Training in working with social media, career planning, CV writing, grant writing, interview techniques and publication. 2 ESRs will jointly present a public lecture to disseminate the main outcomes achieved by the consortium. External expert Benjamin Geiger will give a lecture and critique the work of ESRs. All ESRs will present their own work. During the meeting we will hold a consortium AGM and a session about a possible continuation of the consortium focussing on osteoclasts in inflammation "Immunoclast". We will visit the Nobel Museum. There is also an optional visit to the Hagströmer Medico-Historical library of the Karolinska Institutet where we can see some of the finest historical anatomy and natural history books.
Venue: Nordic Biosciences, Herlev. Training session for ESRs by Leloux. This one-day training will build on recent experience of working in industry at Future Diagnostic Solutions, where all ESRs spent 10 days recently, and focus on entrepreneurial attitude and negotiation. Speakers Morten Karsdal, Christian Thudium and Kim Henriksen will continue the theme of working in industry vs working in academia for the whole consortium. Focus is on biomarker development, use of appropriate model systems and publishing vs patenting.
All ESRs will present their work. External expert Jean Marie Delaisse will give a lecture and help critique the work presented by the Euroclast ESRs. During the meeting we will hold a consortium AGM and we will continually "mine" all information presented to extract potential outcomes.
Focus of meeting was presenting and discussing data from ESRs, organising secondments and making sure the consortium had a good presence at the ECTS conference which followed on straight from the consortium meeting. Eurocalst also presented during the ECTS consortia summit.
Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen, June 13-15. Imaging workshop with hands-on training on a variety of high-resolution instruments including electron microscopes. Lectures about techniques suitable for osteoclast imaging. Guest lectures about superresolution imaging, labels suitable for FACS and in vivo imaging and about PET imaging.
Mar Lodge, Braemar, June 15-19. Training in public engagement and presentation skills. Extensive discussion of workpackages and individual projects. Facilitated poster session. Mid-term review meeting with external expert Prof. Anna Teti.
Maritime Hotel Bellevue, Kiel, Germany. Tour of laboratories of Paul Saftig and visit to Centre Molecular Imaging North Competence Center (MOIN CC). Training in ethics, including studies with human material or animal models, bone histology, molecular techniques and project discussion.
Amsterdam ACTA building, tour of laboratories; then Zandvoort for training in teamworking, personal development, working with supervisors, osteoclast techniques and project discussion.
Euroclast partners and early stage researchers in the Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen, June 2015.