News
Inspiring and motivating insights into diverse career options
The LOCOTACT Career Days were a successful event for all participants and guest speakers! We look back on two days of great insights into the many career opportunities available to our Clinician Scientists, PostDocs, and MDs and PhDs.
Many thanks go to: Dagmar Führer, Alexander Boreham, Kostja Renko, Timo Müller, Marius Richter, Christian Strasburger, Denise Zwanziger, Peter Kühnen, Corina Madreiter-Sokolowski, Roman Rehor, Vedrana Tabor, Niels-Peter Becker, Mariel Morales-Sahm, Thomas Wallach & Bettina Otto.
For more details, please have a look on our programme.
LOCOTACT publication deciphers new role of thyroid hormones in early brain development!
In the study single-cell RNA sequencing technology was used to obtain an unbiased global view of the role of TRα1 in hypothalamus development, cell-type diversity and the cellular transcriptome. The groups of Prof. Malte Spielmann and Prof. Jens Mittag could show that defective TRα1 signaling has surprisingly little effect on the development of hypothalamic neuronal populations. In contrast, it heavily affects the development of hypothalamic oligodendrocytes, which seem to require TRα1 signaling for full maturation. They subsequently demonstrate that early postnatal thyroid hormone action is crucial for the development of this cell type. Read more.
Find the publication here.
Successful start of the Joint Online Event Series: Equity and Female Opportunities in Academia
On Wednesday, 08.02.2023 we started into our online event series with a workshop entitled: Are you hiring the best people? Limiting unconscious bias by structuring employee selection held by Prof. Dr. Tanja Hentschel, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Business School.
Tanja Hentschel explained why and how biases and stereotypes in the application process can influence personnel selection.
All participants got great insights how we can reduce these biases through professional personnel selection processes and how we can customize them.
Because in the end, we all want to hire the person who is best suited for the position and not the person who is most like us, don’t we?
Many thanks to Tanja Hentschel and all participants from TRR 289 Treatment Expectation and CRC/TR 296 LOCOTACT!
Please find the upcoming events in the Joint Online Event Series here.
FAZ - Health Podcast: The thyroid - small organ with great impact
Poster Award at NeuroRNA Conference
ETA Project Research Grant for LOCOTACT PostDoc Sebastian Hönes
LOCOTACT Event - Panel Discussion on the movie Picture a Scientist
The fact that discrimination against female scientists is certainly not an outdated problem, but a highly relevant topic, could be experienced by all participants of the panel discussion on September 22. Inspired by the content of the film Picture A Scientist and moderated by Dr. Christina Altstötter-Gleich, the panel guests Prof. Britta Siegmund, Prof. Nicole Krämer, Prof. Karen Shire and Prof. Dagmar Führer-Sakel discussed their impressions of the film, their own experiences in their professional careers and everyday work, as well as cultural and structural differences between Germany, Europe and North America. The panel guests were in agreement that it is important to be a good example, to strengthen and support young female colleagues and, above all, to advocate for equal treatment in decision-making committees.
LOCOTACT would like to thank all panelists for the great contributions and inspirations that were shared with the audience, as well as the openness to talk about very personal experiences and looks back on a successful evening. Thank you!
44th Annual Meeting of the European Thyroid Association
who contributed to ETA and represented LOCOTACT!!!
