GCB Symposium 2025

Welcome

The GCB Symposium organizing committee is pleased to welcome you to website of the 2025 event. This year we will be also celebrating the 20 anniversary of the our graduate school.

This event is part of the doctoral training for students enrolled in doctoral program of the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB).

The GCB office and PhD GCB committee invite to all PhD students of the program, their supervisors, mentors and co-advisors to attend this event which brings the GCB community together once a year.

Objectives

The event objectives are:

Provide GCB student participants a safe environment in which to present their research to their peers.
Get visibility and recognition within the University of Bern for GCB PhD students and their research.
Stimulate insightful discussions and feedback.
Increase networking opportunities and collaborations.
Meet top researchers in the many fields constituting the GCB.
Broaden participants understanding of other research fields.

About the event

Location: vonRoll building UniBE

Date: 26 June 2025

Registration (through this website) is free but mandatory

Once you are registered you will be able to submit your abstract for evaluation and after the assigment is done, you will be able to upload your blitz talk (one slide) if you are selected. Participants selected for short talk will be asked to upload their presentation prior the conference directly on the computers of the venue.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Dr. Alex Schier
The Center for Molecular Life Sciences. Biozentrum, University of Basel. Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Alex Schier

Biozentrum, The Center for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Basel

Since 2018 Director of the Biozentrum, University of Basel
2014 - 2017
Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
2013 - 2018
Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
2005 - 2019
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
1999 - 2005
Associate Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine
1996 - 1999
Assistant Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine
1992 - 1996
Postdoctoral research at the laboratory of Wolfgang Driever, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University
1988 - 1992
Doctoral research at the laboratory of Walter J. Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel