EMBL Conference "Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences", Heidelberg, Germany, 5-7 July 2016

The LifeTrain Initiative reaching out to a wide audience

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Keynote lecture

• Bruce Alberts (University of California, San Francisco): Fixing the broken academic career pipeline

Session 1: Stimulating intersectoral mobility

• Malcolm Skingle (GSK): Learning to innovate: how do we turn scientists into industrial innovators?
• Neil Carragher (University of Edinburgh): Returning to academia after a career in big Pharma
• Conor O'Carroll (SciPol - Independent Consultant): Fostering mobility in the research community
• Botond Cseh (Max F. Perutz Laboratories): Postdoc Careers in the spotlight: A bottom-up approach to improve support for Austrian Postdocs

Session 2: Fostering competency and interdisciplinarity

• Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI: Competency-based approaches to developing highly effective teams
• Thomas Greisbacher (Medical University of Graz): The EPHAR/EACPT European Certified Pharmacologists Programme (EuCP): update 2016
• Honorio Silva (Rutgers School of Health Related Professions): Combining Breadth with Depth: validation of competencies in clinical research and medicines development
• Christelle Huguet Perros (Alexion Pharmaceuticals): Developing a cutting-edge multidisciplinary team in pharmaceutical research
• Nicola Mulder (University of Cape Town): Using core competencies to develop a bioinformatics training programme

Session 3: Developing cross-cutting skills

• Helke Hillebrand (EMBL Heidelberg): Preparing predocs and postdocs for career opportunities beyond academia
• Philip Clifford (University of Illinois at Chicago): The importance of developing a career plan
• Suvi Sivula (European Pharmaceutical Students' Association): Lifelong learning for students
• Natasha Gordon (Wellcome Trust): Fostering leadership skills in supervisors, managers and team leaders: the Wellcome Trust Diploma

Session 4: Transformative learning: applying learning in the workplace

• Karine Palin (Eu2P): How an adaptive training programme can support change in organisational strategy
• Detlef Hold (Hoffmann La-Roche Ltd / Genentech): Experiential learning to accelerate the development of global Regulatory leaders
• Peter Schüler (ICON Clinical Research): How to foster transformative learning that is sympathetic to scientists’ conflicting priorities: Training “on the job” or “for the job” – a dilemma?
• Simon Brown (Novartis): An outsider looking in Opportunities for Transforming Learning in the Pharma Industry
• Jonathan Trethowan (TRAC - The Regulatory Affairs Consultancy): Tailored Workplace Based Learning for Successful Regulatory Professionals

Flashtalks

• Combined presentation: Bodo Brückner (EIT Health), Heinrich Klech (PharmaTrain), Mark Mazzie (CfPIE), Daisy Mortimer (Science Council), Jeff Wilkesman (University of Carabobo)

Workshops

• Developing and using competency profiles for professional development, Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI, EMTRAIN and Hans Lindén, EUFEPS, SafeSciMet
• Supporting early-stage researchers to plan their careers, Alison Mitchell, Vitae and Philip S. Clifford, University of Illinois at Chicago/MyIDP
• Training impact and quality - presenting the Elixir recipe, Sarah L Morgan, EMBL-EBI/Elixir and Gabriella Rustici, University of Cambridge/Elixir