of a choice. Academia or industry? Our speaker, Julia König (an alumni Ph.D. student from MTZ - TU Dresden) also was there, and now she is a Product manager for EM sample preparation for cryo workflows in Lecia Microsystem GmbH.
If you are interested in what was her story? What skills she had, and which she needed to develop to achieve success in the industry? What she, and you have to take into account when going different ways?
Join us for our workshop to find out this and more.
Poster Session and Chalk Talks
It's a poster session.
Posters are entirely voluntary but strongly encouraged. Flipcharts/Whiteboards will be provided for participants who prefer to give a chalk talk than present a poster.
Food and drinks will be provided!
