Upcoming Events

Speaker: Roland Beckmann  |  LMU - Gene Center

Date: Thursday 2nd December 2021 at 5 pm

Location: online event

Meeting details

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

Date:     Thursday 9th - Friday 10th December 2021           

Location:  virtual  |  closed event, open only for IMPRS-LS students

The IMPRS-LS Seminar is a great opportunity for our students to showcase their innovative research to their peers in a friendly environment. IMPRS-LS students will have the chance to present their projects in either talk or poster format.

Our poster sessions provide the perfect opportunity for IMPRS-LS students to network with colleagues and discuss their most recent findings. Students additionally have the chance to vote for their favorite talk and poster, with the winners from each category being announced at the end of the seminar.

Speaker: Jürg Müller |  Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Date: Thursday 13th January 2022 at 5 pm (CET)

Location: online event

Meeting details: TBA

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

Speaker: Benedikt Grothe |  Biocenter - LMU

Date: Thursday 27th January 2022 at 5 pm (CET)

Location: online event

Meeting details: TBA

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

Date: Mondays 7th+14th+21st February 2022

Location: online

Trainer: Amani Said

Description: The Career Booster Program Workshop Series has been specifically designed to support PhD candidates, Postdocs and other academics to leverage their PhD by making a successful career transition, whether within or outside of academia.

The main challenges PhDs struggle with when it comes to career development are:

•     lack of clarity, not knowing what the next career step should be
•     not knowing where to start and the strategies to use
•     not understanding their own value, skills and the results they can create and more importantly how they can transfer their research training to another field
•     not having a long-term plan or career vision
•     fear of the unknown (especially if outside of academia)
•     where to find positions and how to network

As a result of taking the Career Booster Program, candidates experience clarity on their career path, they gain the confidence and learn the tools to create their desired careers. The programs 4 workshops and group coaching help scientists tackle the main challenges mentioned above.

 
Date: Wednesday 9th February - Tuesday 15th February 2022

Location: online

Trainer: Rick Scavetta

Description: This workshop enables life scientists to effectively and rapidly analyse their data using the R software package.

Participants learn how to:

• operate R using variables, functions, indexing, and packages.
• import their own data regardless of size or format.
• perform standard statistical tests on large data-sets.
• produce plots and highlight specific data-points.
• begin programming in R using the apply functions.
• use split-combine-apply strategies for calculations and data manipulation.
• begin to adopt a bioinformatician’s perspective.

Date: Wednesday 16th - Friday 18th February 2022

Location: Small Lecture Hall, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry

Trainer: Andreas Kist

Description: Intelligent machines are used to be found in science fiction. However, especially recently with the advent of “deep learning”, many tasks that have been doomed impossible are now approachable. In this three days lasting, intense course, we learn the basics of Machine and Deep Learning. We start from linear regression and work our way to convolutional neural networks to classify data and to find region of interests (ROIs) in images. We use the established TensorFlow (from Google) framework and use Keras to interface the TensorFlow backend.

Date: Tuesday 22nd - Monday 28th February 2022

Location: online

Trainer: Rick Scavetta

Description:  This workshop enables life scientists to understand the purpose and uses of classical statistics as an integral part of the scientific method. 

The workshop consists of three sections: Collecting, Describing & Inferring. Practical tools and the theoretical background to understand how they work will be introduced. Mathematical equations will be used when helpful and are provided in the reference book, but they will not be the focus of the workshop. Our goal is to enlighten via intuitive understanding, not confuse via math.

Topics Covered:

• good experimental design and sources of bias.
• systematic versus random error.
• the distinction between samples and populations.
• the most appropriate ways to describe samples.
• estimation and the principle of hypothesis testing.
• the standard error of the mean and confidence intervals.
• understanding and reporting uncertainty.
• power, type I and type II errors.
• standard parametric tests and their interpretations, including p-values, test statistics, and associated distributions.

Speaker: Amelie Heuer-Jungemann |  Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Date: Thursday 3rd March 2022 at 5 pm (CET)

Location: online event

Meeting details: TBA

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

Date: Monday 7th March - Friday 11th March 2022

Location: Small Lecture Hall, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry

Trainer: Marco Masia

Description:
The workshop will focus on core concepts in entrepreneurial capacity building, using the approach pioneered by the Harvard Business School, that is currently used by leading Business Schools worldwide. In addition to its core components, the workshop will tailor specific elements to the customer expertise, research programme, and needs. This workshop is structured to teach researchers how to navigate an entrepreneurial journey from idea generation to starting a business.

Working in teams, Researchers will be trained to identify an entrepreneurial idea, make it profitable, improve on it, start a business, and deliver a successful product. Key learning objectives are: 

1. To understand the challenges of creating a business and how to overcome them; 
2. To identify the risks involved in an entrepreneurial endeavor and avoid typical pitfalls; 
3. To understand which strategies need to be followed in order to be successful in business.

The trainer, Dr. Marco Masia, is a scientist and entrepreneur. With a MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Physics, he has worked as a Professor of Theoretical Chemistry for ten years at the University of Sassari. He has published many high impact papers (in Science, and other highly ranked journals), participated in European projects, and collaborated with diverse research teams across the world. With a Masters of Business Administration from the Frankfurt School of Business, he has founded and managed a start-up, has managed a large non-profit organization, and currently advises start-ups and SMEs. The training syllabus draws from his unique experience in research, business and entrepreneurship, and management, and is tailored specifically to researchers.

Speaker: Kikuё Tachibana  |  MPI of Biochemistry

Date: Thursday 17th March 2022 at 5 pm (CET)

Location: online event

Meeting details: TBA

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

Date: Mondays 21st + 28th March + 4th April 2022

Location: online

Trainer: Amani Said

Description: The Career Booster Program Workshop Series has been specifically designed to support PhD candidates, Postdocs and other academics to leverage their PhD by making a successful career transition, whether within or outside of academia.

The main challenges PhDs struggle with when it comes to career development are:

•     lack of clarity, not knowing what the next career step should be
•     not knowing where to start and the strategies to use
•     not understanding their own value, skills and the results they can create and more importantly how they can transfer their research training to another field
•     not having a long-term plan or career vision
•     fear of the unknown (especially if outside of academia)
•     where to find positions and how to network

As a result of taking the Career Booster Program, candidates experience clarity on their career path, they gain the confidence and learn the tools to create their desired careers. The programs 4 workshops and group coaching help scientists tackle the main challenges mentioned above.

Speaker: Lisa Fenk |  MPI for Biological Intelligence

Date: Thursday 31st March 2022 at 5 pm (CET)

Location: online event

Meeting details: TBA

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