The JSMC Career Mentoring - Call for applications now open!
What is the Career Mentoring Program?
Based on the great success so far and now in its third year, the JSMC Career Mentoring Program supports our early-career researchers preparing for the next steps in their careers. All JSMC and Microverse PhD candidates and postdocs can now apply for one-on-one mentorship with experienced professionals for advice concerning career, work life, and work-life-balance. Our mentors, all doctorate holders in life or natural sciences, bring real-world expertise from academia, biotech, pharma, consulting, and more. We will match you with a mentor aligned as closely as possible to your goals and preferences. Together, you will decide on meeting frequency, discussion topics, and objectives. You may also suggest a mentor and reach out directly, referring to this program.
Text by Lena Gauthier
Fluorescence, Friends, and fantastic Valencia
Wednesday, 4th of Sep, 4.30 pm: MiCom2024 (what a great event!) just finished and I have to rush to get my train to Frankfurt.
Why? Because I am flying to the beautiful city of Valencia, to visit yet another conference.
Wednesday,…
What is the Mental Health First Aid Program at the FSU? Imagine someone cuts their finger. You put a band-it on it, right?! But what if someone needs help with their mental health?
We do first-help in the form of structured confidential in-person conversations. In concrete, mental health first aider…
The Siegfried Czapski Publication Prize for outstanding publications by doctoral candidates within the Jena Alliance of Graduate Schools was awarded for the third time on November 6 as part of the LIFE Symposium. The winners are the doctoral candidates Tim Kaden, Raquel Alonso-Roman and Parastoo Akb…
Text by by Jakob Sprague
I did my PhD in the group of Prof. Bernhard Hube as part of the Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms at the Leibniz-HKI. I’m still scheduling the date for my defense, but hopefully before the end of the year. My PhD has been a truly rewarding journey, despite t…
Text by Dr. Ekaterine Gabashvili
I am grateful to the JSMC Postdoc Program for the travel grant that allowed me to attend ISME19 in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference featured insightful presentations on the spatial structures and functions of microbial communities in subsurface habitats, chemo…
The current issue contains
impressions of the MiCom and the Postdoc Appreciation Week
the upcoming Mental Health Week from 10th to 20th of October
information about the upcoming Scary Science Halloween social event
After a three-year break, the MiCom 2024 took place in Jena last week, marking a highly successful return as a renowned microbiology conference. The event was organized only by the Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) doctoral candidates and connected researchers, industry, academics…
The supervision award was presented for the first time as part of our doctoral conference MiCom 2024, held from 2 - 4 September at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. This year the award went to Prof. Miriam Agler-Rosenbaum from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Bi…
The current issue contains
an introduction to the new PhD speakers Gaurvanshi Gupta and Tom Haufschild
upcoming events including the MiCom from 2nd to 4th of September and the Postdoc Appreciation Week from 16th to 20th of September
impressions of the Kayak day out and the upcoming Picnic in the pa…
