Symposia & Meetings:

EMGS (Environmental Mutagensis and Genomics Society) 47^th Annual Meeting, September 24-28, 2016, Kansas City, Missouri

http://www.emgs-us.org/AM2016/

3Gb-TEST Course;  Next-generation sequencing in a diagnostic setting. The 3Gb-Test Consortium invite you to participate in the NGS 2016 course in Lisbon, Portugal.

It is a 4-day course from 24th till 27th of October 2016 with focus on clinical diagnostics using exome/genome sequences, variant identification and analysis including afternoon practical sessions. See 3Gb flyer and 3Gb program.

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.

26^th MGC symposium

 Thursday  22 September, 2016

Location: The Second Level (Bargelaan 180, Leiden)

Next to Leiden Central Station

Provisional program MGC symposium

Registration

Publieksmiddag ´Wijzer over DNA: een genenpaspoort voor iedereen´

Locatie: 'de Oranjerie' in de Hortus Botanicus, Leiden

Datum: zondagmiddag 6 november, 2016

Voorlopig programma

Inschrijving: vanwege het beperkt aantal stoelen gaarne een email naar nivard@lumc.nl

Er zijn geen kosten aan deze middag verbonden

MGC Course Programme

Course 'Basic and Translational Oncology'

10 - 14 October, 2016, Erasmus MC

organized by MolMed in narrow collaboration with MGC

Program Basic and Transl Oncology 2016

Registration via www.molmed.nl

The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of translational cancer research and is directed primarily at PhD students and postdocs in MolMed and MGC, but others (e.g., students and technicians of LUMC and Erasmus MC) are welcome too. The program is set up logically in 5 steps, one step a day:

Pathology, diagnostics & pathways in cancer, Biology of the cancer cell: Genetics, Invasion, metastasis & inflammation, Tumor Immunology; Clinical practice: targeted therapies and Epidemiology of cancer; personalized medicine; end-of-life interventions

The amount of ECTS awarded for the entire course is 1.8.

The course is free of charge for participants from the postgraduate school MolMed and MGC (and one participant from the group of any speaker) 

For more information: www.molmed.nl

Erasmus Optical Imaging Centre- OIC organizes the course

 "Live Cell and Super Resolution Imaging"

October 24 - 28, 2016, Erasmus MC

this is a combined course of the Medical Genetics Center South-West Netherlands (MGC) and the Erasmus Optical Imaging Centre

Registration via  https://www.erasmusmc.nl/oic/TRED/PhDOICRegistration/

 This five day course consists of lecture sessions in the morning and practical sessions in the afternoon. On Monday and Thursday there will also be evening sessions with a dinner. In the final session on Friday afternoon participants will present and discuss the results of their practical work. The practical sessions can be attended by a maximum of 24 participants (6 groups of 4 participants). When registering for the course you are expected to follow the complete (one week) course.

Topics: Time lapse, FRAP, FRET, super resolution, single molecule localization, PALM, STORM, GSDIM, Hyvolution, Airy scan, Rescan, Fluorescent proteins, quantitative data analysis.

More information and registration can be found on the OIC website http://www.erasmusmc.nl/oic

The course is free of charge for personnel from MGC, MolMed and ONWAR. Participants from outside these organisations pay €200 euro for this course. The lecture sessions can be attended for free.

Course 'From Molecular Pathogenesis to Targeted Therapy’

November 1 - 4, 2016, LUMC

Provisional program 2016

Registration: please, send an email to nivard@lumc.nl

The course gives an overview on how cells communicate with each other, how (molecular) signals (such as activated hormones, cytokines, growth factors) are transduced between cells and into cells, how these processes regulate cellular functions, how misregulated signal transduction events lead to diseases, and how insights in these processes can be translated into targeted therapies providing personalized and more effective treatments for patients with less side effects.

The course is free of charge for personnel from MGC departments. Participants from outside these organisations pay €250 euro for this course. We only have facilities to accommodate 16 participants next to the 14 FOS students. Should the course be oversubscribed, then places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

Workshop  ’Share your (biotechnology) research with a broad audience’

November 15 and November 29, 2016 (two afternoons only), 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 already before and also between the two workshop sessions.

Please, send an email to nivard@lumc.nl if you are interested to enroll in this workshop. Minimum number of participants is 5, maximum number of participants is 16.  For participants of one of the MGC departments this workshop is free of costs. Participants from outside these institutes pay 150 euro.

For more information go to www.deperskamer.eu.

Courses organized by OOA (Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam)

Courses organized by MolMed

NGS in DNA Diagnostics Course

20 – 22 September, 2016

This course is intended for bioinformaticians, researchers and molecular & clinical geneticists. The mixed programme will appeal to all those requiring a solid background in the application of NGS techniques for (routine) genetic diagnosis of a patient. NGS in DNA diagnostics is a course aimed at Genomic Resequencing in a Medical Diagnostic Context, i.e to apply Next Generation Sequencing data as diagnostic tool in the hospital. Lectures will be accompanied with hands-on exploration

For more information and registration: www.molmed.nl 

 

Programming with Python – new

20 – 23 September, 2016

This four day course is split in two parts. In the first part, the basic principles of object oriented programming in Python are discussed. The second part will focus on specific applications, such as statistics, signal processing, machine learning or general software development. The main direction of the second part will be chosen based on the background and preferences of the participants. The organizers therefore highly encourage interested individuals to contact the teacher about the intended application(s) of Python.

For more information and registration: www.molmed.nl

 

Course and Workshop Basic and Translational Endocrinology

24-28 October 2016

The aim of this course and workshop is to offer a comprehensive, interactive introduction to the field of basic and translational Endocrinology, including the paediatric aspects. Its target audience are PhD students working in this field, who like to gain in-depth knowledge, but also MDs and others wo are interested, are welcome to register.

For more information and registration: www.molmed.nl

 

SNP Course XIII: SNPs and Human Diseases – new

14 – 18 November, 2016

The analysis of DNA variations, including Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), is a standard research approach to understand causes of disease, in particular the so-called “complex” diseases such as diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer, Alzheimer disease, etc. The field is changing fast with large scale projects (Human genome, dbSNP, HapMap, 1000genomes, ENCODE) and novel technology being continuously introduced, including Next Generation Sequencing. The aim of this course is to give a broad introduction in SNP techniques and applications.

For more information and registration: www.molmed.nl

Courses organised by Boerhaave CME

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

- Introduction Genetic Epidemiology:  (once a year)

- Design, Management & Analysis of Clinical trials: (once a year)

- Advanced Genetic Association Analysis: (once a year)

- Regression Analysis: (once a year)

- Using R in Data Analysis: (once a year)

- Dealing with Conflicting Demands: (once a year)

- Repeated measurements: (once a year)

- Basic methods and reasoning in biostatistics: (once a year)

General information:

Download the booklet with the teaching programme for PhD students, version 2015-2016

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]

Leiden Universitair Medisch Centrum

Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden

071-5269400

hoofd: Prof.Dr. S.M. van der Maarel  (voorzitter MGC bestuur)

Erasmus MC - Rotterdam

Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam

010-7043593

hoofd: Prof.Dr. D. Huylebroeck (lid MGC bestuur)

Leiden Universitair Medisch Centrum

Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden

071-5269201

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

Erasmus MC - Rotterdam

Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam

010-7043198

hoofd: Prof.Dr. R.M.W. Hofstra (secretaris MGC bestuur)

Erasmus MC - Rotterdam

Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam

010-7043199

hoofd: Prof.Dr. J.H.J. Hoeijmakers (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 MC - Rotterdam

Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam

010-7043574

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