EU-LIFE Tumour Microenvironment and Metastasis PhD course
(EU-TMM)
Organizers: Janine Erler (BRIC), Mohamed Bentires-Alj (Momo) (FMI) and
Francois-Clement Bidard (Institut Curie)
3 days 25-27th May 2016, 30 hours in total ~2,4 ECTS credits
30 attendees in total (15 via Danish graduate school, 15 from EU-LIFE)
Course info including papers to be presented sent out in advance + 1 review paper.
In general:
Before the course the 3 journal club papers + a review paper covering
background info for all topics will be send to all participants.
Attendants will be chosen based on a brief motivation letter.
The participants will be asked to forward questions from their reading to the
coordinator before the course (ask before or at the course).
Participants will be divided in 3 groups, each responsible for 1 journal club half the group will be responsible for presenting the paper, the other half of the
group will be responsible for wrapping up the day´s topic.
Signing up:
For EU-LIFE students: Signing up should be done via a common EU-LIFE
website– everybody should upload a motivation letter.
For Not EU-LIFE students(everybody else): Signing up must be done via
Graduate School of health sciences, KU, Denmark
Deadline: April 1st 2016. Upon deadline the participants will be selected (on the
basis of their motivation letter and field of work). All participants will be notified
right after.
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Program
Day 1: Wednesday May 25th - Cell Intrinsic factors
Venue: International House, Gyldenløvesgade 11, 1600 Copenhagen V, 6th floor
8.30
Breakfast
9.15
Welcome & introduction to the course (Janine)
- Laying out the course. Two-way discussion on expectations
9.30
Icebreaker exercise
(5 minutes to talk to each other, 20 min to present in plenum)
10.15
Coffee break
10.30
Introduction to today´s subject - What is metastasis? (Janine)
10.45
Group work: groups come together (3 groups of 10 persons)
- discuss key questions of papers
- prepare paper presentations/discussions for journal clubs
- groups will have the submitted questions from all participants
12.3014:00
Lunch at the International House
+ walk and talk in town (or free time/extra prep time)
14.00
Invited Speaker: “Cancer Cell Centric Perspective”
By: Sakari Vanharanta, Cambridge, UK
15.00
Break
15.30
Journal club 1: Presentation and discussion of topic 1 and paper
- group A
- 30 min presentation
- 30 min discussion
16.30
Preparation of “Today´s wrap up” to be done by group A
-The rest of participants will do cooking!
17.0018.00
Wrap up today’s program: by group A
- what is known/unknown in this field?
- what is the key issues and take home messages?
19.00
Dinner at the site
20.0022.00
After dinner Career-social-get-together- thing!
(same place)
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Day 2: Thursday May 26th - Cell Extrinsic Factors
Venue: International House, Gyldenløvesgade 11, 1600 Copenhagen V, 6th floor
8.30
9.15
Breakfast
Introduction to today´s subject - (Momo)
9.30
Invited Speaker: “Stromal Centric Perspective”
By: Johanna Joyce, Lausanne, Switzerland
10.30
Coffee break
11.00
Journal club 2: Presentation and discussion of topic 2 and paper
- group B
- 30 min presentation
- 30 min discussion
12.00
Lunch with speaker at the International House
13.00
Career advice/discussion with Johanna Joyce
14.00
Coffee break/ preparation of “Today´s wrap up” by group B
14.30
15.30
Wrap up today’s program: by group B
- what is known/unknown in this field?
- what is the key issues and take home messages?
15.30
WALK & TALK
(3,5 km walk to BRIC at Nørrebro)
Adress: BRIC, Ole Maaløesvej 5, 2200 Copenhagen N, venue: Lounge 4th floor
16.3018.00
Social interaction and meeting with student and
postdoc association of BRIC (ASAP)or other activities
19.00
Dinner in town (perhaps Nørrebro Bryghus, close by)
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Day 3: Friday May 27th - Clinical therapy perspectives
Venue: International House, Gyldenløvesgade 11, 1600 Copenhagen V, 6th floor
8.30
9.15
breakfast
Introduction to today´s subject – (Francois-Clement)
9.30
Journal club 3: Presentation and discussion of topic 3 and paper 3
- group C
- 30 min presentation
- 30 min discussion
10.30
Coffee break
11.00
Invited Speaker: “Therapy perspective (clinical, translational)”
By: Klaus Pantel, Hamburg, Germany
12.00
Lunch with speaker at the International House
13.00
Career time with speaker
14.00
Coffee break/ preparation of “Today´s wrap up” by group C
14.3015.30
Wrap up today’s program: by group C
- what is known/unknown in this field?
- what is the key issues and take home messages?
15.3016:30
Final wrap up of course
What we learned. Feedback. Discussion.
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