FEBS Education Platform

Athens (Greece), 8-9 October 2015

With the Hellenic Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (HSBMB)

This workshop is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Costas Drainas, a former member of FEBS Education Committee who sadly passed away in July 2011.

Venue: Hellenic Pasteur Institute, in the center of Athens

Contact:

• Prof. Dimitris Kletsas, President of HSBMB and organiser of the Workshop
  

Speakers from FEBS Education Committe:

• Keith Elliott (Manchester, UK)
• Jason Perret (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
• Mary Purton (FEBS Open Bio, Cambridge)
• Gül Güner Akdogan (Chair) (Izmir, Turkey)

60 participants

Programme

Full programme:

Supporting materials Now available! (Restricted access using the password given to participants)

1st day: 8 October 2015, 8:30 to 17:30

• Registration
• Opening
  • Opening of the Workshop (HSBMB-FEBS)
  • Remembering Costas Drainas — Gül Güner, Dimitris Kyriakidis
• Session 1: Research in undergraduate education: how to involve BSc and MD students in research
  • Introducing BSc students in biomedical sciences to research — Jason Perret
  • Experience from Greece (BSc) — Christos Panagiotidis
  • Special study modules: an innovative research practice for medical (MD) student — Gül Güner
  • Panel discussion — All speakers
• Session 2: Scientific skills and transferable skills
  • How to write and publish a scientific article — Mary Purton
  • Discussion
  • How to make the best of yourself: How to write a CV — Keith Elliott
  • How to write a research project — Christos Stournaras
  • Discussion
  • Funds and programmes for young scientists — Keith Elliott
  • Scientific communication to non-scientists — Ioanna Soufleri
• General discussion

2nd day: 9 October 2015, 9:30 to 17:30

• Session 3: PhD training
  • PhD training in Greece: strengths and weaknesses — Manolis Fragoulis, Theodore Fotsis
  • Standards for PhD training: IUBMB and Orpheus — Gül Güner
  • Small group discussions:
    1. Role of supervisor — Jason Perret
    2. Role of institution— George Panayotou
    3. Quality of thesis and its assessment — Christos Stournaras
    4. How to write and publish a scientific article — Mary Purton
  • Reports from small groups
• Session 4: Biochemical education for the needs of the medical profession
  • Problem-based learning: philosophy and the Manchester experience — Keith Elliott
  • Izmir experience. Designing of cases — Gül Güner
  • Experience from a Greek university — George Simos
• General discussion, feedback, and closing of the meeting — Gül Güner, Dimitris Kletsas

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