“How to be a scientist” – Program

Week 1: 5-9 February 2024

Rooms: Large lecture room BZ2.001
Break out rooms for group discussions: BZ2.001, BZ2.054, BZ2.058, BZ2.062,
BZ2.088 and BZ2.094

All the documents will be shared on ADAM: 70842-01 – How to be a Scientist

Monday, February 5
Everyone in BZ2.001 until 16:30 then Break out rooms

9:00 – 12:30 Introduction – schedule and aims of the course, Q&A

(Marek/Médéric/Flavio/Rod)

Personal introductions - elevator pitch, group formation, ice breakers

Christelle Hostettler and Sarah Thomforde (tbc)

Lunch

13:00 – 14:30 Why be a scientist? – Alex + Marek

Break

14:45 – 16:15 Course organization, expectations for Journal Club and Project Proposals –
Marek + Alex

Break

16:30 – 18:30 Preparation work for Journal Club - break out rooms

Tuesday, February 6
Everyone in BZ2.001 most of the day, break out rooms as written

8:00 – 8:50 Individual Prep work – break out rooms

Break

9:00 – 10:20 Research Talk 1 plus Q&A – Marek

10:30 – 11:50 Research Talk 2 plus Q&A – Roderick

Lunch with PIs (Marek and Roderick) on 2nd floor. Everyone brings their own lunch or buy
themselves. Christelle to reserve tables.

13:30 – 14:30 Imaging Core Facility – Oliver Biehlmaier

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Break

14:45 – 15:45 Introduction of the members of the Basler and Lim labs – selected TAs from
Basler/Lim labs (without PIs)

- Basler lab – until 15:15

- Lim lab – from 15:15 – 15:45

the three TAs from each lab present their projects and can answer some general questions (later
they work on their Journal club together)

Break

16:00 – 18:00 Journal Club coaching with TAs from Basler / Lim labs - break out rooms

Wednesday, February 7
Everyone in BZ2.001 all day, except break out rooms as written

8:00 – 8:50 Individual prep work – break out rooms

Break

9:00 – 10:20 Research Talk 3 plus Q&A – Flavio

Break

10:30 – 11:50 Research Talk 4 plus Q&A – Médéric

Lunch with PIs (Flavio and Médéric) on 2nd floor. Everyone brings their own lunch or buy themselves.
Christelle to reserve tables.

13:30 – 14:30 BioEM Facility -– Mohamed Chami

Break

14:45 – 15:45 Introduction of the members of the Donato and Diard labs – selected TAs from
Donato/ Diard labs (without PIs)

- Donato lab – until 15:15

- Diard lab – from 15:15 – 15:45

the three TAs from each lab present their projects and can answer some general questions (later
they work on their Journal club together)

Break

16:00 – 18:00 Journal Club coaching with TAs from Donato / Diard labs - break out rooms

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Thursday, February 8
Everyone in BZ2.001 all day, except break out rooms at written

8:00 – 8:50 - Individual prep work – break out rooms

Break

9:00 – 12:00 Journal Club Presentations – 6x 15min presentation + 10min discussion –

TAs /Marek/ Roderick –PIs decide if TAs should attend

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Research Instrumentation Facility - Ludovit Zweifel

Break

14:45 – 16:15 - Project proposals individual work - break out rooms

Break

16:30 – 18:00 Gender, Diversity & Inclusion in Academia

Nicole Kälin and Patricia Zweifel – Diversity & Inclusion Office, University of Basel

Friday, February 9
Everyone in BZ2.001 most of the day, break out rooms as written

8:00 – 8:50 Individual prep work – break out rooms

9:00 – 12:00 Journal Club Presentations – 6x 15min presentation + 10min discussion –

TAs/Médéric/Flavio - PIs decide if TAs should attend

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Biophysics Facility – Timothy Sharpe with Tobias Mühlethaler

Break

14:45 – 16:45 Project Proposals coaching with TAs (all TAs involved) - break out rooms

Break

17:00 – 18:00 Setting expectations for your PhD/fears & hopes – Alex + Marek

Apéro – with Marek and Alex 2nd floor hallway

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Week 2: 12-16 February 2024
Rooms: Large lecture room BZ2.001
Break out rooms for group discussions: BZ2.001, BZ2.054, BZ2.058, BZ2.062,
BZ2.088 and BZ2.094

Monday, February 12
Everyone in BZ2.001 most of the day, break out rooms as written
8:00 – 09:50 Written Project Proposal - break out rooms

Deadline: Project proposals to PIs by 10:00!

10:00 – 11:00 Genomics Facility – Christian Biesel

11:00 – 12:00 Proteomics Core Facility – Alexander Schmidt

Lunch

13:30 – 15:15 Ethics – Lester Geneviève and David Azilagbetor

Break
15:30 – 18:00 Publishing / Meeting an Editor – presentation and Q&A session –
Julie Sollier and Rebecca Eccles

breaks as needed
Apéro – with Julie Sollier and Rebecca Eccles - 2nd floor hallway

Tuesday, February 13
Everyone in BZ2.001 most of the day, break out rooms as written

8:00– 8:50 Prep work for oral presentations in groups - breakout rooms

9:00 – 11:15 PIs share their personal grant proposals and process (Marek, Ben Engel) - all
together in BZ2.001

break

11:30 – 12:30 Flow Cytometry Core Facility – Stella Stefanova and Svitlana Malysheva

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 SciCORE Center for Scientific Computing, IT and the SIB Training program –
Geoffrey Fucile

Break

14:45 – 15:30 Personal Integrity – Cora Wagner, Personal Integrity officer. Christelle will distribute
the flyer with important contact information.

Break as needed

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15:35 – 16:20 Mental Health – Jens Gaab – Professor and Head of Center for Psychotherapy at
the University of Basel with representatives from Mind-Map and selected PhD
students (tbc)

Break

16:30 -18:00 Aggregating Proposals, group work – break out rooms

Wednesday, February 14
Everyone in BZ2.001 most of the day, break out rooms as written

8:00 – 9:50 Project Proposal Presentation with groups – break out rooms –

10:00 – 10:50 Practice presentations – combine two groups (G1+G4 etc.) – take turns to present
(15 min) and give feedback (10 min)

break

11:00 – 12:00 Data Management – Michael Podvinec

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 FAIR DATA and Use of Wiki as ELN – Michael Podvinec

Break

14:15 – 16:15 Feedback on written proposals – BZ2.001 (with Marek, Birthe Fahrenkrog, Médéric
and Flavio)

Break

16:30 – 18:00 Prep work alone – break out rooms

Thursday, February 15
Everyone in BZ2.001 most of the day, break out rooms as written

8:00 – 8:50 Prep work - breakout rooms

9:00 – 12:00 Project proposals presentations & evaluation - 3x (15 min talk + 30 min questions
by the review panel, 5 min feedback, 10 min break) – Marek, Birthe Fahrenkrog,
Médéric, Flavio, some TAs

Lunch

13:00 – 14:30 Animal experiments - Anke Rohlfs, 3Rs or Animal Welfare Coordinator

Break

14:45 – 15:45 Family and Academia – discussion with PIs from the Biozentrum -
Susan Mango /Knut Drescher /Peter Scheiffele / Minia Antelo Varela

Break

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16:00 – 18:00 Q&A session with PhD Students and PostDocs from all 4 labs, 1 per lab, no PIs
everyone in BZ2.001 (Each PI to select someone from their lab. A 3-4th year PhD
Student or Postdoc)

Apéro with selected PhD Students and Postdocs from Q&A Session above -2nd floor hallway

Friday, February 16
Everyone in BZ2.001 most of the day, break out rooms as written

8:00– 8:50 Prep work - breakout rooms

9:00 – 12:00 Project proposals presentations & evaluation – 3x (15 min talk + 30 min questions
by the review panel, 5 min feedback, 10 min break) - Marek, Birthe Fahrenkrog,
Médéric, Flavio, some TAs

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 PACs, mentors, reports, PhD admin – Marek

Break

14:45 – 16:15 Q&A session with PIs (Marek, Birthe Fahrenkrog, Médéric, Flavio) everyone in
BZ2.001

16:20 – 16:50 Course Survey – Marek (upload link or document to ADAM for students to fill out)

17:00 - Party in the Science Lounge. All participants, lecturers, TAs invited + Angie

Who’s Who in order of presentations

Oliver Biehlmaier, Imaging Core Facility, oliver.biehlmaier@unibas.ch

Mohamed Chami, BioEM Lab, mohamed.chami@unibas.ch

Ludovit Zweifel, Research Instrumentation Facility, ludovit.zweifel@unibas.ch

Nicole Kälin, Gender, Diversity & Inclusion in Academia, nicole.kaelin@unibas.ch>

Patricia Zweifel, Gender, Diversity & Inclusion in Academia

Timothy Sharpe, Biophysics Facility, timothy.sharpe@unibas.ch

Tobias Mühlethaler, Biophysics Facility,

Christian Beisel, Genomics Facility, christian.beisel@bsse.ethz.ch

Alexander Schmidt, Proteomics Core Facility alex.schmidt@unibas.ch

Lester Geneviève, Ethics. lester.genevieve@unibas.ch

David Azilagbetor, Ethics

Aoife Milford, Ethics

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Julie Sollier, former editor in chief, Developmental Cell, current NCCR AntiResist Scientific Officer,
julie.sollier@unibas.ch

Rebecca Eccles, editor at Molecular Cell

Stella Stefanova, FACS Core Facility, stella.stefanova@unibas.ch

Svitlana Malysheva, FACS Core Facility

Geoffrey Fucile, SciCore, geoffrey.fucile@unibas.ch

Cora Wagner, Personal Integrity, cora.wagner@unibas.ch

Jens Gaab, Mental Health, jens.gaab@unibas.ch

Michael Podvinec, Research IT, WIKI, FAIR data michael.podvinec@unibas.ch

Anke Rohlfs, Animal Facilities, anke.rohlfs@unibas.ch

Family and Academia: Peter, Knut, Susan, Minia

TAs: Basler Group:

Hoi Ching Cheung, Melanie Karen Engelin, Alexander Heynisch

Diard Group:
Nicolas Wenner, Leo Rocha and Pramod Jangir

Donato Group:
Maria Lahr, Renan Augusto Viana Mendes, Talia Ulmer

Lim Group:
Birthe Fahrenkrog and Larisa Kapinos + tbc

Rooms reserved: capacity Group Break Out Room

BZ2.001 50 Group 1 BZ2.001
BZ2.054 17 Group 2 BZ2.054
BZ2.058 17 Group 3 BZ2.058
BZ2.062 12 Group 4 BZ2.062
BZ2.088 12 Group 5 BZ2.088
BZ2.094 17 Group 6 BZ2.094