Satellite Symposia
Industry partners and other life science organisations will present their latest technological advances, research developments and funding opportunities. Satellite Symposia will be held by the following exhibitors/sponsors at the FEBS-EMBO Conference 2014:
Sunday 31 August
12h30-13h30 / Room 242A
IndiaBioScience & Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance
Life Science Opportunities in India: a special session at FEBS EMBO 2014
Chair: Dr. Nandini Rajamani Robin, IndiaBioScience, IndiaBioScience
Co-chair: Dr. Ajay Pillai, Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance
- Opportunities in India for the Life Sciences.
Dr. Nandini Rajamani Robin, IndiaBioScience, IndiaBioScience - India Alliance Program: Grants for young scientists.
Dr. Ajay Pillai, Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance - Indo-French Opportunities.
Dr. Veronique Briquet-Laugier, the Counsellor for Science and Technology at the Embassy of France in India, France - Indo-German Opportunities.
Dr. Proteeti Bhattacharjee, Max-Plank Gesellschaft, India Program, India - Life as an Indian Scientist; experiences of a Young Investigator.
Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Monday 1 September
12h30-13h30 / Room 241
WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. & INCELLA GMBH:
Introduction of miRNA Research Reagents, Versatile Protein Tagging System for Recombinant Protein Production in Mammalian Cells and Development of Novel Transfection Reagents using Combinatorial Chemistry and High-Throughput Cell Screening
Dr. Taku FUNAKOSHI , Unit Leader, Gene Technology Unit, New Products Development Department, Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd., Japan
Dr. Gary DAVIDSON , Group Leader, “systems biochemistry of signal transduction”, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and CSO at Incella GmbH, Germany
12h30-13h00 / Room 242 A
BIOTELLIGENCES LLC:
Beyond mathematical esotericism: New visions in biostatistics for a reproducible research
Romain-Daniel GOSSELIN, Biotelligences LLC, Switzerland
- 12:30 - 12:40 Misconceptions and misuse in biostatistics: The situation is bad!
- 12:40 - 12:45 Our solutions: personalised guidance and tutorials to researchers
- 12:45 - 12:50 Our permanent statistical watch
- 12:50 - 13:00 Final discussion
13h00-13h30 / Room 243
LIPOCALYX:
New Tools in Transfection
Dr. Steffen PANZNER, Lipocalyx GmbH, Germany
- How Active Escape Improves Your Research
Dr. Steffen PANZNER, Lipocalyx GmbH, Germany
Tuesday 2 September
12h30-13h00 / Room 243
EUROPEAN COMMISSION:
EURAXESS: Solutions for Researchers
Stefania BETTINI, European Commission (EXT), Belgium
13h15-14h15 / Room 243
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC):
Funding opportunities in Europe for creative minds from anywhere in the world
Chair:
MARIAM BENJDIA, ERC Scientific Officer, European Research Council (ERC), Belgium
Speakers:
Monica BETTENCOURT CARVALHO DIAS, FUNDACAO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN, Portugal
Dirk SCHUBELER, Novartis forschungsstiftung, zweigniederlassung friedrich miescher-institut for biomedical research, Switzerland
Cyril ZIPFEL, The Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
Wednesday 3 September
12h30-13h00 / Room 243
GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (DFG):
Funding Programs to Support Your Research Career in Germany
Dr. Astrid KLINGEN, German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
13h15-13h45 / Room 242 A
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY – EUROPE (ISBE) AND CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION (CRG)
Why you need ISBE infrastructure for systems biology in Europe.
James Sharpe, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
13h30-14h00 / Room 242 B
PROMEGA:
Interrogating molecular interactions within living cells using NanoBiTs and NanoBRET
Matt ROBERS, Promega Corp, USA
