Transcript Radboud University Nijmegen

Studytour 2012
Programme overview
By Ralph Slijkerman & Bart Borghans
28-02-2012
Introduction
• Overview of the planned visits and excursions as expected at this time
– Obligatory: companies, universities and cultural trips
– Free time: scheduled and outside the planning
• All participants: daily reports during the entire tour
• Division into pairs, responsible for preparing for all visits on one day
– Will be taken care of later
Introduction
Early morning of April 23rd:
• Nijmegen – Schiphol (touringcar)
• Schiphol – Uppsala airport (plane)
– ID card or passport necessary
– Flight is 2 hours long
Overview
• Uppsala: 4th largest city of Sweden
Monday 23rd – Wednesday 25th of April
• Stockholm: capital of Sweden
Thursday 26th – Tuesday 1st of May
• Oslo: capital of Norway
Wednesday 2nd – Monday 7th
Uppsala
Uppsala Vandrarhem at Kvarntorget
(Hostel at Mill Square)
• Close to trainstation
Uppsala (day 1 – Monday 23 Apr )
• Uppsala University
• City tour
– Uppsala Cathedral: Linnaeus’ grave
Uppsala (day 2 – Tuesday 24 Apr )
• GE Healthcare
Provides services in medical imaging and information technologies,
medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug
discovery and biopharmaceuticals.
• Uppsala Biopark
A life science pathfinder: "We build new ways to make life science flourish,
in close collaboration with industry, academia, society and healthcare"
Uppsala (day 3 – Wednesday 25 Apr )
• Uppsala University, Photosynthesis Group
• Travel from Uppsala to Stockholm by train
– Ride takes 40 minutes
Stockholm
Hostel: Lodge32
• On Kungsholmen:
Kings’ Island
• Also close to station
(arrow)
Stockholm (day 4 – Thursday 26 Apr )
• Karolinska Institutet
• Stockholm University, Department of Neurochemistry
– “Studies of GalR ligands with xCelligence”
– “Antiviral approach with CPP applications”
Stockholm (day 5 – Friday 27 Apr )
• Sandvik
High-technology engineering group and a world-leader in tooling,
stainless steel alloys, materials technology, mining and construction.
• Vasa Museum (Vasamuseet)
– 17th century ship: Vasa
– Tour with conservator
Stockholm (day 6 – Saturday 28 Apr )
• Stockholm University, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
– Structural biochemistry
– Virus research
• Swedish National Museum of Science & Technology (Tekniska Museet)
– Old server of The Pirate Bay
Stockholm (day 7 – Sunday 29 Apr )
• Skansen: open-air museum
– 19th century town
– Zoo
• Boatride around the many islands that
form Stockholm
Stockholm (day 8 – Monday 30 Apr )
• Stockholm University, Department of Organic Chemistry
• Walpurgis Night (Valborgsmässoafton or simply Valborg)
– Bonfires?
Stockholm (day 9 – Tuesday 01 May )
• Nobel Museum (Nobelmuseet)
– About the Nobel Prize, the people receiving it and its founder Alfred
Nobel
• International Workers’ Day: May Day
– Festivities and parades
• Last day in Sweden
Oslo (day 10 – Wednesday 02 May)
• Traintravel Stockholm-Oslo (~6h)
• Sleeping: Anker-hostel
- 7-8 minutes walk from CS
- Laundry
- Wireless internet (free) / internet café next door
Oslo (day 11 – Thursday 03 May)
• -Lytix Biopharma (Morning)
- Started 2003 from university of Tromsø
- Office Tromsø and Oslo
- Vision: “cure treatment-resistant microbial infections and cancers”
via “peptide based drugs”
• -Life Technologies (former invitrogen) (Afternoon)
- Life science products: “a global biotechnology tools company”
- Magnetic Beads (separation technology)
Oslo (day 12 – Friday 04 May)
• -Oslo University: Cell Biology
-
Gunnar Dick (prof. Kristian Prydz)
basic cell biology: intracellular transport, glycosylation and extracellular matrix
Mass Spectrometry of glycans
HPLC analysis of proteoglycan modifications
Confocal microscopy and imaging facility
• -Oslo University Hospital: dept. Tumor Biology (part of Cancer
Institute)
- prof. Ola Myklebost
- Genomic profiling / Expression profiling / Epigenomic profiling / Nuclear programming /
Chemotherapy studies / Experimental and clinical studies / Model system
development
Oslo (day 13 – Saturday 05 May)
• -City tour
- Oslo City Hall (Oslo Radhus)
(Nobel Peace Price cermony)
• -Viking museum (Bygdøy)
Oslo (day 14 – Sunday 06 May)
• Free time
- Explore city (centre)
- Shopping centre
- Souvenirs
Oslo (day 15 – Monday 07 May)
• -Institute for Energy Technology (Kjeller)
-
founded in 1948
Annual turnover of NOK 775 million (~103 million euros)
~600 employees
Vision: “Internationally leading energy research institute”
• -Journey homewards
- Airplain (Oslo – Amsterdam)
- Arrival Schiphol: ~19.05u)
- Train (Amsterdam – Nijmegen)
(Own occasion)
To be continued…
• Contacts for internships/work
• +4 master-ECTS
• Study-tour sweater
• Travel book:
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