VIB Postdoc Day 2023
The next VIB postdoc day will be organized on the 17/10/2023 in BIP Brussels (Rue Royale 2, 1000 Brussels).
Preliminary program
| 09.00 - 09:45 | Registration and welcome coffee | |
| 09.45 - 10.00 | Welcome and intro | |
| The Future of funding | ||
| 10:00 -10:20 | The Future of Research Funding: an ERC Perspective | Dace Rambaka, Policy Analyst, ERC Exectuive Agency |
| 10:20 -10:40 | Health research funding at the KBF | Laetitia Aerts, Senior project coordinator, King Baudouin Foundation |
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10:40 -11: 00 |
Exploring Funding opportunities: A Personal Perspective |
Katie van Geyte, Research program manager, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Q&A | |
| 11:15 - 11:35 | coffee break | |
| Keynote | ||
| 11:35 - 12:20 | The future of AI for science: AlphaFold and beyond | Lindsay Willmore, Science Researcher, Deepmind |
| 12:20 - 12:35 | Q&A | |
| 12:35 - 14:00 | Networking lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Research Counting for Nothing?! How to Create a Future Without Disincentives in Academia | Amrei Bahr, Junior professor for philosophy of technology and information, Stuttgart University & Political Campaign Manager |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Q&A | |
| The Future of publishing | ||
| 15:00 -15:20 | Transparent Publishing and Open Science: how to share reproducible data | Bernd Pulverer, Head of Scientific Publications, embo & Member of DORA Steering Committee |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Reviewed Preprints: eLife’s new publishing model | Nicola Adamson, Senior Editorial Assistant, elife |
| 15:40 - 15:50 | Q&A | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Coffee break | |
| The future of postdoc careers | ||
| 16:10 - 16:25 | Cracking the code to your career in Life Sciences | Aimee Brenner, Denzel Gieling, Team Leader Delivery Division, Panda |
| 16:25 - 16:40 | The future of postdoc careers: at intersections of the academia with industry and society | Abhishek Garg, Assistant professor, KU Leuven |
| 16:40 - 16:55 | How to combine your experience to create your own research niche | Maud Martin, PI, ULB |
| 16:55 - 17:10 | Joining Biotech’s Dark Side: Embrace Your Inner Anakin | Bruno Dombrecht, VIB discovery Sciences |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Q&A | |
| 17:30 - 17:35 | Closing remarks | |
| 17:35 | Networking reception with walking dinner |
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