PROGRAM
08:30-09:00 HCØ Registration and Poster Set-Up
Breakfast
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
09:00-09:15 HCØ Welcome by the PhD Day Organizing Committee
Introduction by Head of Department, Niels Kroer
MORNING SESSION
09:15-10:00 Speaker: Nobel Laureate, May-Britt Moser
Neurobiology
10:00-10:30 PhD student short talks 1-2
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1. Vasileios Voutsinos "Characterization of the expression of the common fragile site gene PARK2"
2. Sara Ambjørn "Regulation of BRCA2 by the PP2A-B56 phosphatase"
10:30-11:30 Poster Session I - Coffee/fruit
11:30-12:00 PhD student short talks 3-4
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3. Jóhanna Jørgensen "Loss of virulence in bacteriophage resistant Flavobacterium psychrophilum"
4. Thomas Sørensen-Hygum "The toxicity of time: modelling desiccation tolerance in tardigrades"
12:00-13:00 LUNCH (Biocenter)
AFTER-LUNCH SESSION
13:00-13:45 Speaker: Vincent Nijman
Anthropology, Wildlife Conservation
13:45-14:30 Panel Discussion - Academics in Society
14:30-15:00 PhD student short talks 5-6
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5. Tatiana Feuerborn “A lasting legacy – the crucial role dogs in Inuit adaptations and dispersal across the North American Arctic”
6. Emil Kristensen "Reestablishment of wetland ecosystems in Denmark"
15:00-16:00 Poster Session II - Coffee/cake
AFTERNOON SESSION
16:00-16:30 PhD student short talks 7-8
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7. Ryan Waples "Which countries are the sources of European ancestry in Greenland?"
8. Hugh McColl "The Prehistoric Peopling of Southeast Asia"
16:30-16:40 Voting for the best PhD talks/posters
16:40-17:10 Speaker: Jens Degett
"The street credit of science"
17:10-17:20 Get to know your PhD networks: UCAPS + BioNet
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17:20-17:40 Awards
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17:40 onwards Dinner, drinks and networking (Biocenter)
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