Introductory Day for new PhD students/Post-docs at MIMS
21 May 2012  - Betula salen, building 6M, University Hospital Area

Preliminary Schedule

15.00-15.15 Welcome and introduction to MIMS
Overview and background
The EMBL Nordic Partnership for Molecular Medicine
UCMR, The MIMS groups, Clinical Research Fellows

Bernt Eric Uhlin, director of MIMS and UCMR

15.15-16.00 The Newcomers at MIMS
All new members of MIMS, who arrived after the UCMR DAY 2012 are invited to present themselves.
Please present yourself by answering the following four questions:
1. Who are you?
2. Where do come from?
3. Why did you choose MIMS and Umeå University?
4. What is your research project about?
(group leaders: of course it is always possible to extend the group of "newcomers"

16.00-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-16.30 The PhD and Post-doc representatives at MIMS
Activities and Network
Individual and social dimension
Rights and Duties of a post doc and a PhD student (incl. teaching)

Anaïs LeRhun, PhD student, and Michaela Frost, Post-doc

16.30-16.45 Research training and the UCMR/KBC Research Schools
Åke Forsberg, head of UCMR Research School

16.45-17.05 Being a scientist is not just a "job"
Good scientific conduct
A member of a research group – what does this mean?
Andrei Chabes, group leader

Peer review process
The academic steps

Hans Wolf-Watz, group leader
(suggestion by Eva-Maria, not confirmed by HWW!)

17.05-17.15 Need help?
Contact persons and important information

Eva-Maria Diehl, information officer at MIMS

17.15-17.30 Questions and answers

Moderator: Bernt Eric Uhlin

17.15 Get together with buffé dinner Ideas for social activities – speed dating?