To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place at KBC, every other week.
Where: KBC Glasburen
Pitch 1: Verena Kohler: Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology: The aging chaperome: a new perspective on health and disease.
Interested in: help developing sensors for mass spectrometry, introducing machine learning to her screen analysis, and exploring automation of their cross-correlation approaches.
Pitch 2: Mattias Forsell: Professor at Department of Clinical Microbiology: Understanding factors that may improve or decrease lifespan at old age.
Interested in: finding collaborators who can help elucidate risk factors that lead to increased or shortened life expectancy in old individuals, using data from vaccination / infection on a population level.