Over 100 participants for the "2009/2010 Frontières du Vivant Opening days" scheduled on Wed 23rd and Thu 24th 2009, at the Medicine Faculty of Cochin in the Auditorium Luton (Ground Floor) and in our facilities (CRI 2nd floor for the posters exhibition).
For the first time the FdV program includes three full years of students and a new AIV M1 is launched: many exciting prospects for our enlarged community indeed !
We were happy to welcome new FdV and AIV students that started with us at the integration week and project creation workshop in Fréjus : they are just great !
An interesting program (see below) was set to launch the new academic year : news from the CRI, 2009/2010 academic year, introduction of the newcomers, presentation of the clubs' work and preparation of the new ones.
Two highlights took place on thursday 24th September 2009 :
First, the Andrew Murray's conference in the morning about "How to find a « good » Postdoc lab".
Andrew Murray, professor from Harvard, is spending a sabbatical year amongst us at the CRI.
Then we had the great honour to welcome the official visit of Liliane Bettencourt herself, accompanied by Patrice de Maistre, Armand de Boissière, Flora Donsimoni from the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
Liliane Bettencourt has visited the new premises of the school, met and encouraged the three proms of FdV students and interviewed some of them about their career path and life at the FdV school.
It was a moving moment, especially when Liliane Bettencourt adressed the audience and reminded that when she came two years ago the FdV students were only 7... and that they are are now 75. She strongly believes in this very original school, for which the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller provides financial support and management input, to help all these talented students make it to the top !
Liliane Bettencourt with the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller and Frontières du Vivant staff and students
A time slot was organized during the opening days to discuss proposals for new clubs and recruit interested participants. Formal applications for a new club or a renewal was to be sent to the staff before end of October, and the interested students have .
As our opening days meant many interdisciplinary scientific exchanges between you, during the newcomers' poster session and the discussions on the clubs, the participation to the meeting counts for the training obligations of Master and PhD students.
To end the event in a festive way, the opening days concluded with an FDV party, thanks to our talented coordinators, Philippe Bun and Kathleen Zylbersztejn, that we must congratulate for a great success.
FdV 2009/10 OPENING DAYS PROGRAM
Wed. Sept. 23rd
9h-10h30 Welcome, News of FdV and CRI, courses program, calendar
Introduction of the newcomers, overview of the students
10h30-11h Coffee
11h-12h30 Newcomers' poster session
12h30-14h Lunch
14h-15h30 Clubs presentations 1 : « Genome biology », « Interdisciplinary approaches of information », « FdV Symposium »
15h30-16h00 Coffee
16h00-16h30 Presentation of "Wiser-U" and "Science'Ac"
16h30-18h SciFoo: proposals for 2009/2010 clubs
Thu, Sept. 24th
9h-10h30 Clubs presentations 2 : « Neurobiology and Optics », «Cellular Metabolism », « In Vitro Artificial Intelligence »
10h30-11h00 Coffee
11h-12h Talk by Andrew. Murray: How to find a « good » Postdoc lab
12h30-14h00 Lunch
14h00-14h30 New resources description and functioning: Moodle, computer rooms, facilities, library, etc..
14h30-15h30 Discussion on the 2009/2010 clubs proposals.
15h30-16h00 Information on the thesis defense
16h00-16h30 Coffee
17h00-18h30 Discussion round of students and their representatives alone
19h30 Party