Communicating your Science in the ‘Post-Truth’ World

The webinar will take place on May 04^th, 2021 at 3:00 - 4:00 pm.

Chair: Carolin Daniel, Group Leader Immunological Tolerance

Giles Yeo is from San Francisco, receiving his bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994, he came to Cambridge joining the lab of Prof Sydney Brenner (Nobel Laureate 2002) for his PhD studies. In 1998 he began his post-doctoral training with Prof Sir Stephen O’Rahilly in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, working on the genetics of severe human obesity.  He was the first to report that mutations in the melanocortin-4 receptor(MC4R) and in the neurotrophic receptor TRKB resulted in severe human obesity. In 2007, Giles became a group leader at the University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs. Giles is also a graduate tutor and fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and honorary president of the British Dietetic Association.

His group is interested in studying the brain control of food intake and bodyweight, and how these might be dysregulated in obesity. Giles is also an author and broadcaster, presenting science documentaries for the BBC. His first book ‘Gene Eating: The Science of Obesity & the Truth About Diets’ was published in December 2018, his second book “Why calories don’t count” will be released in June 2021. Giles was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s 2020 birthday honours for services to ‘Research, Communication and Engagement’.

Hands-on introduction to GitHub/GitLab

The webinar will take place on June 14^th, 2021 at 3:00 - 4:30 pm.

Chair: Tina Henrich, Postdoc Coordinator

Making your computational scientific work accessible to others around the world has never been easier, thanks to code hosting services like GitHub and GitLab! In this webinar, we will explore the GitHub web interface, learning how to set up, update, and manage our own project repositories.  Other topics introduced will be: how to manage remote GitHub repositories from the desktop with Git, how to test the reproducibility of scientific code with GitHub Actions, and some add-on tools for linking data and academic publications to GitHub repositories.

Nicholas A. Del Grosso has an academic background in behavioral neuroscience. Since 2020, he works full time as a software developer and trainer for computational science skills.

And Off You Go! Discover your Opportunities for Awards in the Scientific Community.

The webinar will take place on June 17^th, 2021 at 1:00 - 2:00 pm.

Chair: Sylvia Heinke, SPR - Strategy, Programs, Resources

Awards have a positive effect on scientific careers. But aren’t awards just for the big shots? Discover how awards play a role in the scientific community from early on and how they can support your scientific career, even if you don’t win. When compiling an award application, you will reflect on your skills and career progress and it will support you in filling gaps in your CV. By setting up support structures for your application to other colleagues, you will strengthen your network.  Independent of the outcome of your application, you will receive useful feedback about your work and how you are perceived in the community. 

Carolin Daniel studied Nutrional Sciences at Justus Liebig University Giessen and completed her undergraduate dissertation at the Max Planck Institute in Bad Nauheim. From 2003 to 2007 she completed her doctorate in immunepharmacology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. In 2008, she moved to Harald von Boehmer’s laboratory at the Dana Faber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School in Boston, for a Post-Doc in immunology with the support of a Leopoldina Scholarship. Since March 2012, she has headed the Young Investigator Group “Immune Tolerance in Diabetes Research” at the Institute of Diabetes Research of Helmholtz Zentrum München. This leadership function was consolidated in 2016, and in recognition of her scientific excellence, the Helmholtz Association granted her research funding for a W2 professorship on immune modulation at the LMU. Carolin Daniel and her team are partners in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD). She has received numerous awards and distinctions for her research work, including the Ernst Friedrich Pfeiffer Prize from the German Diabetes Association (DDG), the Georges-Köhler Prize for outstanding junior scientists by the German Society for Immunology (DGfI), the Nils-Ilja-Richter Prize of the “Deutsche Autoimmun-Stiftung”, the Research Award of the Heinz-Bürger-Büsing Foundation and the Ferdinand-Bertram-Prize 2021 of the DDG.

Isabelle Serr did her doctoral project at the Helmholtz Zentrum München on “Antigen-specific generation of human regulatory T cells in vivo” and received her degree from the TUM in 2018. She continued her research at the group of Carolin Daniel as postdoctoral researcher. She has received the Hans-Hench Thesis Prize for Clinical Immunology of the German Society for Immunology (DGfI) for her doctoral thesis as well as the Silvia-King Prize from the German Diabetes Association (DDG) for her publication on miRNA-mediated impairments in Treg induction during islet autoimmunity, published in Science Translational Medicine in 2018. Recently, she received first independent funding for her research by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

From Invention to Innovation

The webinar will take place on June 24^th, 2021 at 3:00 - 4:15 pm.
 

Speakers: Dr. Charlotte Federhen, Dr. Annette Janz, Dr. Cédric Kalinski, Dr. Rüdiger Neun, Department Innovation Management of Helmholtz Zentrum München

Chair: Corinna Barz, Head Translational and Clinical Projects

Inventions and resulting intellectual property rights such as patents are the key for successful development of new pharmaceutical and medicinal products. Join the colleagues of the HMGU Innovation Management department to learn about basics of intellectual property rights and their role for transferring biomedical discoveries to patients and society. They will share their hands-on experiences and present success stories from Helmholtz Zentrum München.