On 27 June 2024, we held the 2024 GCB symposium in the vonRoll buildings, with more than 400 participants, most of them doctoral students, but also supervisors, mentors and representatives of the specialization programs and partner societies, it was a great success.
During the morning, we had two blocks of 10 parallel sessions where our PhD students presented their research projects in front of their peers. In total, there were 80 Short Talks and more than 160 Blitz Talks, the diversity of the studies showed the different fields covered by the GCB program. We also had more than 200 posters, distributed in two sessions. We must say that diversity is one of the highlights of the GCB, and this is of course a big plus when it comes to collaboration, as the coordinator PD. Dr Monica Schaller expressed in her welcoming speech: "This event is for you, for the students, to interact with each other, to get to know other projects and to give you the opportunity to present your work to your colleagues".
Prof. Dr. Timm Schroeder from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich, Basel, gave a keynote lecture about different bioimaging methods and inspired our audience with his advice.
We also learned who were the winners of the 3 Best Thesis in 2023: Dr. Benedetta De Ponte Conti, from the institute of Biomedicine. Dr. Zoja Selimi, from the Institute of Physiology. Dr. Vera Franziska Lehmann, from the University Clinic for Diabetes.
We closed the day with the awards for best short talks, best blitz talks, and best posters given by the participants for each committee and presented by our president Prof. Sebastian Leidel. The winners were:
Biomedical Sciences
- Best Talk: Lara Indra (Institute of Forensic Medicine)
- Best Blitz Talk: Anja Helmer (Department of Cardiac Surgery, Inselspital & DBMR)
- Best Poster: Alexia Clavier (Department of Cardiac Surgery, Inselspital & DBMR)
Biological Systems
Biomedical Engineering
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
