About the Event
Having managed the PhD and a postdoc, you are now facing a new and exciting challenge: setting up your own lab and leading your team. Moving from the bench to the PI desk is a steep learning curve and many of us are typically not prepared for this. To help you navigate this transition, we introduce you to basic concepts and ideas around setting up your first lab. Some topics deal with technicalities, for example, how to allocate resources effectively, other topics focus on managing people in the sense of how you want your lab and your team to be.
This workshop is very interactive and you get to practice what you learn already during the course.
The course is split into 3 afternoons.
Day 1 & 2 from 1:30 - 7:00 PM and Day 3 from 1:30 - 5:30 PM (CST).
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About the trainers:
Petra Pandur studied biology at the University of Ulm, Germany, where she obtained her diploma. For her PhD, she did the research work at George-Washington-University in Washington, D.C. and obtained her doctor's degree at the University of Ulm, Germany. Her postdoc project was on heart development in Xenopus laevis. Then she switched to Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism and continued to work on heart development. She established her own research group at the University of Ulm and was a group leader for about 11 years. While she was a group leader she did a 2-year training in coaching and started to coach people in academia. When she joined the team of Leadershipsculptor in 2016, she started teaching the EMBO Lab Leadership and Project Management courses. All of this made her realize her new passion for training people in the topics that we cover in these courses. Consequently, she quit her position as a group leader and is self-employed as a coach and trainer since 2020.
Diana Baumann earned her B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics and Chemistry of Materials from Durham University in the UK, followed by a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education from the University of Bristol. She began her career teaching science in the UK before moving to the United States, where she transitioned into research support and established a new core facility at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. She directed that facility for 20 years, working closely with numerous emerging research groups to help them build efficient and effective operations from the start. An authority on non-traditional model organisms, Diana has worked with more than seventy species in the research setting, and her own research focused on parthenogenetic lizards and hybridization. She is a graduate of the Institute of Laboratory Animal Management, where she served as class president, and holds certification as a Manager of Animal Resources. Diana is an active member of several professional organizations and contributes to their management and educational committees. She has published and presented on a wide range of topics, co-authored five book chapters, and received multiple awards for teaching, training, and management. Diana joined Leadership Sculptor in 2023 to teach the EMBO Lab Leadership and Project Management courses. She is passionate about helping scientists and research teams start strong, lead with confidence, and build the systems they need to thrive.
