Upcoming Events

Speaker: Benedikt Grothe |  Biocenter - LMU

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

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: 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.

Date: Thursday 3rd - Friday 4th March 2022

Location: online

Trainer: Markus Ackermann

Description: This workshop will be useful both for people looking into patenting their inventions, as well as those interested in the patent-related careers.

You can read a lot about patents and other industrial property rights. However, there are two fundamental problems for young professionals in life sciences trying to find out about a possible career in the field of industrial property. First, it has been extremely hard to get an idea of what a patent attorney’s daily work looks like. Second, there has been no training or workshop material specifically tailored for people with a background in life sciences.

This workshop offers the unique opportunity to explore a patent attorney’s daily work by means of a case study that is based on a real patent case. It is conceived in a way to mimic the training experience of a trainee in a patent attorney’s office. Thus, the workshop is hands-on training and you will have to jump in at the deep end. Moreover, you will work on a life-science case throughout the workshop and get insights into the various legal aspects (including case law) that a patent attorney must be knowledgeable about. Finally, you will learn to appreciate the similarities and differences between different jurisdictions (such as European, German, and U.S.).

Speaker: Georg Borner |  MPI of Biochemistry

Date: Thursday 10th 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: Thursday 17th - Friday 18th March 2022

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.

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