Information on additional lectures and events:
The application portal of IMPRS for Molecular Life Sciences: From Biological Structures to Neural Circuits is activated.
Deadline of application is November 15th, 2021.
For more information, please visit the application pages.
Date: Monday 27th - Wednesday 29th September 2021
Location: online
Trainer: Viola Kraus
Description: Our evening workshop series on virtual work will explore three critical aspects. Our evening sessions are comprised of mini-lecture sequences, break-out groups and moments of self-reflection.
1) how to ensure that you can still work well and collaborate and meet efficiently as a team
- the psychology of virtual teams
- missing communication cues in a virtual team context
- practical tools for effective teaming and meeting virtually
2) how to better manage yourself while you feel more detached from your peers and teams
- analyse your habits
- receive tools for changing hindering habits
- practice how to foster good self-management habits
3) how to better present in the virtual context
- what is missing when presenting in a virtual context, what do we have to make up for?
- how to still convince your audience through voice and preparation of content
Date: Monday 4th October - Friday 19th November 2021
Location: online
Trainer: Nadine Sinclair
Description: FastForward is the productivity system for researchers. It is helping early-stage researchers lead projects with more confidence, more focus and less stress in just 7 weeks. It includes seven modules:
Date: Monday 4th - Tuesday 5th October 2021
Location: Large Conference Room, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry
Trainer: Andreas Kist
Description: Programming is a highly desirable and applicable skill in science. With the open-source and universal programming language Python, you can acquire, analyze, and present your data easily without leaving one programming environment. In this introductory course, students will learn how to write small Python scripts using Jupyter notebooks. We will cover why Python is an ideal programming language to learn, the Python syntax, data types, conditional statements, loops and file I/O. We glance at scientific Python packages and version control.
Date: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Location: Large Conference Room, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry
Trainer: Andreas Kist
Description: Programming is a highly desirable and applicable skill in science. With the open source and universal programming language Python, you can acquire, analyze, and present your data easily without leaving one programming environment.
A lot of daily tasks are easy to reasonable difficult to automate or simplify. In this one-day workshop, students will learn how to batch process files, interact with CSV and Excel files easily and create paper quality plots with ease. Further, part of the course is dedicated to the needs of the students and we will work us through some issues course participants are faced with.
Course aim:
Learn to rename, read and process files dynamically, use the pandas and seaborn package for data mining, statistics and plotting.
Speaker: Thomas Frank | MPI of Neurobiology
Date: Thursday 7th October 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
The IMPRS-LS Lecture Series is open to the public. We are looking forward to welcoming all those who are interested in attending.
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Date: Monday 11th - Tuesday 12th October 2021
Location: online
Trainer: Andreas Binder
Description: This two-day workshop is „hands-on“, i.e. you will directly practice the course contents at the computer during the workshop. It will start from scratch and teach you the basics of vector graphics until you will be able to draw your own schematics and data figures. The trainer can flexibly adapt to your needs if you would like to have special topics covered. It can also include basics of Adobe Photoshop. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to apply your new skills to create and design advanced graphics and data representations for talks, posters, and your publications.
Speaker: Ralf Jungmann | MPI of Biochemistry
Date: Thursday 14th October 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
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Date: Thursday 21st - Friday 22nd October 2021
Location: online
Trainer: Andreas Kist
Description: Programming is a highly desirable and applicable skill in science. With the open-source and universal programming language Python, you can acquire, analyze, and present your data easily without leaving one programming environment.
This workshop focuses on scientific image processing using Python. We discuss different file formats and origins, how to open different file formats and deal with metadata. We cover basic image processing principles such as histogram equalization, (local) thresholding, alignment and segmentation. For each topic, we will use real data to showcase the applicability of the learned functions. On the second day, we will further emphasize functions that fit the students’ needs and invite one to two speakers that show briefly where they use Python in image processing. The course also highlights strategies how to tackle an image processing pipeline.
This course will be adjusted according to the participants’ background.
Course aim:
Use the skimage and OpenCV package to process imaging data.
Speaker: Julian Stingele | Gene Center, LMU
Date: Thursday 21st October 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
The IMPRS-LS Lecture Series is open to the public. We are looking forward to welcoming all those who are interested in attending.
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Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Date: Monday 25th - Tuesday 26th October 2021
Location: Large Conference Room, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry
Trainer: Kai Hüwelmeyer
Description: Scientists have to give arguments in many different contexts: in their publications, in grant applications, in lab meetings and in conference presentations. Nevertheless, the bases for strong and correct arguments are not always fully clear to them. Logic provides extremely helpful tools for scientists to develop their arguments in a coherent, well-structured and convincing way. The seminar gives an introduction to the most important concepts of logic: premises and conclusions of arguments, validity and soundness of arguments, deductive vs. inductive reasoning, common types of inferences and fallacies.
The idea of the seminar is to use these concepts as a toolbox which provides very useful techniques for everyday scientific work. The participants learn how to reconstruct arguments from scientific texts, how to give well-structured and logically valid arguments, and how to avoid misunderstandings. There are two main sets of exercises: one for written argumentation and one for oral argumentation.
Contents:
basic concepts of logic (validity and soundness of arguments etc.)
inductive and deductive arguments
common types of fallacies
reconstructing arguments from texts
tips and exercises for written argumentation
tips and exercises for oral argumentation
Speaker: Maria Robles | LMU
Date: Thursday 28th October 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
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Speaker: Barbara Schraml | LMU, Biomedical Center
Date: Thursday 4th November 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
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Date: Monday 8th - Tuesday 9th November 2021
Location: online
Trainer: Kristina Popova
Description: In this workshop the participants are introduced to the storytelling elements and formulas applied by the entertainment industry, and learn how to use them to effectively communicate scientific research. The workshop focusses on storytelling as applied to science talks, however the same tools and structures can also be applied to writing. Throughout the workshop we build upon the prepared presentation drafts, introducing the storytelling elements and structure into each of them. Towards the end of the workshop, we put the acquired knowledge into context and look at how scientists can use the same techniques in their day to-day life.
Speaker: Joergen Kornfeld | MPI of Neurobiology
Date: Thursday 11th November 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
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Date: Thursday 11th - Friday 12th November 2021
Location: Small Conference Room, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry
Trainer: Ruth Willmott
Description: Knowing how to design a well-structured, visually attractive poster is a must for every researcher. However, due to insufficient know-how and inexperience, you may fail to get your message across and also not present your poster optimally.
To overcome these problems, the Designing and Presenting Posters Workshop focuses on the key dos and don’ts of strong poster design using your own poster as material. In addition, you will be coached on how to effectively make your key points and convey your message as well as on how to make the best impression on interested parties. This workshop will, therefore, enable you not only to design and present a poster competently but also to represent yourself and your Institute more professionally.
The Designing and Presenting Posters Workshop is ideal for early-stage research scientists with no or little poster designing and presenting experience.
Date: Saturday 13th November 2021
Location: Small Conference Room, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry
Trainer: Ruth Willmott
Description: The Career Orientation: Shaping and Steering your Career Path workshop is aimed at providing you with (1) professional advice on what your career options are and (2) hands-on mentoring on how to make it on your chosen career path whether in academia or on the wider market or both. Such an approach will allow you to make informed strategic choices on how best to shape and steer your career path.
Speaker: Johannes Buchner | TUM
Date: Thursday 18th November 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
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Date: Wednesday 24th - Tuesday 30th November 2021
Location: online
Trainer: Rick Scavetta
Description: This workshop enables life scientists to effectively create figures based on quantitative data that add impact to their publications. The workshop is divided into two modules: Principles and Applications.
Participants learn how to:
Speaker: Ralph Boettcher | MPI of Biochemistry
Date: Thursday 25th November 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
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Speaker: Roland Beckmann | LMU - Gene Center
Date: Thursday 2nd December 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
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Speaker: Karl-Peter Hopfner | LMU - Gene Center
Date: Thursday 2nd December 2021 at 5 pm
Location: online event
Link to meeting: https://mpi-biochemistry.zoom.us/j/94498060842
Meeting-ID: 944 9806 0842
Password: 893026
The IMPRS-LS Lecture Series is open to the public. We are looking forward to welcoming all those who are interested in attending.
Details about "Proof of attendance" & "Lecture netiquette"
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series