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Every year, first-year EMBL PhD students organise a three-day scientific symposium. Going 26 years strong, each iteration is a unique product of the diverse cast of students and the defining scientific focus of that time period. Quickly skimming through the gallery of past symposia would convince…
Thoughts of a Symposium Organiser: 25th EMBL PhD Symposium Collective behaviour is everywhere we look. From the macroscale of worldwide shipping lanes to the ordered chaos of searching bees. Unfortunately, we are not bees. But, we, as an organising committee have tapped into a hive-mind mentality…
Each year, a bunch of PhD students from EMBL join forces to organise a large symposium for their fellow PhD students across the globe. This year’s (virtual) PhD symposium is the 23rd of its kind. The Big Picture: Zooming into Life is taking place from 16 -17 December. Around 30 first year PhD…