LS2 Life Sciences Switzerland: Life Sciences Switzerland

Zusammenfassung

• LS2 Annual Meeting 2018, Metabolism & Signaling in the Life Sciences, 12-13 February 2018, University of Lausanne, Amphimax/Amphipôle, 549 participants

The LS2 Annual Meeting is mostly financed by the participants, sponsors and exhibitors. However, some key activities have been made possible with the support of SCNAT, including the support to BSc/MSc students to attend the meeting and support of the extremely successful PIs of Tomorrow - The Future of Swiss Research Postdoc competition.

• Three LS2 Satellite meetings accompanying the International NCCR Chemical Biology Symposium (Geneva), 11^th Swiss Apoptosis Meeting (Bern), & the Louis-Jeantet Symposium (Geneva)
• Annual meetings of the Proteomics and Physiological LS2 sections with again increasing participant numbers. 
• New: Annual Meeting of the new Cardiovascular Biology intersection.
• Three events for the public: Booth at Planète Santé with 30.000 visitors, Project for high school pupils, Public Panel discussion on CRISPR/Cas9
• One PhD course: Patenting in Life Sciences with 8 participating PhD schools
• One publication in collaboration with the division DMCCB of the Swiss Chemical Society

Publikationen

Chimia (Aarau). 2018 Nov 30;72(11):817-818. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2018.817.

The Partnership of DMCCB and LS².

von Schoultz C1, Heinis C2, Auberson Y3.

Author information

1 Life Sciences Switzerland, House of Academies, Laupenstrasse 7, CH-3001 Bern;, Email: carolin.vonschoultz@ls2.ch.

2 Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne.

3 Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, WKL-136.6.82, Klybeckstrasse 141, CH-4057 Basel.

Tagungen / Kurse

LS2 Annual Meeting 2018

• LS2 Annual Meeting 2018, 12-13 February 2018, University of Lausanne, Amphimax/Amphipôle "Metabolism & Signaling in the Life Sciences"
  • 4 international plenary speakers (Sharon Tooze, Herbert W. Virgin, Andrea Ballabio, Tamotsu Yoshimori)
  • 10 scientific symposia with 30+ invited speakers and speakers selected from abstract scovering a broad range of life science topics: Molecular & Cell. Biosciences (x2) - Neurosciences - Infection/Proteomics - Physiology - Systems Biology - Autophagy/Cell Death - Experimental Pharmacology - Bioinformatics - Physics of Biology
  • A large poster session with 140+  posters mixed with an industry exhibition with over 30 exhibitors
  • Free public panel discussion on CRISPR/Cas9
  • Postdoc competition PIs of Tomorrow with the 5 finalists from over 80 (inter)national applications
  • Science Crowdfunding evening event
  • Two Lunch Career Roundtables about Non-Academic Careers & Careers Out of the Box
  • The Award Ceremonies of the Lelio Orci Award 2019 (awarded to Mike Hall, University of Basel) and the Friedrich-Miescher-Award 2018 (awarded to Paula Picotti, ETH Zurich and Marek Basler, University of Basel), five poster prizes

Section Meetings

• Cardiovascular Research Meeting (Annual Meeting of the new LS2 intersection Cardiovascular Biology), 15-16 March 2018, 74 participants, https://meetings.ls2.ch/cardiovascular2018
• Swiss Proteomics Meeting (Annual Meeting of the LS2 section Proteomics), 19.-20. April 2018, Eurotel Montreux, 117 participants, https://meetings.ls2.ch/proteomics-2018
• Annual Swiss Physiology Meeting, 4 September 2018, University of Fribourg, 74 participants, https://meetings.ls2.ch/physiology2018

LS2 Satellite Meetings for young scientists preceding or following the conferences below, with kind support from SCNAT:

• International NCCR Chemical Biology Symposium, 10 January 2018, Campus Biotech Geneva
  • https://nccr-chembio.ch/events/international-symposium-chemical-biology-2018/
  • 30 participants, many of them giving lectures
  • two chairs Chairmen: Prof. Evan Miller (Berkeley University, USA) & Dr. Javier Montenegro (Santiago de Compostela University, Spain) 
• 11^th Swiss Apoptosis Meeting (Bern), 12-14 September 2018, Institute of Pathology, Bern
• Satellite Meeting Concepts and Methods inProgrammed Cell Death and Autophagy on the 12^thof September with 60 participants, https://meetings.ls2.ch/sam-2018
• 3 scientific speakers: Nikolai Engedal - Cargo-based assays for measuring bulk autophagic activity - What they can do that LC3 cannot, Philipp Jost - Apoptosis and cancer, Lynn Wong - Decisions in cell death and the consequences in vivo 
• 2 industry speakers: Nicolas Leupin, MD/MBA, CMO Argenx, Adrian Britschgi, PhD, Group Leader pRed, Roche
• A scientific journal editor: Seamus Martin (FEBS Journal): "Tips for Publishing in Scientific Journals" 
• 20 talks from young scientists

• Symposium Louis-Jeantet, 9 October 2018, CMU Geneva
  • Satellite Meeting 9./10. October 2018, https://meetings.ls2.ch/jeantet-2018
  • 12 participants
  • Chair: Michal Bassani (CHUV Lausanne)
  • Participating plenary speakers:Nobel Laureate Kurt Wüthrich, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, US & ETH Zurich
  • Both the chair and the planry speaker gave Career advice talks
  • Q&A session on Careers with the young scientists

Co-organized meetings

• Joint symposium with SystemsX.ch: Quantitative Network Biology, 19-20 November 2018, Kandersteg
• https://meetings.ls2.ch/sysbio2018
• 45 participants, 13 invited speakers, one plenary speaker, selected talks from young scientists

• Cytomeet, 23 January 2018, Haus der Universität, Bern
  • The meeting for scientists working on cell migration
  • in collaboration with the section Molecular & Cellular Biosciences, with kind support from SCNAT

Internationale Aktivitäten

B) institutionelle Zusammenarbeit: Delegationen an Kongresse und administrativen Sitzungen von internationalen Dachorganisationen (Personen, Anlass, Gremium).

• Lydie Lane (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), delegate LS2 section Proteomics, XIII Italian Proteomics Association Congress 2018 Council Meeting - Como, 05-07 September 2018 
• Daniel Legler (Biotechnology Institute Thurgau (BITg), delegate LS2 section MCB, the 58th FEBS Council Meeting Jerusalem, 7-12 July September 2018, Prague
• Didier Picard (University of Geneva), LS2 vice president and Carolin von Schoultz (LS2 Scientific Officer), Swiss Education ambassadors at the FEBS 3rd Education Ambassadors meeting, 6-7 April 2018, Zagreb

Nachwuchsförderung

• LS2 PhD travel grants to visit conferences abroad. Total grants given in 2018: 21, supported by SCNAT, https://www.ls2.ch/funding/travel-grant-reports
• 20 travel grants for Bachelor and Master studentsto attend the LS2 Annual Meeting (50 CHF each), supported by SCNAT
• Three free satellite symposia for PhD and master students(see above), incl. accommodation and travels, supported by SCNAT
• Project for high school pupils Life of a Research Scientist/Der Alltag eines Forschers
  • LS² collaborated with Life Science Zurich under the lead of Daniel Kiper to realize a project with advanced high school students.
  • The aim of this 2.5 day workshop was to give 20-30 students the opportunity to:
  • select a topic-specific workshop in the field of the Life Sciences (4-5 different workshops will be available)
  • interact closely with scientists from the respective field
  • have guided laboratory tours, do a little hands-on session within their chosen workshop
  • actively participate in a Q&A session with scientists about studying natural sciences to at the end get an insight into the daily routine of a life scientist & decide for themselves whether they want to study a life sciences topic.
  • This project is kindly supported by the Platform Biology of SCNAT.

• Lunch Career Session at the LS2 Annual Meeting 2018 (see above)
• LS2 sponsored events (https://www.ls2.ch/events/sponsored-events):
  • SSPT Spring Meeting 2018, 19 April 2018, Inselspital Bern
  • Basel Postdoc Retreat, 13-5 June 2018, Klosters
  • Geneva Postdoc Day, 17 May 2018, University of Geneva
• Participation as invited speaker at the Zurich Long Night of the Careers, the Geneva Postdoc Day, the Basel Postdoc Network Retreat to promote our activities for young scientists 
• PhD course "Patenting in Life Sciences", 11-12 June, Murten
• • in collaboration with eight PhD Graduate Schools and the Institute of Intellectual Property in Bern
  • https://meetings.ls2.ch/patenting-2018
  • The course consisted of a series of lectures on intellectual property protection and patent law, challenges related to intellectual property in an academic environment and in a spin-off company and ethical considerations. It included workshops for the young scientists to gain hands on experiences and an insights into job opportunities in the Patenting field

Forschungsunterstützende Informations- und Koordinationsaufgaben

• Mailchimp-based bimonthly newsletterwith all relevant infos of LS2 and general life sciences events and activities, newsletter archive at: https://www.ls2.ch/more/ls2-newsletter-archive
• Supporting calendar on website: https://www.ls2.ch/events/other-events with a focus on scientific conferences in Switzerland
• Member database, open to all members, allows to enter areas of expertise and fosters exchange
• Active social media channels and groupson Facebook, twitter, and LinkedIn
• Science Policy news ticker from ScienceGeistonto the ls2.ch homepage (http://www.sciencegeist.com) ScienceGeist is a curated collection of over 3500 constantly updated science policy issues, and supported by SNSF (subscription possible for everybody). As a result, our members and the public have constant access to the latest Science Policy issues via our homepage. 

Dialog mit der Gesellschaft

Booth at Planète Santé, Palexpo Geneva, 4-7 October 2018

https://www.planetesante.ch/salon/

After the great success of the 2016 edition, LS² ran a booth again at Planète Santé 2018! We closely collaborated with SimplyScience.ch to realize the booth at the fair among 30.000 visitors. The booth was kindly supported by SCNAT.

Free Public Panel Discussion: A Transdisciplinary Panel on CRISPR/Cas9

A FEBS Science & Society-funded Science Policy Session

as part of the LS2 Annual Meeting 2018 in Lausanne

13.02.2018, 10:30-12:30, University of Lausanne

The CRISPR/Cas9 revolution is widely being talked about these days. Apart from being a major scientific breakthrough, it also reveals how different fears and hopes are being handled by science, society, economy, and policy makers. The CRISPR/Cas9 system thus represents an ideal case to discuss the different implications of modern biomedical research, from economical, legal and ethical implications, to aspects of scientific impact and careers. The transdisciplinary panel gave the stage to experts from different fields to then discuss all these aspects around one technology.

with: 

Martin Jinek (University of Zurich), Bruno Lemaitre (EPF Lausanne), Effy Vayena (Chair of Bioethics, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich), Heinz Müller (Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern)

Moderation: Nik Walter (Tages-Anzeiger/SonntagsZeitung)