PROGRAMME

Join to morning session here

Wednesday, 1st October

Thursday, 2nd October

Venue: BMRI 3073, Francie Van Zijl Drive, Tygerberg, Cape Town.

8:00-8:30 // Arrival and registration

8:30-8:45 // Welcome

8:45-9:15 Dr. Evodia Setati, Stellenbosch University

TBA

9:15-9:45 Dr. Ovokeraye Oduaran

TBA

9:45-10:15 Dr. Marina Joubert, Stellenbosch University

"Communicating about antimicrobial resistance – reflecting on challenges, solutions and social justice concerns"

10:15-10:45 // Coffee/tea break

10:45–11:05 Dr. Jerolen Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

"Transitioning African microbiome research towards real world impact"

11:05–11:25 Dr. Jan Baedke, Ruhr University Bochum
"The environment of the microbiome: Methodological and ethical challenges"

11:25–11:45 Dr. Phila Msimang, Stellenbosch University

TBA

11:45–12:00 // Break

12:00-12:30 Dr. Tessa Moll

"What’s so scary about structure? Lessons from epigenetics and DOHaD"

12:30-13:00 Dr. Jantina de Vries

TBA

13:00-15:00 // Lunch

15:00–17:30 World-Café “How to collaborate together and build more equitable science”
This activity allows participants to discuss issues related to their personal experience as scientists, the situation of their institutions in a local and global scale, advantages and challenges. Joint reflection on best practices to establish good interdisciplinary collaborations

17:45 // Drinks

9:00-13:00

Participatory activity: “Scientist meet philosophers: What can we learn from each other?”
This is a participatory activity where philosophers and scientist share their views on the causal connections between various factors and the human gut composition, and philosophical problems associated with it (causality, realism of species, inferences).
It is composed by a short introduction by the philosophers, followed by a guided participatory focus group to design fuzzy cognitive maps.

This activity has a limited number of participants of 15-20 who need to sign an informed consent before participation. See more information here.

13:00-14:30 // Lunch

14:30–18:00 Writeshop

For authors selected as part of the special issue only. The writeshop aims to establish closer theoretical links between the contributions.

19:00 // Dinner in town

Friday, 3rd October

9:00-11:30 Writeshop continues

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-13:00 Writeshop continues

13:00–14:00 // Lunch

14:00–16:00 Writeshop continues

16:00–16:15 Break

16:15–18:00 Writeshop continues

18:00 Event ends