S02 - Junior Principal Investigator

This satelite meeting has been cancelled.

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Page Last Updated: Sept. 1st, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Junior Principal Investigator (JPI) satellite meeting aims to help junior PIs to anticipate and manage the challenges of running a research group and to learn from successful examples of established young PIs. Indeed, the JPI workshop has two main goals. The first goal is to build a strong network of peers that they can draw on for advice, support and collaboration in the future. The workshop will therefore allow for focused interaction between the attendees. The second goal is to learn directly from the experience of young but well-established PIs about the way they manage their groups. This will be achieved through focused talks and a panel discussion.

 

Organization of the workshop

The workshop is planned in four sections as follows bellow. Speaker invitations are ongoing. The meeting is planned for Sunday September 7th. Here is a tentative schedule (which is subject to change).

  Section Speakers Session Details of organization

08:00-09-00

REGISTRATION

      
9:00-9:05 Introduction Chair Introduction  
9:05-10:00   Attendees Speed-dating 5min rouns with each other
10:00-10:30 Talk Speaker 1 Position talk 1 10min talk + discussion
10:30-10:45     Coffee break  
10:45-11:10 Talk Speaker 2 Position talk 2 10min talk + discussion
11:10-11:35 Talk Speaker 3  Position talk 3 10min talk + discussion 
11:35-12:00 Talk Speaker 4 Position talk 4
 10min talk + discussion
12:00-1:30     Lunch  
1:30-3:00 Discussion 5 groups with attendees and 1 speaker
 Group discussion 1 5 groups, topics to be collected at the registration
3:00-4:00 Talk Speaker 5 Long talk 30 min talk + discussion
4:00-4:20     Coffee break  
4:20-5:50 Discussion 5 groups with attendees and 1 speaker Group discussion 2 5 groups, topics to be collected at the registration
5:50-6:00   Chair Conclusions Meeting conclusion and wrap-up

 

 

 

 

 

Seats at 9am are assigned randomly. At every break (in black), attendees will by shuffled by changing the seats randomly with the aim to provide more opportunities for face-to-face communication.

As highlighted in red, the workshop aims to promote interactions. It will start off with a networking opportunity through speed-dating introductions. Then, small discussion groups are dispersed during the day. Finally, the meeting is concluded through an open panel discussion, in which the questions and issues raised by the discussion groups are presented and discussed by the speakers. A final wrap-up by the workshop chair then summarizes and closes the event.

By mixing a few short position talks with an interactive format that is aimed at providing excellent networking and experience-sharing opportunities, the workshop will thus deliver an exciting platform for young researchers to learn how to successfully run a group.

 

 

Speakers

Sampsa Hautaniemi

Research Interests

The research in the Systems Biology group concentrates on two topics. Firstly, in order to efficiently analyze large-scale and multilevel molecular data, we have developed a computational ecosystem called Anduril. Our approach provides a modular and open source workflow framework for data analysis, and it is the backbone that enables efficient analysis and interpretation of biomedical data. Secondly, we actively develop and apply approaches to integrate genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenetics and clinical data to gain understanding of cancer progression and resistance to anti-cancer treatments. Currently, we focus on lymphoma, ovarian cancer and breast cancer.

Lennart Martens

Research Interests

The CompOmics group is specialized in the management, storage, analysis and interpretation of large-scale omics data. The group has developed a large collection of algorithms and free and open end-user applications for these tasks, particularly in the field of proteomics. Recently, the group also published its extensive hands-on tutorials for proteomics informatics, illustrating the key goal of empowering end-users through education and production-grade, state-of-the-art software tools. One of the main areas of interest is the (orthogonal) reuse of publicly available omics data in meta-analyses that span thousands of individual experiments.

Oliver Kohlbacher

Research Interests

The research of our group is focused on method development in computational biology and their application in systems biology, drug design, and immunology. Recently we have focussed on the development of methods for the analysis of high-throughput metabolomics and proteomics data, vaccines design, and virtual high-throughput screening. The group is also known for its open-source software development efforts, most notably OpenMS (computational mass spectrometry), BALL (structural bioinformatics), and BN++/BiNA (systems biology).

Sebastian Schultheiss

Current focus

Computomics is a team of world-leading experts in plant research and bioinformatics, offering turnkey next-generation sequencing (NGS) analyses for agriculture biotech companies and crop scientists. Computomics helps navigate the complexities of cereal, vegetable, fruit, and other genomes, starting from the experimental design and leading up to complex interpretations. Our turnkey bioinformatics services provide our clients with NGS data interpretation using state-of-the-art genomics tools and technologies.

 

Alice C. McHardy 

Current focus

The research of the group focuses on the data-driven analysis of biological questions, as well as method development to solve prediction problems for large biological data sets. To address problems of either medical or biotechnological relevance we are using pattern recognition techniques and phylodynamic methods. An example  is the development of phylodynamic techniques, which combine phylogenetic and epidemiological information to infer different aspects of the evolutionary dynamics of rapidly evolving populations. We apply these techniques to analyze genomic data of microbial communities (also known as metagenomic data), of influenza viruses and of cancer cells.

 

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