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25 YEARS OF the

IGC'S PHD PROGRAMMES

13-15 September 2018

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 13 September

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Auditorium 2

 

09:00   Opening Session

              Isabel Mota, President, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

              Leonor Beleza, President, Champalimaud Foundation

              Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science and Technology and Higher Education

                       

10:00 - The Programmes by the Directors

             Chair: José António Belo

             Miguel Seabra (PGDB)

             Marie-France Sagot/Jorge Carneiro (PDBC)

             Zach Mainen (INDP)

             Henrique Teotónio/Thiago Carvalho/Élio Sucena  (IBB)

             Leonor Parreira (PFMA)

            Joana Sá (PGCD)

                       

11:30  -   Coffee Break

 

12:00  -  Molecular Life Sciences in Europe: a personal perspective

               Kai Simons (MPI, Dresden)

 

13:00  -  Lunch

 

15:00  - The Institutes by the Alumni

              Chair: Luis Miguel Martins

              António Jacinto (CEDOC)

              Bruno Silva-Santos (IMM)

              Isabel Palmeirim (MBDUA)

              Marta Moita (CCU)

              Miguel Castelo-Branco (ICNAS/CIBIT)

              Mónica Dias  (IGC)

              Mónica Sousa  (IBMC)

17:00  Coffee Break

17:30  Open discussion on the IGC's Alumni community

Friday, 14 September

Fundação Champalimaud

 

09:30   The Deep Learning Revolution

            Terry Sejnowski, (Salk Institute, CA)

 

10:30    Coffee Break

 

11:00   Science & Society (S&S): Entrepreneurship

            Chair:  Helder Maiato

            Carlos Moedas (EC)

            Stefan Oschmann,(Merck)

            Bengt Montag (Siemens)

            Alexandra Capela

            José Leal

            Nuno Arantes-Oliveira

            Tiago Magalhães

​13:00   Lunch

 

15:00  S&S: Communication 

           Chair: Sofia Araújo

          The Who, Why, Where, When and What of science communication

           Ana Godinho

           

15:30  S&S: Science in daily medical practice

             Chair: Luis Graça

             Cristina Costa

             Ana Berta Sousa

             Joaquim Silva

             Miguel Vaz Afonso

 

16:30    Coffee Break

 

17:30  Reflections at 80

            Martin Raff, (UCL, London)

 

Saturday, 15 September

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

 

10:30   New PhD Programs: format and content

            Round-Table Discussion

            Chair: Thiago Carvalho

 

12:00    From Data to Knowledge to Understanding: Why it’s Important to

            Ask ‘Why?’

              Ruslan Medzhitov, (Yale University)

 

13:00  Lunch

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