Career Crafting - 14-16 October 2025

Trainer: Silke Oehrlein-Karpi
Date: 14 + 15 + 16 October 2025 (9:00-14:00)
Venue: IMB
Target group: late stage PhD students
Content: 
For a successful career it is a prerequisite to develop your individual strategy pro-actively and as early as possible.  Although the routine of your daily work usually keeps you from pausing for a moment, it is pivotal to set some time apart for exploring your individual professional profile and for being able to plan each of your career moves in a conscious way. Being aware of your personal skills, competencies, and values is essential for defining and achieving your goals, making informed decisions and exhausting your full potential.
In this modular workshop with a blended-learning-approach, you will get relevant information about strategic career development.

Workshop Goals

- PreWork: Identification of biographical key moments related to your career – Creating a life profile

- Module I: Compilation of your individual skill profile (professional, methodological, social and personal) and of your personal value profile
- InbetweenWork I: Completing your skill and value profiles

- Module II: From values to career motivation, discussion of structural barriers and compatibility challenges in academia, identification of career alternatives to a professorship, such as scientific management and professional fields outside of science (general overview)
- InbetweenWork II: Developing a vision about your future options

- Module III: Feedback regarding your personal vision, plan A/plan B strategy & collecting concrete ideas how to move on towards your career goals

Please register by 17 September 2025
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Biostatistics - Autumn 2025

Trainer: Fridolin Kielisch in cooperation with IMB core facilities
Date & Time: 28 October - 9 December 2025, 9:15 - 10:45 (6 weekly units of 90 minutes each, always Tue; no session on 18 Nov)
Venue: hybrid (IMB + online)
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 29 September 2025
This course is currently not open to external* participants. For more information, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Presentation Skills - 3+4 December 2025

Trainer: Alexander Britz
Date and Time: 3+4 December 2025 (9:00-17:00)
Target group: PhD students
Venue: IMB
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 27 October 2025
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de