Provisory program

REPORTE/DELAYED This event will be held on 19 May 2020 in CH01. Click on activities to get further informations (short presentation, room). Read carrefully every details, specially for specific activities. Activities will take place between 8:00 and 17:00. Detailled schedule will be fixed soon. Come again to visit us.

Confirmed speakers

Damien ERNST (University of Liège): Extreme engineering for ecology

Nicolas DENDONCKER (University of Namur): Is your research sustainable? My guess is: most likely not

Gian-Marco RIGNANESE (UCLouvain): High-throughput ab initio search for transparent conducting materials

Steve LANNERS (UNamur): Fifthy Shades of Green - a chemist's perspective on the transition from brown to green chemistry

Isabelle GEORGE (ULB): Harnessing the power of microbes to clean up polluted environments

Olivier GOSSELAIN (ULB): The quest for Excellence, or how to foster scientific malpractices

Anne LEMAITRE (UNamur): Space junk: a complex challenge

Workshops

13:00-15:00 - Johan TIRTIAUX: Kit de survie de la pédagogie (2h)

14:00-17:00 - Marine JAEKEN (Objectif Recherche) and Murielle GUILLAUME (Pro-Doc): Balises marché de l'emploi: CV, lettre de motivation, interview (3h)

15:00-17:00 - Teresa ORTNER (Nature Research): Abstract reviewing (1hr lecture and 1hr workshop)

Poster session

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Flash talk presentations of action proposals by PhD students

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• Measurement of the impact on coprophagous insect populations in grasslands following treatment against gastrointestinal parasites in sheep.
• The arrival and installation of insect-borne viral infections in domestic animals and humans (Blue tongue virus, Schmallenberg virus, West Nile virus): indicators of the consequences of global warming?
• The use of reusable laboratory tips boxes. Feedback from 10 years of experience in URVI. Quantified analysis of the ecological impact and benefits on group dynamics around a common objective.