Content and Planning of oLife Scientific Lectures and Incorporated Tracks

YEAR 1

Scientific Lectures

Extremophiles (Driessen)

Biochemical context of biomolecular evolution (Fraaije)

Astrophysical Observations (Kamp)

Chemistry of the origin of life (Otto)

Optical microscopy (Poolman)

Scanning probe techniques (Roos)

Star and Planet Formation (Van der Tak)

Mathematical and computational methods in evolutionary biology (Weissing)

Supramolecular chemistry (Kros)

 

Track ‘Interdisciplinary collaboration’

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Conceptual Dialogue

Mapping the Space of Collaboration

 

Track ‘Teaching & Supervising Students’

Introduction to Teaching

 

 

 

Track ‘Career Orientation’

Careers in Academia

YEAR 2

Scientific Lectures

Phylogenetic analyses (Fraaije)

Membrane biosynthesis and protocells (Driessen)

Astrophysical Models (Kamp)

Bottom-up synthetic biology and bioenergetics (Poolman)

Advanced Light Microscopy (Roos)

Astrochemistry (Van der Tak)

The predictability of evolution – theoretical and experimental approaches (Weissing)

Artificial cells and organelles (Van Hest)

 

 

Track ‘Interdisciplinary collaboration’

Cross-disciplinary Science

 

 

 

Track ‘Teaching & Supervising Students’

Supervising thesis students

Active Learning Toolkit

Educational Consultation

 

Track ‘Career Orientation’

Careers in Non-Profit

YEAR 3

Scientific Lectures

Ancestral sequence reconstruction (Fraaije)

From basic biochemistry to how metabolism controls cellular function (Heinemann)

Exoplanets (Kamp)

Organic Synthesis Strategies and Molecular Structure Elucidation (Minnaard)

Systems chemistry (Otto)

Molecular Biophysics (Roos)

Astrobiology (Van der Tak)

New paradigms in evolutionary biology (Weissing)

 

 

Track ‘Interdisciplinary collaboration’

Creative Problem Solving

 

 

 

Track ‘Teaching & Supervising Students’

Storytelling as a teaching tool

 

 

 

Track ‘Career Orientation’

Careers in Profit