This workshop focused on the importance of drafting the research project for an individual grant. ESRs learned a whole new vocabulary: ranging from scientific breakthrough, challenges, aims, objectives, outputs, results to impact.

Students had the opportunity to discover the different challenges when starting a biotech company and to engage in discussions about reproducibility in science. 

Martin Renatus and Jean-Baptiste Langlois presented how to run a drug discovery project from the initial idea to mechanist compound testing in animals. UbiCODE fellows had also the opportunity to discuss career opportunities in the private sector.

How may a company select a service platform to develop ? How does it executes both service development and delivery ? Jason Brown introduced our students to designing service concepts.

The initial plan was to meet in person in Valencia at the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, but 2020 decided otherwise... This project meeting was held virtually due to the unprecedented sanitary crisis. Our only alternative to keep scientific discussions and social exchanges alive !

Many UbiCODE members participated in this two-day symposium organised by CIC bioGUNE, the University of the Basque Country and the CNRS, together with the scientific consortiums UbiCODE, TRIM-NET and UBIRed. Talks focused on how the ubiquitin code is written and edited though ligases and proteases, how the different modifications affect cell signaling, and how new technologies can be applied to analyze these modifications. Presentations covered a wide range of topics, like cancer, neurodegeneration and infectious diseases. The symposium gathered more than a 100 attendants, with more than 30 oral and 40 poster presentations by international leaders in the field, as well as national and local researchers from the University of Basque Country and CIC bioGUNE. Ines Tomaskovic (GUF, Dikic lab) and Evrydiki Asimaki (IMB, Ulrich lab) respectively received second and fourth best poster prizes.

Rosa Barrio and James D. Sutherland (CIC bioGUNE) hosted UbiCODE's second supervisory board meeting in Bilbao. This meeting allowed our fellows to present their latest results to members of the network. They had the opportunity to get feedback from and discuss with the four members of our scientific advisory board, Susan Gasser, Thomas Sommer, Frauke Melchior and Maria Masucci. UbiCODE’s next consortium meeting will be held in Valencia, in December 2020.