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Welcome to the First Online EMBL PhD Symposium


by Konrad Förstner

Life Sciences - Shaping the future!


The goal of the First Online EMBL PhD 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. The future of scientific communication itself will also be discussed. In addition to scientific topics, we invite you to our career development forum that will help to shape a better future for scientists by sharing your experiences.


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 platform 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 and present their own views in a similar fashion.


How can you participate?


Everybody with a scientific background is invited to participate. There is no registration fee payable. Have a look at our media to get an overview of the topics and speakers. Participating is quite easy: Please read the document in our info folder and make yourself familiar with the concept and conditions. After that you can create an account.


Our media files will be online, starting from Monday, December 4 , 2006, 09:00 (CET) until December 8 , 2006, 16:00 (CET). Registered members can leave comments, discuss online and contribute with own content.


Join us now (registration form)! Spread the word using our advertising media.


Find talks and interviews in our media section.