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Postdoc Retreat 2010: Put Your Career in Perspective!

Where: Kapellerput, Heeze
When: 21- 23 April 2010

During this 3-day conference, postdocs and final year PhD student in Life Sciences explore their career possibilities. Be inspired by plenary lectures to discover what is important in pursuing your ambitions and how to achieve your goals, follow workshops to identify and improve your skills to use them at the best. This retreat also offers a unique opportunity to look beyond academia. Network with ex-postdocs who now work in industry, biotech, government and other organisations, hear how they shaped their career, learn about the many career options for Life Scientists. Find below the programme.



Exploring your possibilities

Wednesday 21 April 2010

Time Activity
09:30 – 10:30
 Registration and coffee

10:30 – 10:45

Welcome by Lilian Menu (Postdoc Career Development Initiative)

Introduction by Peter Peters (dean of post-doctoral affairs NKI-AVL)
10:45 – 12:15
 Shaping your career
Keynote lectures by a renowned and a young successful academic

  • Jonathan Yewdell (professor at NIH - Bethesda, Maryland, author of 'How to succeed in science' part I and II in Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol)
  • Madelon Maurice (assistant professor at UMC-Utrecht)
12:15 – 12:45
 Introduction activity TBA
12:45 – 13:45
 Lunch
13:45 – 14:00 Plenary session: presentation of the different workshops
14:00 – 16:45
 Parallel workshops: Discover your talents
16:45 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 19:30
Parallel workshops: Present yourself
19:30 – 21:00
Dinner
21:00 – late
Drinks


Expanding your possibilities

Thursday 22 April 2010

Time Activity
07:30 – 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 – 09:15 Introduction of the day
09:15 – 12:00 Use your skills to the best
Keynote lectures on a career at a biotech company, non-profit organisation and knowledge valorisation

  • Koen Verhoef (technology transfer officer - NKI) with
    Farid El Oualid     (researcher) duo-presentation
  • Freya Senf (Technology Foundation STW)
  • Katarina Radosevic (head of Innovation Team - Crucell)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 16:30
Parallel workshops: Increase your skills
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 – 19:00 Use your skills to the best
  • Sam Gobin (ex-academic, now graphic designer) - total career change
  • Peter Peters (NKI) - Transferable skills
19:00 – 20:30
Dinner

21:00 – late
 Leisure activity


Your impact on society & Networking day

Friday 23 April 2010

Time
 Activity
07:30 – 09:30
 Breakfast and check-out
09:30 – 10:40

Keynote lecture by two members of the forum panel members on the role of young scientists in society:

  • Jan van de Winkel (Scientific director and co-founder of Genmab)
  • Jos van den Broek
    (Professor in Biomedical Science Communication at LUMC)
10:40 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
Forum discussion: Your impact on society

Panel members:

  • Jos van den Broek
    (Professor in Biomedical Science Communication at LUMC)
  • Floor van Leeuwen (Professor at Netherlands Cancer Institute)
  • Jan van de Winkel (Scientific director and co-founder of Genmab)
  • Mirjam Leloux (founder of Leloux Science and Business)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch at the info-market
13:30 – 15:00

Round-table discussions.
In small groups, postdocs talk with invited guests. All of them were researchers once, and have successfully moved on in their career.

  • Eric Reits (AMC/Vereniging Vernieuwingsimpuls Onderzoekers)
    Sanneke van Vliet (AMC, staff Research Council)
    Anke Klerkx (Luris)
    Esther Ruhe (VUmc)
    Margreet Brandsma (LUMC Biobanking BBMRI-NL)
  • Marieke van den Bosch (CHDR)
    Maarten Honing (Schering-Plough)
    Michel Hooiveld (GlaxoSmithKline)
    Barry van der Strate (PRA International)
    Manfred Marang (AstraZeneca)
    Jenny Hendriks (Crucell)
    Niki Georgiou (Danone)
  • Joost Neijssen (Genmab BV)
    Erik van Beers (Skyline Diagnostics)
    Hermen Verheij (TI Pharma)
    Danielle Curfs (BMM)
    Olga Ophorst (Crossbeta Biosciences)
    Maarten Janmaat (Merus)
    Jeanine Boesen-de Cock (BioSynthema/Middenduin Life Sciences)
  • Erik Schagen (COGEM-RIVM)
    Karsten Kaspers & Danny Dukers (Hogeschool Leiden)
    Alexander van Loon (Octrooibureau LIOC)
    Sandra Migchielsen (Amsterdam Innovatie Motor)
    Frans van Huizen (Medical writer at Genzyme)
    Wilma Donselaar (Netherlands Genomics Initiative)
    Joep Muijrers (Life Science Partners)
15:00 – 16:00
Networking drinks
16:00 – 16:30 Wrap-up


Farid El Oualid

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