FEBS Education Platform

41st FEBS Congress, in Ephesus / Kuşadası (Turkey), 3-8 September 2016

Congress website:

The planned activities are the following:

1. FEBS Special Session on Education, with an associated Workshop. (4 Sept.)
2. FEBS Special Session on “Research and career skills for young scientists” (co-organised by FEBS Publication and Educaiton Committees), with an associated Workshop. (7 Sept.)
3. Poster session on “Education, training, and careers of young scientists”
   (the topic "education" already exists on the abstract submission scheme)

Sunday, 4 September

• Lunch boxes will be available at the entrance of the meeting hall, for participants attending the session
• “Improving the learning experience through student engagement”
  FEBS Special Session on Education
  (Organised by FEBS Education Committee)
  Co-chairs: Frank Michelangeli (UK), Jean-Luc Souciet (France)
  • Introduction
    12:35-12:45
  • “Using the biology of learning to improve student engagement”
    12:45-13:15 — Robin Wright (USA)
  • “Team-based learning”
    13:15-13:45 — Ferhan Sağın (Turkey)
  • “Flipped lectures, flipped practicals, and flipped assessment”
    13:45-14:15 — Jeremy Pritchard (UK)
  • General discussion
    14:15-14:30
• “Beyond the lecture: Helping students learn by doing”
  FEBS Education Workshop, associated with the FEBS Special Session on “Improving the learning experience through student engagement”
  15:30-17:30 — Robin Wright, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, USA
  Facilitators: FEBS Education Committee Members
  • In this interactive workshop, we'll review the Scientific Teaching framework developed for the US National Academies of Science Summer Institute for Undergraduate Biology Education. Then, beginning with "backward design," each participant will develop learning objectives for one of the concepts that they teach, and determine how they will evaluate students' mastery of those objectives. We will then examine a variety of active learning approaches as models or "inspirations." Each participant will develop an active learning strategy for their concept, aligned with their learning objectives and assessments. Throughout the workshop, participants will share their ideas in small groups, gaining insights from one another.
  • Come to the workshop with a topic in mind - you'll leave with a detailed outline of you they will teach this topic in your class (even if your class is next week!)

Wednesday, 7 September

• Lunch boxes will be available at the entrance of the meeting hall, for participants attending the session
• “How to write and publish a scientific article”
  FEBS Special Session “Research and career skills for young scientists”
  (Co-organised by FEBS Publication and Education Committees)
  Co-chairs: László Fesus (Hungary), Tomáš Zima (Czech Republic)
  • Introduction
    12:35-12:45
  • “The art (and science) of writing a scientific article”
    12:45-13:15 — Frank Michelangeli (UK)
  • “What happens after the manuscript is submitted?”
    13:15-13:45 — Seamus Martin (Ireland)
  • “Publication ethics”
    13:45-14:15 — László Fesus (Hungary)
  • General discussion
    14:15-14:30
• Workshop “The art and science of how to write a scientific paper”
  (Associated with the FEBS Special Session: “How to Write and Publish a Scientific Article”)
  15:30-17:30 — Frank Michelangeli (UK)
  Facilitators: FEBS Education Committee Members
  • The associated workshop will undertake to reinforce the key points highlighted in the lecture presentation. This will involve participants working in small groups to discuss, with the aid of facilitators, a draft manuscript of a biochemistry paper. The participants will initially read through the manuscript. Then with the aid of “instructions to authors” and through directed group discussion, each group will be tasked with identifying aspects of good and bad practice within the manuscript. The groups will also discuss and identify the key elements of the manuscript and produce a 200 word abstract that effectively conveys the aims, key results and conclusion of the study.