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International Affairs<br />
Scientific Discourse<br />
and Orange Groves in<br />
Winter…<br />
Text and Photos Oksana Seumenicht<br />
In January, a group of MDC scientists met with colleagues<br />
from the Hebrew University and the Technion<br />
– Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa. On January<br />
25-27, the third joint scientific symposium “Frontiers in<br />
Cell Signaling and Gene Regulation: From Single Cells to<br />
Networks“, took place. The two previous German-Israeli<br />
symposia were held in 2009 at the Weizmann Institute<br />
of Science and in 2010 at the MDC.<br />
Dr. Oksana Seumenicht from the MDC International Office<br />
shares her notes from her travel diary.<br />
Jan 25<br />
Frankfurt<br />
10:45 am<br />
The plane has finally taken off.<br />
The captain tells us we are getting<br />
breakfast as soon as the plane reaches<br />
its designated height – I am starting to<br />
feel hungry, so this is good news. Well,<br />
nine of us – the MDC team – started<br />
rather early today, meeting at the<br />
check-in desk at Tegel Airport already<br />
at 6:00 am. I am not an early bird<br />
(although after the birth of my two<br />
daughters, I am learning to be one),<br />
and a cup of coffee in Frankfurt, where<br />
we had to change planes, was certainly<br />
welcome!<br />
It feels a bit like an adventure – we<br />
are travelling to Haifa in Israel to meet<br />
colleagues from the Technion – Israel<br />
Institute of Technology and Hebrew<br />
University of Jerusalem. Professor Claus<br />
Scheidereit, Professor Walter Birchmeier<br />
and Professor Clemens Schmitt, the<br />
junior group leaders Dr. Alexander<br />
Loewer and Dr. Oliver Rocks, the PhD<br />
students Julia Schulz, Ekaterina Perets,<br />
Julian Heuberger and Daniel Heinze,<br />
and I are attending the third joint<br />
scientific symposium between the MDC<br />
and our Israeli partners. We are also on<br />
a mission to work out the fine details<br />
of a proposal for a joint German-<br />
Israeli PhD program between the MDC,<br />
Humboldt University, Charité – Universitätsmedizin<br />
Berlin and two of Israel’s<br />
oldest and finest universities, the<br />
Hebrew University and the Technion.<br />
28 imdc03 2012