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February 7th, 2014 Career Day: Academia p. 1

Programme http://careerdayacademia.eventbrite.com

8.30 – 9.30 Registration

9.30 – 9.45 Introduction, Dr. Barbara Janssens, DKFZ Career Manager

9.45 - 10.30 Funding and Grant applications

Dr. Schallum Werner, DFG

Dr. Steffen Mehlich, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Dr. Gerlind Wallon, Dr. Rachel Coulthard, EMBO

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick, Deutsche Krebshilfe (DKH)

10.30 - 12.00 Panel Discussion: From PhD to Postdoc

Dr. Karolin Dorn

Dr. Andreas Chiocchetti

Dr. Marieke Essers

PD Dr. Adelheid Cerwenka

Dr. Sven Diederichs

Dr. Tim Waterboer

Prof. Peter Lichter

Prof. Michael Boutros

Moderation: Dr. Barbara Janssens

12.15 - 13.4 Round Table Discussions (Registered participants only)

Participants can interact directly with speakers. All lunch participants will take turns to join discussions at three different tables:

1. Develop your scientific profile (Frauke Melchior, Tim Beissbarth)

2. Academic networking (Marieke Essers, Tim Waterboer)

3. Funding your research (EMBO, Humboldt/DFG)

14.00 – 15.30 Panel Discussion: From Postdoc to Professor

Prof. Otmar Wiestler

Prof. Hellmut Augustin

Prof. Tim Beissbarth

Dr. Jörg Hoheisel

Prof. Ana Martin-Villalba

Prof. Ursula Klingmüller

Prof. Frauke Melchior

Moderation: Dr. Barbara Janssens


Career Profiles

Funding and Grant applications

Dr. Gerlind Wallon EMBO p. 3

Dr. Rachel Coulthard EMBO p. 3

Dr. Schallum Werner German Research Foundation (DFG) p. 3

Dr. Steffen Mehlich Alexander von Humboldt Foundation p. 4

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick University Hospital Heidelberg p. 4

Panel Discussion: From PhD to Postdoc

Dr. Karolin Dorn DKFZ p. 9

Dr. Andreas Chiocchetti University Hospital Frankfurt p. 9

Dr. Marieke Essers DKFZ p. 9

PD Dr. Adelheid Cerwenka DKFZ p.10

Dr. Sven Diederichs DKFZ p.10

Dr. Tim Waterboer DKFZ p.10

Prof. Michael Boutros DKFZ p.11

Prof. Peter Lichter DKFZ p.11

Panel Discussion: From Postdoc to Professor

Prof. Otmar Wiestler DKFZ p.13

Dr. Jörg Hoheisel DKFZ p.13

Prof. Ana Martin-Villalba DKFZ p.13

Prof. Hellmut Augustin DKFZ p.14

Prof. Ursula Klingmüller DKFZ p.14

Prof. Frauke Melchior University of Heidelberg, ZMBH p.14

Prof. Tim Beißbarth University of Göttingen p.15


Funding and Grant applications

Dr. Gerlind Wallon, EMBO Deputy Director

Gerlind Wallon is the deputy director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). A German native, she graduated with a PhD in Biochemistry from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, followed by a 4 year post-doctoral period at EMBL in Heidelberg. At EMBO she is responsible for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme, the EMBO Installation Grants, the Women in Science activities and The EMBO Meeting. Gerlind Wallon has developed the EMBO Laboratory Management Courses

for leadership development, started the Career Day that offers transferable skills training at The EMBO Meeting and authored studies on the selection processes and the effects of gender on application success at EMBO.

Dr. Rachel Coulthard, Administrative Officer EMBO Young Investigator Programme

Rachel Coulthard studied Chemistry at the University of Oxford until 2005. In 2009 she completed her PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the CRUK London Research Institute. After finishing her doctorate, she stayed at institute as Research Manager for Graduate Studies, administrating the PhD and summer student programmes. She then joined EMBO as an Administrative Officer in 2010. At EMBO, she supports young group leaders as they establish their first laboratory through the EMBO Young Investigator

Programme and EMBO Installation Grants, and also co-ordinates careers activities for The EMBO Meeting. Dr. Schallum Werner, German Research Foundation (DFG)

Schallum Werner studied Biology at the University of Darmstadt and did his Diploma thesis at the EMBL in 2005. In 2010 he obtained his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. Afterwards he was working as a Scientific Coordinator at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. By the end of 2010 he joined the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn as programme officer responsible for collaborative research centres (SFB), research centres and clusters of excellence. Since December

2013 he is working in the Team for International Research Marketing located in the group “International Affairs”. At the same time he is giving presentations and advice regarding DFG funding programmes for young researchers on behalf of the group “Research Careers”.


Dr. Steffen Mehlich, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

Steffen Mehlich studied Philosophy and Russian at the Belarusian State University Minsk from 1978 – 1983. Subsequently, he worked at the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Berlin with a focus on European Security Affairs and European Security Policies, where he obtained his PhD in 1989. Afterwards, he was a visiting scholar at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and, within the International Youth Exchange Program, in the USA. Since 1991, he works at the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, and heads the Department Sponsorship and Network since 2000. His responsibilities include the general rules and guidelines for the sponsorship of

internationally mobile scientists and scholars as well as the promotion of the worldwide Humboldt Network. He serves as member of the Experts’ Council on Internationalisation of the University of Hamburg as well as the Committee for International Affairs and Science of the Federal City of Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick, Deutsche Krebshilfe (DKH), Department of Neurooncology University Hospital Heidelberg

Wolfgang Wick has been Director of the NCT Department of Neurooncology since October 2009. Since 2007 he has held the first German Chair of Neurooncology. He is also Medical Director of the Department of Neurooncology at HUMS and head of a clinical cooperation unit at DKFZ. With his scientific track record and governing functions as chairman of the EORTC Brain Tumor Group, member of the ECCO Board of Directors and steering group member of EANO and NOA, he is one of the key figures in international neurooncology. He is organizing and participating in several program project grants

of BMBF and German Cancer Aid / Deutsche Krebshilfe (DKH). He will report on funding possibilities by the DKH for PhD students, Postdocs, Group Leaders and Professorships.


EMBO Fellowships

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Young scientists actively seek EMBO Long-Term Fellowships for postdoctoral research to fund and support their internationally mobile careers. Hundreds of scientists also benefit each year from EMBO Short-Term Fellowships, returning to their home laboratories with new skills as well as contacts for future collaborations.

EMBO Members and EMBO Young Investigators rigorously review all applications to EMBO Fellowships for their scientific potential. A core programme since the 1960s, EMBO Fellowships has benefited thousands of early career scientists.

Short-Term Fellowships

Short-Term Fellowships fund research visits of up to three months to laboratories in Europe and elsewhere in the world. The aim is to facilitate valuable collaborations with research groups applying techniques that are unavailable in the applicant's laboratory. Short-Term Fellowships are not awarded for exchanges between two laboratories within the same country. Short-Term Fellowships are intended for joint research work rather than consultations.

All applications should focus on the benefit to the home laboratory and involve movement between countries – one of which must be an EMBC Member State. (For applicants from a laboratory within a non-member state, the Short-Term Fellowships are for a fixed duration of 90 days). The fellowships cover travel plus subsistence of the fellow only and not of dependents.

Long-Term Fellowships

The EMBO Long-Term Fellowships are awarded for a period of up to two years and support post-doctoral research visits to laboratories throughout Europe and the world*. International exchange is a key feature in the application process.

All fellowships must involve movement between countries. The receiving institute or the applicant's nationality must be from one of the EMBC Member States.

http://www.embo.org/funding-awards/fellowships


DFG Funding Programmes

The DFG is the self-governing organisation for science and research in Germany. It serves all branches of science and the humanities. In organisational terms, the DFG is an association under private law. Its membership consists of German research universities, non-university research institutions, scientific associations and the Academies of Science and the Humanities.

Early Career Support Outstanding science and research need creative people and innovative ideas. This is why the DFG's funding programmes place particular emphasis on supporting young researchers. Flexible funding instruments are tailored to meet the specific needs of young scientists and academics, thereby enabling them to pursue their research careers. The following elements for funding research careers can be found on our website.

Doctoral researchers

Doctoral Researcher in a Research Training Group International Research Training Groups Collaborative Research Centres Doctoral Research Assistants

Postdoctoral researchers

Research Fellowships Research Grants Emmy Noether Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship in a Research Training Group Collaborative Research Centres Research Assistants in Research Projects

Early career academics

Heisenberg Programme

Scientific prizes

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize Albert Maucher Prize in Geoscience Bernd Rendel Prize

http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/research_careers


Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany.

The research fellowships and research awards allow scientists and scholars to come to Germany to work on a research project they have chosen themselves together with a host and collaborative partner. Scientists or scholars from Germany can also profit from the Foundation's support and carry out a research project abroad as a guest of one of more than 26,000 Humboldt Foundation alumni worldwide - the Humboldtians.

Programmes for postdoctoral researchers

Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers from abroad to sponsor a 6 to 24 month research stay at a research institution in Germany.

Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers from Germany to carry out a long-term research project (6 to 24 months) in cooperation with an academic host at a research institution abroad. The host must be an academic working abroad who has already been sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation.

Georg Forster Research Fellowship (HERMES) for Postdoctoral Researchers for academics from developing countries to do a research project relevant to development policy which, being carried out in Germany, facilitates the transfer of knowledge and technology to developing and threshold countries. Duration: 6 to 24 months plus a subsequent Return Fellowship lasting 12 months.

Capes-Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers from Brazil to sponsor a 6 to 24 month research stay at a research institution in Germany.

Programmes for junior research group leaders

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award for successful top-flight junior researchers who may use the award to spend five years carrying out research of their own choice at research institutions in Germany and building up their own working groups. Value of the award: 1.65 million EUR.

http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/


DKH Medizinische und Wissenschaftliche Nachwuchsförderung

Eine erfolgreiche Krebsforschung ist langfristig nur möglich, wenn auch der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs gefördert wird. Im Rahmen ihres 'Career Development Program' unterstützen die Deutsche Krebshilfe und ihre Tochterorganisation die Dr. Mildred Scheel Stiftung für Krebsforschung daher seit vielen Jahren Nachwuchswissenschaftler.

Mildred-Scheel-Doktorandenprogramm

Für die Durchführung einer experimentellen Doktorarbeit in einem ausgewiesenen Forschungslabor in Deutschland vergibt die Deutsche Krebshilfe Stipendien an Studierende der Medizin.

Mildred-Scheel-Postdoktorandenprogramm

Die Dr. Mildred Scheel Stiftung für Krebsforschung bietet Postdoktorandenstipendien für junge Mediziner und Naturwissenschaftler an, die Projekte auf dem Gebiet der kliniknahen Grundlagenforschung bzw. der klinischen Krebsforschung an renommierten Institutionen im Ausland durchführen wollen.

Max-Eder-Nachwuchsgruppenprogramm

Mit diesem Programm unterstützt die Deutsche Krebshilfe hochqualifizierte junge Mediziner und Naturwissenschaftler nach der Rückkehr aus dem Ausland beim Aufbau einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsgruppe an einer deutschen Forschungseinrichtung.

Mildred-Scheel-Professur

Im Rahmen dieses Förderinstrumentes können hochqualifizierte Mediziner ('Physician Scientists') und Naturwissenschaftler bei der Deutschen Krebshilfe die Finanzierung einer Stiftungsprofessur beantragen.

www.krebshilfe.de/nachwuchsfoerderung.html


Panel Discussion: From PhD to Postdoc

Dr. Karolin Dorn, Division of Molecular Genetics, DKFZ

Karolin Dorn studied Biology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg and received her Diploma in Biology in 2008. She then moved to California, USA where she performed her doctoral research in the field of Cell Signaling in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Rajat Rohatgi at Stanford University. In 2012, she received her doctoral degree from the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf as an external doctoral student with the dissertation entitled “Evc2 regulates Hedgehog Signaling at primary cilia”. Karolin Dorn received a DKFZ Postdoc Fellowship and since April 2013, she is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Peter Lichter.

Dr. Andreas Chiocchetti, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Frankfurt

Andreas G. Chiocchetti is head of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory at the University Hospital Frankfurt, Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy. He graduated in biotechnology and genetics at the University of Salzburg (Austria) in 2007. At this time his major research focus was on translational regulation. In 2008 he started his PhD studies at the DKFZ, Heidelberg. There he investigated proteomic biomarkers in autism on patient derived lymphoblastoid cell lines. He received his PhD degree in 2011 and moved to his current position immediately afterwards. Currently, he is focusing on the etiological role of common and rare variants in psychiatric disorders such as

attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism. Dr. Marieke Essers, Junior Group Leader, Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Stress, DKFZ

After studying Medical Biology at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, Marieke Essers joined the group of Dr. Ir. Boudewijn Burgering at the division of Biomedical Genetics from the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in Utrecht to gain her PhD. She then moved to the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in Lausanne, Switzerland to do a postdoc in the Genetics and Stem Cell lab of Dr. Andreas Trumpp. Together with him she moved to the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg to take up a position as project manager within the Division of Stem Cells and Cancer. Since 2009 she is a junior group leader at HI-STEM and the DKFZ, focussing on the effect of

stress on hematopoietic stem cells'


PD Dr. Adelheid Cerwenka, Boveri Junior Research Group, Innate Immunity, DKFZ

After studying Pharmacy at the University of Vienna, Heidi Cerwenka obtained her PhD at the Institute of Immunology at the Vienna International Cooperation Centre in 1995. Afterwards she left Austria and went to the United States where she stayed for five years. She did a first Postdoc at the University of California and the Trudeau Institute in New York until 1998. Afterwards she went back to California for her second Postdoc at the DNAX Research Institute and the University of California. From 2001 until 2003 she was a Laboratory director at the Department of Autoimmune Diseases at the Novartis Research Institute in Vienna. Since 2003 she is the Head of the "Innate immunity" independent

Boveri junior research group at the DKFZ and did her habilitation in the year 2007.

Dr. Sven Diederichs, Helmholtz University Junior Research Group, Molecular RNA Biology and Cancer, DKFZ

Since 2008, Sven Diederichs leads the junior research group “Molecular RNA Biology & Cancer” at the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ and the Institute of Pathology at the University Hospital Heidelberg. His research is focused on microRNA biogenesis and the expression and function of long non-coding RNAs in cancer. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School / MGH Cancer Center in Boston. In 2004, he received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Münster and the University of Witten / Herdecke. His scientific work has been recognized by several awards including AACR Scholar-in-Training Awards, the Young Scientist Award of the German National Academy of Scientists

Leopoldina and most recently the Innovation Award of the Society of Cell Biology and the Hella Bühler-Prize for Cancer Research. Dr. Tim Waterboer, Infections and Cancer Epidemiology, DKFZ

After his studies in Braunschweig, Witten and Mainz, Tim Waterboer did his PhD at the DKFZ in 2005 and continued as a postdoc, with an Engelhorn fellowship from 2007-2009. From 2011 to 2013, he worked at Boehringer Ingelheim and Hoffmann-La Roche. He just returned to DKFZ to head the Infections and Cancer Epidemiology Group at the beginning of 2014. In Laborjournal, he was ranked amongst the top 30 German Virologists 2007-2010.


Prof. Dr. Michael Boutros, Signaling and Functional Genomics, DKFZ

Michael Boutros studied Biology and Biochemistry at the RWTH Aachen and the University Witten/Herdecke. After staying for two years in the USA among others at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory he obtained his PhD in the year 1999 at the EMBL in Heidelberg. Subsequently he went back to the USA for four years, did a Master in Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School's and a Postdoc at Harvard Medical School. In 2003 he joined the DKFZ Head as an Independent Group leader and since 2008 he is the of the Division of Signaling and Functional Genomics. He was part of the EMBO Young Investigator Program and got several

awards, e.g. the Johann-Georg Zimmermann Prize for Cancer Research. Prof. Dr. Peter Lichter, Molecular Genetics, DKFZ

Peter Lichter studied from 1977 to 1983 Biology at the University of Heidelberg. He did his diploma at the Institute of Human Genetics in the field of Behaviour Genetics and graduated with his doctorate in the field of Molecular Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg in 1986. Afterwards he worked for four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine Yale University (USA). In 1990 he became head of the project group "Organization of complex genomes" and in 1992 head of the department "Molecular Genetics" at the German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg. In 1995 he received the venia legendi for Human Molecular

Genetics, and in 2000 he was appointed full professor at the University of Heidelberg. In 2003 Peter Lichter was interim director of the management board of the DKFZ.


Round Table Discussions (Registered participants only)

Participants can interact directly with speakers. All lunch participants will take turns to join discussions at three different tables:

Develop your scientific profile (Frauke Melchior, Tim Beissbarth) Academic networking (Marieke Essers, Tim Waterboer) Funding your research (EMBO, Humboldt/DFG)


Panel Discussion: From Postdoc to Professor Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Otmar D. Wiestler, Chairman and Scientific Member of the Management Board, DKFZ

Otmar D. Wiestler was born in Freiburg, Germany on November 6, 1956. After completion of his medical training at the University of Freiburg Medical School, he received his M.D. in 1984. From 1984 to 1987 he trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Pathology, University of California in San Diego / USA. After a five year period as senior resident and Assistant Professor in Neuropathology at the University of Zurich / Switzerland, he moved to the University of Bonn in 1992, where he was appointed as Professor of Neuropathology and Head of the Department of

Neuropathology. At this University, he established a major neuroscience research center. In January 2004 he joined the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ) in Heidelberg as Chairman and Scientific Member of the Management Board. Otmar D. Wiestler serves on many scientific and professional boards. His main research interest is in the area of human brain tumors.

Dr. Jörg D. Hoheisel, Functional Genome Analysis, DKFZ

Jörg Hoheisel heads the Division of Functional Genome Analysis and is chairman of the Scientific Council. His research objective is to understand the realisation of cellular function from genetic information, with a more recent focus on proteomics. The division filed a large number of patents. Also, Jörg Hoheisel co-founded five companies; another three were formed by former group members independently. Prior to joining DKFZ in 1993, Jörg worked for five years at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, initially with an EMBO fellowship. He had studied molecular biology at Constance University; his diploma and PhD theses were about

topologically induced DNA-structures and the functioning of DNA-binding enzymes.

Prof. Dr. Ana Martin-Villalba, Molecular Neurobiology, DKFZ

Ana Martin-Villalba is Spanish and studied Medicine at the university of Murcia (of which one year at the University of Leeds in the UK) until 1995. She obtained her MD-PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 1998 and continued her career at the DKFZ in 1999. First as a project leader at the Department of Immunogenetics, she became junior group leader of the Molecular Neurobiology Group in 2006, did her habilitation in 2007, did a master of management at the Malik Zentrum in St. Gallen and in 2011 became W3 Professor.


Prof. Dr. Hellmut G. Augustin, Vascular Oncology and Metastasis, DKFZ

After his doctoral degree in Veterinary Medicine in Hannover in 1984, Hellmut Augustin joined the Department of Pathology at Cornell University in Ithaca, where he obtained his PhD in Experimental Pathology in 1992. He then moved to the University of Göttingen Medical School, where he became Research Assistant Professor (C1, C2) and Head of the Cell Biology Laboratory and did his habilitation in Molecular Cell Biology. From 2001 to 2006 he was Head of the Department of Vascular Biology and Angiogenesis Research at the Institute of Molecular Oncology in Freiburg and Adjunct Professor at the Medical Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.

Afterwards he continued his career as Head of the Vascular Oncology and Metastasis joint research division of the Medical Faculty Mannheim, the University Heidelberg and the DKFZ.

Prof. Dr. Ursula Klingmüller, Systems Biol. of Signal Transduction, DKFZ

Ursula Klingmüller received her PhD in 1992 in Virology at the University of Heidelberg and thereafter joined the groups of L. Cantley, Harvard Medical School, and H. Lodish, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, in Boston, USA. In 1996 she returned to Germany to head an independent Hans-Spemann-Junior Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg. In 2003 she was awarded a Theodor-Boveri-Group at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg and in 2007 she was promoted to division head. She is coordinator of and participant in multiple large systems biology

networks and holds membership in several Scientific Advisory Boards. Prof. Dr. Frauke Melchior, Posttranslational modification with Ubiquitin related modifiers of the SUMO family, ZMBH

Frauke Melchior studied chemistry in Marburg and Bristol and graduated in plant biochemistry (1990, Marburg). After postdoctoral work at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, she moved to the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, where she discovered "SUMOylation". She headed a research group at the MPI for Biochemistry in Martinsried, was head of the Department Biochemistry I at the Medical Faculty, Göttingen, and became Professor for Molecular Biology at the ZMBH in 2008. Since 2010, she is prodean for research in the Faculty of Biosciences. Frauke Melchior served in the selection committee of the Alexander von Humbold

Foundation (2007-2010), was a member of the Grants Committee for Training Group of the DFG (2008-2013), and is a member of the DFG Senate. She received the Young Investigator Award "BioFuture" of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research in 1999 and was elected EMBO member in 2007.


Prof. Dr. Tim Beißbarth, Department of Medical Statistics, University of Göttingen

Tim Beißbarth is working as Associate Professor for Biostatistics in Göttingen since 2008. He leads a small research team on Statistiscal Bioinformatics within the Department Medical Statistics at the University Medical Center Göttingen. Within his career he worked at the DKFZ twice: in 1998-2001 as a PhD student at the Department Theoretical Bioinformatics (Martin Vingron), after studying biology and computer science in Cologne. After his PhD he worked as a postdoc in Berlin and in Melbourne before returning to the DKFZ as junior group leader within the Department Molecular Genome Analysis (Annemarie Poustka) in 2005. His research

interests are the development of statistical bioinformatics methods and tools and their applications in omics data analysis and systems biology.



The organizing team

DKFZ Postdoc Network:

Dr. Christian Breunig Dr. Hadeel Khallouf Dr. Timo Kehl

DKFZ Career Service:

Dr. Barbara Janssens Marion Gürth Christopher Domnick

DKFZ PhD Students:

Anja Geiselhart Janet Lei



PDN – The PostDoc Network at the DKFZ

Our mission The PostDoc Network (PDN) of the DKFZ was founded to provide and spread information on career opportunities specifically for PostDocs. The scientific and personal diversity of the postdoctoral community encountered at the DKFZ required the establishment of a unifying platform that efficiently represents the interests and needs of postdocs. The PDN is continually aiming to maintain and grow a vibrant postdoctoral community that will contribute to improve the quality of the postdocs’ work, their working conditions and will establish an environment that will enrich your postdoctoral experience at the DKFZ.

You are PostDoc at the DKFZ?

Do you want to: • be part of the PDN community? • profit from networking? • learn more about career opportunities?

Do you have ideas you would like to put into

action? That’s why

YOU should join US!

We have regular meetings: PDN Committee Meeting (every 2 weeks)

Get-Together (every 4 weeks)

Find us online: www.dkfz.de/pdn

join us on facebook : PDN@DKFZ Join/Use our mailing list :

[email protected]

WE are the committee, YOU are the network!

Visibility: Newsletter

PDN on the net Marketing and Design

Networking: Welcome & Get-Together Group

PDN Retreat

Career: Career Seminar

Group Academic Career

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events and pages (about 3 per week) please LIKE the page Dfkz PhD Careers. To join groups become a FRIEND

www.facebook.com/phdcareers

NETWORK on LinkedIn

For optimal career development connect to scientists with interesting jobs. Current and former dkfz scientists are warmly invited to join, as well as collaborators and other interested scientists. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/DKFZ-Career-Network-4831669

CALENDAR of all events in Heidelberg http://tinyurl.com/5wuerfx INTRANET http://intracoop/sites/phd-careers

E-MAIL DISTRIBUTION LIST jobs-for-PhD: To receive job relevant job ads, information and events register on intranet http://listhost/jobs-for-PhD (externals can be added on request)

WORKSHOPS AND COURSES

DKFZ PhD students and postdocs can participate in workshops on e.g. application skills, CV writing, “Career Plan B/Life Work Planning”, soft skills, business for scientists etc. Register on http://logaportal/maportal or per email to [email protected]

THURSDAY 1 pm – OPEN CAREER LUNCH

For all interested scientists to discuss with a guest about his/her career moves we have “career lunch” (see calendar)

SCIENCE & SOCIETY: Discuss your role as a Scientist, Science & Ethics, Talking to the Public, and Volunteering -> Interest – Engagement – Experience on your CV

JOIN http://www.facebook.com/groups/scisoc.dkfz

APPOINTMENTS (doodle) Coaching on Wednesdays 45’ in TP4 CV checks on Fridays after workshops

DKFZ Career Manager since 2011: Dr. Barbara Janssens. She is Belgian (PhD in molecular and cell biology from Ghent University), and after a postdoc in Paris she worked for five years as an Editor at Wiley-Blackwell.

DKFZ Career Project Coordinator since July 2013: Marion Gürth studied Biology at the TU Darmstadt and did her Diploma in Heidelberg in 2005. Marion will support all projects and focus on building up the dkfz Career Network.

E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +496221 42-2146 and 1762

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at the Graduate Program Office M070

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