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

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Symposia & Meetings:

To simplify the search for an interesting meeting: www.biomeeter.com .

This website gives an overview of conferences organized in all aspects of biology. It is open source so everybody can not only find but also add their meeting. It’s launched in April, 2012 and already contains over 400 conferences, a number that’s increasing every day.

All the added meetings are categorized so you can search both by keyword and category.

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.

MGC Course Programme

Course 'Safely working in the laboratory' (Please note: English version)

14 June, 2012

LUMC, Leiden

Tentative Programme

Registration

The course is mandatory for all PhD students working within the MGC, but also open for other personel of the Erasmus MC, LUMC and MGC. This edition of the course will be in English. Please register before June 1, 2012.

Registration fee

Participants working at the MGC, LUMC or Erasmus MC are free of charge on condition that they will be present during the entire day.

Cancellations
Cancellations have to be send in writing to the Boerhaave Committee. In case of cancellation after June 7, 2012 or upon no show, participants from the MGC, Erasmus MC, and LUMC will be charged 50 euro. 

Dutch version of this course will run 13 December, 2012

Course "Next Generation Sequence data analysis"

11 - 13 September, 2012

Erasmus MC

Programme 2011

Registration via the MolMed website

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

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
 

Research management for Postdocs
15 & 29 May 2012
Popular training course on four aspects of research management: time management, project management, negotiating skills, and giving and receiving feedback. You will learn by group interactions, carrying out assignments and by applying the experience you have acquired to your own work situation. A small homework assignment is part of the course. If you participate, you are required to attend the full program. This course is for Postdocs only. There is also a course for PhD-students.
For more information and registration: www.molmed.nl
 

Four try-out Workshops given by Brigitte Hertz Trainingen: Supervising PhDs; Transferable skills; Debating; and Intercultural communication.
15 May 2012, Erasmus MC
The Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine organizes together with Brigitte Hertz Trainingen four try-out workshops. Each workshop will last one hour. Participation is free for all members of the Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine and for employees of the Erasmus MC. Places are given out on first-come first-serve basis. For each workshop one has to register individually. The Workshops will be given in English.
Full program and registration: www.molmed.nl
 

Biomedical English Writing Course for MSc and PhD-students
4 sessions from 16 May to 28 June 2012, Erasmus MC
The course combines instructor input and peer review from other participants to help you prepare a paper for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and to increase the readability of your scientific writing. During this course you will write your own article, peer review other participants’ articles, and receive individual coaching and editing on your own article from the instructor.
Full program and registration: www.molmed.nl
 

Course in Virology 2012
4 - 8 June 2012, Erasmus MC
This course provides a comprehensive introduction into the field of fundamental and translational virus research. This course is organised together with the dept. of Virology and is meant for PhD students, postdocs and medical microbiologists. During this course, national and international experts in the field of virology will give a presentation. Relevant literature will be made available at the start of the course.
More information and registration: www.molmed.nl
 

Partek Transcriptomics Workshop - Next-Generation Sequencing and Microarray Analysis
12 - 14 June, Erasmus MC
Together with Partek we're organizing this two-day course on the Partek Genomics Suite. The course agenda will be partly adapted to your interests (NGS Data Analysis, Microarray Data Analysis, RT-PCR). Day 3 of this course (14 June) is an interactive session with Partek where you can bring your own data and questions.
More information and registration: www.molmed.nl
 

Course on Molecular Diagnostics VII
21 - 22 June 2012, Erasmus MC
This course will bring the state-of-the-art of these areas of the Molecular Diagnostics, and is meant for translational researchers as well as doctors and medical specialists operating outside of their initial field of research. But also PhD-students and technicians are welcome.
More information and registration: www.molmed.nl

Annual Course: Analysis of microarray gene expression data using R/BioC and web tools
25 - 29 June 2012
Five-day hands-on computer course for biological and clinical researchers whose research involves experiments that generate gene expression data. The course focuses on microarray data, but some concepts may be applicable to next-generation sequencing gene expression data, or other types of genomics data measured on microarrays. Most of the speakers (and therefore examples) have a biomedical background. Software packages used are mostly freeware, including the statistical software R, Bioconductor, Cytoscape and web tools. The only commercial tool used is Spotfire. Deadline for registration is 4 June, 9 a.m. The total number of participants is limited to 40.
More information and registration: www.molmed.nl

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data analysis
11 - 13 September 2012, Computer room Erasmus MC
The course on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data analysis has been organized for the last 5 editions by the Research School MGC at the LUMC, Leiden. The upcoming 6th issue will be organized by MolMed at the Erasmus MC, in close cooperation with MGC. The program will be similar. The course aims at PhD students, postdocs and senior researchers who have an interest in next-generation sequencing. Currently available technologies as well as hardware and software solutions will be presented and discussed. The focus of the course will be on the data itself and on ways to analyse the data.
The number or participants is limited to 60. Deadline for registration is Sunday July 1st. Motivation required.
Full program and registration: www.molmed.nl

Research management for Postdocs
3 & 17 October 2012
Course for postdocs covering four important aspects of research management: time management, project management, negotiating skills, and giving and receiving feedback. Participants in the past highly appreciated this course.
If you participate, you are required to attend the full program. This course is for Postdocs only. There is also a course for PhD-students.
For more information and registration: www.molmed.nl
 

On the 'Boerhaave CME (Continuing Medical Education)' website several courses for PhD students and other employees of the LUMC are announced:

- Introduction Genetic Epidemiology: 7-9 March, 2012 (once a year)

This intensive three day course will provide an introduction in genetic epidemiology. A large part of the day will be devoted to paper and computer exercises. Participants will gain practical experience by analyzing various data sets using SPSS or STATA.

- Design, Management & Analysis of Clinical trials: 7-11 May, 2012

In this course, issues regarding the design, implementation and analysis of clinical trials will be considered. Topics include randomization and blinding, sample size calculations, flexible designs (interim analyses and stopping rules), cross-over trials, data monitoring and safety committees, data management and of course the statistical analyses based on the design chosen. We will also cover some aspects of reporting the design and outcome of clinical trials in scientific journals as well as Good Research Practice in general.
 

- Advanced Genetic Association Analysis: 14-16 May, 2012

This up to date course in genetic association analysis includes now highly relevant topics such as the analysis of imputed genotypes in GWAS, genetic pathway analysis using GWAS data and the statistical analysis of rare variants detected by next generation sequencing. Participants have to bring their own laptop for practicals.
 

- Regression Analysis: 21-25 May, 2012

This course considers both theoretical backgrounds and practical aspects of modeling data with regression models. The focus is on linear and logistic regression models, although other models, like Poisson models or non linear regression models for continuous data will also be discussed. All statistical methods are practiced, using SPSS.
 

- Using R in Data Analysis: 18-20 June and 28-30 November, 2012

R is an environment for statistical computing and graphics. Its flexibility, allied to the fact that it is open-source and free, have made it an ideal repository for implementations of statistical analysis methods, both classic and new. However, it has a steep learning curve, due partly to its using a command-line type of user interface, rather than the usual pull-down menus of most commonly used statistical packages such as SPSS. This 3-day course aims at helping researchers climb this curve, enabling them to perform basic data analysis and graphic displays at the end of the course, as well as giving a platform from which they can deepen their R knowledge later on if necessary.
 

- Dealing with Conflicting Demands: 11-12 June, 2012

The life of a scientist presents many conflicting demands in any phase of the scientific career, but certainly in the last phase of a PhD study. The course ‘Dealing with Conflicting Demands’ builds on Dilemma Theory created in the 1980s by Prof. Charles Hampden-Turner (Cambridge, UK). Over the last decade the methodology has been further developed into a practical skill, used by staff of large and small corporations, including private and public research institutions. The skill to reconcile conflicting demands has proven key to being successful in a complex and competitive environment, such as your current and future working life as a scientist or any other professional environment.
 

- Repeated measurements: 25-29 June, 2012

The course covers statistical methods to be used in the situation where one or more outcome variables are repeatedly measured in time on the same experimental unit.

- Basic methods and reasoning in biostatistics: 7-11 January, 2013

The AIO courses in Biostatistics consist of two series: “A:basic” and “B:advanced”. Participants in part B should have followed part A or have acquired the skills trained in part A in another way. Part B as of 2009 consists of a series of separate courses, each dedicated to a specific subject.
Part A is a single one week course:
In this course we will cover basics of biostatistics and the participants will learn how to analyze problems in clinical research using SPSS. Subjects covered are among others: methodology of statistical analysis; causal inference; descriptive statistics; the principle of statistical estimation and testing; cross tabulation and chi-square test; Student t-test and the correspondence with non-parametric counterparts; simple regression and correlation; introduction to analysis of variance; interpretation of observational data; bias and confounding; interaction.
 

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

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. R.M.W. Hofstra (lid MGC bestuur)