The DGfI Young Immunologists Nachwuchs

The YI Community

Many of us have suddenly become isolated from friends, family and colleagues, working from home for the first time. This can be strange and stressful, but also really productive and motivating, depending on how your day is going.

What better time to set up a virtual community of young immunologists than when we can’t meet in person?

We created a Slack group that we hope will provide you with tips and tricks, peer support, and hopefully some laughs! Follow the link to connect with other early career immunologists in Germany, and across Europe (and the world?!) to expand your network from the comfort of your couch.

Join the YI community via Slack group.

Introducing...you! 

Slack lets you create a profile, where you can add a picture, your name and what you do. Filling out these will really help to create our community. Even better, introduce yourself a bit in our #welcome channel...We would like to get to know everyone, so tell us a little bit about yourself. Always easiest to start with the basics: what’s your name, what field are you working in and which city? Add some random facts if you like: early bird or night owl? Coffee or tea? Would you rather live on the moon or under the sea? Favorite immune cell? What motivates you? What are you grateful for? Favourite thing about your city?

Need more info about using Slack? Find out here 

We’re looking forward to meeting you!

Our activities

Upcoming YI contributions for the Joint Meeting of the DGfI and ÖGAI in Hannover, Sep 9-12, 2020:

• Symposium Young Immunologists, 15:30-17:00, Sept 9, 2020
  YI members can present their work on the big stage to gain valuable presentation experience and chances to win attractive prizes! Make sure to sign in while registering!
• As already in Erlangen, Amsterdam and Munich there will be a YI Social Evening to foster networking and exchange taking place after the DGfI General Assembly on Thursday night.
• To support researchers with young children there will be on-site childcare. Please check with your institute or within your research group if you might be eligible to use money specifically allocated for this. If not YI is organising sponsored spots to cover the costs. Please indicate regardless of your funding whether you would like to use on-site childcare during the registration process. This service is open to all conference participants, regardless of YI membership.
• For all YI members and those interested to join we will have a YI lunch session which will include the YI General Assembly followed by an open discussion round.
• There will be a YI booth at the industry exhibition, so if you have any questions or like to know more about the work of the YI, stop by!

So far, the focus of the board’s work was to integrate the YI as a fixed component of the annual meetings of the DGfI. The current board will furthermore extend the activities of the YI beyond our presence at DGfI meetings:

•  For example, in Hamburg and Freiburg regular local round-table meetings are organized and we encourage to implement this in other cities as well.
• The creation of a member’s forum on the website to simplify the access to other YI members is under preparation.
• Establishment of an international network among early career immunologists across Europe together with EFIS and other national early career associations with a planned Kick-Off meeting at the ECI2021 in Belgrade.

The board 2019-2021

Spokesperson
Kilian Schober
Munich
Physician Scientist

Vice-Spokesperson
Vugar Azizov
Erlangen
PhD candidate

Santiago Costas
Dresden
PhD candidate

Anne Hahn
Erlangen
PhD candidate

Lea Kaminski
Hamburg
PhD candidate

Ellen McAllister
Freiburg
PhD candidate