Titel: Life Sciences - Shaping The Future

Termin: 18.9.2006 bis 25.9.2006

Veranstaltungsort:
Virtural (Web-based)

Referenten: Isabel Arnold (The EMBO Journal, Germany) *** Stefania Bettini (European Commision) *** Kurt M. Cuffey (University of California, USA) *** Uwe David (KoWi, Koordinierungsstelle EG der Wissenschaftsorganisationen, Germany) *** Chris Echeverri (Cenix BioScience, Germany) *** Lone Frank (Newspaper Science Writer, Denmark) *** Tim Hunt (London Research Institute, London, UK) *** Thomas Lectka (Johns Hopkins University, USA) *** Richard B. Meagher (University of Georgia, USA) *** Michel Morange (Centre Cavaillès, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) *** Seema Sharma (Science's Next Wave, UK) *** Timothy J. Tschaplinski (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) *** Oskar Zelder, (BASF, Germany)

Weitere Informationen:
http://virtualsymposium.predocs.org/

Kurzbeschreibung: The progress of science is determined by a number of factors, including technological advances, interdisciplinary cooperation, challenges from the society, human resources and many others. But the development of science itself is a subject of scientific pursuit, and perspective vision can be a major motivation for a scientist.

Although rarely a subject of scientific meetings, the future of science itself is a truly fascinating topic. What will be the research topics of tomorrow, how will science change life in the coming decades, which technologies will be available, how future research facilities will look like, in which ways new knowledge will change our vision of life - these are some of the questions we want to address.

The goal of our symposium is to provide a meeting place for the larger audience of people involved in life sciences to discuss the state-of-the-art and perspectives of development in fields as diverse as evolution and origin of life, molecular cell and developmental biology, biomedicine, biotechnology and bioengineering, environmental biology and many others. We invite you to discuss the future topics in your or neighbouring areas of research, potential applications of research results and share your vision of problems in hand.

Science is a human endeavour, and it comprises your unique personal experiences. In addition to scientific topics, we invite you to share your views on scientific practices and research infrastructure in different countries, fund-raising opportunities, prospects for career development in government, industry and academia, equal gender opportunities, protection and application of research results and other relevant issues. We believe our career development forum will help to shape a better future for scientists by making your stories public.

Rather than using a conventional meeting format with formal presentations and rather limited options for interaction between the invited speakers and the participants, we want to introduce an open internet-based forum for everyone interested to ensure that all opinions are heard. We invite prominent scientists to share their vision on development of life sciences in selected fields in a form of web-based presentations and invite everyone else to further discuss it in a forum and present their own views in a similar fashion. We believe such format will better stimulate exchange of opinions and facilitate contact-building among all the participants.

Kontakt: EMBL Virtual PhD Symposium
Organizing Committee
Meyerhofstraße 1
69117 Heidelberg
virt_symp@embl.de

Veranstalter: EMBL European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg

Schlagworte: Biotechnologie, Ökologische Ethik