Friday, 3 September 2010

02:00 – 03:30 pm; HGS Building (House 1), Luisenstraße 56, room 122

“The Art of Reading a Paper” with NN

03:30 – 05:00 pm; HGS Building (House 1), Luisenstraße 56, room 144

“News and Views“ with your coordinators

“Scientific Thinking” with Michael Peine and Volker Müller

05:00 – 06:00 pm; HGS Building (House 1), Luisenstraße 56, room 144

“Career Development” with Brigitte Dorner, Robert Koch-Institute (RKI), Zentrum für biologische Sicherheit/Mikrobielle Toxine. Making a career at a federal research institute: the Robert Koch-Institute (RKI) is an institute within the portfolio of the German Ministry of Health focussing on public health issues. It is the central federal institution for disease control and prevention and serves as a reference institution for applied and response-orientated research. For a broad spectrum of infectious agents (viruses, bacteria, biological toxins), our work focusses on i) development of innovative detection methods ii) basic research (mechanisms of pathogenicity, immunological defence mechanisms, prevalence and genetics; therapeutic options) and iii) epidemiological research.