Challenges in Plant Sciences – PSC Colloquium
| 2025_HS_CollChall | |
| 20.10.2025 - 17.11.2025 | |
| 2 days | |
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Start registration period: 02.06.2025 End of registration period: 22.09.2025 |
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| ETH Zurich, centre | |
| 40 | |
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| Students enrolled in PSC PhD Programs have priority. Free of charge to all Ph.D. students. | |
| Course Content The colloquium “Challenges in Plant Sciences” is a core class of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center's PhD program and the MSc module. The colloquium introduces participants to the broad spectrum of plant sciences within the network. The topics encompass integrated knowledge of current plant research, ranging from the molecular level to the ecosystem level, and from basic to applied science while making use of the synergies between the different research groups within the PSC. The course offers the opportunity to approach interdisciplinary topics as challenges in plant sciences. During the first course day, each involved PSC lecturer gives a short talk as a general introduction to their research field highlighting current challenges and provides several publications. After the first day, the students work in groups to prepare a presentation chosen from a variety of proposed themes. They receive feedback from the tutor during the preparation phase. On the second day, the students present the topic they chose. Students gain knowledge on topics beyond their own research area while practising presentation and discussion skills. Course Objectives ? Introduce PhD and Master students to the broad field of plant sciences ? Promote active participation and independent student work ? Enhance presentation and discussion skills ? Increase interactions among students and teachers ? Promote an interdisciplinary and integrative teaching program Course structure and timetable 1. Students register with PSC and choose a topic (through nuudel, TBA). 2. During the first colloquium day, selected PSC lecturers hold short talks on their research field. Afterwards, student groups meet with their lecturer to plan the student teamwork: preparing the talk for the second course day. 3. Between the first and the second colloquium day: Each student group prepares a colloquium presentation. They receive feedback from the lecturer during the preparation phase. 4. During the second course day, each student group gives a talk (check the exact schedule on the PSC website). Each student receives feedback on their performance. Schedule-link: https://www.plantsciences.uzh.ch/en/teaching/phdplantscience/curriculum/coll oquium.html | |
| Jake Alexander (ETHZ), Giovanni Broggini (ETHZ), Melissa Chapman (ETHZ), Stefano Mintchev (ETHZ), Diana Santelia (ETHZ), Célia Baroux (UZH), Rodrigo Cámara Leret (UZH), Christoph Ringli (UZH), Gu?nter Hoch (Unibas) (all PSC members), Jelena Rajkov (Unibas, moderator) | |
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| PhD & Master Students Postdocs if places available | |
| PhD level, Master’s level | |
| English | |
| The course will be graded as “pass/fail” based on attendance and active participation during day 1 and day 2 (2 ECTS = 8 days of work (60 learning hours) consisting of 1.5 days block course and 6.5 days of independent work on the group assignment). | |
By registering you agree to the PSC course terms and conditions AGBs | |
| Cancellation of a course registration should be arranged with the course coordination office psc_phdprogram@ethz.ch and is possible free of charge up to 2 weeks before the course starts. Later cancellations and failure to attend or incomplete attendance without documented justification will incur a fee of 200 CHF. | |
| Registration: ETH and ETH "special students": MyStudies -> course: ETHZ: 551-0205- 00L UNIBAS students: https://vorlesungsverzeichnis.unibas.ch/en/home. -> course: 11670 UZH: Please register as ETH special student from 1 August until the end of 2nd semester week 9 (end of September), then register as an ETH student. Thank you! | |
| Dr. Bojan Gujas (psc_phdprogram@ethz.ch) | |
| HS25_Colloquium_ChallengesPlantSciences_abstract.pdfvertical_align_bottom |