The 19^th MGC promovendi workshop - Dusseldorf 29 May - 1 June, 2012

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Symposia & Meetings:

Avans Hogeschool organizes the course Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing; technologies, applications, and data analysis, 27-30 March 2012, Breda, The Netherlands

PCDI - Postdoc Career Development Initiative - is an organisation that aims at improving awareness of career planning and opportunities among postdocs, PhD students and their employers. We bring together scientists, universities and key players in the life science industry.

Postdoc Retreat, 27-30 March, 2012 - Register now

MGC Teaching Programme for PhD Students

Workshop  ’Share your biotechnology research with a broad audience’

12 en 26 January, 2012, LUMC

A training course on 'how to share your biotechnology research with a broad audience, like patients, clients, journalists or investors'. How do you go about this? What should you tell and how to make sure that the reader doesn’t lose quickly interest after the first sentences. 

In the workshop Marianne Heselmans and Astrid Smit – two experienced science journalists - provides you with tools to do this. They will teach you to understand the reader, to discover your own appealing story, to write this down in a clear way. The workshops are practical. You get started quickly, after a theoretical introduction. Smit and Heselmans prefer to work with your own texts. These may be blogs, websites, articles for specialist journals,  posters, press releases or presentations. You work on an assignment between the two workshop sessions.

The workshop will be given at the LUMC in Leiden on 12 and 26 January, 2012 from 13:30 - 17:30 h.  The workshops are meant for phd’s and postdoc’s and is free for researchers of LUMC, Erasmus MC and MGC. There is a maximum of 10 and a minimum of 7 participants.

For registration send an email to Nivard@lumc.nl before 30 November, 2011. For more information go to www.deperskamer.eu.

Course "Technology Facilities"

29 February - 2 March, 2012

LUMC, Leiden

Provisional Programme 2012

Registration

The course will deal with three topics: 1. Genomics and Transcriptomics, 2. Proteomics, and 3. Imaging. The course is primarily organized for PhD students who just started their research but other participants, e.g. technicians,  postdocs who are not familiar with the different topics, are also welcome.

The registration form allows to subscribe for only one, two or all three days. There is a maximum of 40 and a minimum of 10 participants per day. Should the course be oversubscribed, then places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

 

Registration Fee
PhD students from the LUMC, ErasmusMC and MGC and participants working at the LUMC, ErasmusMC or MGC are free of charge on condition that they will be present during the entire course. Participants from outside these institutes will be charged 100 euro per day with a maximum of 200 euro.
Cancellations
Cancellations have to be send in writing to the Boerhaave Committee. In case of cancellation after February 19, 2012 or upon no show, participants from the MGC, Erasmus MC, and LUMC will be charged 50 euro; other participants have to pay the full price. 
 

Course "Genome Maintenance & Cancer"

2 - 3 April, 2012

LUMC, Leiden

Provisional Programme 2012

Registration

The course will deal with basic principles of several cell biological aspects such as DNA damage formation, DNA repair mechanisms, signalling pathways in respect to mutation formation and cancer susceptibility.

There is a maximum of 40 and a minimum of 10 participants per day. Should the course be oversubscribed, then places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

Registration Fee
PhD students from the LUMC, ErasmusMC and MGC and participants working at the LUMC, ErasmusMC or MGC are free of charge on condition that they will be present during the entire course. Participants from outside these institutes will be charged 150 euro.
Cancellations
Cancellations have to be send in writing to the Boerhaave Committee. In case of cancellation after March 23, 2012 or upon no show, participants from the MGC, Erasmus MC, and LUMC will be charged 50 euro; other participants have to pay the full price. 

Course "Epigenetic Regulation"

April - May, 2012

LUMC, Leiden

Course "Next Generation Sequence data analysis"

September -October 2012

LUMC, Leiden

Programme 2011

Pre-registration

The course aims at PhD students, postdocs and senior researchers who are interested in planning, or already  working with next-generation sequencing. Currently avaliable technologies as well as hardware and software solutions will be presented and discussed. The focus of the course will be on the data and ways to analyse the data.

The following courses are on the MolMed website and open for registration:

Symposium on Carbapenemase-producing organisms: the beginning of the end?
16 & 17 February 2012, Congress Centre Engels, Rotterdam
First day Symposium. Second day master class opportunities. This symposium offers the opportunity to learn more about the mechanisms involved in carbapenem resistance, as well as its diagnosis and clinical relevance. This symposium is meant for medical microbiologists, infection control practioners and assistants trained in this field.
More information, program and registration: www.molmed.nl

Workshop Browsing Genes and Genomes with UCSC - Basic and Advanced
20 & 21 February 2012, Computer room, Erasmus MC
Two different one day hands-on computer course on the Gene Browser UCSC. One basic and one advanced. Both are given by Dr. Robert Kuhn of the Santa Cruz University, US. He also gave the UCSC Course last May. Based on our and the participants' evaluations of this course, we've asked him to return and give the course again, as well as provide an advanced UCSC course.
More informationd and registration: www.molmed.nl

Annual Course on Molecular Medicine
27 - 28 February 2012
Annual course on Molecular Medicine highlighting the research conducted within the four main Research Themes of the School: 1. Endocrinology, metabolism & ageing; 2. Haematopoiesis, lymphopoiesis & immune regulation; 3. Solid tumors; 4. Infections & host response. The course consists of four half-day sessions on each theme. It is of interest for all starting PhD-students and postdocs of the research schools Molecular Medicine and MGC, but also for research master students wanting to broaden their horizon.
More information and registration: www.molmed.nl

Important! The Annual Mol Med Day will be organized this year on Wednesday 29 February 2011 at Congress Centre Engels, nearby Rotterdam CS (www.engels.nl).
This year's keynote speakers is: Prof.dr Hans Clever of the Hubrecht Institute Utrecht, who will present on: "Stem cells. The bright side, the dark side".
Participation is free and every member of the school is cordially invited to join us during this day.
More information and registration (including with abstract) at: www.molmed.nl
This year's deadline for abstract submission for an oral or poster presentation and inclusion in the annual MolMed Book, is: Tuesday 10 January 2012 at 9.00 a.m. (really!)
As last year, four poster awards (à 500 E) and one oral award (1000 E) will be given out during this day! These awards can be spend as you see you fit...

Translational Imaging Workshop by AMIE: From mouse to man & Opening Symposium
6 - 9 March 2012
The programme Applied Molecular Imaging at Erasmus MC (AMIE) provides a platform for scientists interested in imaging technology and molecular imaging in general. The aim of this 4-day workshop is to give a broad introduction into preclinical and translational Molecular Imaging techniques and their applications in biology and medicine. This workshop is designed for PhD-students and researchers in one of the Erasmus Postgraduate Schools, but PhD students and researchers from other universities are also welcome.
More information, program and registration: www.molmed.nl

Course on Basic and Translational Oncology
19-23 March 2012
Annual course on Basic and Translational Oncology, organized together with the LUMC Leiden. The program features keynote lectures by René Bernhard and Piet Borst of the NCI, journal clubs and a lab visit.
More information and registration: www.molmed.nl

EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow
8, 9 & 10 May 2012
12 & 13  June 2012
Computer room, Erasmus MC
Five day Road Show on Bioinformatics organized together with the EMBL-EBI. This Road Show will focus, in five different days, on:
- Functional Genomics 
- ENA and Ensembl developments & data warehouse 
- Sequence Searching and Alignment 
- Proteomics 
- GO, Interactions and Pathways 
Registration is done for each day/module individually.
More information, program and registration: www.molmed.nl

Furthermore, the School is busy setting up a User Group in 'R'.
Anyone interested can register via our website: www.molmed.nl
Once started, the user group will have a meeting on a fixed day every month. Questions are prepared in advance and send to the moderator. The user group is chaired by Elizabeth McClellan, Biostatistician working at the Dept. of Bioinformatics of Erasmus MC. If you are interested in such a user group, please register via our our website before January 10th, 2012.
We require a minimum of 8 participants to start this off.

More information and registration: www.molmed.nl

General information:

Download the booklet with the teaching programme for PhD students, version 2011-2012

For new PhD students: Download the forms for Coaching Group and Teaching Plan (PDF file 436 kb)

The LUMC opened an intranet site on Courses for PhD students. Only accessible from the LUMC Intranet (sorry about this). 

Website of Leiden University on teaching for PhD students: English or Dutch. [Courses on Research management; Career counseling; Academic writing; Writing grants, proposals and beyond; Faster reading and Memory-improvement; Creative thinking; Academic presentation / Presentation of academic work; Orientation in policymaking; Orientation on Management]

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam

010-7043593

hoofd: Prof.Dr. F.G. Grosveld  (voorzitter MGC bestuur)

Leiden Universitair Medisch Centrum

Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden

071-5269400

hoofd: Prof.Dr. G.J.B. van Ommen (secretaris MGC bestuur)

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam

010-7043199

hoofd: Prof.Dr. J.H.J. Hoeijmakers (lid MGC bestuur)

Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum

Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden

071-5269600

hoofd: Prof.Dr. L.H.F. Mullenders (lid MGC bestuur)

Universiteit Leiden

P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden

071-5276223

hoofd: Prof.Dr. B. van de Water (lid MGC bestuur)

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam

010-7043198

hoofd: Prof.Dr. B.A. Oostra (lid MGC bestuur)