IMPRS Retreat 2024

30 Sept 2024, 06:00 → 2 Oct 2024, 20:30 Europe/Berlin

Harnack-Haus

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Monday 30 September

06:00 Travel to Berlin

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

Session 1: Arrival Harnack Haus

12:30 Lunch at Harnack House

Session 1: Workshops I- Excelling in your PhD at the MPG

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

Speaker: Prof. Jens Rolff (Freie Universität Berlin)

2 Science Dreamwork for Grant Applications

Speaker: Dr Laurel Raffington (MPI for Human Development)

3 Starting Your PhD at MPI: How to get off to a good start

Speaker: Dr Christin Nyhoegen (Freie Universität Berlin)

Session 1: Ice breaker activities

16:00 Coffee Break

Session 1: Workshops II- Career in the MPG

4 Improving figure design

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

5 Job interviews in academic and academia related fields

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

18:00 Dinner at Harnack House

Session 1: Group Discussion: Inter-disciplinary research in the MPI-EB

Tuesday 1 October

07:00 Breakfast

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

10:00 Coffee Break + Poster Session + Networking

Session 1: Scientific Talk 2 - Dr. Eva J.P. Lievens, Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Constance

12:00 Short Break

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.

13:00 Group Photo

13:15 Lunch

Session 2: DR Survey report and discussion

15:45 Travel to German Cathedral by coach

Session 2: German Cathedral: English guided tour of parliamentary-historical exhibition

Session 2: Transit German Cathedral to dome of Reichstag

Session 2: Visit dome of Reichstag (security check)

19:00 Joint Dinner in City Centre - Restaurant Hopfingerbräu

Wednesday 2 October

07:00 Breakfast at Harnack House (and Check-out)

Session 1: IMPRS general meeting Part 1

10:30 Coffee Break

Session 1: IMPRS general meeting Part 2

Session 1: MPG Alumni talk - Dr. Elena Damm, Charité Berlin: MPG resources for career development

12:30 Lunch

Session 2: Meeting with IMPRS coordinator

Session 2: Closing session

14:30 Travel to Plön/Kiel