Information on additional lectures and events:
The application portal of IMPRS for Molecular Life Sciences: From Biological Structures to Neural Circuits will be activated on September 1st, 2022.
Deadline of registration is November 12th, 2022. Deadline of application submission is November 15th, 2022.
For more information, please visit the application pages.
Date: Thursday 29th - Friday 30th September 2022
Location: Small Lecture Hall, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry (link is external)
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: Stefan Lichtenthaler | DZNE - TUM
Date: Thursday 6th October 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall (wearing of FFP2/medical masks is recommended)
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The IMPRS-LS Lecture Series is open to the public. We are looking forward to welcoming all those who are interested in attending.
Proof of attendance:
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Speaker: Petra Schwille | MPI of Biochemistry
Date: Thursday 13th October 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall (wearing of FFP2/medical masks is recommended)
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published here one week in advance.
The IMPRS-LS Lecture Series is open to the public. We are looking forward to welcoming all those who are interested in attending.
Proof of attendance:
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Date: Monday 17th October - Friday 2nd December 2022
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: Thursday 20th - Friday 21st October 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.
Speaker: Andreas Ladurner | Biomedical Center, LMU
Date: Thursday 20th October 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Date: Monday 24th - Tuesday 25th October 2022
Location: Small Lecture Hall, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry
Trainer: Michael Gordian
Description: More than ever, the ability to develop fresh ideas, to formulate new questions and to explore uncharted scientific areas are vital to one's professional career. True creativity is key to success in academia and, of course, beyond. The main goal of this practical webinar is to familiarise you with some of the best-practice techniques of creative thinking for your scientific work and research. We will focus mainly on the concepts and exercises developed by Sir Edward de Bono, one of the greatest experts on the subject worldwide (who, however, is largely unknown in Germany). We will also explore some other famous creative techniques, for example 'oblique strategies' which David Bowie has famously used while composing one of his albums. You will get to try out and practice these techniques in various individual and group exercises, applying them to your own work. Furthermore, you will learn about the do's and don'ts of creative thinking, discussing and reflecting on key concepts such as the 'inner censor' and the 'diamond of creativity'. At the end of this workshop, you will have a 'toolbox' with various techniques which you can use independently in your daily work and research.
Speaker: Don Lamb | LMU
Date: Thursday 27th October 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Date: Wednesday 2nd - Tuesday 15th November 2022
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: Alexander Borst | MPI for Biological Intelligence i.f.
Date: Thursday 3rd November 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Speaker: Karl Duderstadt | MPI of Biochemistry
Date: Thursday 10th November 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Speaker: Christian Haass | DZNE - LMU
Date: Thursday 17th November 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Speaker: Oliver Griesbeck | MPI for Biological Intelligence i.f.
Date: Thursday 24th November 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Date: Fridays 25th November - 9th December 2022
Location: online
Trainer: Elena and Martin Lichtenthaler
Description: Are you at a point in your career, where you wonder what comes next? Are you curious how to effectively network and best leverage working remotely? Look no further. During this highly interactive workshop series, you will learn how to successfully build, grow and maintain your professional networks, conduct informational interviews and proactively take the lead on your career.
This workshop series won’t be your regular online meeting. You will find yourself 100% engaged and leave every session energized, with a sense of newly found community and a clear plan of what comes next. Workload-wise, we kindly ask you to reserve an additional 30 minutes per week to revisit the content of each session and to get into the doing – the most effective way to learn.
Date: Thursday 1st - Friday 2nd December 2022
Location: online
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: Nadine Gogolla | MPI of Psychiatry
Date: Thursday 1st December 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Speaker: Michael Sattler | TUM
Date: Thursday 8th December 2022 at 5 pm
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series
Date: Friday 9th - Saturday 10th December and Thursday 15th or Friday 16th December 2022
Location: Small Conference Room, 1st floor, T-building, MPI of Biochemistry
Trainer: Ruth Willmott
Description: In the Career Mentoring and Management: Applying for Jobs on the Wider Market workshop, you will receive comprehensive career mentoring about the wealth of alternative career paths that are open to you as well as advice on how to best find and access these jobs. You will also be armed with key communication skills that will prove to be a prerequisite for career success on the wider market. You will be given advice on how to optimally build your CV and resumé as well as on how to write convincing personal career mission statements and strong core competencies summaries that will be attractive to a wide range of future employers. You will also learn how to best present your skills and talents in attention-grabbing application letters. Finally, we will role play questions that regularly come up during interviews to ensure that you gain the competitive edge over other application candidates.
Date: Monday 12th- Tuesday 13th December 2022
Location: Small Lecture Hall, 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.
Speaker: Jürgen Plitzko | MPI of Biochemistry
Date: Thursday 15th December 2022 at 5 pm (CET)
Location: MPI of Biochemistry, T-building, Large lecture hall
Meeting details for hybrid event will be published shortly before the event.
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" will be published soon.
Program of the IMPRS Lecture Series