Mentoring and Career Track Scheme

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Post-doctoral positions are meant for training researchers at the beginning of their professional life with the expectation that they will be able to take the next step in their career. IMBB, in line with international and EU-Life practices, has adopted specific actions to support postdocs during their time in IMBB and towards their future career development whether that will be in academia or beyond. The IMBB mentoring and career track scheme (MCTS) is designed to provide all post docs and junior PIs with:

(1) effective mentoring by a senior current or past (alumni) IMBB member;

(2) training opportunities to develop, in addition to research skills, broad competences that will help them in their future career;

(3) attending lectures from invited speakers on alternative career-paths within biological sciences;

(4) a track scheme to follow whether set-goals are achieved and how career-development is progressing;

(5) an extended list of mentors, in addition to IMBB PIs, including the IMBB alumni members

ZEISS LSM 990 Advanced Confocal Microscopy Demo Workshop

15–17 June 2026

We are pleased to announce the hosting at IMBB-FORTH of an advanced confocal microscopy workshop featuring ZEISS’s newest flagship ZEISS LSM 990 confocal system.

The workshop will be co-organized by IMBB’s Mentoring and Career Track Scheme and ANTISEL, the exclusive distributor of ZEISS in Greece. The event will offer researchers from IMBB, FORTH and the University of Crete the opportunity to familiarize themselves with this state-of-the-art confocal microscopy platform through an introductory presentation and hands-on training sessions in small groups using their own samples. Training and technical support will be provided by a certified ZEISS trainer together with ANTISEL’s technical and sales team.

Dates: 15–17 June 2026

Location: Training sessions at Room A053 (IMBB basement) & presentation at Fotakis Room (FORTH)

Microscope description: Fully equipped ZEISS LSM 990 system featuring:

Excitation lasers at 405, 445, 488, 514, 561, 594, 639, and 739 nm
Spectral detector for multiplex imaging and spectral unmixing
Enhanced Airyscan performance
Integrated Lightfield 4D technology for instant volumetric imaging

For more information about the system, please visit: https://zeiss.widen.net/s/v9nj5bgdwh/en_product-info_lsm-990

Expression of interest form: https://forms.gle/jLfqwZnzxBHKMng57

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Happy Hour Social Events

Starting in April 2026, the IMBB Mentoring Committee is excited to launch Happy Hour social events following the IMBB Colloquia, organized by IMBB PhD students and Postdocs!

Each Happy Hour will take place on the last Friday of every month, right after the IMBB Colloquium seminar.

You are warmly invited to join these informal gatherings to connect and continue both scientific and non-scientific discussions while enjoying pizza and drinks.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The whole process will be overseen by the MCTS Committee which will act as a contact point between post-docs and mentors. The MCTS committee consists of two IMBB group leaders (Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Emmanouil Froudarakis), two post doc representatives (Eva Zacharioudaki, Maria Diamantaki) and two PhD representatives (Maria Kalogeridi, Christos Katsioulas) .

For contacting the MCTS Committee at IMBB send an e-mail to mentoring@imbb.forth.gr. Alternatively you can contact any of the members directly using the contact details below or the secretary (Rodanthi Lasitiotaki).