Presentation by Prof. Dr. Annegret Wilde, University Freiburg:
How cyanobacteria see the world

We cordially invite the Microverse faculty, together with the new postdoctoral and doctoral researchers of the Cluster, to a full-day project meeting on November 5^th.  We will discuss current affairs in the Cluster and give an overview of the planned projects. The afternoon is reserved for discussions among individual project groups to organize forthcoming collaborations.

In recent years, it has been increasingly recognized that the academic working environment, and the doctoral phase in particular, is associated with a unique set of circumstances that may lead to work-related stressors and mental health burdens. The Jena School for Microbial Communication and the Graduate Academy invite you join presentations and discussions on mental health in academia. Prof. Barbara Dooley (University College Dublin) will give a lecture on the mental health of doctoral researchers. This will be accompanied by personal testimonials from senior scientists who faced up to their own mental health and will be followed by a panel discussion. In the evening, faculty members will share formative failures that impacted on their careers and how they overcame them. "Failure sucks, but it instructs" will take place in Café Bar "Zu Hause" (Weigelstrasse 7) from 21:00 in a relaxed, social atmosphere.