LifeTime at Berlin Science Week
We look forward to 3 exciting events with LifeTime during the Berlin Science Week that will take place from 1-10 November 2019. Interactive formats of The Science Slam of a LifeTime – “I know something that you don’t know” and Mind the Lab will bring scientists closer to the public, while many top researchers and clinicians from our consortium will discuss translational medicine in Berlin’s Most exciting Medical Research Congress: Science Match Future Medicine 2019!
Science Slam of a LifeTime – “I know something that you don’t know”
“I know something that you don’t know” will be the Science Slam of a LifeTime.
Researchers from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) will surprise the public with interesting and relevant facts about what we are made of. The scientists will explain what they are doing today to know more and how do they use this knowledge for the benefit of us all.
Each presentation will showcase LifeTime core technologies: single-cell sequencing, artificial intelligence and organoids.
Science Slam of a Lifetime is a game show for those thirsty for knowledge.
At the end of the evening, the guests will decide: Who has told them something really new – and how useful is this knowledge?
November 2, 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m., Umspannwerk Ost, Palisadenstraße 48, Berlin.
Free entry. English. Registration required
Mind the Lab – pop-up laboratory in U-Bahnhof Alexanderplatz
Mind the lab is the event where scientists will present exciting insights into the science behind LifeTime in pop-up laboratories.
LifeTime, coordinated by the MDC, showcases groundbreaking single-cell biology technologies in simple experiments. Scientists will also present their work with organoids, those tiny, self-organized three-dimensional tissue cultures that could change how we diagnose and treat diseases.
7 November, 2 – 8 p.m., U-Bahnhof Alexanderplatz (English and German)
Science Match Future Medicine 2019
As part of the event´s scientific program committee, LifeTime co-chair Prof. Nikolaus Rajewsky, (Director of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology / Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine) and Prof. Angelika Eggert (Director, Department of Pediatric Oncology & Hematology / Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin / Einstein Professor and MDC) have developped an outstanding program for Future Medicine 2019 organised by Der Tagesspiegel and Berlin Institute of Health (BIH).
This year’s focus is on translational medicine. In three-minute presentations, around 80 top-class scientists (including many involved in LifeTime) will give insights into their work – and into what the future of medicine could look like.
7 November, 9 a.m. – 6.30 p.m., Kosmos, Karl-Marx-Allee 131A, Berlin.
English, Registration required
Teacher training: Organoids of the human brain (aka mini-brain) and the regulation of gene expression
Textbooks teach “from DNA to RNA to protein”, but this dogma is now long obsolete. MDC researchers are investigating the function of non-coding RNAs in neurons, using as a model a human brain grown in a Petri dish, a so-called brain-organoid or mini-brain. Through experiments, demonstrations and lectures you will experience the state of the art in science and receive valuable information about current trends in life science research.
The training takes place in the group of Prof. Dr. Rajewsky, Systems Biology of Gene Regulatory Elements, and is part of the program for Schule MIT Wissenschaft conference
Participants
- Dr. Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf
- Janis Hötzel
Friday, November 8, 2019, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Registration
Registration via email to LaborTrifftLehrer@mdc-berlin.de
Location
MDC Berlin-Mitte (BIMSB), Rajewsky Lab
Hannoversche Str. 28
10115 Berlin