Trainer: Kerstin Kathy Meyer-Ross

Date and Time: 6 + 7 March 2023, (1st day: 9:00-12:00, 13:00-16:00; 2nd day: 9:00-12:00)

Target group: PhD students

Venue: tentative: onsite

Content:

This module helps students to improve their personal online presentation skills. This session is a combination of a lecture followed by a practical part with exercises, which turn the acquired knowledge into personal experience. Topics are, among others: how to structure a presentation so that the audience can it follow easily, designing slides, making the best possible use of visual aids and technical equipment, dealing with interruptions, handling questions, keeping an eye on the time and the best way of finishing in a hurry, common mistakes, what to do when nervous, how to give proper feedback, etc. Furthermore, non-native speakers of English are given tips on spoken language and a number of phrases they can use e.g. for transition. Exercises deal with posture, breathing, voice and body language. Special focus is laid on online appearance, as in camera and face, mouth, and hair, as well as hand movement, but also background and microphone usage.  The most important part, though, are the individual presentations given by the students. The students are given individual feedback. Every student prepares a 3-min talk.

Please register by 7 February 2023

To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Trainer: Andrew Moore

Date & time: 14 + 15 March 2023, 9:00-15:00

Venue: tentative: onsite

Target group: advanced PhD students and postdocs

Content:

• Find out about the most important rule of communication (any communication).
• Learn about how readers find and read your work, so that you can write better for your intended audience.
• Get some interesting insights into cognitive psychology that are highly relevant for writing good scientific English.
• Learn how to structure your writing for maximum effect.
• Submit a short piece of writing, and benefit from group feedback and editorial input in real time.
• Find out how editorial works, how to avoid common pitfalls (typical reasons for rejection), and how to react to rejection letters.
• Understand the journal world better, and improve your ability to choose an appropriate journal in which to publish (and to avoid "predatory" journals!).

Please register by 14 February 2023

To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Trainer: Taiya Mikisch

Date and Time: 16 March + 26 May 2023, 9:00-18:00 / 9:00-13:00

Target group: PhD students, Postdocs

Venue: tentative 1st day onsite, follow up online

Content:

The imposter-syndrome describes the feeling in individuals that their success and status are due to chance or luck. It often goes along with the fear of being exposed as a fraud. This is a common phenomenon among PhD students (as well as academics in general).

The focus of this workshop is to support participants in transferring the workshop content into their everyday life and to use the provided methods in challenging situations. Therefore, after the first part of the workshop, participants are provided with regular reminders and small, accessible exercises (e.g. reflections, mindfulness exercises) so that the methods from the workshop can be practiced in everyday life. Also, regular meetings with peers from the workshop are scheduled to support each other.

Approximately 3 months after the workshop, there will be a follow-up meeting to discuss questions and enable participants to reflect on their current experience of the imposter syndrome.

Please register by 16 February 2023

To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Trainer: Fridolin Kielisch in cooperation with IMB core facilites

Date & Time: 19 April - 24 May 2023, 9:00 - 10:30 (6 weekly units of 90 minutes each, always Wed)

Venue: tentative onsite; exception: 10 May 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 (ideally in the second half of September).

https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/training.html#rintro 

Please register by 17 March 2023

To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email p.mohr@imb-mainz.de

Trainer: Christian Nuber

Date and Time: 20 April 2023, 9:00-17:00

Venue: tentative: 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 17 March 2023

To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de