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Given by: Herwig Deconinck and Lisa Boelaert

1. Interests and needs of the PhD students that will be addressed:
from our experience of working with PhD students we notice that often they find it quite a challenge to influence their environment adequately and effectively. These questions often deal with influencing people:
- How can I influence technicians in the lab effectively?
- How can I influence my colleague PhD students adequately?
- Who am I to be demanding towards Postdocs, let alone my promotor or other professors?

2. Topics that will be addressed during the workshop:
points of view:
- Strengthening the PhD students in their position as a full-fledged colleague within the scientific working environment.
- Enhancing the influencing skills of the PhD students to take up this role in the best way possible: assertiveness, giving feedback, active listening,...

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Given by: Bernard Lernout

Based on the book 'How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci' Michael Gelb (USA)
Michael Gelb (High Performance Learning Institute of NY) has studied da Vinci's innovations in art & science, resulting in 7 principles we can re-install in our 21st century learning.

Motivation:

Creativity and Innovation are often misunderstood (and under-used) in business and education. The seven da Vinci principles offer a refreshing insight in the roots of creativity, creating a platform with practical tools and tips for immediate implementation.

Contents:

Principe 1 - CURIOSITA: The art of asking great questions
Principe 2 - DIMOSTRAZIONE: Continual learning and learning from mistakes
Principe 3 - SENSAZIONE: Learning through your multiple senses
Principe 4 - SFUMATO: Learning through uncertainty and paradox
Principe 5 - ARTE ~ SCIENZA: Whole Brain thinking and Mind Mapping
Principe 6 - CORPORALITA: Mind & Body Linking techniques
Principe 7 - CONNESSIONE: Systems-Thinking

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Given by: Els Deboutte

In this session, we will give you some insights in the basics of self-management and time management. We'll start with a framework on what self- and time management is. We'll explore how it can help you in attaining your goals and raise self-assurance but also why it is so often abandoned. After the small theoretical introduction on the basic elements of self-management and time-management, we will explore the 'biggest enemies' (pitfalls) for self-management. Examples are not having a clear goal, not setting a horizon for yourself, trying to work with a system that doesn't match your level of discipline of your exploratory needs as a researcher and how to contain these risks. At the end of the session, every participant should at least have a framework to start of their thinking to define their own goals on a micro level (publications, PhD,...) and have some reflections on the bigger picture for themselves (career, professional life,...), as well as some tools and techniques to better manage the use of their time and change 'bad habits' or counterproductive behavior.

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Given by: Liselotte Baeijaert

Resilience is the habit of constantly tapping into your resources and successes, the ability to bounce back from difficulties, and to learn from these difficulties. Resilient people are able to 1) accept what happens to them, 2) reframe it in the most meaningful way and look to the future and possibilities, 3) take extreme care of themselves and their team and 4) take small steps to move forward.
During this interactive workshop we will explore when you need resilience, what your personal strategies are to cope with difficulties and how you can become a more resilient researcher.

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Given by: Jean-Luc Doumont

Strong oral presentation skills are a key to success for engineers, scientists, and other professionals, yet many speakers are at a loss to tackle the task. Systematic as they otherwise can be in their work, they go at it intuitively, sometimes haphazardly, with much good will but seldom good results. Based on Dr Doumont's book Trees, maps, and theorems about "effective communication for rational minds", this lecture proposes a systematic way to prepare and deliver presentations. Among others, it covers structure, slides, and delivery, as well as stage fright.

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Detlef Weigel (MPI for Developmental Biology) is a German-American scientist widely known for his contributions to plant biology. After studies of biology and chemistry in Bielefeld and Cologne, he received his PhD from the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen in 1988. After postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute, La Jolla, in 1993. In 2002, he founded the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.
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Jean-Jacques Cassiman (K.U. Leuven) can be considered one of the leading Belgian scientists in the field of genetics. He studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained a PhD there after a stay of 5 years at Stanford University in California, USA
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Educated at the University of Oxford, Professor Hagan Bayley spent most of his academic career at leading US academic institutions, including Harvard, MIT, the University of Massachusetts and Texas A&M University. He returned to the UK in 2003 as the Professor of Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
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Dr. Kevin Foster is currently a principal investigator and lecturer at the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University. He studied Zoology at the University of Cambridge, and in 2000 received his PhD from the University of Sheffield for studies on conflict resolution in Vespinae wasps...
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Dr. Konrad Hochedlinger, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, a Principal Faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and an Investigator at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Center for Regenerative Medicine. He received his B.Sc. in biology and his Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Vienna...
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Dr. Eamonn F. Healy is a professor of chemistry at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. He received a doctorate in chemistry in 1984 from the University of Texas at Austin where he was a student of Dr. Michael J. S. Dewar....
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Gregory Stock is the CEO of Signum Biosciences, which specializes in cellular signal transduction for the development of therapeutics for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Napo Pharmaceuticals, which develops drugs for AIDS-related diarrhea and Type II diabetes...
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Roy Zaltsman is a well renowned professional Israeli mind reading artist, with extensive experience in both corporate and private events in Israel and over seas. He is one of the most fascinating mind readers in Israel, well known for his performing abilities and stage presence...
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Danielle Raspoet is the secretary of the Flemish Council for Science and Innovation (VRWI) since April 2006. The VRWI aims to stimulate scientific research and to provide advice and expertise to the Flemish government. Currently Danielle Raspoet is also a member of the Board of Directors of the VIB...
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Koen Kas is CSO of Pronota NV, the company he founded in 2004 under the name Peakadilly as a spin-off from the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) and the University of Ghent.
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Willy de Greef is an expert in plant biology with extensive experience in tropical crop breeding and in technology transfer related to agricultural biotechnology. He has been head of regulatory affairs for biotechnology leaders such as Plant Genetic Systems, Syngenta Seeds, head of regulatory affairs and new projects for D1 oils plant science and secretary general for EuropaBio...
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Stijn Desmyter received his PhD in Bioscience Engineering at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). In 2003 he joined the National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology. The NICC is the forensic science institute from the Belgian Ministry of Justice...
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Dr. Autumn Fiester is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Bioethics and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She received her PhD in moral philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and her AM in sociology from Harvard University. Her research interests include clinical ethics, moral theory, and animals & bioethics...
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Dr. Bart Claes graduated in Zoology and received his Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Ghent, Belgium. In 1989 he was advisor to the Flemish government preparing and drafting the Flemish Action Program for Biotechnology (which ultimately lead to the setting up of the VIB)...
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Bassem Hassan obtained a PhD in genetics at Ohio State University, Ohio (USA) in 1996. From 1996 until 2001 he worked as a postdoc at Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (USA). In 2001, Bassem Hassan moved to VIB, Belgium to become groupleader of the Neurogenetics group at the VIB Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics at K.U.Leuven...
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