The Swedish Bioinformatics Advisory Program
Grand meeting 1, 2016 (June 20-21)

Preparations for the PhD students

• Deadline Thursday June 16

  Prepare a 5 min ppt presentation with 4 slides:
  > One presenting yourself, your advisor, your PI, and other involved people in the project.
  > One presenting your research question
  > One with your available and planned data
  > One presenting your current (bioinformatics) challenges
  
  You don’t need to impress, this is an opportunity to get valuable feedback! This is a very short presentation, and the audience is broad, so this is a good exercise in quickly explaining your research in a clear and understandable way. I need the slides in advance so that we don’t loose time in changing computers.
  
  
• For the meeting
  Make sure that you bring material/slides/discussion points readily available for the small group discussions; it is up to you to prepare well to make these meetings valuable!

For the PhD supervisors and advisors

You basically don’t need to prepare anything, but these meetings obviously rely on your presence and that you participate actively in the discussions and create a positive and encouraging atmosphere to support the PhD students, and creates valuable connections.

Practical notes

• The meeting will be at SciLifeLab Uppsala: BMC, Husargatan 3, Uppsala, entrance C11, Navet (E10), ground floor (see map)
• All meals in the schedule are included for free, other meals are covered and organised by the participants.
• Travel and accomodation is payed and organised by the participants.
• There will be a 10 min walk for lunch and a 20-30 min walk down to the city for dinner on Monday,  so bring appropriate clothing
• Phone number (Björn Nystedt) 073-4026231

Preliminary schedule

Monday, June 20

Room: E10:1308/09

09:30-10.00   Registration, coffee and sandwiches

10.00-10.15   Welcome and introduction (Björn Nystedt)

10.15-12.00   Project/People presentations, 5 min each sharp (PhD students)

12.00-13.00    Lunch

Room: E10:1308/09 + small rooms

13.00-13.15  Project feedback sessions, intro (Björn)

13.15-14.45   Project feedback sessions

14.45-15.15   Coffee (E10, ground floor)

15.15-16.00    Project feedback sessions, cont

16.00-17.00   Social activity

17.45-            Dinner

Tuesday, June 21

Room: E10:1308/09 + small rooms

09.00-09.15    Intro (Björn)

09.15-09.45    Individual coaching session (pairs/trios)

09.45-10.00    Create summary and future plans pres

10.00-10.30    Coffee

Room: E10:1308/09

10.30-11.45    Summary and future plans pres, 5 min each (PhD students)

11.45-13.00     Lunch

Room: E10:1308/09

13.00-13.45     Round table about program experiences (students/advisors/PIs separately)

13.45-14.15     Summary and end of meeting (Björn Nystedt)

Map to SciLifeLab, Uppsala