SOMS Winter School – Programme
| December 16, 2011 09:00 | to | December 17, 2011 17:00 |
A very special Thank You to Dr. Corin Badiu, SOMS founding member, for his help in the organization of SOMS Winter School!
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME:
Friday, 16 December 2011 – Carol Davila Univ, Amphitheatre 6
09:00 – 15:00 Open lab day – lab tours, workshops
• The Biocalorimetry Laboratory of the Romanian Academy’s “Ilie Murgulescu” Institute of Physical Chemistry (Coord: Stud. Alexandru Muntean) – group 1: 10:00-12:00; group 2: 13:00-15:00.
• Endocrinology Laboratory, National Institute of Endocrinology C.I. Parhon (Coord.: Corin Badiu MD PhD) – group 1: 9:00-10:00; group 2: 10:00-11:00; group 3: 11:00-12:00; group 4: 12:00-13:00.
• Neuroscience Laboratory, Carol Davila University (Coord.: Prof. Leon Zagrean MD PhD, Ana-Maria Zagrean MD PhD) – group 1: 14:00-14:30; group 2: 14:30-15:00.
• Cantacuzino Institute (Coord.: Prof. Mircea Ioan Popa MD PhD) – group 1: 9:00-10:00; group 2: 9:30 – 10:20.
• Transplant Immunology Laboratory, Fundeni Clinical Institute (Coord.: Ileana Constantinescu MD PhD) – group 1: 09:00-10:00; group 2: 12:00 – 13:00.
• Haematology Laboratory, Fundeni Clinical Institute (Coord.: Daniel Coriu MD PhD, Rodica Talmaci MD PhD) – 10:00 – 12:00.
14:30 – 16:00 Participant registration
16:00 – 17:00 Opening ceremony
Prof. Leon ZAGREAN, MD PhD (Carol Davila Univ.) – SOMS honorary member
Corin BADIU, MD PhD (Carol Davila Univ.) – SOMS founding member
Radu MIHAI, MD PhD FRCS (Oxford Univ.) – SOMS founding member
Mihai MOLDOVAN, MD PhD (Copenhagen Univ., Carol Davila Univ.) – SOMS honorary member
17:00 – 19:00 Student scientific session
• Mihaela Spatarelu – Immunohistochemical detection of hormones and proliferation markers in different types of pituitary tumors – abstract
• Oana Streinu-Cercel – IL28B polymorphism and response to treatment in patients with HCV hepatitis in Romania – abstract
• Luisa Baca – The role of cyclic GMP in the parasympathetic dysfunction in an animal model of diabetic neuropathy(research done at Tufts Univ.)
• Alexandru Muntean – Bacterial Microcalorimetry and the first steps towards real time bacterial drug susceptibility data – abstract
• Sinziana Muraru – New markers in pancreatic cancer (research done at Harvard Univ.) – abstract
• Bogdan David – EEG power-down during whole body metabolic inhibition induced by Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) inhalation in rats (research done at Greifswald Univ.) – abstract
• Alexandra Constantinescu – Combining transcranial stimulation techniques with magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate the motor cortex in health and after stroke (research done at Oxford Univ.)
• Andreia Nita – Nod-like receptor 4 matchsticks for triggering pyroptosis (research done at Karolinska Institutet) – abstract
Chairs: Prof. Mircea Ioan POPA, Prof. Leon ZAGREAN, Dr. Corin BADIU
19:00 – 20:00 Plenary lecture – Can we do research in Romania?
Acad. Prof. Maya SIMIONESCU, MD PhD (President of the Biological Sciences Division of the Romanian Academy, Director of the Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “Nicolae Simionescu”)
Saturday, 17 December 2011 – Carol Davila Univ., Amphitheatre 6
09:00 – 10:00 Plenary lecture – How do we study real-time live cell behaviour
Mircea LEABU, MD PhD (Carol Davila Univ.)
10:00 – 13:00 Workshop: How to write a biomedical scientific article?
Corin BADIU, MD PhD (Carol Davila Univ.), Mihai MOLDOVAN, MD PhD (Copenhagen Univ., Carol Davila Univ.)
13:00 – 13:15 Andrei ILIE, PhD Stud (Oxford Univ.) – Neuroscience Research, from Carol Davila to Oxford
13:15 – 13:30 Break
13:30 – 14:30 Workshop: Biomedical statistics on your laptops
Cristian BAICUS, MD PhD (Carol Davila Univ.)
14:30 – 15:30 Clinical research
Dragos BUMBACEA, MD PhD (Carol Davila Univ.) – Clinical research – essential step in the validation of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions
Ioana MINDRUTA, MD PhD (Carol Davila Univ.) – How do we organize research in multidisciplinary teams?
15:30 – 16:30 Plenary lecture – Pain, from patient to molecules
Prof. Alexandru BABES, MD PhD (Bucharest Univ., President of the National Council of Scientific Research)
16:30 – 17:00 Closing of SOMS Winter School and awarding diplomas of attendance
SOMS Winter School addresses all students in all years of study who are interested in research, irrespective of their prior scientific experience. The attendance is free of charge! However, donations are welcomed during the school or at the bank account in Romanian lei RO37BTRL04301205S35291XX open at Transilvania Bank, Mihai Bravu Office, as beneficiary “Asociatia Grupul Studentilor Medicinisti cu Activitate Stiintifica”.
To register, we kindly ask you to fill in the form below. The number of participants is limited. Students will be accepted in the on a “first come first served” basis and SOMS members have priority. The registration deadline is: Tuesday, December 13th, 11:59 p.m.
Students who want to become SOMS members are invited to read how they can join us. 
For more information, feel free to contact us.
You may download the school’s poster for printing from here.
Let’s do science! We are looking forward to it!
Media Partner: Medicalstudent.ro (article in Romanian)
Once we opened the registration, applications started flooding in (100 applications in the first 48 hours). We accepted 140 students. There are no more places available and the registration form was closed. Thank you for your applications!
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Last updated :December 6, 2011 ; 17:07.
