The second annual retreat for COMPUTE took place 19-20 August, 2013, at Ystad Saltsjöbad. The theme for the retreat was "Science writing and publishing". The retreat was hosted by Dan Csontos (Elevate Scientific, former Editor of Nature) and his co-workers Geoff Marsh (former editor of Nature) och Tanja Jensen (expert on communication in life sciences).

The detailed programme is found below together with a group photo and the list of the top three posters at the retreat's PhD student poster competition - congratulations to winner Minchao Wu (Physical Geography)!

Group photo from the 2013 retreat (by Geoff Marsh)

Programme

Monday 19 August 2013

• 10:30 Bus leaves Lund from outside Ekologihuset (Sölvegatan 37, Lund)
• 12:00-12:50 Lunch
• 12:50-13:00 Welcome - Melvyn Davies
• 13:00-14:00 Publishing with impact - Dan Csontos, Geoff Marsh and Tanja Jensen (Elevate Scientific)
• 14:00-15:00 Anatomy of the scientific paper, part I - Elevate Scientific
• 15:00-15:45 Coffee break
• 15:45-16:30 Anatomy of the scientific paper, part II - Elevate Scientific
• 16:30-17:00 Preparation time for student talks (to update with any techniques learned so far)
• 17:00-18:00 Student short-talks (highlights of posters) – 2 minutes per talk
• 18:30-20:00 Dinner
• 20:00- Poster session with drinks

Tuesday 20 August 2013

• 07:30-8:30 Breakfast
• 08:30-10:00 Writing with structure and flow - Elevate Scientific
• 10:00-10:20 Coffee
• 10:20-11:50 From lab to journal/ Ethical Issuesi / Concluding remarks - Elevate Scientific
• 11:50-12:00 A few final words from the organizers, poster prize winner etc. - COMPUTE steering group
• 12:00 Lunch
• 14:00 Bus leaves Ystad

Poster prize - top three

1. Minchao Wu (Physical Geography): Response of vegetation structure to extreme climate events in Europe: Analysis from a fire regime perspective
2. Anna Stöckl (Functional Zoology): Higher-order visual processing in nocturnal hawk moths
   Filip Szczepankiewicz (Medical Radiation Physics): Imaging the microscopic anisotropy of diffusion in the human brain