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
14.10.2025	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
28.10.2025	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

Date

Event

Further information

14.10.2025

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

28.10.2025

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