[Master Class] Germ Stories – Scene Two of Five Decades in Microbiology
Roberto Kolter, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
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08 Jun, 2015 09:30 AM
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10 Jun, 2015 12:00 PM |
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| Where | Room 3.02 |
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Master Class
Title: Germ Stories – Scene Two of Five Decades in Microbiology
Speaker: Roberto Kolter
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
In 2013, Roberto Kolter of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, a worldwide leader in Microbiology, gave a highly successful master class for PhD students at ITQB. He is now returning to embrace the challenge of a lively and provocative master class directed to PIs wishing to reflect about the development of their scientific career.
Three main topics will be used as a framework to stimulate discussion of ideas and relate to career paths and current realities, looking towards the future:
I - Building and Leading a Research Group
II - Scientific Writing and Publishing
III - What research is worth doing?
Target audience: young and consolidator PIs
Registration required (limited to 16 participants)
Please apply here (deadline April 3).
Organizers: Raquel Sá-Leão and Karina Xavier
| Who is Roberto Kolter? Roberto Kolter of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology is a worldwide leader in Microbiology. At early stages of his career Roberto Kolter focused on using bacteria as tools to unveil basic biological processes as DNA replication. He then moved to study important physiological processes to understand how organisms cope with stress. In addition, over the last twenty years he has studied how bacteria attach to surfaces to form biofilms. Through those studies he has made major contributions towards understanding how single celled organisms transition to multicellular life-styles. Roberto Kolter has been at Harvard since 1983 where he has trained more than 130 postdocs and students. He has a long tradition of fostering independent-minded post-doctoral fellows to pursue research projects and prepare them for their independent careers. Roberto Kolter is a reviewing editor for eLife, a high profile journal launched in 2012 aiming to improve the review process of scientific manuscripts. |
