FEBS Education Platform

Aims:

The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) seek to provide a think-tank setting in which to share experiences, to draw up ideas, and to generate recommendations aimed at improving the current approach to teaching Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Molecualr Biosciences at large.

This conference will be held right before the 2017 FEBS Congress which will take place in Jerusalem, 50 km from Rehovot. Transportation between both cities will be organized at the end of the education conference, for those interested in attending both events.

Further details

Please visit the conference website.

Programme

Wednesday 6 September 2017

• 8:00-9:00
  • Registration
• 9:00-9:15
  • Opening and greetings
• 9:15-10:15
  • Plenary talk — chaired by Israel Pecht
    “Why science education is more important for the world than most scientists realize?”— Bruce Alberts (UCSF, USA)
• 10:15-10:45
  • Coffee break
• 10:45-12:45
  • Session 1 – Mini-symposium — chaired by Keith Elliott
    Key knowledge and skills for molecular life scientists
    • “Scientific teaching: strategies for applying education research to improve student engagement and performance in science classes” — Robin Wright (Univ. Minnesota, USA)
    • “Skills and key knowledge for the molecular life sciences degrees” — Frank Michelangeli (Univ. Chester, UK)
    • “Assessing key knowledge and skills in large lecture courses” — Ross Nehm (Stony Brook, USA)
  • Panel discussion
    Key knowledge and skills for molecular life scientists — Robin Wright, Frank Michelangeli, Ross Nehm, Jean-Luc Souciet, Winnie Eskild, Martin Stone
    
• 12:45-14:00
  • Lunch break and poster session
• 14:00-16:00

  Parallel workshops:

  • Workshop 1: “Team-based learning: where the magic happens with group work that works!” — Ferhan Sagin (Ege Univ., Turkey)
  • Workshop 2: “Lecture 3.0: activating your lectures to engage all learners” — Robin Wright (Univ. Minnesota, USA)
  • Workshop 3: “Challenges for biochemistry and molecular biology education in the developing world” — Gracia Fe B. Yu (Univ. Philippines), Phillip Nagley (Monash Univ., Australia)
  • Workshop 4: “Publishing on education” — Erin Dolan (CBE Life Sci. Ed.), Phillip Ortiz (BaMBEd), Angel Herráez, Luciane V. Mello (FEBS Open Bio) — chaired by Janet Macaulay
• 16:00-16:30
  • Coffe break
• 16:30-18:30
  • Session 2– Mini-symposium — chaired by Anat Yarden
    Pre-university biology education
    • “How learning progressions can inform the teaching and learning of molecular genetics” — Ravit Golan Duncan (Rutgers, USA)
    • “Toward high school biology: helping students make sense of biological growth in terms of atom rearrangement and conservation” — Jo Ellen Roseman (AAAS, USA)
    • “Overview on the teaching and learning of molecular biology in schools in Israel” — Gilmor Keshet (Ministry of Education, Israel)
  • Panel discussion
    Benefits and challenges in teaching molecular biology to high school biology majors — Irit Sadeh (Ministry of Education, Israel), Nadira Sahaka (Al-Nahdah Al-Ahliyya Ateed School, Kfar Qara), Shiri-Rivka Masa (Hashalom High School, Mitzpe-Ramon), Maya Mayrose (Hadash Holon in the spirit of HTH), Omer Choresh (Harishonim High School, Herzliya)
• 19:00-22:00
  • Trip to Jaffa including dinner
    

Thursday 7 September 2017

• 9:00-10:00
  • Plenary talk — chaired by Frank Michelangeli
    “The future of the doctorate” — Robert Harris (Karolinska, Sweden)
• 10:00-10:30
  • Coffee break
• 10:30-12:00
  • Session 3 – Mini-symposium — chaired by Gül Güner Akdogan
    PhD training: new prospects
    • “Trends in PhD training in Europe and North America” — Michael Mulvany (Aarhus Univ., Denmark)
    • “Preparing versatile scientists” — Suzanne Ortega (Council of Graduate Schools, USA)
  • Panel discussion
    PhD training: new prospects — Michael Mulvany, Joel Sussman, Suzanne Ortega, Laszlo Dux, Beata Vertessy, Andy Wang
• 12:00-12:30

  Special Session:

  • “Proteopedia: interactive tool to communicate biomolecular concepts in 3D” — Joel Sussman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
• 12:30-14:00
  • Lunch break
• 13:00-14:00

  Round table discussion:

  • “Teaching the physics behind cell biology in introductory level courses” — Sam Safran, Edit Yerushalmi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
• 14:00-16:00

  Parallel workshops:

  • Workshop 5: “On research integrity: concept and principles” — Tien-Hsien Chang (Taiwan)
  • Workshop 6: “Enlightening macromolecular structure-function relationship with Proteopedia” — Joel Sussman, Angel Herráez, Jaime Prilusky (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Univ. Alcalá, Spain)
  • Workshop 7: “Training the PhD trainers” — Robert Harris (Karolinska, Sweden), Michael Mulvany (Aarhus Univ., Denmark)
  • Workshop 8: “Students as partners and peer learning: enhancing students’ transferable skills during postgraduate training” — Luciane V. Mello (Univ. Liverpool, UK)
• 16:00-16:30
  • Coffe break
• 16:30-18:30
  • Session 4 – Mini-symposium — chaired by Janet Macaulay
    Research in undergraduate education
    • “When undergraduate research becomes the curriculum” — Erin Dolan (Univ. Georgia, USA)
    • “Escaping the silo: science students in a novel work integrated learning program learn to transfer their skills and attributes to new contexts” — Susan Rowland (Univ. Queensland, Australia)
    • “Research identity as a transformational educational resource” — Jane Saffell (St George's, Univ. London, UK)
  • Panel discussion
    Research in undergraduate education — Erin Dolan, Susan Rowland, Jane Saffell, Jerka Dumic
• 19:00-21:00
  • Gala dinner

Friday 8 September 2017

• 9:00-10:30
  • Session 5 – Mini-symposium — chaired by Michael Walsh
    Rethinking postdoctoral training
    • “Into the unknown, together” — Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
    • “There is a tide: tasks and responsibilities of supervisors and young scientists during the postdoctoral stage” — Beata G. Vertessy (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
  • Panel discussion
    Rethinking doctoral education — Uri Alon, Beata G. Vertessy, Laszlo Dux, Joan Guinovart
• 10:30-11:00
  • Coffe break
• 11:00-12:00
  • Plenary session — chaired by Joan Guinovart
    Next generation environmental friendly antibiotics — Ada Yonath (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
• 12:00-12:15
• Closing remarks — Anat Yarden, Janet Macaulay, Gül Güner
• 12:15-13:00
  • Lunch
• 13:05
  • Transportation to Jerusalem (FEBS Congress starting on Sunday)