Grand Challenges on “On the benefits of sharing methods across scientific fields” Symposium
Grand Challenges Symposium
- Start: Oct 10, 2019
- End: Oct 11, 2019
- Location: Seewiesen
- Room: Seminar Room House 4
- Host: IMPRS for Organismal Biology
- Contact: mhieber@orn.mpg.de
Our annual Grand Challenges Symposia focus each year on a specific area of interest in the wide range of topics from animal behavior, ecology, and evolution to physiology and neurobiology, suggested by the PhD candidates of our IMPRS. The symposia consist of a series of talks by guest speakers, faculty and students of our program and represent the inaugural event for the latest student cohort.
This year, our Grand Challenges Symposium focuses on "On the benefits of sharing methods across scientific fields" and we are very pleased and honoured to announce the following keynote speakers:
- Frederic Bartumeus (Head of Continental Ecology Department, Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies (CEAB))
- Joel Brown (Senior Member at the Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center,Tampa, Florida + Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Christian Geiß (German Aerospace Center)
- Greg J Stephens (Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin (Junior Research Group Leader in the Department of Biology, University of Konstanz)