Agenda PhD Retreat

11 July 2024 to 12 July 2024

This two-day event for PhD candidates of our Graduate School is highly regarded by our young researchers. It combines the best of both worlds: an interesting scientific program and lovely social activities.

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Registration

Registration fee: 328 euros. There is a limited number allowed for participants, so make sure to register in time!

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Program

  • Oral presentations and poster presentations by all PhD candidates of the Radboudumc Graduate School (optional for 1st year PhD candidates)
  • Keynote lecture
  • Workshop
  • Panel Discussion or Walk&Talk session
  • Lunches and Dinner
  • Party on Thursday evening

Contact

For any questions, contact the PhD Retreat Committee of the PhD council.

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Practical information

  • 328 euros (charged to your department, includes overnight stay, catering and bus transport)


Included in registration

Price includes overnight stay at Conference Center Koningshof in Veldhoven, catering, and bus transport from Nijmegen Central station to the Conference Center and vice versa. Costs will be charged to your department after the conference.


Objectives

  • Present scientific data (oral presentation or poster)
  • Discuss data presented by yourself and others
  • Bring together both fundamentally- and clinically-orientated PhD-candidates
  • Get into contact with fellow PhD candidates

Prizes awarded for

  • Best Oral presentation
  • Best Poster presentation

Format and deadline abstract

To download the format for the abstract, click the button below. The deadline for submitting your abstract is 3 May 2024.

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Cancellation of registration

Cancellation of registration without costs for your department has to be done ultimately at 3 May 2024. After this date, full costs will be charged to your department.


Workshop

Using AI in your PhD (by Radboud In’to Languages)


Abstract submission

Please upload a Word-file containing your abstract in the provided format. Upload your abstract when filling in the registration form, or send it to phdretreat.ozi@radboudumc.nl before 3 May 2024.

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Keynote Speaker Lucas Brouwers

The Keynote Speaker for this years PhD Retreat is: Lucas Brouwers.

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Keynote Speaker Lucas Brouwers

Lucas Brouwers is deputy editor-in-chief at the Dutch newspaper NRC. He previously worked there as an investigative journalist and as head of the science editorial team and focused on how inequality in society affects health. Lucas created and presented the science podcast “Onbehaarde Apen”, directly translated as Hairless Apes, and won the Dutch Podcast Award in the category ‘Science’ in 2019. This scientific podcast hosts different guests and discusses small discoveries, wild theories, earth-shattering insights and everything in between. He studied Molecular Life Sciences (bachelor) and Molecular Mechanisms of Disease (master) at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (2005-2010).


Organizing committee

  • Emma Streutker (chair)
  • Erin Teule
  • Jaimy Klijnhout
  • Noor Verhagen
  • Mart Kicken
  • Maaike Jacobs
  • Anne Kamphuis

Sponsors

The Radboudumc PhD Retreat 2024 can be organized thanks to the contribution of our sponsors

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Sponsors

The Radboudumc PhD Retreat 2024 can be organized thanks to the contribution of our sponsors.

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