Workshops supporting your career
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.
Good Scientific Conduct (compulsory part of the GSfBS core programme)
| Workshop/Lecture/Seminar Series | Who | When in your doctorate? | Dates |
Biases in Science by Prof. Niels Gehring Individual topics by independent group leaders University regulations, the analogous notebook Authorships and contributorships, forms of plagiarism Dr. Kateria Vlantis | Doctoral researchers | as early as possible | This workshop is compulsory. Preparatory work is needed. Documents for the module are accessible via ILIAS. For registration for the workshop and access to the ILIAS folder, please contact Isabell Witt. Next workshop: tba |
| Good Scientific Practice | PD Dr. Gabriella Lundkvist gives a workshop at the MPIs for the Biology of Ageing and for Plant Breeding Research for and limited to the doctoral candidates of the institutes including CGA and IMPRS. This workshop is equivalent to the GSC workshops offered by the GSfBS. |
Presenting and Writing, Career Management
Trainer: Dr. Ruth Willmott | |||
Workshop | Who? | Phase of the doctorate? | Dates |
Career Orientation | Doctoral researchers | at the beginning of your doctorate | 29.11.2024 |
Showcasing your research | Doctoral researchers | Any time before you want/need | Introduction 3 days |
Scientific Writing | Doctoral researchers | 1,5 - 2,5 year into the doctorate or | the workshop is 3 full days |
Getting Funded (GF) | Doctoral researchers | one year before you start applying | introduction 1,5 days |
Career Mentoring | Doctoral researchers | one year before you start | introduction 1,5 days |
Leading, Managing Projects and Conflicts
Workshop | Who | Which phase of the doctorate? | Dates |
Skills for project managers | Doctoral candidates and | Any time | online workshop |
Conflict management | Doctoral candidates and | Any time | workshop in presence |
ChIP-Seq analysis: from fastq files to figures
(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 on April 28, 2024 with a meeting in zoom and consists of four modules covering all steps needed to analyse ChIP-Seq data.
Trainer: |
| when | who | what |
Module 1 - Introduction to Unix | Useful commands, installing programs, using a high-performance clusters | 05.06.2024 | Docs and Postdocs | Q & A |
Module 2 - From fastq files to count matrix | Quality control, adapter trimming, alignment, peak calling, count matrix generation | 03.07.2024 | Docs and Postdocs | Q & A |
Module 3 - From count matrix to differentially enriched regions | Introduction to R, differential analysis with two or more conditions | 07.08.2024 | Docs and Postdocs | Q & A |
Module 4 - Different options for further analyses | Bigwig files and IGV browser, profiles and heatmaps, gene annotation, transcription factor binding sites, copy number aberrations, intervene pairwise | 11.09.2024 | Docs and Postdocs | Q & A |
If you would like to take part in this workshop, please send an email to isabell.witt(at)uni-koeln.de
R - workshops
| Trainer. Dr. Alexander Klassmann | Who, maximal 12 participants | Dates |
R intro for beginners | advanced MSc, doctoral students, postdocs | 2., 3., 5., 6.,09.2024 |
Introduction to RNA-seq data analysis with R package "DESeq2" | advanced MSc, doctoral students, postdocs | 19.-20.09.2024 |
Workshop (ggplot) for people with knowledge in R | advanced MSc, doctoral students, postdocs | 16.09.2024 |
Workshop R-PCA for people with knowledge in R | advanced MSc, doctoral students, postdocs | 17.09.2024 |
Statistics, Programming with R, Analyzing and Visualizing data
Trainer: Dr. Rick Scavetta (scavetta academy) | |||
Workshop | Who | When during the doctorate? | Dates |
Doctoral researchers | early phase | 06.,13., 20., 22.03.2024 | |
Doctoral researchers and early stage postdocs | any time | 04., 11., 18., 22., 25.04.2024 | |
Doctoral researchers and early stage postdocs who know how to use the programming language R | any time | 07., 14., 21., 23., 28.10.2024 |
Patenting
Trainer: Prof. Dr. Peter Schreier | |||
Workshop | Who | When | Dates |
Doctoral researchers and early stage postdocs | any time but usually a bit into the doctorate | tba |