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
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
03.12.2025	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

Date

Event

Further information

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

03.12.2025

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