Adobe Illustrator - Beginners - 1 April 2025

Trainer: Christian Nuber
Date and Time: 1 April 2025, 11:00-19:00 (!NOTE!)
Venue: onsite
Target group: Postdocs & PhD students
Content:
This beginners' course aims at PhD students and junior scientists who want to learn how to make figures and drawings for scientific publications / posters using Adobe illustrator.

Please register by 27 February 2025
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Presentation Skills - 20+21 May 2025

Trainer: Alexander Britz
Date and Time: 20 + 21 May 2025 (9:00-17:00)
Target group: PhD students
Venue: onsite
Content:
During the workshop, the participants will gain essential skills to deliver impactful scientific presentations (for seminars, conferences, or a thesis defense). The emphasis will be on oral presentation skills.

The specific topics and learning objectives of the workshop are:
- Understand and apply fundamental laws of effective professional scientific communication, with a spotlight on oral presentation skills.
- Learn to create compelling narratives from scientific results using structured storytelling and pitching techniques.
- Acquire skills to use body language and voice effectively.
- Understand how to use technical aid and design appealing slides.
- Hands-on practice of short presentations in breakout sessions.
- Utilize structured feedback to refine your presentations.
Each participant will have to bring a 5-mins presentation or a poster for an active practice session.

Please register by 18 April 2025
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Critical Reasoning and Logic - 27+28 May 2025

Trainer: Kai Hüwelmeyer
Date & time: 27 + 28 May 2025, 9:00-17:00
Venue: IMB
Target group: PhD students, postdocs, junior scientists
Content:
Scientists have to give arguments in many different contexts: in their publications, in grant applications, in lab meetings and in conference presentations. Nevertheless, the bases for strong and correct arguments are not always fully clear to them. Logic provides extremely helpful tools for scientists to develop their arguments in a coherent, well-structured and convincing way. The course introduces the most important concepts of logic: premises and conclusions of arguments, validity and soundness of arguments, deductive vs. inductive reasoning, common types of inferences and fallacies. The idea of the course is to use these concepts as a toolbox which provides useful techniques for everyday scientific work. The participants learn how to reconstruct arguments from scientific texts, how to give well-structured and logically valid arguments, and how to avoid misunderstandings.

Please register by 25 April 2025
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de