Upcoming Courses

Upcoming Events

Below please find a list of upcoming training events held at IMB for members of the International PhD Programme (IPP) on "Gene Regulation, Epigenetics and Genome Stability", the IMB Postdoc Programme (IPPro), the RTG GenEvo, the RTG 4R, the iRTG of the SFB1361 and the iRTG of the SFB1551. Courses are open also to other young scientists for a fee covering the costs of trainer and course organisation.

If there is no other information in the course description, all courses are taking place at IMB, Ackermannweg 4, 55128 Mainz (University Campus).
* Costs for members of the IPP, IPPro, SFB 1361, SFB1551, 4R and GenEvo are covered by the respective programmes.

To register, please fill in the course registration form (assoc. programmes) or email training(at)imb.de (externals).

Date	Event	Further information
04.03.2025	Biostatistics - Spring 2025	Trainer: Fridolin Kielisch in cooperation with IMB core facilities Date & Time: 4 March - 8 April 2025, 9:15 - 10:45 (6 weekly units of 90 minutes each, always Tue) Venue: onsite Target group: 1st year PhD student + young researchers aiming at repetition Content: This module focuses on statistics as an important instrument of scientific work. Students will take a 'probabilistc point of view' on scientific experiments and familiarize themselfes with statistical tools like confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, ANOVA, etc. The course mainly uses the statistical computing framework R, but due to the general nature of the topics any statistical software can be used you are familiar with. The module consists of seven units. Between the sessions, the students will do small exercises at home. Tutors will be available for questions and answers. Requirements: Participants must be familiar with a software allowing statistical analysis prior to the course. For beginners, we recommend and support a self-learning course in R. https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/training.html#rintro Please register by 31 January 2025 This course is not open to external* participants at the moment. For more information, please email training@imb-mainz.de
12.03.2025	Supervision and Leadership Skills - 12+13 March 2025	Trainer: Dr Imke Lode Date and Time: 12 + 13 March 2025, (9:00-17:00) Target group: late-stage PhD students, Postdocs, Staff Scientists Venue: onsite Content: In this course, participants will learn the attitude and basic understanding of supervision and leadership in science; culturally shaped expectations of self and others, teaching and learning cultures; tasks, limits and role of supervisors. It aims to convey the ability to provide constructive scientific and psycho-social supervision and guidance to students and doctoral candidates in the research, working and writing process. that academics know their role, tasks and limits as supervisors. how to communicate with supervisees in an appreciative, diversity-sensitive and effective manner. Please register by 10 February 2025 To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Date

Event

Further information

04.03.2025

Biostatistics - Spring 2025

Trainer: Fridolin Kielisch in cooperation with IMB core facilities
Date & Time: 4 March - 8 April 2025, 9:15 - 10:45 (6 weekly units of 90 minutes each, always Tue)
Venue: onsite
Target group: 1st year PhD student + young researchers aiming at repetition
Content:
This module focuses on statistics as an important instrument of scientific work. Students will take a 'probabilistc point of view' on scientific experiments and familiarize themselfes with statistical tools like confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, ANOVA, etc. The course mainly uses the statistical computing framework R, but due to the general nature of the topics any statistical software can be used you are familiar with.
The module consists of seven units. Between the sessions, the students will do small exercises at home. Tutors will be available for questions and answers.
Requirements:
Participants must be familiar with a software allowing statistical analysis prior to the course. For beginners, we recommend and support a self-learning course in R.
https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/training.html#rintro

Please register by 31 January 2025
This course is not open to external* participants at the moment. For more information, please email training@imb-mainz.de

12.03.2025

Supervision and Leadership Skills - 12+13 March 2025

Trainer: Dr Imke Lode
Date and Time: 12 + 13 March 2025, (9:00-17:00)
Target group: late-stage PhD students, Postdocs, Staff Scientists
Venue: onsite
Content:
In this course, participants will learn the attitude and basic understanding of supervision and leadership in science; culturally shaped expectations of self and others, teaching and learning cultures; tasks, limits and role of supervisors. It aims to convey

the ability to provide constructive scientific and psycho-social supervision and guidance to students and doctoral candidates in the research, working and writing process.
that academics know their role, tasks and limits as supervisors.
how to communicate with supervisees in an appreciative, diversity-sensitive and effective manner.

Please register by 10 February 2025
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de