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Graduate School of Life Sciences

2009 July

No 2_July 2009

"A Message to Excellence"

Editorial

Hello and welcome to your second GSLS newsletter!

In the first newsletter the GSLS announced the GSLS mascot contest: you are still invited to send in drafts or sketches of what you think symbolize the Life Sciences and Research in Würzburg. Please submit by 10 August after you have registered at liebert@gsls.uni-wuerzburg.de. The jury - comprising the DSC, GSLS board and staff - will honor the winner with an iPod - and with utmost profound thanks. For copyright issues read more. --- Make sure to attend The Hottest Life Science in Town, Saturday 4 July, Hubland, one of the GSLS top events of the year! Read more --- GSLS members may use the newsletter as a platform of communication and exchange, and we are all curious of how this medium will develop. --- Next newsletter: in September.

We wish you good success with your research and a pleasant summer,
Rose Liebert

1. Featured Paper
Under this heading the GSLS wants to present excellent first author publications by GSLS doctoral students and award them with a prize. You are invited to send in your publication dating back a maximum of three months from the submission deadline. Submission deadlines are every three months, the next is on 1 October. The DSC and the GSLS board decide on which paper(s) to feature. The awardees will receive a subsidy of 250 Euros for conference participation or external research stays! The awardees from our first deadline 1 July will be announced in the September newsletter.

2. Doctoral Students´ Affairs

  • People: Meet the members of the Doctoral Students´ Council (DSC); Read more
  • Doctoral Students´ Message Board. This place is for your news & notices, dates & facts. Please send anything you would like to be posted here liebert@gsls.uni-wuerzburg.de
  • The Neuro-DoWo (30-31 July)
    Neurobiological doctoral students´ workshop supported by the GSLS; <link life_sciences training_activities activities_events neurodowo>Read more
  • FAQ of the month
    What are the rules of good scientific practice? Read more

3. The GSLS Newsdesk

People
  • New Managing Director  
    Gabriele Blum-Oehler will join the GSLS on 15 July; <link life_sciences news single artikel new-gsls-m external-link-new-window external link in new>Read more
  • New Member
    Sibylle Jablonka is the most recent new member of the Graduate School
  • GSLS members elected into University Senate
    Gerhard Bringmann, Thomas Hünig and Markus Riederer, members of the GSLS, were elected to the University Senate, the most influential board within the university next to the University Council (Hochschulrat). Congratulations! Read more (in German)

Funding

  • The MD/PhD Program has 5 new fellowships available, deadline July 22; <link life_sciences news single artikel five-posit external-link-new-window external link in new>Read more
  • For everyone close to the end of the PhD: the DFG has a new policy for first time applicants after the PhD ("DFG-Erstantrag"). You can apply for your own post-doc salary and consumables, formal requirements are less stringent than for experienced applicants; Read more (in German).

Meetings in Würzburg in July

  • July 16-18, 2009 International Symposium of the SFB 479
    Living with pathogens - never lose control    ;Flyer

Transferable Skills Workshops in July
  • “Cover Letter & CV” / “Writing Successful Grant Proposals” / “Breaking Barriers - in Communication, Perception & English” / “Job Interview” / “Giving Academic Talks". Please pay attention to the Terms & Conditions; Read more

4. University News

People
  • New Professor: Carola Förster was appointed professor for "Experimentelle Anästhesiologie". She is biochemist by training and focuses on new therapies for lifestyle related diseases; <link en fuer university_relations uni-intern0 foerster external-link-new-window external link in new>Read more (in German)

Interdisciplinarity
  • Evolution: Assuming languages and species develop alike, there could be common useful algorithms to investigate both. Linguists, computer scientists and bioinformaticians of the University of Würzburg want to benefit from this idea and have now established a new research project; <link en fuer university_relations blick bioinformatik external-link-new-window external link in new>Read more (in German)

5. Off Campus

Würzburg

Germany

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
    Matthias Kleiner     has been reelected president on 1 July. One of his first official acts was the presentation of the follow-up schedule for the continuation of the Excellence Initiative. All projects already funded by the initiative (like the GSLS) can apply for a second funding period. Applications are due in Fall of 2011; Read more (in German). Three different pacts (with the universities, the excellence initiative, pact for research and innovation) add up to 18 billion Euros by 2019 in support of science; Read more (in German).
    Jörg Hacker, former director of the ZINF, regularly retired from office as DFG Vice President after six years. He was departed with enthusiastic applause. His successor is Leibniz laureate Elisabeth Knust, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute in Dresden.
  • 20 years after the wall
    Revisiting the GDR online. Read more

Europe

  • 2009 European elections
    Find the results and read more
  • Not-so-sacred-cows
    Cattle cloning  is now on the verge of commercial use in the United States. EU agriculture ministers have decided that meat and milk from cloned animals should also be allowed onto the European market. Not everyone is pleased. Read more

Preview August
  • Indian Night with music, dances, food, movies and much more.
    The Indian community at the Graduate School organizes a big event on the occasion of the Indian Independence Day, August 15. Get a taste of India's history, culture and current developments. Location is not clear yet, but it will start early in the evening and last until late at night. All doctoral students, postdocs and principal investigators are cordially invited.
    Contact: Reena J. Rathod Rathod_R@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de
    The event is supported by a DAAD grant to the UWGS
  • Workshop English Conversation Summer. Read more

Contact: liebert@gsls.uni-wuerzburg.de

Rhizosolenia styliformis; microscopic picture of
marine diatoms by Angela Schlipp, Section Biomedicine

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