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25 de Julio: Aceptación de comunicaciones orales y pósters.
20 abril: Inicio de plazo para presentar comunicaciones.
15 de Junio: Fin de la cuota temprana y fin del plazo para envío de comunicaciones.
25 de Julio: Aceptación de comunicaciones orales y pósters.
This course is a four-day program, consisting of one-day Introductory Course to Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and three days of assistance to the 43rd SEBBM Congress. This course will provide undergraduate students insight into the latest research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and information for future career planning in this field.
The first-day course will consist of several virtual seminars that will provide an overview of current research in the field of biosciences in Spain. The opportunities and strategies for the design of the research career in our country will be addressed. It will include a round-table discussion and opportunities for the students to interact with prestigious researchers. The course will be taught in Spanish. The program of the course and a detailed description of the seminars are presented below.
The selected students will get a free registration to attend the 43rd SEBBM Congress to be held online, from 19 to 22 July 2021.
This course is addressed to students of the last two years of any University Degree that has contents of Biochemistry or Molecular Biology. Since the last year edition (2020) was cancelled this year also students that finished their Degree in 2020 can also apply. SEBBM has increased the number of participants to 50 students. Three spots are reserved for students belonging to the Society of Spanish Olympics in Biology. The students who participated in any of the last two editions of this course (2018-2019) cannot participate in the current selection process.
Students that are interested in participating in the course must fill the application form in the following link before 25 April 2021.
The following documents should be also sent before 25 April 2021 by email to curso.sebbm@gmail.com, indicating in the subject: Barcelona SEBBM 2021. The documents can be sent in Spanish or English.
The applications will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee of the SEBBM Congress. Up to 10 points will be awarded for the academic records, up to 1 point for the motivation letter and up to 1 point for the recommendation letter. The 47 applications with the highest scoring will be selected to participate in the course and congress. The decision will be communicated to the applicants before April 28th. A copy of the academic record of the studies completed duly accredited must be sent by the selected applicants to curso.sebbm@gmail.com before May 7th in order to formalize the registration. The final selection will be communicated by May 10th. The selected students should attend the Course and the SEBBM Congress. A certificate of attendance to the Course and to the SEBBM Congress will be provided at the end of the Congress.
| 09.30-09.40 h. |
Course Welcome and Introduction |
| Session moderators: David Sebastián (IRB), Rosalía Rodríguez (UIC), Joan-Marc Servitja (IDIBAPS) and María Lucas (IBBTEC) | |
| 09.40-10.10 h. | María Lucas (IBBTEC, Universidad de Cantabria-CSIC) PhD Degree Manual |
| 10.10-10.50 h. |
Ramón Gomis (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic) |
| 10.50-11.30 h. |
Marc Martinell (CEO of Minoryx Therapeutics) |
| 11.30-12:10 h. | Ismael Mingarro (Universidad de Valencia) Scientific publishers: of necessity … business |
| 12:10-13:00 h. | Ana V. Villar (IBBTEC, Universidad de Cantabria-CSIC) Practical workshop in biomedical research: Search for new therapeutic targets and strategies. |
| 14:00-16:30 h. |
17:00 – 18:00 h. 1st Meeting of the Introduction to Research in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Course.
Poster discussion from students of the Introductory Course to Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
17:00 – 18:00 h. : Roundtable of students and organizers to evaluate the experience through open debate and a survey.
María Lucas (IBBTEC, Universidad de Cantabria-CSIC)
Why do a PhD? What requirements do I need to meet? What skills should I acquire? Where can I get PhD funding in Spain and abroad? What problems can I find? These and other issues related to the completion of a PhD thesis will be addressed.
Ramón Gomis (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic)
Ramón Gomis is an endocrinologist and currently, director of the Health Sciences Studies of the Open University of Catalonia and emeritus researcher at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) linked to the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. He was director of IDIBAPS from 2008 to 2018. Ramón Gomis will talk about the translational research carried out in Spain and the possibilities of starting a research career in the clinical field.
Marc Martinell (CEO de Minoryx Therapeutics)
Marc Martinell is the executive director of the biotechnology company Minoryx. He will present the research lines he leads for the development of new therapeutic solutions for rare diseases of the central nervous system, often characterized by neurodegeneration. He will also talk about the job opportunities of bioscience researchers in biotechnology companies.
Ismael Mingarro (Universidad de Valencia)
Scientific discoveries are published in scientific journals in the form of articles. For publication, articles are submitted to an unpaid peer review process. But scientific publishers charge both authors and readers, although digital technologies have significantly reduced production costs. In this scenario, do we really need publishers as we have known them in the past?
Ana V. Villar (IBBTEC, Universidad de Cantabria-CSIC)
This workshop will focus on the search for pharmacological targets and their possible therapeutic strategies within the pathology of cardiac fibrosis. The students will participate in an interactive group activity that will show them the dynamic process of the scientific method.