Retreat 2016

Date: April 7-9, 2016

Place: Benedictine abbey of Frauenwörth on the Fraueninsel (The Women’s Island) in Lake Chiemsee

Programme:

Doctoral researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and invited guests will give talks. Newly started doctoral researchers present posters on their research.

Our new PIs Chase Broedersz and Kai Papenfort will give talks about their research. Sheref Mansy (University of Trento) has accepted our invitation and will give insights in his exciting Synthetic Biology projects.

Nina Köhler (Bayerisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit) will give an overview about the tasks of the Bayerisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit with special focus on Synthetic Biology.

Additionally, the artist Pinar Yoldas will give a presentation about “An Ecosystem of Excess (the new plastozän)”. Of course we will also spend time to make a boat trip to the island Herreninsel and visit the great Royal Palace of Herrenchiemsee.