Snippets of the Network

Stu­dents of the of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “MINT-Leh­ramt PLUS” spent two weeks on Hel­go­land dur­ing an excur­sion to organ­ize a work­shop there on the topic of "Ocean Acid­ifica­tion" in the spirit of edu­cation for sus­taina­ble de­velopment.

The Presi­dent of the Ba­varian State Par­lia­ment, Ilse Aign­er, invit­ed more than 3,000 guests to this year's sum­mer recep­tion of the Ba­varian State Par­lia­ment at Schleißheim New Palace - in­clud­ing ten mem­bers of the Elite Net­work of Bavaria.

In what is one of the most estab­lished tradi­tions in the Elite Net­work, the 2023 edi­tion of the Elite Cup took place this year in Mu­nich. Members across the Elite Net­work gath­ered to enjoy in a nice Sat­urday of foot­ball, food and friendly com­peti­tion.

Lena Schorr, a PhD stu­dent in the Puschhof Lab at the Ger­man Can­cer Re­search Cen­ter (DKFZ) in Hei­del­berg, at­tend­ed the 72nd Lindau No­bel Lau­reate Meet­ing from 25 to 30 June 2023 at the invi­tation of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia.

This year, the Max We­ber Pro­gram sent out invita­tions to its tradi­tional sum­mer cele­bra­tion in the beau­tiful Alt­mühl­tal. A well-over 150 guests ac­cept­ed the invita­tion to cele­brate to­geth­er, meet other schol­arship hold­ers and get to know the uni­versi­ty town of Eichstätt.

Dr. Jan Böt­tcher’s In­terna­tional Junior Re­search Group has deci­phered a mechanism that switches off im­mune re­sponses in tu­mors and points to new tar­gets for can­cer thera­py.

At the ASC Fo­rum, stu­dents pre­sent their re­search pro­jects to their ASC pro­fes­sors, fellow stu­dents and inter­ested FAU stu­dents. Fol­low­ing the presenta­tions and the poster exhi­bition, there is a prize for the best post­er.

MAOT stu­dents travel to ASML - the world mar­ket leader in li­thog­raphy sys­tems and key actor for the worldwide chip indus­try.

Bud­ding mate­rials scien­tists use 3D print­ing to de­velop physi­cal mod­els that mimic the radia­tion re­sponse of the hu­man breast, for opti­miz­ing vari­ous as­pects of radio­thera­py and for the train­ing of young physi­cians.

At the AI Camp, the Ger­man Asso­cia­tion of Com­puter Sci­ence hon­ored ten young re­searchers with the AI-Newcomer Award 2023. Nora Gourmel­on, who is part of the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram "M³OCCA", is one of the awardees.