Date:           18.06.2024
Time:          2 – 3:30 pm
Place:          Auditorium “Zur Rosen” (Johannisstraße 13, Jena)

We cordially invite you to our 1st user day “OpenIRIS for JenaVersum”. The event offers an excellent opportunity to learn about the possibilities of OpenIRIS, exchange experiences and learn from other users.

Speakers:

• Robyn Brackin-Helmers, Board Member OpenIRIS & Microscopy Engineer at the Advanced Medical BioImaging Core Facility at Charité Berlin
• Aurélie Jost, Manager of the Microverse Imaging Center, Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse
• Torsten Kroll, Manager of the Core Facility Functional Genomics, Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute e.V. (FLI)
• Georg Pohnert, interim head of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Vice President for Research, will give the welcome address.

Registration here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=InrfZX_lPkGRZ8XR-nBl3SSGBrptht9Lj9HVB5sZtJ9UNlk2TjIwUVVPWENBTDNPQTBMR1VWRTRQVS4u

Jena is a hotspot for excellent research and state-of-the-art infrastructure. The universities and research institutions in Jena are excellently equipped. Sharing this infrastructure promotes cross-disciplinary synergies and interdisciplinary cooperation and enables resources to be used sparingly.

Coordinated use of the research infrastructure requires the agreement of all partners and a platform to make available equipment and conditions of use accessible. JenaVersum has piloted the open source platform OpenIRIS, funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, for this purpose. This provides an overview of the research infrastructures in the network, displays terms of use transparently and allows bookings to be made. Over 100 devices have been recorded so far!

Spring event 2024 of the lecture series “Noble Gespräche”

The next lecture of the public lecture series “Noble Gespräche” will take place on Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 5 pm in the lecture hall of the Abbe-Zentrums Beutenberg, Hans-Knöll-Str. 1, 07745 Jena in presence and in German. As part of this event, the Beutenberg-Campus Jena e.V. will award this year’s science prizes for life sciences and physics to successful young scientists.

The guest speaker will be Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin J. Lohse, University of Würzburg / TU Munich
and ISAR Bioscience Institute, Planegg/Munich with his lecture: “Arzneimittel für morgen”.

When Martin Lohse received a Carl Zeiss microscope as a gift in his early youth, he had no idea how much it would shape his life.
it would shape his life. He became a medical doctor, pharmacologist and toxicologist and researched the fundamental mechanisms of cellular signal processing. His scientific focus early on was in the field of drug research and in particular on researching receptors as targets for novel drugs against diseases of the cardiovascular and nervous systems. Over 100,000 drugs are available in Germany today and yet new ones are constantly being needed and developed for previously untreatable diseases.

More information can be found on the Beutenberg-Campus e.V. website.