IMPRS Retreat 2024

Sep 30, 2024, 6:00 AM → Oct 2, 2024, 8:30 PM Europe/Berlin

Harnack-Haus

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Mon, September 30

6:00 AM → 12:00 PM Travel to Berlin

6:00 Pick-up Kiel Temporary ZOB next to Gablenzbrücke
6:30 Pick-up Plön MPI

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Session 1: Arrival Harnack Haus

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch at Harnack House

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Session 1: Workshops I- Excelling in your PhD at the MPG

1:30 PM How to review a paper and how this improves my own writing

Speaker: Prof. Jens Rolff (Freie Universität Berlin)

1:30 PM Science Dreamwork for Grant Applications

Speaker: Dr Laurel Raffington (MPI for Human Development)

1:30 PM Starting Your PhD at MPI: How to get off to a good start

Speaker: Dr Christin Nyhoegen (Freie Universität Berlin)

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Session 1: Ice breaker activities

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM → 6:00 PM Session 1: Workshops II- Career in the MPG

4:30 PM Improving figure design

Speaker: Prof. Arne Traulsen (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)

4:30 PM Job interviews in academic and academia related fields

Speaker: Prof. Nadja Fröbisch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Dinner at Harnack House

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Session 1: Group Discussion: Inter-disciplinary research in the MPI-EB

Tue, October 1

7:00 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Session 1: Scientific Talk 1 - Dr. Edda Schulz, Lise-Meitner Group Systems Epigenetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break + Poster Session + Networking

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Session 1: Scientific Talk 2 - Dr. Eva J.P. Lievens, Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Constance

12:00 PM → 12:05 PM Short Break

12:05 PM → 1:00 PM Session 1: Scientific Talk 3 - Dr. Bartlomiej Waclaw, Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, School of Physics and Astronomy - The Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology at the University of Edinburgh & the Dioscuri Research Centre for the Physics and Chemistry of Bacteria at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw.

1:00 PM → 1:15 PM Group Photo

1:15 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 3:45 PM Session 2: DR Survey report and discussion

3:45 PM → 4:30 PM Travel to German Cathedral by coach

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Session 2: German Cathedral: English guided tour of parliamentary-historical exhibition

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Session 2: Transit German Cathedral to dome of Reichstag

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Session 2: Visit dome of Reichstag (security check)

7:00 PM → 8:30 PM Joint Dinner in City Centre - Restaurant Hopfingerbräu

Wed, October 2

7:00 AM → 9:30 AM Breakfast at Harnack House (and Check-out)

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Session 1: IMPRS general meeting Part 1

10:30 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 11:30 AM Session 1: IMPRS general meeting Part 2

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 1: MPG Alumni talk - Dr. Elena Damm, Charité Berlin: MPG resources for career development

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:15 PM Session 2: Meeting with IMPRS coordinator

2:15 PM → 2:30 PM Session 2: Closing session

2:30 PM → 8:30 PM Travel to Plön/Kiel