Mastering your PhD - 15-17 September 2025

Trainer: Christina Schütte
Date and Time: 15 - 17 September 2025, 9:00-14:30
Target group: PhD students, early stage researchers
Venue: online
Content:
This online workshop on project management for early-stage researchers will focus on the basics of project management, organisation of one's work and personal time management.

Topics that will be covered:

- basics of project management
- project phases
- milestone definition
- delegation and individual time management
- communication within research projects (allocating roles, leading and steering your scientific project)
- developing risk scenarios and preparing for fails
- motivation, dealing with stress and frustration

Please register by 15 August 2025
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Building a Strategic Approach to Research Funding - 18 September 2025

Trainer: Dr. Gunnar Seemann
Date and Time: 18 September 2025, 9:00 – 17:00
Target group: Postdocs & staff scientists
Venue: IMB
Content:
This workshop is ideal for postdocs who want to take greater ownership of their research trajectory and build sustainable, funded research careers. Through a mix of guided discussion, practical exercises, and real-world examples, participants will explore how to align their funding efforts with their long-term research goals, identify appropriate funding sources, and craft compelling narratives for proposals. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

- Map their research vision onto a coherent funding strategy.
- Identify suitable funding opportunities aligned with their career stage and goals.
- Understand key elements of competitive funding proposals.
- Plan ahead for long-term funding needs and cycles.

Please register by 19 August 2025
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Scientific Writing - 7+8 October 2025

Trainer: Christina Schuette
Date and Time: 7 + 8 October 2025, 9:00-17:00
Target group: PhD students
Venue: IMB
Content:
2-day interactive event with trainer input and exercises to introduce academic writing in English.
- Course content: Good and bad scientific texts / Messages - formulating main statements clearly / Presenting results: Figures and legends / Writing exercises followed by feedback, working with own texts / Parts of a paper / Writing English texts / Writing strategies / Publication process.
- Preliminary work by the participants: Analysis of a paper

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

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 15 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