25 YEARS OF the
IGC'S PHD PROGRAMMES
13-15 September 2018
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Thursday 13 September - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
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Friday 14 September - Fundação Champalimaud.
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Saturday 15 September - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
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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