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Merry Christmas

The JSMC would like to wish all its members a Merry Christmas and a relaxing holiday season. We would like to thank everyone for their great contributions and dedication to our community over the past year! The Christmas edition of the newsletter can be found here.

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Travel Grant Awardees - Lena in Valencia, Spain

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,…

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Dr. Marcus Böhm on being an MHFA (Interview)

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…

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JSMC members Raquel and Parastoo win the Siegfried Czapski Prize

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…

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JSMC Graduates - A PhD Journey

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…

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Travel Grant Awardees - Ekaterine in South Africa

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…

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JSMC Newsletter September

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

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MiCom 2024: A Successful Return After Three Years

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…

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JSMC Best Supervisor Award Goes to Miriam Agler-Rosenbaum

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…

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