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Program

September 10, 2015

2 pm–6 pm:

Short talks given by TransMed fellows and other doctoral candidates

Seminar Room 1, Building 708

6 pm–8 pm:

Guided poster walks

with wine tasting

Seminar Room 2, Building 708

September 11, 2015

Lecture Hall, Building 708

9.00

Welcome and opening remarks

Ulrich Förstermann, Chief Scientific Officer/Dean of the University Medical Center Mainz

Esther von Stebut-Borschitz, TransMed Program Director

9.15

Studying ciliary transport and anti ras cancer drug candidates: An unexpected connection

Alfred Wittinghofer, Emeritus Group Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund

10.00

2 Inactive 4 destruction: Quality control in oocytes

Volker Dötsch, Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt

10.45

Coffee break & poster viewing

11.05

Protein engineering of intracellular inhibitors

Andreas Ernst, Institute for Biochemistry II, Goethe University, Frankfurt

11.50

Why I love my job as Head of Production Operations at eLife

Melissa Harrison, eLife Sciences Publications, Cambridge

12.15

Lunch & meet the speaker

Interactive Q&A session of students with the speakers

Poster viewing

13.15

The DFG point of view: Optimal career paths for physician scientists

Tobias Grimm, Lebenswissenschaften I, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn

13.40

Working at SANOFI: For the hope and health of people

Daniel Wagner, Pharmaceutical Sciences Operations, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland, Frankfurt

14.05

Awards for best students’ presentations (donated by Sanofi-Aventis, Germany)

Chairs: Thomas Mittmann, Speaker MD/PhD Regulations

Krishnaraj Rajalingam

Esther von Stebut-Borschitz

14.15

Closing remarks