2010 Sept

Editorial

Dear GSLS members and friends,

More than one hundred doctoral students and PIs came to celebrate the first Graduate Schools Graduation Ceremony and Welcome Party. The boat trip on the river Main with the graduation ceremony was the absolute highlight; log in for photos! Before this tour Professor Jürgen Tautz had given insight on "Good vibrations - `the comb-wide web´ of honeybees", and the GSLS office informed about the general program Life Sciences and MENTORING life sciences for female doctoral students. +++ The next social event is in October when a group of twenty doctoral students is leaving for the first GSLS study trip to Brussels. +++ Internationally oriented the GSLS again invites doctoral students form all over the world to apply for GSLS fellowships for spring 2011. +++ Twenty years ago doctoral students were released from their lonesome traditional dissertation phase. The new project Graduiertenkolleg (reseach training group) was launched to supporting doctoral students in getting more independent, and furthermore, it established what we call structured doctoral training. A success story!

With kind regards,
Rose Liebert

1. Featured Paper

The last round in 2010 for the featured paper contest has been opened: win a prize of 250 euros for a conference participation or external research stay. All GSLS doctoral students may send their publications dating from June 2010 onwards to gabriele.blum(at)uni-wuerzburg.de and run for the next "Featured Paper". Closing date: 15 November 2010

2. Doctoral Students´ Affairs

• Meet the people of the Doctoral Students´Council (DSC)

Symposium

• The 5^th International Symposium organized by GSLS doctoral students takes place on 13-14 October. "Submit your poster for the International Students´ Symposium and hand in your essay for the writing competition now on our webpage. The opportunity to get your science out there!"

DSC Elections

• Get involved in the GSLS doctoral students´ affairs and become a candidate for the DSC elections

For your messages

• Are you looking for new friends to play cards with? Do you want to share your research findings with somebody from another section? You may post any message here

FAQ of the month

• I am at the stage of handing in my dissertation at the GSLS office. Do I have to find the committee for my defense before or after handing in my dissertation? Read more

3. GSLS Newsdesk

The GSLS welcomes new PIs!

• Prof. Dr. Jörg Vogel, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology
• Dr. Shashi Bhushan, Rudolf-Virchow-Center
  

Vacant PhD positions

• PIs are asked to post vacant PhD positions on the GSLS hompage. Please contact the GSLS office

GSLS Fellowhips 2011

• The GSLS again invites doctoral students from all over the world to apply for one of 18 doctoral fellowships for spring 2011. Registration closing date: 26 September

Funding

• UWGS still has a few thousand euros available for reseach stays / workshop participations; money has to be spent in 2010, apply here

New: Workshops for PIs and Staff

• PIs may have the GSLS office organize and co-finance open workshops which are specifically tailored for their staff/group. Please find current offers on the new PIs/staff workshops website. The first staff workshop is on Leadership and Team Building at the University and takes place on two Fridays; 26 November and 3 December 2010, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Scientific Workshops

• How does Statistics work? Read more

Transferable Skills Workshops

• September: Life Scientists write a Business Plan; October: Writing workshops, November: Talking workshops; Poster Design & Presentation.- Read more

4. University News

University Website

• Now even more user friendly. Read more (in German)

Scientific Findings

• Systematical research on radio pharmaca material for nuclear medicine procedures is being done at the university clinic (in German)

• Physics. A new group of physicists is researching on properties of strongly correlated materials that play a significant role for sensors and switches, and for the development of novel electronic components (in German)

• Chemical tag allows proteins to be labelled with an organic fluorophore in live cells

Research Contests

• Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Award 2011 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (in German)
• Innovations Award 2011 of the Vodafone Donation for Research (in German)
• Max-Planck-Research Award 2011

Passage to Asia

• The University of Würzburg is expanding their network into international elite universities in China and in Japan (in German).
• A Center for India Studies funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has been established at this university (in German)
• Würzburg Goes India: a University delegation is going to visit the four official partner Universities in India at the end of September to prepare research stays of students and doctoral candidates from Würzburg, and to elucidate further plans for cooperation in the context of the DAAD Program "A New Passage To India". Apply now for support of research stays at the Indian partner institutions in 2011/2012

Networking with Schools of the Region

• The University of Würzburg is expanding their network into 43 Gymnasien (high schools) with the objective to facilitate the transition period from school to university. Moreover, it was agreed on a more intense cooperation in teacher qualification and advanced training

Parties, Lectures, Meetings, Exhibitions, Events for Children

• 19 September: Herbstfest at the Botanical Gardens
• Find more on the University Event Calender (in German)

Alumni

• 22-24 November: International Gender Week, a DAAD project with talks in both German and English. (in German)

5. Off Campus

20 Year Celebration of Research Training Groups

• 20 years ago the new project Graduiertenkolleg (research training group) was launched (in German)

Scientific Findings

• The (un)successful sequencing of the human genome. Interview with Craig Venter
• Researchers think they can increase hope for hepatitis C patients
• Bacteria have their own sense of smell
• The Chemistry of Life  (in German)
• Insect Pest Control. Nuclear techniques in food and agriculture to sterile insects

Joint Research Activities

• Bioinspired Design and Engineering of Novel Funcional Materials. DFG-NSF Research Conference from 22-25 March 2011 in New York City (supported by the DFG and the US National Science Foundation)
• "India and Germany - Strategic Partners for Innovation" initiative. One of the prime goals of the Federal Government´s Internationalisation Initiative is to expand cooperation in growth markets with countries that actively engage in dynamic research activities

Research and Money

Funding programs "Research in Germany - Land of Ideas":

• for foreign Graduates & Doctoral Students
• for foreign Postdocs
• for German Graduates & Doctoral Students
• for German Postdocs

Award for PhD Graduates of 2010:

• PhD graduates may win 5,000 euros in the Klaus Tschira Contest für verständliche Wissenschaft (for comprehensible Science). Write the result of your dissertation in German language both comprehensibly and thrilling, and forward your article by 28 February 2011 

Job Fairs

• fall 2010: several fairs with Career Venture 
• 27 September: Horizons Career Fair in Göttingen
• 5-6 November in Frankfurt/Main. McKinsey Women´s Day: interesting for female doctoral students who fancy a non-scientific career. Apply by 19 September; (in German)

News from the European Commission

• Mid July-mid September: to boost jobs with launch of Europe´s biggest call for research
• Annual Report on Intellectual Property Rights at Customs
• Commissioner visits China to boost cooperation on customs and tackling counterfeit and smuggling
• HIV positive are on the rise - one in three people are unaware that they have the virus

Germany

• Nuclear Energy. Chancellor Angela Merkel opts to extend the lifespan of German power stations. At the same time she argues to levy extra taxes on the nuclear industry for further research on sustainable energy (in German)
• Google Street View and the challenges of the Internet age
• Love Parade Disaster. Crowd caused panic
• Rain Season in Germany. Rainfall causing rivers to rise, flooding roads and triggering landslides

Würzburg Events

• 11-12 September: International Street Music Festival (stramu) with more then 300 artists from 22 countries, street theater, jongleurs, comedy (in German)
• 17-18 September: Stadtfest  (in German)

Cyclic GMP effectors: the second messenger cGMP mediates its effects by binding three known classes of proteins: cGMP-gated ion channels, cGMP-dependent protein kinases and phosphodiesterases (PDEs); by Juliane Schröter, section Biomedicine

contact: liebert(at)gsls.uni-wuerzburg.de

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