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2015/07/10
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Workshop “What to do with a PhD in the life and natural sciences?”, 11 September 2015

We are happy to announce the next Workshop “What to do with a PhD in the life and natural sciences?” for late-stage PhD students and early postdocs.

Date: Friday, 11 September 2015, 9-17 o’clock

Place: GZMB building, seminar room 0.232
Trainer: Barbara Hoffbauer
Duration: 1 day

Registration: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/192407.html

Goal of the workshop: Getting to know about professional perspectives and reflecting about own suitability to different career paths

The workshop deals with what career means and which personal career objectives matter. Participants are introduced to different science-related career paths in the public sector (including universities, but not restricted to) and private enterprises, and which technical and personal skills matter, respectively. Moreover, participants get the opportunity to reflect their own competences and objectives as well as their suitability to these different career paths. Finally, participants develop an individual strategy for their next career steps.

A retrospective view on the first workshop of this kind is available here.

2015/07/07
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Workshop “My Project Management Skills”, 7 September 2015

We are happy to announce the workshop “My Project Management Skills” with Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi.

Date: Monday, 7 September, 9-17:30 o’clock

Place: GZMB building, seminar room 0.233
Trainer: Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi
Duration: 1 day

Registration: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/192407.html

Content:

Organization, coordination and effective leadership have become a must for growing in one´s career, in Academia as well as in other sectors. Not only scientist’s day-to-day work, but also acquiring external funding requires accurate timing, financial structuring and planning of scientific work. When scientists have little awareness of these skills, this can hinder their attitude and confidence in achieving their goals. In this workshop we will raise your self-awareness, show you how to hone these project-management related skills and enable your potential for a successful career.

In this workshop, you will

  • recognize how much experience you have already gained in your life regarding project management.
  • reflect upon your typical approaches, preferences, and strategies that you have applied during your previous projects.
  • figure out your typical role/s in a project (i.e. expert, leader, organizer, coordinator, conflict manager, facilitator, generalist, specialist, team player etc.).
  • realize your particular strengths in project work and project teams.
  • learn how you can integrate your new findings into your day-to-day work and your long-term projects.
  • improve your self-efficacy regarding upcoming projects.
  • communicate your project management experience in application processes.

You will achieve this by

  • One-to-one skill-oriented coaching supported by the trainer
  • Transferring theory into practice by reflection on one’s own behavior
  • Design of an individual project management skill profile
  • Peer-coaching with constructive feedback supported by the trainer

Pre-Work (which is sent about 2 weeks before the workshop and will enhance your benefits resulting from taking part in the workshop a lot):

  • Reading short introduction on project management topic
  • Reflecting on own project experience guided by questions and combined with collecting feedback from others (i.e., colleagues, mentor, supervisor, friends)

 

2015/07/06
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Workshop “Grant Writing for Natural and Life Scientists”, 2-3 September 2015

We are happy to invite to the next workshop on “Grant Writing“ with Dr. Christina Schütte.

Workshop dates: Wednesday, 2 September 2015, 14:00-18:00, and Thursday, 3 September 2015, 10:00-18:00 o’clock, respectively
Place: GZMB building, seminar room 0.232
Trainer: Dr. Christina Schütte
Duration: 1.5 days

Registration: via email to Kirsten Pöhlker (ggnb@gwdg.de)

The aim of this course is to familiarize participants with the strategies for writing successful grant applications to various funding bodies (BMBF, DFG). The corresponding funding principles will be exemplified in exercises for preparing work plans and writing abstracts for grant applications.

Contents:

  • General points to consider when writing a grant application
  • Structuring a story
  • General points on good scientific writing
  • The different parts of a grant application and their contents
  • Strategies for successful grant applications: What information is necessary, how and where should it be presented?
  • Differences between different funding bodies and funding principles (stress on DFG-, BMBF- and EU-funding)
  • Common mistakes in grant applications and how to avoid them
  • Analysis of grant abstracts provided by the participants (optional)
  • Exercises for writing a grant abstract and for structuring a work plan

Requirements for participation:

The course is aimed at postdocs and late-stage PhD students in the natural and life sciences who are currently preparing or will recently prepare a grant application.

Participants will be asked to prepare a short “mini-grant application” (4 pages + scientific CV) as pre-work for the course until about one week before the workshop – please take this into consideration when planning participation in this course.

These mini-grant applications will be evaluated by other participants individually before the course and in an evaluation session within the course. Each participant will also evaluate 3-4 proposals by others in the 4-5 days before course start. This will provide extensive feedback for all participants on their applications, but most importantly, will provide a clear impression of the situation and the view of potential evaluators.

About 4 weeks before the workshop, you will get more detailed information about the “mini-grant application”.

2015/07/03
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Workshop “Strengths-Based Leadership”, 1-2 September 2015

We are happy to announce the workshop “Strengths-Based Leadership” with Dr. Gudrun Henne.

Date: Tuesday, 1 September 2015, 9:00-16:00 o’clock, and Wednesday, 2 September 2015, 9:00-16:00 o’clock

Duration: 2 day
Place: Von-Siebold-Straße 4, seminar room on the first floor
Trainer: Dr. Gudrun Henne
Registration: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/192407.html

Deadline for registration is 23 August 2015.

Content:

This leadership training focuses on your personal strengths. It uses the Gallup StrengthsFinder as the analytical tool. The Gallup strengths approach is widely known and used by several million of leaders around the world. Participants learn about their five main strengths based on an internet-based assessment. During the training, participants get to know more about these strengths and what they mean for daily work practices in communicating with others, leading teams and projects. Participants learn moreover how they can become aware of the strengths of others and how they can support others in using their strengths. They develop a personal work and action plan to use their strengths, especially in leadership situations, and to further develop their strengths.

In preparation of the workshop, participants will be asked to complete the assessment of the Gallup StrengthsFinder. Access information will be sent about one week before the workshop to registered participants.

Participants’ statements from the last year’s workshop:

“Really useful workshop. Made me think more positively about myself and my strengths and gave me a good way to develop my strengths further.”

“Being aware of your strength is a great tool that I will use much more often!”

2015/07/03
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Workshop “Leading without Leadership Position”, 31 August 2015

We are happy to announce the workshop “Leading without Leadership Position” with Dr. Gudrun Henne.

Workshop date: Monday, 31 August 2015, 10:00-17:00 o’clock
Duration: 1 day
Place: GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232
Trainer: Dr. Gudrun Henne
Registration: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/192407.html

Content:

Postdocs often work with other scientists and scientific staff without a formal leadership position. The challenge is to lead people despite the absence of managerial authority. How to deal with experienced and much older scientific and technical staff? How to lead young scientists (Master students, doctoral students) who pursue own scientific interests? How to cooperate with scientists from other institutions for applications, project management and similar?
The workshop trains how to lead people without “right of command” and how to motivate and engage scientists and staff who are not direct reports. Leading without leadership position is a frequently occurring situation and dealing with it skillful can be learned.

Participants’ statements from the last year’s workshop:

“It’s a great course if you want to systematize and broaden your knowledge about communication and leadership.”

“Very fruitful and insightful, practical and applied.”

2015/06/30
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Invitation to 12th Horizons in Molecular Biology conference, Göttingen, 14-17 September 2015

Here is the invitation to the next Horizons in Molecular Biology conference:

Dear fellow students, dear alumni, dear faculty, dear colleagues,

We would like to cordially invite you to the 12th “Horizons in Molecular Biology” conference, organized by the PhD students of the Molecular Biology program and International Max Planck Research School at the University of Göttingen!

The conference will take place on the 14-17th of September 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry here in Göttingen and feature, among others, the following speakers (topic in brackets):

– Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate of 2008 (mechanosensation)

– Adam Frost (ribosomal quality control)

– Maya Schuldiner (functional genomics)

– Alice Ting (live cell proteomics)

– Scott Emr (ESCRT pathway)

The opening talk will be given by Tom Rapoport (protein trafficking).

Please visit our website for other speakers and events during the conference:

http://www.horizons.uni-goettingen.de

As always, the first day of the conference will feature the Horizons Career Fair, where young researchers can explore their career possibilities and get into contact with companies. Further details about the Horizons Career Fair will be posted on the Horizons website in a few weeks.

The conference will provide ample opportunity for interaction with speakers, poster sessions and student talks to spread your own research, travel grants for selected participants, elevator pitch sessions to advertise your poster before the poster sessions, and a panel discussion.

We are happy to announce that the online registration is now OPEN. Don’t miss the opportunity and sign up now!

http://www.horizons.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=182

The deadline for early registration at a reduced fee is August 1st, 2015. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is August 20th, 2015. Participants who register late or on-site please keep in mind that your name may not be included on the list of participants in the program book then (see http://www.horizons.uni-goettingen.de/horizont3/index.php?id=1036 for further details regarding fees and deadlines).

To stay tuned on speaker profiles and other goodies, follow us on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/horizons.molecular.biology

Looking forward to seeing you at Horizons!

– the Horizons Organization Committee –

2015/06/26
by Katrin Wodzicki
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MicroScale Thermophoresis Symposium in Göttingen 8th-9th July 2015

Below you find the invitation to a symposium organized by the GGNB alumna Dr. Astrid Sitte and her colleagues Dr. Fabian Zehender from NanoTemper Technologies. Both will also talk about their positions in customer relations and sales in a Career Impulse Session on 7th July.

Dear Researcher from Göttingen,

We would like to cordially invite you to join our upcoming methods symposium in Göttingen (8th – 9th July 2015).

  • Learn about the basics of MicroScale Thermophoresis (MST) and nanoDSF, the advanced Differential Scanning Fluorimetry (DSF) technology
  • Attend expert talks from invited, experienced scientists in the MST field
  • Use our advanced instruments Monolith and Prometheus NT.48 to measure biomolecular interactions and/or protein stability with your own samples
  • Discuss your experiments and data with experienced Application Specialists
  • Interact and network with scientists from your area (Göttingen, Braunschweig and Hannover)
  • Workshop attendance as well as consumables are free of charge

To register for the workshop, please visit our homepage, download and complete the registration form, and send it to astrid.sitte@nanotemper.de or fabian.zehender@nanotemper.de.

For any questions, or if you require any further information, please feel free to contact us directly.

Kind regards,
Dr. Astrid Sitte and Dr. Fabian Zehender

NanoTemper Technologies GmbH