Newsletter June 2020

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LAP Newsletter

June 2020

Dear fellow PhD candidates,

We hope you are all doing well. In this newsletter there is summary of the topics discussed during the webinar, some suggestions for courses, events and vacancies.

Also exciting: on the 25th of June we are hosting an online event: "The LAP Intelligent Lockdown Pubquiz"! Scroll down to see how to register.

Lastly, we want to draw your attention to some changes we are making to our look and social media. We have a new logo, and a brand new LinkedIn page which you can follow to stay updated!

Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.

Best wishes,
The LAP board

Information

Internal

Webinar
The webinar "Research during COVID-crisis" was attended by many of you. For those who could not make it there is a complete summary. As a quick recap:

Contracts and requirements
Discuss significant delays with your group leader and work your way up to the head of department, and then the division. If needed, guidance is possible.
Restarting research
Researchers are allowed to come the the LUMC again, but please stay home for work that can be done from home
Mental health
Talk to your supervisor, try to regain your normal structure and focus, and meet with your colleagues again. And you can always contact the confidentiality counsellors.
Courses
To acquire the minimal ECTS that you need to register in Converis, researchers are allowed to search for alternative courses such as online courses.
PhD defenses
Defenses are possible with 20 people. The advice is to not postpone the defence, and plan the celebrations another time.

Click here for a complete summary

PhD defenses from 1 June
From 1 June, PhD defenses can again be held on campus with a limited number of people (a maximum of 20) physically in attendance, and a live stream for others who are interested. All defences will be held in the Klein Auditorium room at the Academy Building. Read all details in the protocol.

External

Petition
TU Delft Applied Sciences PhD council has started an online petition on behalf of PhDs and Postdocs, requesting contract extensions, due to the COVID crisis. Click here to read more and sign electronically if you agree.

President vancancy PNN
The PhD Network Netherlands (PNN) is the national interest group for and by PhDs affiliated to one of the fourteen Dutch universities, one of the eight Academic Medical Centers, or one of the five research institutions. PNN is currently looking for a new president. Since collaborations with most of their partners takes place in Dutch, being fluent in Dutch is a requirement, but they do encourage non-Dutch nationalities to apply. The deadline to send in your motivation and CV is set at the 14th of June.

Click here for the full description of the position

Events and Courses

Events

LAP Intelligent Lockdown Pubquiz 25th of June at 20.00

Join the LAP Intelligent Lockdown Pubquiz! We will host a fun evening and you can join it live at home.

So how will this work? It is super easy. Grab a drink, video call your team, and open the pubquiz link on your computer. We’ll send you the link around 20:00, and then it’s just sit back and relax, or fanatically compete of course.

The winning team will get some really nice plants! If you want to play for the prize, either alone or with maximal 3 other colleagues or friends, please register here.

Click to register

Summer school Population Health Management
An ageing population, epidemiological challenges, rising healthcare costs, and technical developments in the medical sector: Learn about this new strategy and acquire new competences to deal with these current issues.
Join the Summer school of 2020 for an excellent scientific introduction to Population Health Management.

See website

Webinar Gildeprint: Thesis design and printing
June 10, 2020, at 12:00 – 13:00 (online, so live at any place of you choosing)
What choice do you have in paper, finishing and design? How do I make a plan? And how much does it cost to print a thesis? There is a live chat where you can place your questions and for the most valuable participant there is a nice price to win.

Register yourself here for Dutch and here for English to attend or get the link to the video afterward.

Online courses

EBrok crouse
The EBrok is mandatory for all PhD candidates of the LUMC. It can be done from home.

Coursera, edX
Coursera and edX have a lot of free online courses you can follow. Leiden University has a tonne, and we also quite liked the one on Genomic Data Science from John Hopkins University and on R programming from HarvardX. (note: a lot of them are free, but you have to pay if you want a certificate)

CRISP/Cas9 crash course for beginners
A nice online course on CRISPR/Cas9, the latest emerging revolutionizing gene-editing technology in the biological world.

Online biology courses from iBiology
iBiology offers online biology courses for early career scientists, biology students and educators. For instance Image Analysis with ImageJ and Cellprofiler.

EMBL
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is one of the world’s leading research institutions. They offer e-learning content that features research carried out and technologies used at EMBL, and they have a youtube series for researchers.

BioBusiness Summer School
22-26 June 2020. Join BioBusiness Summer School to jumpstart your career in Life Sciences by gaining knowledge of business aspects such as product development, IPR, finance and business models. The next edition of the summer school will be organised online. More information and registration.

Gannt Chart for PhD planning
Not exactly a course, but we found it very helpful in planning our PhD project. Just look up 'Gannt Chart Template' on google to find the most efficient way to plan a long term project. If you are lazy, you can click the link where we googled it for you.

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 and of course on the LUMC Albinusnet. Use the buttons below to check out our Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

To follow LAP on Albinusnet, go to Albinusnet and go to 'My preferences / Mijn instellingen'. Click on 'my departments/mijn afdelingen' and then 'edit departments/afdelingen bewerken'. Look for LUMC Association for PhD Candidates in the list under 'add a department/voeg een afdeling toe'.