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Lunch Discussion Meetings

The purpose of these meetings is to bring together the Postdocs and PhD students of the SFB in an informal setting to discuss specific topics relevant to the SFB including discussing methodology (behavioural and neurobiological) currently being utilised within our network, new methodology currently being introduced, highlighting problems with a particular method and brainstorming potential solutions, in addition to getting to know our topics better. Our Lunch Discussion Meetings were organized by Dr. Nigel Whittle, Dr. Claudia Schmuckermair and Dr. Bruno Benedetti. Currently, the LDMs are supervised by Dr. Nadine Ortner.

2^nd Funding Period

Goals: Increasing interactions between young scientists within the SFB-44 consortium; supporting young scientists in a friendly and PI-free environment.

Strategy: Teams will be formed. Each team will pick a science-related subject and moderate a meeting about it. Best topics / presentations will be proposed for outreach activity such as public workshops within larger academic initiatives.

Outcomes: SFB-44 young members will develop skills of teamwork, increase their knowledge and science-related skills, increase the visibility of SFB-44 in public events, and provide useful contributions to Innsbruck Universities welfare.

3^rd Joined SFB & CavX Lunch Discussion Meeting, April 24^th 2019 organized by Nadine Ortner:

• The participants took the possibility to practice their poster presentations or oral presentations for the Life Science PhD Meeting 2019, April 25-26 in Innsbruck.

2^nd Joined SFB & CavX Lunch Discussion Meeting, March 26^th 2019 organized by Nadine Ortner:

• Stefanie Geisler and Nadine Ortner will take the chance to practice their talks for the upcoming International Calcium Channel Conference, March 31 - April 5, 2019 in Penang, Malaysia and we will discusss which topics will be covered next and who will participate in the presentation of These topics.

1^st Joined SFB & CavX Lunch Discussion Meeting, February 6^th 2019 organized by Nadine Ortner:

• We would like to combine both communities and hold this LDMs together. The purpose of These meetings is to meet, eat, talk about science and also help each other. In this first Joined Lunch Discussion Meeting we do a brainstorming on which topics both communities would like to cover.

26^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, October 23^rd 2018 organized by Nadine Ortner:

• This time, Lucia and Hartwig will show us how to do data analysis (of electrophysiology recordings) using the software MATLAB. Anita and Nadja wil also show us, how to analyse HEK-cell patch-clamp recordings using the softwares Clampfit and SigmaPlot

25^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, May 29^th 2018 organized by Nadine Ortner:

• During this session, Anita and Nadja will give us an introduction into the magic of electrophysiology in HEK293 cells while Lucia and Hartwig will enlight us about the dark magic of slice electrophysiology: we will learn something about the patch -clamp setup, what to prepare for a recording day and most importantly - what do these fancy plots you always see in our presentations in the end tell you!

24^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, March13^th 2018 organized by Nadine Ortner:

• During this session, Irem Kilicarslan and Anita Siller will give us an insight in their methods/work: Irem will talk about immunohistochemical stainings in mouse retinas and confocal microscopy, whereas Anita will give us an introduction in looking at protein interactions using microscopy as well as biochemical approaches. 

23^rd Lunch Discussion Meeting, December 5^th 2017 organized by Nadine Ortner and Conor Murphy:

• At this lunch discussion, Prof. Hüttenhofer will give insight into the wonderful world of RNAs, what they do and importantly for us, how to analyze them. Prof. Hüttenhofer and his group run the Universtiy's core sequencing facility and therefore is the perfect Person to inform us on the different aspects one must think of when Setting up experiments profiling the transcriptome.

22^nd Lunch Discussion Meeting, November 22^nd 2017 organized by Nadine Ortner and Conor Murphy:

• Sinead, Tom and Josep will give you a thorough introduction to the various techniques used for the behavioral assessment of animal models, with which we have learned so much in relation to psychiatric disorders and more importantly, how to treat them.

21^st Lunch Discussion Meeting, July 10^th 2017 organized by Nadine Ortner and Conor Murphy:

• Eva Fritz and Veronica Fontebasso gave a introduction to stereotactic surgeries in rodents.

20^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, March 18^th 2017 organized by Nadine Ortner and Conor Murphy:

• We heard from Kathrin Kähler (qPCR) and Nadine Ortner (CRISPR/Cas) in our “Which methods are we working on?" session. Both very much informative and stimulating introductions to methodology they have perfected over the last Little while.

19^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, January 19^th 2017 organized by Nadine Ortner:

• “How to write an animal license" - Thomas Fenzl first focused on the history of protests against animal research and provided some links to specific websites were valuable information on animal research is available: (http://eara.eu/de/; http://www.animalresearch.info/en/; https://www.sfn.org/advocacy/animals-in-research). Forms to apply for an animal license can be found on:(http://wissenschaft.bmwfw.gv.at/bmwfw/forschung/national/forschungsrecht/tierversuche/), how to fill in the forms and how the whole procedure of applying for an animal license works at the LFU and MUI.

18^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, November 17^th 2016 organized by Claudia Schmuckermair: We focused on

• new members, 
• did some brain storming for new topics for the upcoming year
• and we formed groups which are going to handle the different topics.

17^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, July 20^th 2016:There we will learn how to make of a good grant application, a SUCCESSFUL grant application. The topic will be presented by Professor Bernhard Flucher.

16^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, May 25^th 2016: In this meeting, the production of SFB-lunch discussion meetings in 2015-2016 has been summarized and new plans for 2016-2017 have been outlined.

15^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, April 21^st 2016:

• Carola Hanisch: Brain Day: Interdisciplinary Student Workshop, November 2016
• Vincenzo Mastrolia: reference-manager software “Mendeley”

14^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, February 23^rd 2016: "Conflict Management" presented by Carlo Bavassano, Michael Oberhauser, Sinead Rooney and Veronica Fontebasso

13^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, January 19^th, 2016: "Time Management"
Team Hartwig (Hartwig Seitter, Ruslan Stanika, Kathrin Kähler and Thomas Keil presented the subject.

12^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, October 28^th, 2015: „How to give a talk“ - In this session, presentations, coordination and handouts of summary/guidelines were provided by Vincenzo Mastrolia, Giulia Negro, Alexandra Pinggera and Bruno Benedetti.

11^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, October 1^st, 2015: This SFB-44 Lunch discussion of was dedicated to teamwork. Projects were finalized according the previous session outline (see lunch-discussion meeting on 8th September 2015).

10^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, September 8^th, 2015: SFB-44 young members divide into four teams and use this lunch-discussion meeting to collaborate in planning a future discussion session.

9^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, May 28^th, 2015:  "End-Note vs Papers vs Mendeley. Which one it the best?”;  „How to handle dominant people“

• Interactive presentation of reference-management software by Daniela Veth, Vincenzo Mastrolia, Bruno Benedetti. Additional contributions by Claudia Schmuckermair and Alexandra Pinggera.
• Q&A; contributions from the audience: additional information and personal experiences.
• Short communication “how to handle dominant people”: handouts from www.mindtools.com.

8^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, April 21^st, 2015: „Targets and strategies for 2015”

• Brainstorming and agreement of the goals for 2015.
• List of candidate-topics of discussion (by vote).
• Evaluation of budget, time and resources.
• Formation of teams and election of leaders.

1^st Funding Period

7^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, May 20^th, 2014: Stefania Monteleone, Institute of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, LFU Innsbruck; "Modeling and Simulations of Calcium Channels"

6^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, February 18^th, 2014: Martina Brauns, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, LFU; "What am I doing?" - On the rules behind Writing in Science"

5^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, December  18^th, 2013: Claudia Schmuckermair & Verena Maurer, Institute of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, LFU Innsbruck; “Behaviour  and deep brain stimulation”

4^th Lunch Discussion Meeting, October 3rd, 2013: Bruno Benedetti, Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, MU Innsbruck; "In-vivo electrophysiology"

3^rd Lunch Discussion Meeting, June 25^th, 2013: Ruslan Stanica, Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, MU Innsbruck; “Neuronal membrane expression of C-terminal splice-variants of the human L-type calcium channel Cav1.3 and its modulation by PDZ-domain scaffold Proteins”

2^nd Lunch Discussion Meeting, February 26^th, 2013: Ronald Gstir, Division of Genomics and RNomics, MUI; "A microarray for the identification of regulatory ncRNAs in CNS disorders"

1^st Lunch Discussion Meeting, January 22^nd, 2013: Nigel Whittle, Institute of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, LFU Innsbruck & Nadia Stefanova, University Clinic of Neurology, MU Innsbruck; "Meet & greet"