News and Informations Before After TAC Members Two out of three not from your lab and one out of three from a completely different field Two out of three not from your lab, but they can be from a similar field Practice for important talks Disputation No form had to be completed Count as 4th TAC meeting : a form has to be completed during disputation Two retreats from the LSM One LSM retreat is equivalent to two retreats from the SFB Examination and study regulation Not mandatory matriculated at the LSM Mandatory matriculated at the LSM, at least six semesters Not available Possible during LSM lecture series. The date has to be requested by the student 15 LSM lectures 15 external lectures 10 lectures free of choice Lectures 25 LSM lectures 15 external lectures Retreat Big Changes Concerning the LSM • The LSM is currently creating an Alumni network with the hope of having a LSM event and keeping in touch with its former students. • The newsletter will be released once a year to both its members and Alumni. • The LSM participates in the Munich Graduate School Network, which is a network created by and for doctoral students from all of the surrounding programmes. • Once again two full scholarship were granted for 2017 and 2018 by the DAAD-GSSP programme. These are scholarships for international students to complete their doctoral studies. They include a 1-4 years of full financial support. For further information see website. • The winner of the 2015 LSM publication prize was Christina Bielmeier for her paper “Interface Contractility between Differently Fated Cells Drives Cell Elimination and Cyst Formation” published in Current Biology in March 2016. • Don’t forget to apply for a LSM travel grant, for your next scientific travelling. Information about possible travel grants can be found at the LSM website. Newsletter From Molecules to Systems: GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES MUNICH FACULTY BIOLOGY Ludwig- Maximilians- Universität München About the LSM The Graduate School Life Science Munich (LSM) is an international doctoral pro- gramme at the LMU which includes the Faculties of Biol- ogy, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy and more than 40 research groups. For more informations, you can visit www.lsm.bio.lmu.de. Numbers about the LSM Currently, there are 46 students in the LSM, 57 % of which are female and 52 % come from outside Germany. The LSM includes students from 17 different countries. 48 students have graduated from the LSM since 2011 to date. Contents > Big changes concerning the LSM > About the LSM > News and information > Publication prize > Publications > Student Council > Retreat > Save the Dates > Go Team LSM! LSM Newsletter, 01/2017, No. 4 Comments regarding the newsletter: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]The existing study regulations changed and we explain in the following how… The students of the LSM now have to be registered in the “Promotionsstudien- gang-LSM” for at least six semesters. If you have not done so yet, then contact Francisca. Concerning the TAC Meeting guide- lines TAC members must foster interdis- ciplinarity (see table). Furthermore, a fourth TAC form for the completion of the disputation is required to be handed into the LSM office. Following complaints about the lecture attendances, the rule was made more flexible. The number of lectures we need to attend is still 40, but now the LSM students have to visit 15 LSM lectures, 15 external ones and can choose for the remaining 10. The changes also include the opportu- nity for LSM students to practice their important talks. Upon request at the student council, the students can present within the LSM lecture series before attending a conference or their disputa- tion. Due to the collaboration with different SFB’s (see LSM homepage for further information), it is now possible to exchange one LSM retreat with two SFB retreats. However, at least one LSM retreat has to be attended.
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News and Informations
Before After
TAC Members Two out of three not from your lab and one out of three from a completely different field
Two out of three not from your lab, but they can be from a similar field
Practice for important talks
Disputation No form had to be completed Count as 4th TAC meeting : a form has to be completed during disputation
Two retreats from the LSM One LSM retreat is equivalent to two retreats from the SFB
Examination and study regulation
Not mandatory matriculated at the LSM Mandatory matriculated at the LSM, at least six semesters
Not available Possible during LSM lecture series. The date has to be requested by the student
15 LSM lectures15 external lectures10 lectures free of choice
Lectures 25 LSM lectures15 external lectures
Retreat
Big Changes Concerning the LSM
• The LSM is currently creating an Alumni network with the hope of having a LSM event and keeping in touch with its former students. • The newsletter will be released once a year to both its members and Alumni.• The LSM participates in the Munich Graduate School Network, which is a network created by and for doctoral students from all of the surrounding programmes.• Once again two full scholarship were granted for 2017 and 2018 by the DAAD-GSSP programme. These are scholarships for international students to complete their doctoral studies. They include a 1-4 years of full financial support. For further information see website.• The winner of the 2015 LSM publication prize was Christina Bielmeier for her paper “Interface Contractility
between Differently Fated Cells Drives Cell Elimination and Cyst Formation” published in Current Biology in March 2016.• Don’t forget to apply for a LSM travel grant, for your next scientific travelling. Information about possible travel grants can be found at the LSM website.
Newsletter
From Molecules to Systems:GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES MUNICHFACULTY BIOLOGY
Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen
About the LSMThe Graduate School Life Science Munich (LSM) is an international doctoral pro-gramme at the LMU which includes the Faculties of Biol-ogy, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy and more than 40 research groups. For more informations, you can visit www.lsm.bio.lmu.de.
Numbers about the LSMCurrently, there are 46 students in the LSM, 57 % of which are female and 52 % come from outside Germany. The LSM includes students from 17 different countries. 48 students have graduated from the LSM since 2011 to date.
Contents> Big changes concerning the LSM> About the LSM> News and information
> Publication prize> Publications> Student Council> Retreat> Save the Dates> Go Team LSM!
The existing study regulations changed and we explain in the following how…
The students of the LSM now have to be registered in the “Promotionsstudien-gang-LSM” for at least six semesters. If you have not done so yet, then contact Francisca.
Concerning the TAC Meeting guide-lines TAC members must foster interdis-ciplinarity (see table). Furthermore, a fourth TAC form for the completion of
the disputation is required to be handed into the LSM office.
Following complaints about the lecture attendances, the rule was made more flexible. The number of lectures we need to attend is still 40, but now the LSM students have to visit 15 LSM lectures, 15 external ones and can choose for the remaining 10.
The changes also include the opportu-nity for LSM students to practice their
important talks. Upon request at the student council, the students can present within the LSM lecture series before attending a conference or their disputa-tion.
Due to the collaboration with different SFB’s (see LSM homepage for further information), it is now possible to exchange one LSM retreat with two SFB retreats. However, at least one LSM retreat has to be attended.
Student Council
publication prize
Save the Dates
Go Team LSM!
Publications
Did you publish something special? Then apply for the new LSM publication prize! Submit your publication together with a small paragraph (in PDF form) to the LSM Office ([email protected]), where you explain what you did, why it is an important and special in your own field of biosciences. The publication date has to be within 2016. Application deadline is March, 31st 2017. The LSM publication price is notated with 400 € and the winner will be announced at the next Biocenter Open house day in July 2017.for more informations: http://www.lsm.bio.lmu.de/news.html
retreatThe annual LSM retreat took place from
the 14th to 16th June in Wessobrunn, Studienhaus Gut Schönwag, near the picturesque Ammersee.
The topic of the Retreat was media training. The social activities included a brewery visit to Kloster Andechs, and a cooking workshop. Several team building activities were also organized by the social committee such as “rescue-your-egg”.
On the second day of the retreat, we invited professors to join us for the poster presentation, followed by the buffet prepared during the cooking workshop.
The posters were evaluated by all retreat participants and prizes for the best ones were attributed to Sandra Franz (1st), Peter Hagl (2nd), Renuka Kolli and Sybille Böhm (3rd). Likewise, the participants voted for the best perfor-mance in presentation and the winners of the prizes were Yuri Volpato (1st), Anna C. Erpf (2nd), Chris Mulholland (3rd) .
Publications of LSM students in the last 12 months:
Bielmeier C. et al. Interface contractility between differently fated cells drives cell elimination and cyst formation. Curr Biol. 26:563-574.Franz-Guess S. & Starck JM. Histological and ultrastructural analysis of the respiratory tracheae of Galeodes granti. Arthropod Struct Dev. 45:452-461.Franz-Guess S. et al. Morphology of the tracheal system of camel spiders (Chelicerata: Solifugae). Arthropod Struct Dev. 45:440-451.La Fortezza M. et al. 2016. JAK/STAT signalling mediates cell survival in response to tissue stress. Dev. 132340.Nagler C. et al. 150 million years old isopods on fishes. Bull Geo. 91:1-12.Nagler C. & Haug JT. Functional morphology of parasitic isopods: under-standing morphological adaptations of attachment and feeding structures. PeerJ 4: e2188.Pimprikar P., Carbonnel S. et al. A CCaMK-CYCLOPS-DELLA complex activates transcription of RAM1 to regu-late arbuscule branching. Curr Biol. 26:987-998.
This year we welcomed to the Student council a lot of new members, among them Laura Besora Casals, José Antonio Villaécija Aguilar and Susanne Leidescher in the social committee, and Jennifer Sacher in the newsletter team. If you want to join us, the council is voted during the annual general meeting. You can contact any of us for more information, our contacts can be find on the LSM website.
Interview days- 22–24.02.2017: Interviews in Munich - LSM recruitment days 2017- until 30.03.2017: Final decisions
Event- 19-22.06.2017 : Retreat 2017
Method Courses- 03-05.05.2017: MatLab Workshop by Mathworks (Trainer tba)- Coming soon: Workshop on Adobe Illus-trator.
Transferable skills- 23-24.03.2017 : Getting published and understanding peer review by Dr Brian Cusack
The GraduateCenter-LMU also offers courses which are open to all LSM students. For details visit :http://www.en.graduatecenter.uni-muenchen.de/events/index.html
Dear all,I am looking for team members to take part in this year's XLETIX challenge (http://de.xletix.com/)!The challenge is a mud run ca. 6 km with 15 barriers, such as walls, ice water, nets and much more. It will take place at the 24th of June. I know there are some "hard core guys" in the LSM. I would like to attend this challenge with a LSM-team just for the fun of it and of course to prove that, "Yes, we can"!In principle your fitness level does not matter, I would be happy to organize some training sessions during lunch breaks or after hours to get us into shape.At the moment the attendance fee is 50 € (the earlier we register, the cheaper it is) but should we reach enough participants ca. 15 people the price also improves! Having said this, I would also like to bring to your attention that the LSM would support us financially in taking part as GO TEAM LSM.What better way to release stress than to have another challenge? If we can accomplish this, we WILL accomplish our THESIS!I look forward to your replies! You can send me a mail until 24th of February 2017 to [email protected].
