UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

You might have asked yourself....

• How can I create and deliver powerful, well-structured, coherent and interesting talks and deal professionally and self-confidently with challenges in the question and answer session?
• Is my poster well-structured and do I get the message across optimally? What do I do if a big shot approaches my poster?
• I have data to publish, but keep putting off writing that paper because I don’t know where to begin.
• I want to get my own research fellowship but don’t know how to get started.
• I am curious about job opportunities outside academic research and it makes me feel insecure, do I have the right skills?
• Do I know how to test my hypotheses, calculate sample sizes, the difference between p-Value and confidence intervals?
• I have big data and don't know how to best handle, treat and analyze them. I would like to learn the programming language R.
• To convey the scientific message, do I use text, tables or plots?
• I always felt that my PhD project could be managed better and I would like to learn how.
• How can I resolve conflicts and even move things forward?
• How can I communicate more proactively with my peers and supervisors? How can I explain problems and progress with my research project in the best possible way? What can I do to master individual communication challenges? How can I identify and correct weak communication? How can I act and react more assertively?

.........the solution is to get training. We welcome you to participate in the workshops of the GSfBS! Our tailor-made workshop programme provides the necessary tools to develop and enhance the academic and professional skills you need. Our trainers are very experienced and their expertise is focused on meeting the specific demands of scientists involved in biological and life sciences. Dr. Ruth Willmott and Dr. Rick Scavetta are native English speakers and biologists. Dr. Alexander Klassmann is a mathematician who has long term experience in teaching biologists, Dr. Michaela Höhne and Prof. Röbbe Wünschiers are biologists. Sabine Lerch is a communication consultant focusing on the specific communication needs of Life and Natural Scientists.

Important information: Students fulfilling the requirements of the GSfBS Core Programme are preferred for the workshops.
For workshop requests and registration please contact isabell.witt(at)uni-koeln.de.

(Also suitable for CUT&Tag, DSBCapture and ATAC-Seq data).
This course has been developed to enable doctoral candidates and postdocs to analyze their own data while being concise and flexible enough to fit their busy schedules. Each module consists of several short videos, each about 10-15 min long, that can be watched whenever there is time. To deepen the understanding, questions and exercises will be provided at the end of many videos. For each module, there is going to be a live Q&A session via zoom where questions can be asked and exercises discussed. The course will start with an introductory meeting in zoom and consists of four modules covering all steps needed to analyse ChIP-Seq data.