Dear fellow PhD candidates,
Hi there! In the newsletter you are about to briefly scroll through, we put together a list of links and tips for working from home. So this newsletter is a home-survival-guide, if you will. There is some general information, information specific for international students, and some tips from us for courses and entertainment. Meanwhile, we are also working from home, putting the finishing touch on our brand-new website to improve the provision of information to PhD candidates. The reveal is coming soon!
Lastly, we are organizing a webinar for PhD candidates on important info regarding corona crisis. Do you have any questions you would like to have answered? You can send them in with this questionnaire or by mailing us at lap@lumc.nl.
If you like what we do, consider joining our board, because we are looking for new boardmembers!
Stay safe, and please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.
Best wishes,
The LAP board
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General Information
Webinar
The corona crisis has changed the working situation for the PhD candidates in the LUMC. We are organizing a webinar, to talk about the subjects and questions that you now might have regarding your project, if that be the suspended labwork, the contract period or something else entirely.
Therefore we are trying to see what information you still would like to have. Please fill in this one minute anonymous questionaire if you have any subject suggestions or questions, or, alternatively, contact us at lap@lumc.nl.
Call of the Education Union A0b
A0b, the biggest education union in the Netherlands, wants to know how many researchers from the academic field have problems regading finance or contractperiods. See their website for more information and how to contact them (see the link at the bottom of the page for the English translation)
Information for international students
As international PhD candidate it can be especially hard to get the right information. Therefore we put together some links and tips to English webpages that may help you:
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Events
We are planning an online pubquiz! Details will follow, but you can already register to save your team a spot!
When? June 25th 2020 at 17:00
Maximum 4 players per team. Register here!
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.
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We found some links that keeps us entertained from home.
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Online live concerts
Many artists are keeping their brand alive online. Here is a list of upcoming online concerts.
Rijksmuseum
Yes, you can actually still visit the Rijksmuseum! With a virtual tour of course..
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Bird watching course
It might sound far fetched but it is actually quite fun. Click here for the (Dutch) online birdwatching course from the Vogelbescherming.
Domestika
Domestika offers online courses for the creative minds. You can, for example, wow your collegueges during the next conference with youw own illustrator pictures.
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Labettor
Are you a Life-science Researcher? You can be a Co-founder of Labettor!
Have you ever come-across a situation in your lab where you had to test many kits / products (eg: isolation kits, anti-bodies etc) to find out the best performing one for your experiment? Labettor solves your problem by providing a peer-reviewed database that consolidates knowledge on exact experiments and tested products.
Be a co-founder of Labettor. Review experiment-product combinations, take part in discussions and share your knowledge with peers.
We invite the PhD students of LAP to join the Labettor community. The first 1000 researchers to fill in details and claim a ticket will receive a Labettor share certificate. Find more information and claim your ticket now. Be part of our official launch in September 2020. We expect a delay due to COVID-19 situation, but the official launch is coming soon!
A student is doing his graduation assignment at Labettor. Therefore, he would be happy if you could fill out this 10 minute questionnaire.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at ask@labettor.com
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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'.
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LAP Board
Hidde Zittersteijn
Edouard Bonneville
Max van Hout
Niels Harlaar
Tom Metz
Nanda Boon
Francesca Tasca
Aline van Rijn
Margherita Botto
Nienke Blomberg
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