PostDoc Day 2020 took place on Friday, November 13 as a virtual event. The event, organized by the FMP+MDC PostDoc Association with further support of Charité, MPImg and the BIH, gathered more than 150 participants from life sciences research institutes in the Berlin area. After the welcome message by FMP director Volker Haucke, we had the pleasure of having an extensive open Q&A session with the Nobel Prize-Winner in Chemistry 2020, Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier.
The other protagonists of the day were the post-docs themselves, presenting ten selected talks from over 40 contributions. Besides, we had a great workshop, concerning CV checks, offered by the MDC Postdoc Office and led by Matteo Cassese. We hope that the experience was as enjoyable as the face-to-face version and look forward to a PDD 2021 with even more participation from Berlin-based fellows and a line up as good as this year’s!