The newly established Conference Team is mainly working on organizing the Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists.

The "Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists" stands for the idea of having an international, inter-institutional and interdisciplinary conference in Heidelberg organized by the PhD student representatives from Cell Networks, the Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg (ZMBH), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ),  the Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (HBIGS),  the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH), and the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPImF).

The aim of the Forum is to provide a platform that facilitates communication among students from different research institutes. The Forum offers an opportunity for interaction between young researchers and leading scientists in an informal and relaxed environment. Since each research institute in Heidelberg focuses on distinct fields in life science research, the Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists serves as an ideal opportunity to bring together scientists with diverse backgrounds, as well as benefit from the expertise of renowned researchers from all over the world. Thus the Forum provides a great chance to gain new connections and build networks in an environment that encourages exchanging information and building new concepts, therefore promoting the advancement of technologies that benefit the society.

The next Forum will take place at the DKFZ in Heidelberg, Germany on February 23^rd and 24^th 2012. Our exciting program will focus on three main aspects of novel biomedical and biological research topics, namely Cell Biology, Genomics and Epigenomics, and Medical Physics. Beside lectures given by prominent keynote speakers and young group leaders, the 2012 conference two-day program will provide PhD students with the chance to give oral and poster presentations, which will be selected on the basis of the submitted abstracts. Furthermore, the program will include a number of workshops presenting cutting-edge research tools available at the different institutes. In addition, get-together events will provide an opportunity to further communicate with the speakers and build social and/or professional networks with other participants.

For details please visit the Official website of the Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists.

The first Heidelberg Forum was held in September of 2009. You can get an impression of what was established by clicking the following link:

Website of the 1st Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists

We are looking forward to seeing you there!