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Graduate School of Life Sciences

2009 Nov

No 4_Nov 2009

"A Message to Excellence"

Editorial

Hello and welcome to your last GSLS newsletter in 2009!

In this newsletter you will find a range of funding opportunities. +++ The UWGS, GSLS and GSH would like to invite all GSLS doctoral students and PIs for the Seasonal Get-Together. It will take place on Wednesday 9 December at 5 p.m. in the Graduate School´s office, Paradeplatz 4. Please find details on the section "GSLS Newsdesk". +++ And here comes Herbi, the new GSLS mascot:

Claudia Leikam, Herbi´s creator, took its name from the Latin word for Würzburg, Herbipolis. Its global head indicates internationality, and the various creatures or items in its tentacles are well known to all Würzburg life sciences researchers.- Thank you, Claudia! +++ The GSLS has now got flyers to inform prospective doctoral students, current doctoral students and PIs on GSLS principles and structures. +++  As a standing invitation I would like to ask you to send in scientific photos or photos from meetings to be published at the end of each newsletter. +++ The next GSLS newsletter will be online in January 2010.

The GSLS-team would like to wish you a blessed and happy Christmas and New Year 2010.

With kind regards,
Rose Liebert

1. Featured Papers

The next "Featured Papers" will be awarded in the January Newsletter. GSLS doctoral students are invited to email their publications dating from August 2009 onwards.

2. Doctoral Students´Affairs
  • Meet the people of the Doctoral Students´ Council (DSC); <link life_sciences doctoral_students_council external link in new>R<link life_sciences doctoral_students_council external link in new>ead more

DSC news

  • Doctoral students meet PIs. "You want to get advice for your career - academy or industry?" The DSC invites you on Wednesday 25 November at 8 p.m. at the Standard. <link life_sciences doctoral_students_council external-link-new-window external link in new>Read more

Funding opportunities

  • Thanks to the suggestions of Sara Leonhardt we have added postdoctoral funding opportunities on the homepage. <link uwgs funding_opportunities external-link-new-window external link in new>Read more
  • Rise program: doctoral students can host an undergraduate research intern from the US or GB. Program deadline 30 Nov. Read more (in German)

A Break from Research for International Doctoral Students. <link uwgs news single artikel a-break-fr external link in new>Read more

For your messages

 FAQ of the month

  • What happens if DFG funded programs I am associated with run out of promotion? <link life_sciences faqs during_the_project external-link-new-window external link in new>Read more

3. GSLS Newsdesk

People. The GSLS welcomes new PIs!

Invitation for the Seasonal Get-Together

  • On Wednesday 9 December the Graduate Schools of the University of Würzburg kindly invite als GSLS doctoral students and PIs for a Seasonal Get-Together in the Graduate Schools´ office, Paradeplatz 4 at 5 p.m. Please note this date in your diary. Dag Nikolaus Hasse, professor of Philosophy will open the get-together with an overview talk of the history of science. The detailed program will be sent soon by email.

More funding opportunities - early deadlines!

  • 18 GSLS Fellowships by the GSLS.  Application open - also for German applicants. Deadline on 20 November! <link life_sciences for_doctoral_students application gsls_fellowships external link in new>Read more
  • Special awards for female researchers with a child. Deadline on 31 December!  Read more   (in German)
  • Interesting for postdocs: FP7   Read more

Transferable Skills workshops

  • English Grammar Defense (01 and 08 December)
  • 2010: peruse the schedule for 2010 and register online.  <link life_sciences training_activities transferable_skills workshops>Read more
  • Please pay attention to the altered <link life_sciences training_activities transferable_skills terms_and_conditions>Terms & Conditions; there are longer withdrawel rules: TEN  (10)  working days prior to the workshop (not 5).

4. University News

People

  • Professor Jörg Hacker, former Würzburg professor and current president of the Robert Koch-Institute, has been elected new president of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina" - National Academy of Sciences. The microbiologist succeeds former Würzburg professor Volker ter Meulen in spring 2010. GSLS vice dean Professor Martin Lohse was elected vice president succeeding former Würzburg Professor Harald zur Hausen who was a Nobel laureate of Medicine last year. Read more (in German)
  • Professor Jörg Vogel, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection biology in Berlin has recently been appinted chair of the ZINF/IMIB. His main research interests are the identification and characterization of noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) in bacterial pathogens and regulatory roles of sRNAs in host-pathogen interactions.

Top position for Würzburg Chemists

  • The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks Würzburg chemists on postion 37. Also the Life and Natural Sciences of the University of Würzburg belong to the top 100. Read more (in German)

Würzburg Psychologists are excellent

  • According to the results of a euroean-wide survey of the Center for University Development (Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung) psychologists of the University of Würzburg are excellent due to their research activities and internationality. Read more (in German)

Meetings

  • Chances of graduate students on foreign labor markets. Thursday 19 Nov, 6:15 p.m. Biozentrum, lecture hall A 101. Read more (in German)
  • "Green gene technology" on Wednesday 25 Nov, Röntgenring, Oswald Külpe lecture hall. Read more (in German)

KIS

  • "Contact and information service" for (doctoral) students with chronic or acute diseases or with any other physical or mental disorders. Read more (in German)

University elections 2010

  • Get elected to the Senate, in the faculty councils and in the students´ convent on 6 July 2010. Contact the university election board (Wahlamt)

Jobs
  • Visit the second international university fair on 25 November 2009 between 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at the Foyer, Hublandmensa. Read more (in German) 

5. Off Campus

Jobs

  • Job opportunities in Germany for foreign professionals. Read more

Life Science Business Plan Competition

  • Join the 5th international Life Science Businessplanwettbewerb BOB ("Best of Biotech - get your business started") Read more

Research

  • Cerebral ischemia: Würzburg researchers report about new target proteins in Science Signaling. Read more (in German)
  • The albatross manages to smell fish swimming underwater.  Read more
  • The horse code. Researchers have decoded the genome of the domestic horse. Read more
  • Early life events. Scientists pinpoint genetic changes due to childhood trauma. Read more
  • Newborns´ cry melody is shaped by their neative language, Würzburg researchers report in Current Biology. Read more (in German)
  • Family´s health history.  New research shows that a rare brain disorder that causes early dementia is highly hereditary. Read more


Nobel Prizes of 2009

  • Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" Read more
  • Physics "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" respectively "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor". Read more
    The very first Nobel Prize for Physics went to Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen who discovered X-ray in Würzburg. There have been eight more Würzburg researchers with a Nobel Prize since. Read more
  • Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase". Read more
  • Literature, Peace, Economics Read more


Business


Würzburg

  • Vladimir Kaminer, the Russian born German bestseller author, reads at the Würzburg library, Falkenhaus Stadtbücherei on 21 Januar 2010. Read more (in German). - Kaminer describes German as "the lego kit language". Read more


Germany

  • After the federal election of 27 September Germany has the same chancellor but a new coalition with 622 members in the Bundestag. Read more

  • The 132 page "Koalitionsvertrag" ("coalition treaty") promises "good educational training and strong research". Read more (in German)

Europe

  • Lisbon Strategy for growth and jobs. Read more

Second Prize awardees for the GSLS mascot:

Aruna Srinivasan, Ellaine Riciel Salvador, Theresa Wollenberg

contact: liebert@gsls.uni-wuerzburg.de
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