Career Development Master Class by Roberto Kolter

Career Development Master Class

Renowned scientists reflect on their own path into science, discussing advances in their field, changes in the scientific enterprise and current realities for those wishing to adventure in research.
Target audience: PhD students

"Germ Stories - Five Decades in Microbiology" by Roberto Kolter

Roberto Kolter of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, a worldwide leader in Microbiology, will present a series of lectures on his philosophical perspective of the last five decades in Microbiology.

Four largely introspective lectures where each topic is used as a framework to stimulate discussion of ideas and relate to career paths and current realities, looking towards the future:

• Session I: Regulation of DNA Replication 
• Session II: Life and Death in Stationary Phase 
• Session III: Making and Breaking Biofilms 
• Session IV: Microbial Chemical Ecology 

NEXT SESSIONS: 6-9 May 2013, 9.30-12h

Registration required (limited to 20 participants)
Please send your registration with a short motivation paragraph stating your background to Karina Xavier up to 22 April.

 Who is Roberto Kolter?

		Roberto Kolter of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology is a worldwide leader in Microbiology. At early stages of his career Roberto Kolter focused on using bacteria as tools to unveil basic biological processes as DNA replication, moving then to study important physiological processes to understand how organisms coup with stress, and more recently by studying how single cell bacteria attach to surfaces to elaborate 3-D complex structures (biofilms) he has made major contributions in understanding how single cell organisms transition to multicellular life-styles. Roberto Kolter has been at Harvard since 1983 where he has trained almost 100 postdocs and students. He has dedicated his lab to foster independent-minded post-doctoral fellows to pursue research projects and prepare them for their independent careers.