2nd annual Swaccs Junior Academy Workshop (JAWS)

When: 25-26 August 2020

Where: Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala

Who: PhD students / early-career and senior researchers working in all fields related to chemicals, health and environment.

What: A workshop offering scientific seminars, extensive networking opportunities, and an opportunity to learn more about visualizing and communicating your science. This year’s JAWS is organized by the Swedish Academic Consortium on Chemical Safety (SWACCS) and the Centre for Reproductive Biology in Uppsala (CRU). 

The Formas project EDC-2020 is contributing financially to JAWS. Furthermore, the Swedish Society of Toxicology (SFT) is sponsoring parts of the travel and accommodation costs for PhD students and postdocs who are SFT members.

The workshop on scientific poster design (day 1 and poster session day 2) can be taken as a 0.5 ECTS PhD course. Three 15 min slots for oral presentations at the minisymposium on reproductive toxicology (day 2) are available for PhD students/postdocs. Selected speakers will get their whole travel and accommodation costs refunded by the EDC-2020 project. Abstracts can be submitted in the registration form.

Please note: as for now, JAWS is planned as a physical workshop. However, due to the covid-19 pandemic, it might be changed to a very similar program in digital format. More information about the format will be sent out by the end of June.

Detailed program: 

25th of August

10:00-17:00 Workshop in Scientific poster design*

10:00-10:20: Welcome and short information about SWACCS (Joëlle Rüegg, Uppsala University)

10:20-17:00: Lectures and hands-on poster creations (Andreas Dahlin, Vizualise Your Science AB)

18:30: Dinner at one of Uppsala’s Nations (tba)

26th of August

9:00-11:05: Minisymposium on reproductive toxicology (sponsored by CRU)

9:00-09:10: Welcome and short introduction by CRU 

9:10-10:00: Key note lecture by Majorie van Duursen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

10:00-10:20 coffee break

10:20-10:35: Selected oral presentation

10:35-10:50: Selected oral presentation

10:50-11:05: Selected oral presentation

11:10-13:00: Poster session* (including poster award) and lunch

13:00-16:30 SWACCS contact committee meeting

13:00-14:00: Open for all participants and will focus on discussions on how to engage and participate in SWACCS.

14.30-16.30: SWACCS contact committee members only.

*mandatory sessions for students attending the 0.5 ECTS PhD course

Coffee breaks, lunch and dinner are included for registered participants.