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PIs of tomorrow: Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) – Deadline Oct. 6, 2024

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Dear postdoctoral fellows,
We are pleased to announce the call for applications to the

“PIs of tomorrow: The Future of Swiss Research”

session at the next LS2 Annual Meeting 2025 which will be held in Fribourg, 12-13 February 2025. This session offers postdocs interested in an academic career an opportunity to present a plenary talk similar in format to a professorship interview seminar.

Selected participants will have the chance to deliver a 12-minute presentation which should appeal to a broad audience. This talk should also highlight the current achievements of the researcher alongside their proposed future research ideas and aspirations. The talk will be followed by a 14-minute discussion on various aspects of the proposed activity, alongside career-oriented aspects of the presenter. A knowledgeable jury panel of professors will evaluate the presentations.

Two prizes will be awarded, by the Jury and by the Public. As well, all finalists presenting in the session will receive feedback from the jury in a one-on-one private session afterwards focussed on career development and advice. In addition, finalists will have their costs covered to attend the LS2 Annual Meeting 2025, taking advantage of the opportunity to expand or refresh your network in Switzerland via interaction with scientists in and outside your field.

Eligibility criteria:

  1. Early career post-PhD researcher with a net academic age of max. 5 years (following SNSF age regulations to take into account career breaks, maternity/paternity leaves, etc: https://www.snf.ch/media/en/Of9kzylTRoaTlliN/SNSF_net-academic-age.pdf).
  2. Ties to Switzerland (i.e. Swiss citizenship, Swiss residency, past or on-going affiliation with a Swiss institution of at least two years).
  3. Currently not in a permanent or tenure track position. For all requirements, the relevant date is that of the deadline (06.10.2024 at 23:59 CET).

Applications must be received by October 6th, 2024 (23:59 CET).
For questions on the session, contact postdocsession@gmail.com. We look forward to your application and hope to welcome you in February 2025 at the LS2 meeting!

More information (i.e. documents, applications)

https://www.snf.ch/media/en/Of9kzylTRoaTlliN/SNSF_net-academic-age.pdf

https://snf.ch/en/gKcnwW6aEft4bMPF/page/your-curriculum-vitae-all-about-the-cv-format

Thu Feb 22 – Fri Feb 23, 2024 – Lausanne Omics Days 2024

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This year, the scope of the Lausanne Genomics Days has broadened since it becomes the Lausanne Omics Days. It is still a 2-days international conference meant to share advances in genomics and their impact on biological research, applied to a wide range of topics(it does involve 5 UNIL departments CIG, DBC, DBMV, DEE, and DMF).

It will take at UNIL / Genopode on February Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd.

The conference offers 4 sessions:

  • Deep learning in Biology and Medicine (Chair: Prof. Sven Bergmann)
  • Variation in genome structure and organization (Chair: Prof. Sebastian Soyk)
  • Metabolomics – Towards understanding biological interaction (Chair: Prof. Philipp Engel)
  • Single cell and spatial transcriptomics (Chair: Prof. Tanja Schwander)

For detailed program and more information, please visit the event webpage

Registration is FREE of charge. Still, it is mandatory for organization purpose, in particular ensuring that there will not be food wasted (coffee breaks, lunch and apero are offered).

HERE is the direct link for registration

Attendance is worth 0.5 ECTS

Best regards

Julien Marquis, on behalf of the L0D2024 organization team
Head of Lausanne Genomics Technologies Facility (GTF)

Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) – Deadline for abstract submission: Nov. 8, 2023

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  • Deadline for abstract submission (posters and talks): 8 November 2023
  • General registration: 10 January 2024

Register here: https://annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2024/registration

The program of this edition gathers an amazing panel of keynote speakers: Pr. Nicole King from the University of California, Berkeley (US), Dr. Samer Hattar from the National Institute of Mental Health (US), and Dr. Pavel Tomancakfrom the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (DE) and Dr. Melina Schuh from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (DE), who will give a keynote lecture at the Young Scientists’ Satellite.

But that’s not all, the 2024 edition of the LS2 Annual Meeting has many interesting things to offer:

Look at details of the program here and general information about abstracts, 3R Accreditation, Venue and more here.

Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium – registration deadline Sep. 11, 2023

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The Vienna Biocenter PhD Symposium, has become a hallmark of scientific exchange, collaboration and networking for the last 19 years, bringing together diverse audiences and excellent speakers from across Europe and beyond. 

For this special, 20th anniversary edition, “A Mixtape of Science”, the organizers aim to build on this experience to foster a dynamic and cooperative atmosphere, combining the best minds, techniques, organisms, disciplines and approaches to research into an inspiring Mixtape of Science. 

Registration with a poster abstract submission will end on 11 September 2023.

They will also be offering travel grants (covering flight/train and accommodation for three days in Vienna) to a selected number of students that wish to present a poster. 

Further details are available on the website:https://training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/student-symposium-2023/

PIs of tomorrow: Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) – Deadline Oct. 15, 2023

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PIs of tomorrow is the Future of Swiss Research‘ session at the next LS2 Annual Meeting 2024 which will be held in Lausanne, 14-15. February 2024. 

This session offers to postdocs interested in an academic career an opportunity to present a plenary talk similar in format to a professorship interview seminar. A knowledgeable jury panel of professors will evaluate the presentations.

The best presentation will be awarded a prize. However, everyone is a winner, as all presenters in the session will receive feedback from the jury in a one-on-one private session afterwards. Moreover, as a participant in the LS2 Annual Meeting 2024, you will have the opportunity to expand or refresh your network in Switzerland via interaction with scientists in and outside your field.

Only applicants having ties to Switzerland will be considered (i.e. Swiss citizenship, Swiss residency, past or on-going affiliation with a Swiss institution of at least two years by the 2024meeting). Independent position holders are not eligible.

Find the full list of eligibility and selection criteria and details to apply :https://annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2024/specials/pis-of-tomorrow

Deadline: 15th October, 2023

Questions to the session should be addressed to postdocsession@gmail.com
General questions can be sent to info@ls2.ch