Newsletter December 2022

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View this email in your browser LAP Newsletter December 2022 Dear fellow PhD candidates, It is already the last month of the year. Unfortunately, this is usually a very busy time, but don't forget to take some rest and to enjoy Christmas and New Year's Eve. If you are unable to celebrate Christmas with your family, read about our Christmas Buddy system below! Also, save the date for our PhD day on 19 April next year! Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions. Best wishes, The LAP board Information Internal Celebrating Christmas together: become a Christmas buddy! Now that Sinterklaas has left our country, we can look forward to the most wonderful time of the year: Christmas! Unfortunately, some of you may not be able to celebrate it with your loved ones. Therefore, we would like to create a buddy-system among all LUMC employees and students. So do you want to celebrate Christmas with a colleague or (PhD-) student or do you want to open your home to celebrate Christmas at your place? Please sign in as a buddy by completing this form. Deadline: 15 December.  14.12.2022 - Christmas drinks - Grand Cafe de Stal Wow, thank you all for buying a ticket! Unfortunately, we are completely sold out. If you have bought a ticket and are unable to attend, please let us know, as we currently have a waiting list.  23-27.01.2023 – (Bio)medical winter school: ethical and regulatory challenges in the era of open science, data sharing in Life Sciences & Health Together with Eurolife, LUMC organizes a 5-day winter school on DATAETHICS. This course offers a unique opportunity to interact during lectures from leading and established cross-disciplinary experts in data curation and privacy, data use, ethics, biomedicine, and related fields. Through a matrix of lectures, interactive sessions and small group assignments, we create a flexible environment allowing for students to acquire new knowledge outlined in a dilemma story. This approach furthers the ability of students to apply newly-gained knowledge in true-to-life scenarios. The course also offers ample opportunities for networking with peers and thematic experts from different leading European medical institutions, as well as external speakers from academia and industry. Some of the topics covered in the DATAETHICS Winter School are: Ethically managing open science and data sharing: lessons from the COVID pandemic Infrastructure and machine learning allowing distributed data exploitation AI and Big Data: ethical and legal considerations FAIR-data and VODAN Africa Diversity aspects linked to safety for exoskeleton and related med tech Practical experience from DPO Consultancy Click here to read more and to register. Deadline: 9 December. Subsidiemogelijkheden MD-PhD studenten interne geneeskunde Vanaf heden kunnen studenten in het MD-PhD-traject een financiële compensatie ter hoogte van 10.000 euro uit het Prof. dr. A.E. Meinders Fonds aanvragen indien zij naar het buitenland gaan voor een deel van hun traject voor onderzoeksprojecten. Het fonds is een gift van voormalig LUMC-collega Prof. dr. A.E. Meinders, die inmiddels met emeritaat is, maar nog steeds nauw verbonden is met het LUMC. Deze beurs is bestemd voor studenten die tijdens hun studie aan een promotie beginnen binnen de interne geneeskunde. Het onderzoek moet plaatsvinden bij een van de strategische partners van het LUMC. Er zijn nog twee plaatsen beschikbaar, dus stuur snel een mail met motivatiebrief en aanbevelig naar intoff@lumc.nl   PhD thesis spreadsheet Click here for a public google spreadsheet in which you can leave your contact details to get in touch with other PhDers who are printing their thesis soon to get a group discount. It is your own responsibility to get in touch with each other and organize the group discount with the printing company.  Grant newsletter The Grants Newsletter of November has been published on Albinusnet, click here to read. If you have any ideas to expand your research, want to continue as a postdoc or just want to see what kind of grants are available to you in the future, make sure to check it out! External 08.12.2022 - SmB is back with a banger: Fermentation Special @ Brewery Pronck! Get ready for the last café of the year 2022. Science meets business is organizing a Fermentation Special! They will have three speakers, each with a different business angle on fermentation. And the best: It will be inside a brewery with complementary drinks fresh from the barrel. Click here to register. 13.12.2022 - Human Capital event: Jong talent vinden, binden en ontwikkelen? – Grand Café de Stal @ 16.00uur (Dutch only) De bijeenkomst staat volledig in het teken van Jong talent vinden, binden en ontwikkelen. Bedrijven en organisaties hebben tegenwoordig veel moeite om de openstaande vacatures te vervullen. Er zal daardoor worden gesproken over de zogenaamde 'war for talent'. Vroeg verbinden met studenten is één van de geheime wapens in de strijd om jong talent aan te trekken en daarmee die zogenaamde 'oorlog' te voorkomen. Klik hier voor meer informatie en om je in te schrijven. 10-16.06.2023 – Merck KGaA Innovation Cup Summer Camp – Darmstadt, Germany The Innovation Cup is designed to support the professional development of post-graduate students interested in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. Participants learn how R&D in the industry works by lectures from Merck managers and scientists. The students will also advance an idea to a full project plan with their teams. Teams will work on innovative projects in the areas of: Oncology, Autoimmunity, Medicinal Chemistry, Protein Engineering, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Neuromorphic Computing and Smart Manufacturing. Click here to read more and to apply. Gildeprint InDesign workshop Gildeprint (thesis print shop) has offered to give an InDesign workshop about designing the lay out of your thesis. The workshop will take approximately one hour and will provide tips and tricks. Don't expect an in-depth explaining of InDesign but more a rough overview. Sytske Anne Bergstra has followed the workshop in 2019 and can tell you more about the content of the workshop in detail. Please let Lotte van Ouwerkerk know if you are interested in attending, at least 10 PhDs are needed to organize the workshop. The idea is to organize this workshop in January/February 2023, but a final date will be scheduled based on your availability. Student well-being Leiden University has a wide range of support if needed. But where can you find it? This roadmap is a handy overview. Handling threats or intimidation Unfortunately, a lot of scientists experience hate reactions or threats during their career. That is why the website SafeScience (WetenschapVeilig) has been launched on November 7th 2022. This website is available 24/7 to help scientists find support in case of threats, intimidation or hate speech. For more information visit the Leiden University news page. Webinars and Courses An overview of all courses within the LUMC and Leiden University can be found in the Converis-module (go to ‘help’ – ‘help’ – inventory of courses) or just click here.   Introductory meetings These meetings are organised five times a year, and are compulsory for all new PhD candidates. You preferably attend the meeting within the first 2-3 months after registration. For 2023 we’ve started planning new dates for the introductory meetings: Wednesday 1 February (Academiegebouw) Wednesday 22 March (online) Wednesday 5 July (Academiegebouw)  Click here to register.  Leiden Bio Science Park LBSP organizes many relevant events for PhD's and PostDocs, so always keep an eye out on their agenda. Register now! PhD Statistics Courses 2023 Boerhaave Nascholing offers several statistics courses for PhD candidates, and registration for the following courses in 2023 has been opened: 26 – 31 January 2023 - Using R for data analysis 13 – 17 February – Basic Methods and Reasoning in Biostatistics 2023 - I 27 – 31 March 2023 – Regression Analysis 11-13 April 2023 – Statistical Aspects of Clinical Trials 19 - 21 April 2023 – Meta Analysis 19 - 30 June 2023 – Analysis of Repeated Measurements 18 – 22 September 2023 - Survival Analysis (Advanced Biostatistics) Click on the links above to register. Click here for a brief description of the courses. Contact   The Graduate School Office If you have any additional questions regarding the administrative aspects of your PhD studies in the LUMC, you can contact the Graduate School Office at GraduateSchool@lumc.nl, or find them on LinkedIn or their website.     LAP   Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have a question to ask, an idea to discuss, or just want to say hi. You can always send us an email at LAP@lumc.nl. You can also follow us on social media. Use the buttons below to check out our Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and our website.      LAP Board Annelieke Lemij Pranav Mehta Elise van Wijk Carlijn Hoekx Thaïs Tong Dejvi Veizaj Lente Lerink Elissa Polomski Vesna Miladinovic Our mailing address is: lap@lumc.nl Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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