The young investigators' science blog
We were looking for the most Christmassy lab in the Cluster and were amazed by the contributions to our Cluster Christmas Call 2015. We found Santa in front of a laminar flow cabinet and even the loo in some institutes featured Frosty the Snowman. Labs were decorated with fairy lights and Christmas trees and whole groups as well as single members were dressed up as … Continue reading Rockin‘ around the BioChemisTree
Have you ever asked yourself what life as a manager in industry is like? To give students answers to this question the BFB (Bonner Forum Biomedizin) set up the event “Dine with a managing director“ . There, eight students and young postdocs from life science had the chance to get first hand impressions on what life and a career in industry are like and ask … Continue reading There is no free lunch – BFB event: “Dine with a Managing Director”
The Christmas markets have already opened and the year is now quickly coming to an end. When looking back at this year, one of the great [german: toll] Conferences (at least for all immunologists working in Innate Immunity) was the Toll Meeting. The meeting´s name is actually derived from the pattern recognition receptor in drosophila named Toll. The Toll protein was initially identified by Christiane … Continue reading The Toll Meeting 2015 [toll (German): great, amazing, fantastic]
According to this year´s Nature Graduate Student Survey , most graduates worldwide plan to pursue an academic career. In Germany, almost sixty percent of the graduates are very certain that they want to stay in academia, while only ten percent answered that they will very likely leave the academic track. Within the Cluster Science Days evening program “Life after your PhD” we discussed the questions … Continue reading Career development: Have the right feeling