Bullying from the top

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Some numbers from the Nature 2019 graduate survey ( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03535-y ) are discomforting. Very few of the respondents were from Finland, and therefore the aggregate from Finland has to be taken with a grain of salt. But every single incidence is one incidence too much. What worries me most is a) that bullied PhD students in Finland feel that they cannot speak out about their experiences without repercussions, and b) that bullying from the top might be more prominent in Finland as opposed to bulling from peers (if one includes other academic staff into the “top”). One student reportedly experienced bullying from the programme director (which falls under “other”, which was not separately listed by Nature in the graph). Numbers do not add up to 100% due to rounding and multiple mentionings.

Cloning Club

Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Together with the Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine (DPBM) we are organizing in autumn 2016 a workshop and a practical course about cloning (course code 921244).Dates and venue (workshop): Weekly discussion workshop (8 events each 1 to 1.5 hours) starting Tuesday 30.8.2016; venue: meeting room 7 (Biomedicum Helsinki, 5th floor, except 27.09. and the last workshop on 25.10., which take place in BM B136A); 1 creditDates and venue (practical course): Decentralized lab course (at the participants schedule and venue or - for participants without own access to the necessary facilities - in the first two weeks of November in our lab); 1 creditCourse information page: http://www.helisci.fi/hbgs/cloning-club2016 Registration page: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/71701/lomake.html Detailed course info: PDF Advertisement poster: PDF Course material: Material will be added after every meeting here . Cloning has the appeal of being boring. However, all starts with DNA. Genetic engineering is not only here to stay, but will become more and more important: we are just scratching the surface of its potential. Almost all biomedical research involves DNA constructs: expression vectors to transfect cells, shuttle plasmids to make viruses, constructs to generate transgenic animals.The skill to generate a DNA construct is needed until the arrival of that promised device, which will spit out any plasmid a few hours after you have fed it the plasmid’s sequence. Many new technologies are available and as a result, it is more difficult to choose than in the old days when restriction enzyme cloning was the only option. Today, demands and options are endless and you need to choose the right strategy to maximize success and speed.

Graduate School on Michael’s Domain

Bullying from the top

Cloning Club